The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-05-22

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t means the very reverse of party unif
Z cation. Ia due season the publ
will begin 10 feel the pressure. In du
4 season, the Mugwump machinery wi
begin to move. In due season tn
l poison will begin Insidiously TO pei
p colate through the neither veins of tn
5 party corporate.
Again ON the following 18th of De
cember. 1902. everything veering il
! the same direction. the Courier
Journal continued to sound the note o
warning in the words which follow:
Among those of the Courier Journal
detractOrs with respect to Mr.. Cleve
Ian, there were not few who accus,
us OF wantonly invading the privacy o.
statesman, who, withdrawn from
partisan contentious, could not be
induced to re-enter the political Arena
and who should therefore be permitted
to enjoy the laurels along with the
secluslon his honorable and disting
uished public service had secured him.
"When we walk over ploweI ground,
though we be blind-folded, we shall
not he bind Drained. He must indeed
be a poor creature upon whom the
same confidence game may De twice
worked. ABSURD as a fourth Presi-
Dental nomination on the part of Mr..
Cleveland may seem to ordinary minds,
the idea conveys no incongruity or
extravaganza to the mind OF Mr..
Cleveland himself. nor to the little
clump of followers, whom, In the
mug wump contingent, he has ever
about him. When last spring we saw
these latter get up an occasion for
their idol to resppear upon the scene.
we knew as we'll as we know 1t now
that, having laid his lines in true
| fishers fashion overnight the fisher
would be around in the morning; that.
still affecting to hug the classic
shades of Princeton, the retired sage
would continue TO keep the STAGE that
soon, or late. there would be machine
and boom differing only from other
machines and other booms in it's lofty
pretentlon of civic virtue and unselfish
patriotism. In short, We knew the
man, we knew his methods, and we
knew the forces behind him.
Because we exploited the deep laid
scheme prematurely and ventilated
the schemer. perhaps too roughly, our
motives were arraigned on every side
by those who never see anything until
they stumble over it. 1t was ever
thus. For thirty years the Courier
Journal has foreshadOwed coming
events only to be held up to current
scorn by those who, little later,
meekly followed in It's WAKE"
In view of all that has passed and is
passing, we think we have the right to
recall and repeat these expressions and
forecasts as in some sort an answer to
a world of rldicule and obloquy which
was sought to be tumbled upon us
because of them.
tits safe to. say that, if the Courier
Journal had seriously proposed any
thing so fantastic as a fourth nom
ination to the Presidency and
third term in the White House for
Mr.. Cleveland, there would have been
from one end of the newspaper line to
the other one long, loud yawp OF alter
nate derision and abuse. A few sober,
conservative pens might have pointed
out the folly of it, not to say, the
incongruity the factlonal differences
among the Democrats emphasized by
MIR. Cleveland more than by any other
man; the deeply laid sentiment among
the masses of the people against a
third term perhaps, now and then, a
word or two touching Mr.. Cleveland's
insuffioiency OF character and temper.
But by far the greater number would
have left Mr. Cleveland out altogether
and emptied upon the head of the
Editor of the Courier Journal the
phials of their rIdlcule and wrath his
lack of sense and judgment; his
cratic fancy. his bizarre rhetoric; his
methods and his personal
That the Brooklyn Eagle
has come IN tor none of these ascrlp-
tions, but is taken at it's word and |
treated with resnectful -attention, we
shall construe as on the whole a COM
pliment to us since it indicates that
the Courie Journal is held to
stricter accountability..than other of Its
Be these things as they may. we
shall assuredly give ear TO and take
heea of the imposing hexameters OF
our much respected DIR. McKelway,
albeit not intended for poetry aud
printed IN the solidest Long Island
prose; because we very we'll know that
hey mean business and have serried
Ines of veteran dollars behind them.
rhe milk in the Cleveland cocoanut
is Pierpont Morgan and when Pier
oont Morgan puts bis hand to a job,
% it a Railway.Merger, Ship Com
,ine or Presidential boom, 1t were
veil that prudent men took note of It,
At least. none such will make light
# it.
When, after an unbroken silence of
ute five years-nay, six, for he
ould not be prevalied.upon to speak
n 1896 except to decline sacriicial ,