The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-03-28
MIR. CLEVELAND'S
"DREADFUL DREAMS"
lThe cOmmOner.I

not q dream. il was living reality
He was charged with betrayal of hi
trust. with turning the party organiza
tiOn over TO Wall street. and with
using the patronage at his disposal Il
punish loyal democrats and to reward
recreant ones. The charge was pre-
ferred before the rank and file of the
party and he was condemned by the
largest jurv that ever sat upon case.
The sentence was complete and six
millions and half of voters supported
the platform which repudi ated his
| financial policy, while only one hun
bred and thirty thousand supported
the ticket that received the nominal
support of his administration.
When the election was over he made
speech at a high priced banquet and
boosted of his part in the republican
victory. If we could punish the be-
trayal of political confidence as we do
the embezzlement of public money, he
would be receiving the limit of the
law but instead of seeking forgiveness
for the wrong done by him to his
party. he nurses his resentment and
waits impatiently for the party to
apologize to him for not allowing him
to lead it bodily into the republican
camp.
What excuse can there be for a Cleve-
land party? The republi can party can
serve every purpose that Cleveland
democratic party could serve. If Mr..
Cleveland was right on the money
question, so was the republican party /;
if Mr.. Cleveland was right in not en-
forcing the law against trusts, the
republican party deserves credit for
following out the same policy. If Mr..
Cleveland was justified in refusing to
sign the only tariff reform measure
passed since the war, the republicans
were justified in condemning the meas
ure. Here are three questions upon
which the Cleveland democracy would
have difficulty in making an issue. and
how about the fourth-imperialis
1t was the paramount issue in the last
campaign, but Mr.. Cleveland, while
presumably opposed to Imperialism, did
not feel interested enough to say a
single word in support of the demo-
cratic ticket. His association with
the great financiers was SO close and
SO constant that even war of con-
quest and the Imperilling of the re-
public could not draw him from their
embrace.
There is not single issue upon
which the Cleveland democracy is pre-
pared to make fight, and its assump-
tion OF control in the party would be
regarded as treaty of peace with the
on every important ques-
tion. If Mr.. Cleveland thinks that
the democratic party is ready to return
to the mire into which he led it and
in which be left it, let him announce
his candidacy on any platform he is
willing to write, and he can not secure
the delegation from single state in
the union. If his modesty forbids his
own candidacy, let him name can
didate who will agree to make his
administration like Mr.. Cleveland's
second administration and he will not
have delegate in the convention.
The dreadful dreams which disturb
the exploite1s and those who grow
rich by stock speculations are entirely
to rhe rank and file of the /!
party and to the producers of wealth
generally, andthe party will never go
back to the odius and odorous days of
1892 1896.