The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-08

who followed the Chicago platform, replies
calmly and seriously. Notwithstanding IL
styles Mr. CLEvELAND's Reform Club effort a
"twenty.ton speech" it agreesthat the ban
quet meant CLEVELAND more than 1t meant
honest money but 1t laughs at our contem-
porary's longing for an honest-money De-
mocracy not in CLEvELAND's interest:
80 far a. Mr.. wArrEnsoN's Interpretation Of the
significance Of the Reform Club banquet IL concerned.
II IL entirely justined by the character Of the men
who fawn on CLEVELAND. by their intellectual oalibre,
and by other circumstances not necessary 20 mention.
We are OF the opinion that those who treat the matter
h~ippantiy are OF one mind with respect TO the scheme
the Reform Club IL Matching. for there can be no sort
OF doubt a. to the intentions Of the satellites.
"only CLEVELAND can represent Clevelandism.
with the ex. President alive and out Of once, no IL the
only possible or available candidate Of the men who
nominated PALMER and BUcErER aud then deserted
their candidates for cKpuET The boilers instinc-
lively felt that PALnER and BucKxER, running on q
out-and-dried platform. could never represent oievs-
landism. The political 'nondescripts' and min
oompoops' the terms arc applied by Mr.. wATTERsoN
who compose the Cleveland party, do not ask him 70
declare himself on any question. They simply indorse
in advance everything that he does. everything that
he says, and everything that he thinks.
"Mr. wATrrRsoS ia the only man of any reputation
or influence among tho boilers who has denounced
tho third.term scheme and protested against the
logical result Of Clevelandism. Il is hardly possible
that Mr.. wATTEnsoSs detection from the glorious
band Of 'nondescripts' and will
have the effect OF disarranging the programme which
tho gold syndicate has in hand. A part of this pro
grammo IL TO put CLEVELAND up for q third term and
. fourth candidacy. That programme will be carried
out. and, indeed. we should be sorry to SEQ IL fail. q
need Just such q performance as that to convince q
number Of people in this country OF the ultimate aim
and purpose Of those who desire to see the patriotism
a. well a. tho prosperity OF the people Of this ooun
try destroyed by means Of the single gold standard
So HoKF thinks. II there be anywhere
failure to appreciate his argument, q pc
rusal of the extraordinary plank in the Chi
cago platform condemning the third tern
will justify 1t. The Chicago Convention
and the more than six million voters whc
cast their votes for BRYAN a little over si1
months ago, felt that in rejecting CLEvE
LAND they at least saved the Democratic
party from the disgrace of a third-tern
anvass That was consolation and supper
to thousands who remembered with sham,
that they had sold themselves to the fraut
of free silver. CLEVELAND and his bonds
issued to make good the deficit under tn
pretence Of defending the gold standard
filled the populized Democracy with tn
passion Of a holy war. First he drove tn,
Democratic party n Populism, and thel
his bond issuing Islander of honest none.
nearly delivered the United States t.
Organism and free silver. Any p~olitica
activity with which he is associated to-da
becomes an object of hostile suspicion t.
the vast majority of the people of tn
United States. HENRY WArTERsoN,
whole-hearted bulwark of honest money
and HoKE SMITH, a silver man, agree tina
the ex-President and his friends are a
bottom still agents of Clevelandism, an
that Clevelandism is a milestone about tn
neck of the gold standard.
1t would be a public blessing If GROVE
CLEVELAND should expatriate himself wit
all technical formality, and go and liv
somewhere else.