The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-20
The Reincarnntion of krishnn Cleve-
land.

At more or less frequent intervals, dur
ing the past three years or better, the
late Mr.. Cleveland has made attempts of
varying force and nature to convince the
country that he was still on the political
earth, and, in fact, did not descend into
the silent tomb of national forgetfulness,
as it is popularity believed he did when
he threw himself from the Tarpeian Rock
Of Jeflersonian Democracy and dashed out
his cephalic cavity on the hard pavement
of Wall Street in 1896. Mostly. these
efforts have fallen as fiat as himself on
the occasion named, and, in all these
moons OF darkness, the forty or fifty dis
ciples which the enlarged departed may
own, scattered over the face of the land,
have waited in vain for some satisfying
evidence Of his temperance. 1t will be
noted that, before he vanished from the
White House, Krishna Cleveland advised
his fellow suicides that, after a period of
remorseful worms and political corruption,
be would appear again to them. and to
such others as might be credulous enough
to believe it, in all the youthful beauty
and grace of his ancient form; with the
X,
and without The loss of one significant
scar upon that noble twenty-seven inch
neck, which of yore presented such a
happy contrast to his five-and -a-quarter
hat.
He has fulfilled the promise even to the
utter satisfaction of such skeptics as We
His letter to the Brooklyn Democratic
Club. on the recent occasion of its Jeffer-
son birthday banquet ought 10 convince
the most jossless mind that he is with US
again. astrally if not physically. The voice
from the cemetery at Princeton is his
voice. even down to the very boots. Let
US give that Voice a hearing:
when those who profess the Democratic faith
meet 70 celebrate the birth Of the man who first
gave that faith distinct formulation their pride
in the achievements and triumphs OF the party
which he founded should not entirely displace all
thought Of its present situation and the condi-
tions which, in the light OF experience, appear
TO be essential to its success"
Show US the doubter that we may hit
him! Is not that the same old Cleveland;
stupendous, stuffy, and sterile? But, lest
there be any room for cgubt hearken TO
another familiar Groverian period:
Besides, Of Us can close our ewes TO the
bic IN its own strength. Its power to win vic
tories has always been found 10 depend upon
sturdy and consistent adherence 10 its time
honcred principles which have proved sufficient
10 meet every emergency Of national life
Whatever snccesses may have attended a party of
opportunity with sails spread for every transient
breeze OF popular sentiment excitement ex-
peTlence has abundantly demonstrated that De
Inocracy is so constituted that Z is only strong
when courageous in the right, and only viz
torious when It's forces marslialed under lis
old and wclirecosnized Standard
only formidable in its own strength"
Just think OF Il! But for the resurrected
Joss We should all have thought that a
political organization derived its strength
from its weakness. Now We know better.
Whatever successes may have attended
party of opportunity with sails spread for
every transient breeze of popular senti-
ment or excitement" let us bark back 10
the halcyon days when an alleged Demo-
cratic President laid in with Mark Hanna
TO make sure the defeat of the candidate
his party had proposed his successor
But the memory of those times makes il
difficult for us to discern just what party
the Voice refers to as our party" in the
following:
The heslthiulness OF part, may well be
questioned when it shrinks IRON such a exanii-
nation Of its position will enable il to avoid
disaster by keeping ia a course Of safety under
the guidance Of true Democracy.
Therefore tbo-e who claim 10 be followers Of
Thomas Jefferson Will tail to discharge solemn
duty II, in this time OF doubt and temptation
they neglect such examination, and IL this
disclose= tendency in party control 10 subordi.
nate the principles Of pure Democracy and to dis
trhst their conqv1ing power, then conditions
should not continue without brave and carly
Democratic protest
The above admonition may be heavy.
but net heavier than Cleveland. 1t may