The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-06-21
Accuses Former President of AS
piring to & Nomination
for Third Term.
DEATHS HEAD AT THE FEAST"
Editorial. So Headed Refers 10 Mr..
Cleveland's "Baleful Re-entry
Into Political Activities
Self Confidence Sublime"
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

REPCBIIC SPECIAL.
Louisville, KY, June @.-In Sccrching
editorial in the Courier-Journal tomorrow,
under the head. "a Deaths Head at he
Feast" Henry Watterson hays Grover
Cleveland in answer to his speech before
the Tilden Club last nisht. Mr. Watterson
goes after his old-time enemy in a vigorous
style and does not mince words.
1T seems" says Mr. Watterson, "a kind
of irony OF fate that It should be a T1ldsn
club that welcomes Mr. CleveIand's bale
full re-entry into political activities. Mr..
T1ldea died with scorn and contempt upon
his lips for Grover Cleveland. He under
stood perfectly the coarse texture Of Mr..
Cleveland's physical and mental makeup;
his obtuse selflshness; his ignorant obst!-
macy; his vulgar self-assertion; his Indefau-
gable duplicity.
That Mr.. Cleveland should put himself
forward as a eonjectural party leader is
proof Of a self-confldence which would be
sublime If It were not sinister; because lead
ership with him means office, and nothing
but office. Such well-termed disclaimers as
that which irradiated his elsew!se aptly
phrased speech of Thursday night mean
nothing to those who are familiar with his
peculiar methods. They know for GER
tatnty that Mr.. Cleveland never puts him
self to the trouble of a public appearance
without definite objective point and that
his objective point always relates to his
own appetite and interest
From the day he was one-and-twenty
until now he has been an officeseeker. He
never drew a disinterested respiration In all
his life. We are not permitted, therefore,
TO see in this artfully-timed and ostentatious
temperance upon the scene from which
he withdrew into the conspicuous shade OF
a great university. anything except the or
ganization of a presidential boom, as II Is
called.
No Chance for His Nomination
I'VE rather think the party will agree,
without much division, that it has had It's
fill Of Mr.. Cleveland. The idea Of his nomi-
nation in 1901 is little short of ridiculous.
He would be hailed by the Republicans as
the Diaz of Democracy, that Is, as its only,
onliest Captain General. 1t is safe to say
that, as a candidate for third term in the
White House and for the fourth time as
presidential nominee, he could not carry a
contested district in the United States.
The Tilden club has decided not TO put
its best foot foremost. Rather, as the say
ing is. II has put Its loot into II. The
name OF Cleveland may stiii be name TO
conjure with fer the Republicans; with the
Democrats Of the West and South IT IS sim
ply hateful. Addressing 1t, the party might
paraphrase the familiar words of Rip Van
Wrinkle. 4 got enough and l know when
got enough though it would hardly be
able to complete the sentence, and to add,
I am glad when 1 get enough
THE substance of what Mr.. Cleveland
said was done in his Enthusiastically fe-
licitous subllmity, but one OF the fables
tells of certain animal with sad memories
in mind, saying in response to a certain
other animal: Mr.. Fox. you talk too