The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-24
is CLEVELAND STILL IN POLITICS.

/ Some things which ex-President Cleve-
/ land has said recently and some IA nss
which have been said Of him in the pub
! lie prints jus ti-y the ques,.on as TO whs h
err or not he is altogether out of active
| politics. The World of New York makes
/ an article bS Mr. Cleve AID, entitled
/ Washington As a Leader" the bass of
a suggestion that he may again figure
as a presi-enti-l candidate. It does not,
OF course, say that there IS a proba oility
that he VIII be the next presidential can
didate Of his party. but 1t says some
things which are calculated TO create the
impression that it is toying with
thought of that kind.
In his article Mr.. Cleveland said:
"Certa n Y il a time comes when the
demands of our aroused couuttym for
sach lit g ily ana for p bli nora ty
shall be imDudently Gisreg arded and The
people shall become convinced that the
purpose OF their delegation OF poitieal
power 10 party management is perv. rted
ard their political n erests sacfhced md
betrayed, party ics,I umen -alit es may BE-
cast aside and our Peep e may turn for
the safety a, p eserN alion of their lun-
dameEtal political beli-fs 10 personal
leaGership-never. Of course. as abso ute
as Washing ems and probably never
again centered n one man. but of a char
actor sufficiently personal. as against
party leadership, to dem ustrate that the
people know how TO use th,ir reserve
power and sufficiently commanding to
rudely awaken un al h I'll pary man1 gers
TO the fact that we a e poit caly in earn
est and will not condone party treachery
and dishonor."
The World wants TO know If Mr..
Cleveland has a personality sufficiently
strong to lead If the rank and file of his
party should decide that the machine
leaders are no longer worthy of conf
dence. and should cut loose from them
1t asks ID es he, in his own wor Is sup
ply "a character sufficiently persocal as
against party leadership to enable the
people to make use Of him. in a resort TO
their reserve power. for the rehabilitation
of their party?"
There is no doubt that Mr.. Cleveland
has very s,rorg held upon the rank and
file of his party. Indeed he has friends
In the Republican party as well as the
Democratic party. but it is far from GER
IA
sonality to induce the great m jority of
his party to desert the leaders in control
of the organization and follow him.
There are those who think that Mr.
Cleveland has not as strong hold upon
the party as Mr. Bryan has. It is point
ed out that Mr.. Bryan domir ated the
last Democratic Nat onal Convention com
pletely-that he told the convention that
he would not accept the nomination for
President unless the platform cort lined
a distinct declarat on for the free coinage
of silver. 1t is true that the convention
submitted to Mr.. Bryan dictauon, but
it was not because of his strong person.
aity, but because he was already the
nominee of the Populist party. and 1t
was well understood that unless he were
nominated fusion between the Democrats
and Populists was imposs BILE.
But it is idle to discuss Mr.. Cleveland
or Mr.. Bryan in connection wi the next
presidential nom nat on Of the D mocrati.
party. Mr.. Cleveland has too many
powerful enemies in the party and It has
been clearly demonstrat that as long
as the country is prosperous Mr. Bryan
cannot be elected.
1t may be that the next presidential
nominee Of the Dc mocratic party will be
a man of strong personality-so strong
that he will be nominated In spite of the
machine leaders of the Democratic organ
ization-but the chances are. as stated by
Mr.. Wa:terson recently, namely, that the
nominee will be some one not now gener-
ally thought of In connection with the
nomination.