The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-28
wATTERsoN ON CLEVELAND.

I
warned is Forearmed." So thoroughly
does Mr. Watterson expose the real
Object of this now historic dinner; SO
clearly does he make plain its object
and the ambition of Mr.. Cleveland: so
completely does Mr.. Watterson tear
the mask from him. that to eDitomize
the article is to do hin a great injus-
tics and to deprive our readers OF a
great and rare tYeat, and hence it is
reproduced in fun, being taken not
from the Corrier-Journal itself (Which
has not yet arrived) but from the San
Francisco Examiner of Monday. The
article is as follows:
me first gun of the battle of 1900 is
lliea somewhat early, but il was fired
py Inc Reform club of New York last
SATURDAY niNht. The Reform club is
maze up exclusively of personal fol-
lowers of Mr.. Cleveland 1t exists in
POINT OF fact to exploit the fame and
70 auVance the interests of the express
ldent. The names of Fairchild and
Hofnolower and PeclSham are a suffi-
Gent guarantee that the association
mas no other source of inspiration, nor
any further point of destination.
Inc dinner. an account of which ap-
peareo yesterday. was given to place
Mr.. Cleveland IN the field as a candi-
date Tor president, and from this time
Forward all appliances of a small, but
energetic and intelligent machinery,
viii be put forth to make a campaign
OF education and a canvass for Mr..
Cle'eland synonymous terms.
Ii is grievous feature of public af-
LARS that great issues are so often
complicated by lesser issues. and that
the virus of private aim not infre-
quently Dercolates the veins of the
fairest policies.
by no possibility can Mr.. Cleveland
affect the cause of genuine reform.
except for i'll. He has had his Gav-a
sad one for his party-and whatever
contributions he made to the cause of
good government during that day are
upon record and 20 TO his credit But
his name in connection with the presi-
deney can only be a reprOach. because,
aside from the COMMUNICATIONS and the
fricuons ii involves, it is but too deep
~ EMBEDDED in the popular mind and
heart.
MI. Cleveland can never again be
president of the United States. Under
no circumstances ought he to be. That
lie should contemplate another candi-
dacy affords strong evidence of lack
in him of integrity and virtue. That
club of satellites should conspire TO
place him again in nomination is not
merely a proof of the treason of its
members to their country and to the
party to which they profess allegiance,
but Of degrading sacrifice of patriot
ism and manhood. No party which is
worthy the popular confidence could,
or would. put him in nomination. Any
Car.inT1clxr tar rl1.a Wnglld
be consigned to everlasting infamy.
1t was said, not long ago, and very
truly, that Mr.. Cleveland would be a
candidate for president every four
years as long as he lived. The circum-
stances of his life, in the absence OF
any elevated principle of calculation
or unselfish rule of action, bear him
out in the belief that he is a law unto
himself. contradicting all precedents.
He has impressed this belief supon the
group of persons who Immediately sur
round him. They ought TO be good
Christians, for they seem to have been
created for no other purpose than to
serve their creator. and. if assiduitv
and constancy he merits, they are
surely meritoriOus. But they are
Their notion that Mr..
Cleveland is within himself both
party and platform, and that he can
% win an election against the So
allied Democrats and the so-called Re
)ublicans is an Illusion. II it could be
'ealized the event would then and
here MeXicanize the public admins
ration: for, once again in power. like
Oiaz. Mr. Cleveland would find the
means TO continue in power the residue
# his natural life. Better the Mex
canization of the currency than the
yell-nigh universal cry of the nation.
% that the very best hone the free
ilverites can have is the candidacy Of
,lr. Cleveland. fatally dividing the ele-
nents of sound economics and making /
sure highway for the forces of fiscal /
md other adventures.
But there can be no reason TO doubt /
he fact that Mr.. Cleveland is the one !
nan to be reckoned with by those who I
eek to attain good government as dis /
inguished from the operations of ram (
amt partyism. swinging the pendulum /
rom one to the other dizzy height of I
POLITICAL excess. From first to last this /
allous, self-seeking man has been the /
irect cause.-The sole occasion of all |
ur undoing.
To 90 back no further than the last (
Internal Democratic conflict If six
months before the nominating period |
f 1896 Mr.. Cleveland had firmly said.
1 win not be a candidate under any
nor allow my name to
e used by anybody" the elements of
rider in the party could have got to-
ether and united on some leader equal
o the task of meeting and beating
he extremists. But Mr.. Cleveland
Guild not be induced to make the
lightest sign. He was as silent as an
racle. standing the while exactly
here the lightning might be expected
} strike. Except for this paralyzing
arlisle, Kentucky could have been
eld Kentucky gone, the rest fol-
WED like a landslide. Mr.. Cleveland |.
as known to be covertly a candidate,
nd handicapped by him, the friends of
)und money and revenue reform were
by the malcontents,
Used I'D in the first place bv Mr..
leveland's exasperating temper and
competency for leadership.
1t is discouraging 10 friends of re-
rm IN the south and west that this
-emature movement for honest poll
cs and sound money should be fright
led down by a name which is potent
lily for evil. But it is still more dis
'uraging TO reflect that the man be- I
nd this name is as indefatigable as
is mischieVous; that he is the au-
or of the lax party discipline of
hich he complains; that he IS the
ithor of the protection gibberish /
hich the national convention in 1892 .
fused TO adopt; that, elected on a !
edge Of tariff reform, he sent the
riff to the rear. and, advancing the
oney issue to the front. lost both;
at he is verv much richer than he
as. and much more ambitious than
er he was; that his removal to New
rsey was the first adroit step in his J
w plan of campaign; that every day T
his life in that fine. effeminate Ital- I
n hand. he viii write from two to
ty letters, addressed to persons in