The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-02
For President: Grover Cleveland.


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 For President: Grover Cleveland. Brooklyn Eagle.
 Millions of Americans again desire to make Grover Cleveland President of the United States. He Is today regarded as the only man who could beat Theodore Roosevelt. This reduces the case to those who would like to beat Mir. Roose- Welt and to those who would not. He can be beaten by Grover Cleveland. in our present opinion, but he might not be by any other Democrat. Therefore. those who would not have Cleveland may, by the support of any other. Democrat, fail to beat Mir. Roosevelt and would thereby indirectly contribute to Mir. Roosevit's s election. They may dislike Cleveland more than they dislike Roosevelt. but if they prefer Democracy to Republicanism in the presidency. they should support against him or of their preferences for some other Democrat.
 Were the contest an even one between the two parties. the field of nominate none within the Democracy. But the contest is not an even one. Republican, ism is in power. The Democracy has been put of power for long time. Gro Democracy has been able to put into power. since the war between the States. In late years. the Democratic party has '"used .up' many otherwise available factional war within the party and by the wandering of the party into paths of error and folly.
 All the Democratic aspfrants for the their ambition at the feet of Grover Cleveland, but they could do so at the feet of no other Democrat. It would be no humiliation for them to give place to pie, and they have not. Moreover, he has taken no part in the mistakes which have cost the party. public confidence and which have made for nearly every other Democrat of presidential size a vulner- able record. It might be difficult for many Democratic statesmen and politi- clans to overcome their envy or their enmity toward Mir; Cleveland. but diff culties of that kind have to be overcome, if the party. prefers victory to defeat in American life. It would not be difficult for the Democratic rank and file. to vote for Grover Cleveland again. for they like him and trust him and they are already, as many evidences show, demanding of their leaders and of the editors his nomi- nation for President next year.
 The great things MT. Cleveland did as President remain. The splendid things Presidency are appreciated. His. career in office and his career out of office unite to make him the most trusted and respected of living Americans. The very fact that the Democratic party mum. bers him among the men on whom 1t can call Is the greatest element of strength and hope now possessed by that party. Today the proposition plainly Is Grover Cleveland. for President of the United cratic opposition to the election of Theo- dore Roosevelt then. Events may, but are unlikely to, change this. The time to nomination Is not long. The chance for the discovery, within that time, of another great Democratic availability is slight.
 The nomination of Cleveland would end all bubbles about recent or future plat forms. He would be the platform His career and character would be the qua '- antee of the restoration of repose. of strength of consistency of dignity, of wisdom and of trained experience to the chief magistracy Men would not go to bed with anxiety or wake up with ap- of the United States The function of shock would be retired from executive action. The capacity for surprise would not be daily strained to exhaustion, were he in office again. The dangerous ten dencies of plutocracy. on the one hand and of proletariadsm, on the other. would he stopped by the very fact of his Presi- dency. To the Democratic party his nomination would mean rejuvenatiOn and to the country at large reinsurance. Ii
 
 above the head of the Democracy and afflict the new Repbicanism with respon- sibility for the cohorts of spoliation with whom it has been coquetting of late years.
 We know that it will be said that there should be no third term for any Ameri- can President. It will be said. But what of it, if it be said? There is nothing in it. when the three terms are not con secutive. No one could accuse MT. Cleveland of the use of the Presidential office, to promote his nomination, for he will have been out of it for eight years before a vacancy will occur in that office Eight years in private life, eight years absence from Democratic contentious and divisions. eight years given to the study of national and international subjects of high importance and signalized by un- selfish solicitude and candid counsel foI Democratic and American welfare create for Grover Cleveland an unmatched estate of public confidence and for the Democratic party. with him as It's nom- ine,e not only great, but, in our Opin- | ion, well nigh the only opportunity for return to power.
 MT. Cleveland's fitness for the Presi- l dency cannot be questioned. His para | mount superiority as a candidate to any other Democrats has ben made by no arts of politics, by no devices of machines, by no agreement among managing politi- clans. but by the simple fact of his consistency, his civic courage, his prac- tical sense, his elevated patriotism and his unique ability to see, to sense and to say what the people need. what they would have, what they should do and what should be done, for them and with them, in pursuance of their order, by those to whom they intrust the political action which will express their political will.
 There is no Organization for Grover Cleveland. There never was, there never will be, and there never could be any organization" for him. There is gravita- ton for him and toward him. He has owed all the honors and responsibilities that heve ever come to him in municipal. State and national offices to the gravita- ton of the people toward him, in a man.