The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-02
WATTERSoN GETS ATE,
CLEVELAND.
AETER

Whenever Mr.. Henry Watterson gets
after Mr.. Grover Cleveland it is always
worth while to stop a few minutes and
watch the fun. Mr.. Watterson has got
after Mr.. Cleveland again. the occa-
sion being an article in Hoke Smiths
Atlanta Journal. All that Mr.. Waiter
son saws about Mr.. Cleveland is too
! long to be reprinted but some of it is
too good not to be reprinted. Speaking
of the ex-president as a possible candi-
date in 1900, Mr.. Watterson says:
Waving for a moment Mr.. Cleve-
/ land antecedents and the odium that
attaches itself to his name with an
overwhelming majority of Democrats
IN the west and south, his reappear-
ance upon the scene would at once
change the issue from one of sound
economics to that of a third term in
the presidency fatal transfer on the
very threshold; fatal alike to success
at the polls and to good government.
Because the Courier-Journal has
made this point, its editor is accused
by some of raising a bogy and by all
with personal hostility. If he were
conscious of any private feeling. or
grounds for private feeling, he would
never have said word. He would
scOrn himself if he could be impelled in
his public conduct by any such motive
Mr. Cleveland has never been anything
to him except political quantity.
True, he may be raising a bogy. Mr..
Cleveland may be all his worshipDers
claim him to be. and the Courier
Journal NAV be most unjust in its
opinions on that subject. In this event.
there IS an easy way TO settle it; let
anybody get Mr.. Cleveland distinctly
.
again to take The presidential office.
and having done this. let the Cleveland
literary bureau, disguised as a non
partisan. sound-money league, be dis
banded.
Mr.. Carlisle is not "hot-foot for CIeve-
land.' Neither is General Buckner. !
Nor are many who We're at that Re
form club dinner. But, all the same.
the dinner was given to put Mr. Cleve-
land in the field. to make him the SYM
Dol and the embodiment of the sound
money movement. and to forestau all
others and all else in its development.
That we hold to be. if it can, be carried
out. both wicked and fatal: wicked be-
cause It brings the third-term issue
before all other issues, thereby PLAYING
directly into the hands of the extreu- I
lists; fatal. because it is doomed in ad- !
vance TO defeat.
But Mr.. Cleveland does not think /
this He thinks he is a man OF destiny. I
He thinks that. having broken the rec /
ord. he can break it again. He thinks |
that in 1900 ali the elements Of order /
and credit viii turn to him as a neces-
sity. and that. having smashed the
Democratic party. he can smash the
Republican party. and administer upon
The assets of both. The Reform club.
weak as 1t is, exists to pursue this
ingloriOus phantom: and
because the COurier-Journai has sought
% explode it, we are charged with
Malice on the one hand and a fantas-
lie imagination on the other Some
)ody is being fooled. Maybe we shall
ave to wait three years to find out
Who.
What is said of the ex-president is
10 doubt true. He viii never say he
Ices not desire to be president again;
AIT whether re says it or not, or