The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-12-05
Gods will BE Done.
Louisville Courier Journal.


Louisville Courier Journal.
Quite a numb Der of Ouresteemed
contemporaries are putting
themselves to needless pains in
making we-told-you-so faces at
the Courier-Journal touching
Mr.. Cleveland's letter of "renun-
ciation," as they call it. Though
trifle late, it is true to say that
the letter is sufficiently explicit.
Had Mr.. Cleveland written it, in
the first place, it would at one
and the same time have been
more meritorious and have ST
fenced all criticism. His failure
to do this, taken in connection
with his unwonted activity in
putting himself personally in
evidence a.d the activity of his
friends in urging him for
fourth nomination and third
election-quite of Il piece with
the methods which proved so
effectual in 1S92-left thinking
POoEIAO liz oOl4CA OIlttA
that at the very least "Barkis
was willin'." His tardy dis
claimer exposes him to the con-
sequent suspicion that he, and
these hackers, had come to see
that their scheme was impracti-
cable, that, in point of fact, no.
body likely to exercise the
smallest weight, or influence
tional Convention was so much
as considering the possibility of
his heading the ticket.
In treating the ex-President
Journal has had no other end to
serve than to record the facts
and to vindicate the truth of his
tory. Incidentally, it has sought
to urge the people to cut loose
from hero-worship, at best both
baneful and misleading, to trust
less to party shibboleths, art
fully contrived to deceive, and,
instead, to think for and to rely
upon themselves. During nearly
two decades the suffrage of
Democrats has been divided by
two very commonplace persons,
who have led the party from one
disaster to Notwithstanding
for it none of it's ideals-yet care
fully the while feathering their
their own nests. If we win the
battle of 1904, we shall be just
where we were twenty years ago.
with everything, as far as great
measures Of public policy are
concerned, to do over again, be-
ginning, as it were, at the very
beginning. It is sad story of
individual selfshness on the one
hand and of human credulity on
the other hand. But, Mr.. Cleve-
land is rich and famous, Mr..
Bryan is rich and famous, and
what does it matter what be-
comes of the boys in the
trenches, of those who have
hewn the wood and drawn the
water?
Mr.. Cleveland, having tried
the ice and found it too thin to
sustain his avoirdupois, agu-
mented by so many dead
weights, warily takes himself
out of the skating. Hencefor-
ward, we shall hear a great deal
about his leadership, political
and intellectual. The Brooklyn
Eagle does Judge Parker the in
finite, almost irrecoverablei injury
of naming him as Mr.. Cleve-
lands legatee. It were enough
to hurt even stronger man.
Then we shall have Mr.. Bryan
back from Europe-where every
effort of the republicans is put
forth to distinguish him-for
well the republicans under stand
that as they are able to
strengthen him they prepare a
handicap for democracy-then
we shall have Mr.. Bryan back
from Europe exploiting himself
and his ideas and his theories,
not yet satisfied with having
made a good second to Mr..
Cleveland in wrecking the party,
and, along with it, the hopes of
millions of democrats, who fain
would escape the horrible cor
ruption, actual and spiritual, of