The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-05-05
VA7TERSON ON CLEVELAND.
CAUSTIC COMMENT BY THE LOUIS.
VILE EDITOR.
|, The President to Be a Candi-
ddate Every Four Years of
HIS Life!

The speech of Mr.. Cleveland at the
aiuper of the New York Reform Club
has stirred up trouble in a new and un-
expected quarter 1t has aroused the
Ie aud kindled the indignation of Mr..
Henry Wauerson, editor of the Louis
vile Courier-Journal, who processes to
see in the gathering of goldDugs a plot
to nominate Mr. Cleveland for the pres
idency again in 1900. But Mr.. Waiter
son is not the man to give the charges he
makes the force and effect they should
have, for no man is more responsible for
CIeyeIandism than Mr.. Watterson. He
has always been found on his knees at
CeyeLand's feet, and when Cleveland de-
cIared for the gold STANDARD Watterson
endorsed it. But Mr.. Watterson's edi-
loHal is interesting, and THE News pub
fishes liberal extracts from it below:
BY no possibility can Mr.. Cleveland
affect the cause of genuine reform ex-
Cept for ill. He has had his day-a sad
one for his party-aud whatever COntri-
buttons he made to the cause of good
government during that day are upon
record and 90 to his credit. But his
name in connection with the presidency
can only be a reprOach, because, aside
from tie COMMUNICATIONS and friCtiOns it
involves, it carries with it the Odious
Idea of third term, antagOnizing la ",
unWTitten, it is true, but deeply imbed-
ded in the popular mind and heart.
Mr. Cleveland can never again be
PRESIDENT Of the United States. Under
no circumstances ought be to be. That
he should contemplate another candida
cy affords strong evidence Of lack in
him OF integrity and virtue. That club
Of satellites should conspire to place him
again IN Nomination Eis not merely
proof Of the treason of its MEM
bers to their country and to the par
ty to which they profess allegiance,
but of a degrading sacrifice of pa
tnouSm and manhood. No party which
is worthy of the popular confidence
could or would put him in nomination.
Any party seriously contemplating it
would be consigned to everlasting infa-
my.
1t was said not loug ago and very
truly that Mir. Cleveland would be can
GGdate for president every four years as
long as he lived. The circumstances of
us lie, in the absence of any elevated
PHlClpIe OF calculation Or unseltish rule
OF action, bear him out il the belief that
NE IS alaw unto himself, cOnuadicting
an plecedents, He has impressed this
oenef upon the group of persons whoim-
Aeaately surround him. They ought
~ oe GOOD christians, for they seem to
oe created for no other purpose than to
SoNe Ihelr creator; and if assiduity and
itous. ''i0J ''i sunny
from first to last this callous, self.
seeking man has be the Direct cause the
,,r %Io'HloH ior all our undoing
ioto ~ 20 BACK no further than the last
G 1li,o,L iaI democratic conflict. MI.
c ~'o5eiand was known to be covertly a
fr ,iillu.I'a'e' and, handicapped by him, the
rnforu. Vi sound money and revenue
ao,,ta - were overwhelmed by the NAL.
NJ NJ en- enIS' raised up in the first place by
,a' N'e'eIand $ cXasperating temper and
'D',J}m.petency for leadership.
f,,r ~ ~ encouraging to the friends of re-
, ,V',r ID The south and west that thus
i.''Ty.at.'dVuTeIy the movement for honest
fr ,'Vo' ana sound money should be
Issued down by name which is POI
(i.1C.'1 u'y tor evil, But it is still more
Gf991lo!uIIliagIng to reflect that the man be-
is '''' .' 'li'S name is as interchangeable as he
fl, ,''NcNI syous; that he is the author of
oo,.., lax party discipline of which he
~, r" u. pLains; shat he is the author of the
can gibberish which the national
tGn. ,e 81 OF 1892 refused to ADOPT;
G l"' elected on pledge of tariff reform,
ya TagnI the tariff to the rear, and, adj
los ICING the money issue to the front.
t H., ooIh; that he is very much richer
1'D ever he was and much more ambi-