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when he arrived, and shortly after proceed
ed to the cemetery with the remains.
CLEVELAND NOT ELIGIBLE.
His Nomination for a Third Term
Would Be Serious Mistake.

VOuA0 nc u SERIOUS MI0t0kes
Atlanta Constitution
1t is plainly to be seen that there Is
abroad in the country the spirit of a Cleve-
land revival
Not alone the st. Louis ovation is the
evidence of the fact. Incidents preceding
that and proposals for the future in which
Mr.. Cleveland was and is to be featured
almost amount to an argument from design
that he is to be promoted as the precedent
breaker and possible first third-term Pres
ident of the United States Such design,
II IT really exists among political managers
or respectable mass of citizens, cannot
but cause serious concern for the Demo-
cratic party of the country.
The Constitution will not essay the in
sincerity of declaring that Grover Cleve-
land Is not masterful man and the strong
political favorite of millions of Democratic
and independent voters. He has marked
Qualities as thinking publicist, states
and personality in which the emphatic
epithets are independence, courage and con-
hdence In his convictions. For these rigid
the admiration he receives.
That Mr.. Cleveland is impressed by those
recent evidences Of his personal popularity
ural. Yet he will signally fail of his re-
puted perception of situations If he as
sumes or permits his nearest friends to
assume, that because he receives applause
Tor his presence and agreement with his
orations on specific themes he can achieve
preferment that has been denied to all
other Americans. from the days of George
washington TO the present epoch. While
IT is true that third term in the presi-
dency does not in Mr.. Cleveland's case ap-
pear SO badly defiant of American custom
and so suggestive of miltarism as it did in
the instance of General Grant, neverthe-
less We are confident that serious sug-
gestion to elect him President again will
arouse promptly the seeming Indifference
of the common people to that un-American
idea.
Indeed, that seeming indifference of the
people which we mention is rather due to
the declarations of Mr.. Cleveland himself
than to any other reason. Mr.. Cleveland
has said openly and repeatedly that he
didate for the nomination. When he means
to be understood he can say his purpose
as resolutely and irrevocably as any man.
Mr.. Tilden was able to renounce a re-
nomination in 1880 so emphatically as to
change the purpose Of national Demo-
cratic convention. Mr.. Cleveland is as en-
phatic as Mr.. Tilden was in saying that
the presidents against a third term in the
presidency for any man have hardened
into an unwritten law, all the more sacred
because it is part of the national instinct
and not a mere statutory prohibition.
The Constitution believes that Mr.. Cleve-
land means what he says and accepts his
declaration of nonperformance in any way
leading to the belief that he would accept
a third-term nomination. If he is in any,
thing more worthy Of admiration than all
else it is because he is not trimmer and a
demagogue And only such a person, with
his knowledge and record, would fiirt with
this abhorrent third-term idea.