People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28
e. Rrplies to Hi. Critics.

win respect 10 GQ6 1uIuES1 VIC NSAN
only reason from the past. From the
hour of his exit from the White House
in 1889, Mr.. Cleveland and his office
holders were busily engaged organic
ing for 1892 His part of the program
was to pose as the retired statesman
and philosopher. He made few public
appearances, but he wrote many
private letters. Occasionally few
words were allowed accidentally to
drop out of these letters, which repre-
sented him in the character of His
Reluctancy." One of the neatest bits
of dnesse was dropped" out of letter
to General Bragg, of Wisconsin, touch
iarrthe disgust" the writer felt at the
'ldsa" of soliciting" the Presidency,
aua, curiously, this got on the wires
just as Senator Hill had reached At
lanta on his nl-starred journey to Mis-
siss ppi Another clever bit was
dropped" in Chattanooga, by means
of which it was modestly doubted
whether the writer ought to be again
nominated for President, or was, after
all, the most available candidate.
Meanwhile, the ex-ofice-holders were
everywhere working up public opinion
and getting up delegates, not a hard
thing to do since Governor Hill was
the only active rival in sight They
thought if he got back they would get
back. Alas and alack! Other people
besides theAvillage maiden in the bal
lad can have ''a naughty little twinkle
in her eye" The Homestead riots,
charged, along with the Pinkertons, to
the party in power, transferred the
trades unions in body from the Re-
publicans to the Democratic column,
and, against all reasonable calculation.
Mr. Cleveland got back" and, when
he found himself again in the White
House, one of his first acts was to an
nounce that no ''old office-holders"
need apply. Thus rotation in office
once again became good Democratic
gospel, except in his own case.
THE "BooM' IN FULL SWING.
Such is the record of Mr.. Cleveland
as an aspirant. Concurrent with the
speech before the Reform Club, So
called, biographies of the ex- President
begin to float about. From across the
sea his dear friend, MIR. Bayard, not
having the cue or the gift of silence,
accepts the third term suggestion as a
matter of course, while Mr.. Carl Schurz
is promptly in the field with brilliant
exposition of the virtues of Mr.. Cleve-
lan2's Second Administration. And,
the Literary Bureau fairly going, it
will continue to go between this and
l9o9
T ne case of Mr.. Cleveland and his
sat, ijlites rests upon the expected
bre k up of parties AMI the supposed
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orderly government and sound econom-
les; land, however much they may deny
these Impeachment it will be de-
velGped that no word of remuneration
can be wrung from him as the one re-
spohsible person named in the indict-
merit.
The Courier-Journal simply protested
that a political situation, having many
possibilities, should thus be misappro-
priated and in advance handicapped by
any personal interest If Mr.. Cleve-
land had in his mind some other pur-
pose he could greatly have strength
ened his speech and advanced the cause
he affects to serve by an appeal to his
countrymen carrying some guarantee
of disinterestedness. He could earn
estly, appropriately, have disclaimed
any further ambitions. He is not that
kind of man. His speech was as plain
a partisan bid as words could make it.
and as time advances this will be suffi-
GENTLY verified, only the new journal
ism, which remembers nothing, will
forget tomorrow what it said but yes
terday, and proceed to stigmatize every
thing it does not see out of the back of
it's head as fgment of somebody s
''disordered fancy. Henry Waiter
son, in New York Journal.