The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-05-04
WATTERSON'S WARNING NOT
FOR DEMOCRATS.

SAA"S Wv y
northern friends are moving this early
to put him in the field in 1900 for a
third term as the gold candidate for
the presidency. 1t is altogether proba-
BILE that these rumOrs are we'll based.
Cleveland would doubtless rejoice to be
a candidate for a fourth term and pres
ident for life. He is greedy. He will
not be the democratic candidate, that
is assured. He may be the candidate
of boltocrats and the gold enc of the
republican party. 1t is certain thai the
large bimetallic element in the re-
publican party will not again support
any gold standard candidate. That
Cleveland means business" is appar-
ent. He is already speech making with
an eye to another nomination. His
greed is Unsuitable, his lust of power
sinee Washington ut man COULD Mdo h ave been
elected to a third even the
| great Lincoln or General Grant, the
/ northern idol.
We do not attach must Importance to
! Henry WattersOn's political gyratiOns,
prOnunciamentOS and horn blowing. He
has lost all influence with the real
| democrats. No man ever made a more
unjustifiable desertion or ever betrayed
more ruthlessly the party he had
sought to lead. But he is a big man
with the handf of bOltocrats, n
a much ADLER man than old man Pal
mer or that dead failure in war and
peace, Simon Buckner, the played-out.
WattersOn has seized his big tin horn
and is blowing loud blasts of warning
as to Cleveland. He must have sense
enough to know that his blasts can
neither alarm nor arouse the demo-
Gratis. If he is blowing to stir his
friends, the Palmer-Buckner ghost
crowd, he will fail for they would
doubtless prefer Grover to any other
rover. WattersOn is in a state of high
excitement. He seems to be really
"skeered." He has always prodded
Cleveland. He now says beware of
Cleveland. And he has the impudence
pure, unadulterated-tO warn the
genuine democrats Of Cleveland's
Vaccinations as if they cared a snap
for either Watterson or Cleveland. Let
him blow until he bursts his cheek.
Let Cleveland crate and plot, he will
never be president again. If Cleve-
the great ~throbbing heart of the simon
pure democracy when his last
F, land could have had his finger upon
minute of office came when he was no
longer president, he would have known
of the great uplifting Of the sou and
the mighty re%joicings of the grand old
party. Watterson says "Forewarned
| is Forearmed." But who cares for his
warnings? He is ~eXhausting his wind
~ III puI poSCs ASt iS - ANoN
and imagine a vain thing"
Watterson shifts treason in the breeze
and like Jobs famous war horse smells
the battle from afar. HI says Grover
is out for 1900-that his candidacy is a
menace to the future of the party
What party, whose party? Not Cleve-
lands, for he has none. No Waiter
sons, for it is a small affair not count
ing much more than 100, 900. He says
that dinner and speech are the first
gun of the next national campaign
that Cleveland will seek the presidency
every -four years so long as he shall
live. Very likely But the presidency
does not seek Grover and the people
want none of him. If anything car
ever mite the entire republican bimet-
allists. democrats and populists it will
be the prospect, remote of otherwise
of four more years of Grover. God for
bid,
Here are a few toots from Henri's tin
horn:
He has had his day-a sad one for
his party-and whatever contributions
he made to the cause of good govern
ment during that day are upo the rec
ord and go to his credit. But his name
in connection with the presidency car
/. be only a reprOach, because aside from
the concentrations and frictions it in
olives. it carries with it the odiouS idea
Of a third term, a~ntagonlzing a law
unwritten it is true, but deeply imbed
ded in the popular mind n heart
Mr.. Cleveland can never again De
president of the United States. Undel
no conceivable circumstances ought he
Tcctnba should contemplate an.