The Republican journal., 1902-12-11
CURRENT POLITICAL COMMENT.
EXPECTED TO rRor AGAIN.

EXPECTED TO TROT AGAIN.
Now they are talking about Cleve-
lands new Democratic party. He has
gotten up brand spanking new para
mount ISSUE" 1t is a perfect 'prob-
lem." 1t relates to the reform of the
tariff. 1t is the dreadful novelty of it
that tickles the boys. Cleveland finds
his native air of New Jersey invigOrat-
ing and he is ready to trot in harness
again, or all the signs in the moon are
Observation-Disclosures iCommercial-T rib-
une.
BRYAN'S ADVICE.
The Commoner throws water on the
search for Democratic leader, and the
water has been iced. The mere men.
ton of the name of Grover Cleveland
sends it into violent commissions. Con-
spicuously it reproduces the Albany
Argus editorial demanding the repudi-
alton of David B. Hill, with its flaming
headline, "Overboard with Our JONAH"
Sardonically, it notifies Henry Waiter
son that he must persuade majority of
the voters to accept his platform and
his choice before German of Maryland
will be worth considering, and SO it
goes, slashing right and left and sparing
none but peeressness personifed,
otherwise known as its editor and pro-
prietor. Apropos of his self-bestowed
immunity, this is more than slightly
suggestive: ''If any Democratic speak
Ell feels discouraged because he does
not make many converts, let him re-
member that Noah preached righteous
ness for hundred years. and did not
make any converts at all, but at the
end of that time flood came and
drowned those who refused to turn
from their evil ways" What could be
more consoling? All the party has to
do is to listen to the righteous for a
hundred years, welcome the flood and
effect a landing on Mount Ararat 1t
will then be unanimous-there will be
no opposition, because it has been
drowned to the last man. 1t is long
time for either candidate or party
to wait for a tidal wave.-Brooklyn
Eagle, Dem.
CLEvELAND's RETURN.
What did Mr.. Cleveland's party un-
der his leadership do with the tariff
question but upset business, unsettle
values, and get itself turned out Of
office? What was its course on the
trust question but to confess, as the
Republican party under Gen. Harri-
sons leadership before it had done,
that the laws on the books were made
quate for the emergency? And what
came of the Hawaiian, episode but
failure so grotesque that Mr.. Cleveland,
his paramount commissioner to the is
lands, and the minister he sent there to
re-establish the rotten monarchy, were
all overwhelmed with confusion? Re-
turn to that line of procedure? Try
another Gorman-Wilson tariff law after
an experience with the Dingley law?
Try inaction ON the trust question
when Mr. Roosevelt in one year has
shown more aggressiveness than Mr..
Cleveland did in four? Undertake any
such line in the Philippine islands as
that Mr.. Cleveland took in the Ha-
waiian islands? Could the people be
induced so to record themselves at the
polls?
Mr.. Cleveland's generalities are of
less consequence than is Mr.. Cleve-
lands ambition. There can be little
doubt as to what that is. There is a
wide belief that the ex-President is
dreaming of a return to leadership
Certain it is that many of his admirers
have their eyes on him again, and are
moving IN his behalf. Washington
Star.
GLEN ELAND AND OLNEY.
\ careful perusal of MI Cleveland's
letter does not reveal any yelled refer
ence to the Hon. Richard Olney. This
may or may not mean, from the Wash
ington viewpoint, that the Sage of
Princeton regards the Bostonian as
likely Democratic candidate. He is
aWar that AIR 01Oay jpfuriatad tho or
ganiZed labor forces of the country by
of 1894, and this circumstance is
thought to be comforting to Mr.. Cleve-
land in his present frame of mind. In
other words, if Mr.. Olney were avail
able MI. Cleveland might have included
him in his sweeping Indictment against
the Bryan movement, for Mr.. Olnev
supported Mr.. Bryan Loyalty and effec-
lively in 1900.
1t is true that the ex-President has
been quoted lately as saving some very
nice things about his ex-premier, but
since he has repudiated nearly all of
the other interviews credited to him
it is possible either that he overlooked
this one, or that, as before remarked,
he doesn't consider Mr.. Olney in the
running. In brief, the opinion is wide
spread in Washington that Mr.. Cleve-
land is after the nomination for 1904.
If this is wrong Interpretation of his
letter, it is generally thought that with
in a short time the ex-President will
feel impelled to set the country right
by declaring positively and plainly that
he does not desire to re-enter politics.
Washington Times.