The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-26
WATTERsoN UNCOvERs CLEvE-
LAND DESIRE FOR THE PRESI-
DENTAL NOMINATION.

The open attempt of the New York
| World, following the quiet work of q
wcll-equipped literary bureau, to start a
boom to nominate Cleveland for Presi-
dent in 1904, is no surprise to those who
know the ex- President. There has not been
a day since he basely betrayed the party
that elected him that he has rot had his
eyes fixed upon a reelection as vindi-
! cation. He was mot candidate IN
| 1892 while Whitney was organizing his
forces. until he saw that he could win.
He is mot a candidate now, but he is
I careful to be near at hand and accessible
! if the office should seek him.
| The Democratic party has had enough
of Cleveland to last generation. nc
came into office with a majority in the
House and the Senate. BY his course
that majority was overturned in two
short wears. every State in the North
went Republican in 1894, and in that same
wear for the first time in a quarter OF a
I century four Southern States were carried
by the Republicans. Isn't that enough
| wreckage for one man to accomplish?
/ The Louisville Courier Journal prints
n whole page of comments upon the New
York Worlds booming Cleveland for 1904,
and then its brilliant editor writes as
follows:
quite year ago, when Mr.. Glove
land began to sit up and take notice, we
thought all this, and ventured in our
shy. untutored way to predict it, but our
modest vaccinations brought down upon
us nothing but contempt. Nay. barrels,
buckets and tin pans of objurgation and
ridicule.
"'That great and good man, eXclalm-
ed the Mugwump chorus, That states
man, sage and patriot-that inspiration
to civic virtue-that unassuming citizen,
counting the classic shades of Princeton
that he may avoid contamination whilst
he enjoys the society and basks in the
sunshine of admiring Juniors and sus-
ceptible sophomoreS, whose letters home
will suffice to remind the world that he
still lives--a few incongruvial college
| lectures that his great brain still throbs
along with his mighty heart for his
country--in short, who despises office
and abhors publicity, is far too noble,
too pure, to self-denying, too lofty to
notice this scurrilous. Kentucky scribble,
but isn't it just shameful to have him so
abused and maligned?
"Then the chorus went out to take a
drink-in secret-whilst the ex-President
exchanging bouquets with himself toss
ed nosegay to Tammany Hall, and
waited disdainful kiss-something of
| Judas kiss-in the direction of David
/ Bennett Hill, murmuring to the Tilden
Club the while the sad refrain, Your
candidate hardly think l can ever get
my blushing consent to be-"
| TO PARAPHRASE CHEVALIER.
"That is to paraphrase the words OF
! Chevalier's song
''First he said he wouldn't,
| Then he said he couldn't,
Then he said, well, I'll see
"But at last the eat is clean out of
the bag, and all that the Courier Jour
nal opined, and good deal more of the
same sort, is made matter of fact by the
New York World and sits attendant train
of echoing sprtes; Sand yet, withal,
mighty little let up as to the alterna-
tions of derision and invective levelled
against the unhappy editor of the Courier
Journal, whose verified prophecies bring
him no surcease from sorrow and whose
modest words are described as kind of
double cross between hysteria and
idiocy.
| We take no account of the milksops to
whose attenuated ear-drums few sylla-
bles of robust English sound like the
thunder of Mount Pelee. We take as lit
tie account of the housing rapscallions
that think by making monkey faces at
our parts of speech to enjoy few mo-
nents of brief but delightful conspicuity
in these columns.
But here comes the staid old Philadel-
phia Ledger to speak of our "splenetic
and historical TRADE" Lord! what kind
of a bumblobce is that? And that para
gon of rectangular politeness, the Phila-
delphia Record, to accuse us of insult
ing" the sage of Princeton of dealing in
"bombastic rhetoric" regarding him and
-heavensi-of being actually "tiresome.
! Nor is this ALL
> MIGHT STAND HISTORICAL.
We might stand "hysterical." Some
time we grow "tiresome" to our own
shadow. But ignoring the many asser-
lions to the contrary, the Pittsbure
Telegraph has the reckless effrontery tt
say that "Watterson still smarts under
the remembrance OF a personal quarrc
in the White House over social ques-
ton involving the families of both men
as infamous and as groundless false
hood as ever sprang from the devils OWL
liaison of cowardice and malice.
Alas and alack, the day We cannot ac-
ccpt Mr.. Cleveland either at his own rat
ing OF himscIf-which was not originally
high-nor fall to groveling at the feet
of craven image, which the self-de'
! luded Mugwump has clothed in all o
the colors of the rainbow and placed OF
a pedestal and which he worships &C
cording to his bloodless kind.
As an ar-around man about-town II
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