The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-05-05

What One OF CleVslsno allsSs III Ihe
Late Presidential Election Thinks OF
Him Nova Fair Estimate OF the Man.
Recently the Louisville Courier
Journal published the following caus,
tic article from the pen of Henry
Watterson on Cleveland's speech in
New York before the Reform Club:
s'Forewarred is foresrmed.
s'The first gun OF the battle OF 1900
is fred somewhat early, but it was
fred by the Reform club Of New York
last Saturday night The reform
club is made up exclusively OF the
parsonal followers Of Mr.. Cleveland.
It existsin point OF fact to exploit the
fame and to advance the interest Of
the ex President. The names OF Fair,
child and Hornblower and Peckham
are 8 sufficient guarantee that the
association has no other source OF IN
spiration, nor any further point OF
destination.
The dinner, an account Of which
appeared yesterday, was given to
place Mr.. Cleveland IN the field as
candidate for President, and from
this time forward all the appliances
OF small but energetic and intelll,
gent machinery will be put forth to
make campaign of education and
canvass for Mr.. Cleveland synony-
nous terms.
1T is s grievous feature of public
affairs that great issues are SO often
complicated by lesser issues, and that
the virus OF private aim not infre-
euenty percclates the veins OF the
tairest policies.
CLEVELAND AND A THIRD TERN.
"By no possibility csn Mr.. Cleve-
land affect the cause of genuine re
form except for Ill. He has had his
days sad one for his party-and
whatever contributions he made to the
cause OF good government during
that day are upon the record and 60
to MS credit. But his name IN con
nection with the Presidency can be
only reproach, because, aside from
the contaninations and frictions 1t IN
wolves, it carries with it the odlus
idea OF third term, antagonlzlng
law unwritten, it is true, bat deeply
Embedded in the popular mind and
heart.
Mr.. Cleveland can never again be
President of the United States. Under
no circumstances ought he to be.
That he should contemplate another
candidacy affords strong evidencs OF
lack in him Of integrity and virtue.
That club of satellites should con-
spire to place MIN again in nonina-
ton is not merely proof OF the treason
of its members to their country and to
the party to which they profess ale.
glance, bat of degradin- sacrifice OF
of patriotism and manhood. No par
ty which is worthy the popular conf
6ence could or would put him in NOM
ination. Any party seriously con
templating it would be consigned to
everlasting infamy.
1T was said not along ago and
very truly that Mr.. Cleveland would
be candidate for President every
1our years as long as he lived. The
circumstances Of his life, in the ao-
sence of any elevated principle OF cal
culation or unsel6sh rule OF action,
bear him out in the belief that ne IS q
law unto himself, contraoicting all
precedents He has impressed this be
lief upon the group of persons who
Immediately surround him. They
ought to be good Christians, for they
seem to have been created for no 9th
purpose than to serve their creator;
and, if assidity and constancy be mer
its, they are surely meritorious. But
they are short sighted. Their notion
that Mr.. Cleveland is within himself
both a party and platform and that
he can command following
strong enough to win an election
against the so called Democrats and
the SO called Republicans, is an illu-
sion. If it could be realized the event
would then and there Mexicanize the
public administration for, once assln
in power, like Disz, MIR. Cleveland
would find the means to continue In
power the residue of his natural life.
Better the Mexicanization of the cur.
rency than the overthrow Of liberty,
would be the well-nigh universal cry
of the nation, so that the very best
hope the free silverites can have IS
the candidacy of Mr.. Cleveland, fatal
~ dividing the elements of sound
economics and making a sure high,
way for the forces OF fiscal and other
adventures.
s'But there can be no reason to
doubt the fact that Mr.. Cleveland IS
the one man TO be reckoned WI .:
those who seek to attain good govern
nent as distinguished from the opera
ton of rampant rartylsm, swinging
the pendulum from one to the other
dizzy height OF political excess. From
first TO last this callous, self-seeklng
man has been the cause, the sole
association of all cur undoing.
TO 90 back no further than the
last internal Democratic conflict. If
six months before the nominating pc
riod OF 1896 Mr.. Cleveland had firmly
said: 1 will not be candidate under
an circumstances, nor allow my name
to be used by any body the elements
of order in the party could get togeth-
Grand unied on some leader equal to
the task Of meeting and beating the
extremists. But MIR. Cleveland could
not be induced to make the slightest
sign. He was as silent as an oracle,
Standing the while exactly where the
lightning might be expected to strike.
Except for THIS paralyzing Carlisle
Kentucky could lot have held; Ken.
lucky gone, the rest followed like S
landslide. MIR. Cleveland was known
10 be covertly candidate, and:
handicapped by 0im, The frienos o.
sound money snd revenue reform
we're overwhelmed by the malcontents,
raised up in the first place, by Mr;
Cleveland's exasper&Iing temper and
incompetency for leadership.
1t is discouraging to the friends OF
reform IN the south and west that
thus prematurely the movement for
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