The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-28
! Probably Final.


is. a nice thing to take.
s Probably Final.
The letter of ex- President Grover
Cleveland to ST., Clair sMcKelway, ed1-
tor of the Brooklyn Eagle. positively
and irrevocably announcing his deter
mtnation not to accept the nomination
to the presidency IT, rendered, places
HIM certainly out OF all democratic
consideration. No, stronger language
could be used than this:r TN full view
of every consideration presented /
have not for moment been able, nor
am I nov. able, to open my mind to
the thought that in any circumstances
or upon any. consideration. 7 should
ever again become the nominee of my
party for the presidency. My deter
nlination mot to do.sso is :unalterable
and conclusive .,... l". .:..
About six m or1tts ago, the Brooklyn.
Eagle nominated Cleveland for re-
newed democratic consideration in a
remarkably strong editorial written
in St. Clair McKelway's most brilliant
rhetoric. At the time, this indorse-.
ment was regarded by the public as
inspired by Cleveland himself; at least
it was naturally considered: that Nc.
Kelway would not have committed his
influential paper to Cleveland's can
didacy had he not had some intinla-,
ton from the, ex-president u himself
that "Barkis is willin,. Cleveland, IN
his letter, however, says that the: Nc.
KeIway article was "a great surprise.
to him. Of course, McKelWay,s We
hement language may have been "a:
surprise to him, but it looks il ON. as If
that article was Intended TO sbee. q
.'feeler,"' and, as the proposition, was
not rapturously received .by,- the5rdi-
vided democracy, Cleveland decided to
put a stop to the random talk about
him as a candidate" He is enlinently
wise to pull out of active politics. He.
could not unity the democratic party
and Vote any more than can William
Janning sqBrgan who @lla 81 gradually
come to-the conclusion. that he lis not
| likely to put his legs. under the White
House mahogany Bryan, being still
youlig and persistent, announces that
| he will continue to fight for the 'spIsin
ciples',f em bodied in the Kansas City
platform for the. next, twenty five
years, as stumper and editor Of The
Commonwealth. Perhaps he may, Z In
that time, learn what real ~ efferson-
! ian principles are. He and Cleveland
differ very radically as to that. ,:srt
| + cleveland. reviewing the history Of
his party since 1864, is on record as
saying. that the democratic party
would have had a long continuance of
/ it's supremacy, after the. success of
1892. had it not been .beguiled by the
1 fallacy of free silver and populisln,' .
which fallacy was promoted by Will
4 liam Jennings Bryan. Cleveland put
it in this way: y2.'t <a.g"a.1s
/ The elimination of democratic woe vas
reached when its compact with these I'M
democratic forces = was complete. and
4 wten[our. rank and file were summoned to
dc battle, under the banners which bore
strange symbols. and which were held
4 aloft in unfamiliar hands,. The result OF
such as.betrayai; was foredoonled. This
I abandonment of the principles Of true de-
n1ocracY. this tconten1ptuousc disobedi-
ences of it's traditions, and this deliberate
violation Of the law Of it's strength and
I vigor,. we're. by: asdecree 'as ymeSorable as
those of fate; followed by the Inevitable
punishm of stunning, staggering de-
feat. -. ,..5a,,.
J The divided dem ocracy will never
win a presidential. election. The
Brooklyn Eagle announces, inzview OF
/ the Cleveland letter of yesterday, that
it will give the support it had given
Cleveland for the democratic presi-
1 Dental nomination hereafter to Judge
A. B. Parker, who has been extensively
discussed by the democratic press in
I connection with the presidential nomi-
i nation and has been favored by some
southern democratic Journals. Parker
. is ireputed to be, a gold democrat and
he will not get the support Of the
/. Bryan democracy: Neither will "a
candidate Of the Bryan democracy gel
the support of the Cleveland democ-
i racy. Tt is. however. noticeable thai
a considerable number of free silver
ana populist" democrats are modify
Z ing their zradicalism and revising thei,
views OH the basis of business com
mon sense. Unless the whole parts
7 gets on this basis they can expec
nothing but what Grover Cleveland
calls stunning, staggering defeat
Gaining Ground
/ John Sharp williams, the demo.
cratic leader of the house. yesterda1