Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-26
"Tilden Died With Words Of SCOrn and
Contempt on His Lips for
Cleveland.
WORDS OF THE KENTUCKY EDITOR
As a Candidate For Another Te III in the
White House, Says WalierSon, lie
Could Not Carry Contested
Election District in the
United States.

LOUISVILLE, June 20-In a scorching
editorial in the Courier Journal
under the caption, "a Deaths Head at
the Feast" Henry Watterson fiays Grover
Cleveland in answer to his speech before
the Tilden Club last night Mr.. Wattefson
goes after his od-lime enemy in his usua
vigorous style, and does not mince words
He recounts hi. various campaigns and his
covert efforts for fourth nomination. he
accuses him of treachery in various forms
and ways.
"It seems" says Mr.. Watterson, "O
kind of irony of fate that it should be g
Tildeu Club to welcome Mr.. Cleveland
baleful re entry into political activity. MIR
Tilden died with words of scorn and con
tempt on his lips for Grover Cleveland
He understood perfectly the coarse texture
Of Mr. Cleveland's physical and menta
makeup, his obiuse sefishness,c hl'
ignorant obstinacy, his vulgar self.asser
ton, his indefatigable duplicity. That Mr.
Cleveland should put himself forward as 6
coniectural party leader is proof of a self
confidence which would be sublime if il
were not sinister; because leadership with
him means Office and nothing but office
ALWAYS AN oFFICEsEEKER.
"Such well. termed disclaimers as that
which irradiated his elsewise aptlyphrased
speech on Thursday night, mean nothing
to those who are familiar with his peculiar
methods. They know for certainty that
Mr.. Cleveland never puts himself to the
trouble of a public appearance without q
definite objective point, and that bis OBJ
ject point always relates to his own
appetite and interest. From the day he
was one and twenty until now, he has
been an o6iceseeker. He never drew a
disinterested repiraton in all his life.
eve are not permitted, therefore to see
in this artfully.timed and ostentatious
reappearance upon the scene from which
he withdrew into the conspicuous shade
of great university anything except the
organization of Presidential boom, as it
is called.
HAD ENOUGH OF HIM.
eve rather think the party will agree,
without much division, that 1t has had its
fill of Mr.. Cleveland. The idea of his
nomination in 1904 is little short of ridicu'
lors. He would be hailed by the Re-
publicans as the Diaz of Democracy; that
lie, as its only-onliest captain general 1t is
safe to say that as candidate for third
term in the White House, and for the
fourth time as Presidential nominee, he
could not carry contested district in the
United States.
"The Tilden Club has decidedly not put
its best foot foremost. Rather, as the
saying is, it has put its foot into it The
name of Cleveland may still be name 10
njure with the Republicans. With the
Democrats of the West and South it Is
simply hateful. Addressing it the party
might paraphase the familiar words Of
Rip Van Winkle 4 got enough, know
when l got enough though it would
hardly be able to complete the sentence
and to add, Lam glad when l get enough.
The substance of what Mr.. Cleveland
said was done in bis characteristic vein o
felicitious subtlety, but which of the fables
tell of certain animal with sad memories
in mind saying, in response to a certain
other animal: 'Mr. Fox you talk too well. ,