The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-05-28
cLevELANo.s CASE.
There Is No Necessity for the Stuffed
 Prophet to Speak.

| Prophet to Speak. | There are many persons in the United States who revile and ridicule Hon. Stephen Grover Cleveland, president of the United States. They sheer at him. They deride his claims to being conse' crated. They jeer in a fiendish manner at the assumption that he is man of destiny. Their contumely is poured out as freely as certain fanatics would have the hints pour out the dollars of our daddies.
 But if Mir. Cleveland is prophet with out special honor in his own country; if he withholds the announcement that he Is ready for a third term in the fear that it would be followed by a bloody riot in which he would disappear from the face of the earth, still fellow citizens, let not the fact be forgotten that there are places on this fair globe of ours where Stephen Grover Cleveland is held in high honor and is regarded with that satisfaction which comes from lively expectation of favors to come.
 One of these places is the ancient town of Bradford, in Merry England. There, thanks to an American democratic tariff for deficit, business has been spouting, jumping and thriving. The loyal subjects of her gracious majesty the queen, there resident, have been pill ing up the pounds, shillings and pence in manner most delightful and com forting to John Bulls commercial na- ture. While they were fiourishing in this cheerful manner, workmen on this side of the Atlantic were not thriving. Indeed, they complained, and bitterly too, of hard times and difficulty in ob- taining employment.
 That should not excite wonder when we read that in Bradford alone in one year exports of coatings to the United States jumped from $1. .2OO, 900 to $7, ,5OO,- o00 and in 1895 its entire trade with the United States increased from $s, 200, ,OOO 10 $2S, S,0O0,OO0.
 We may say what we will of demo- cratic financiering; we may accept or re- iect the democratic contention that hard times would have been suffered if Gen. Harrison had been reelected in 1892, and the tariff for deficit had never been placed on the statute books, but the fact is not to be ignored that, as a result of democratic legislation on this side of the Atlantic. the trade of the English town of Bradford has been ben cited within the last 12 months as the trade of no American community has been stimulated or promoted.
 Shave hairs as we may over the tariff, invoke the shadows of Bright and Cob den; glorify Clay, Lincoln, Blaine, Al. lison and Aldrich-yet facts like this stand in the broadest and boldest re- lief.
 No American city, no American inter- est has been fostered and benefited by so-called democratic statesmanship, while, if we look beyond the sea, we shall see business jumping; the rivals of our manufacturers growing rich. while foreign workingmen are earning the wages which should go to the pockets Of American workers.
 This is the subject in a nutshell. Here we have the matter so presented that it can be grasped by the meanest under standing.
 In view of this condition of affairs, how absurd it is for a newspaper like the Louisville Courier-Jourpal to continue to regard MT. Cleveland as presiden- tial quantity. It says: "The time has come when he ought to speak out. He should dissipate these injurious reports circulated largely by his enemies, but aided, by judicious friends. A word from him will be all that is necessary, and it should be spoken at once. It will be of signal benefit to the cause of sound money to remove this specter of a third term from the field on which the battle is to be fought"
 So far as the great majority of the American people is concerned, it is matter of supreme indifference what Mir. Cleveland may or may not think on the third term question. His record is made. He stands up as a tariff reformer, and whether he speaks or remains silent Is all the same to them.-Albany Jour- nal.
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