Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-07
.QEV[LAND'S CHANGES
Democrats of the East Are Con-
sidering Growers Chances
to Secure Nomination
WOULD THE WEST ACCEPT HIM?

President Makers of the East Are
Ready to Follow His Leadership
But Bryan Men of the West WouIc
Hardly Fall Into Line to Secure
| Either Nomination or Election.
Washington, May 7.-Jermani's let
| ter to Minneapolis Journal: Grover
| Cleveland's recent trip into the middl,
| west is taken there to mean that h,
has finally consented to permit the us'
of his name in connection with tn,
democratic presidential nomination
although bearing many indications OF
having been carefully prearranged
was hearty and sincere on the surface
| His friends are proud of it, and are
| taking it to mean that in the strong
! hold of Organism he has many loyal
supporters. His appearance for an adj
dress at the banquet given the Wash
ington correspondents in st. Louis last
Friday night, is regarded as another
indication of his Willingness that his
| name be used by the president-nakers
in their preliminary talks. The FRIDAY
night address was prepared in advance
and cast in happy mold. There was a
fine opportunity to set the question of
his candidacy next year at rest, but
not once, directly or indirectly did he
mention the subject. While il ST.
Louis he met by appointment the Lead
ing gold democrats of the middle west
some of whom came hundreds of miles
from other states to see him. 1t is
understood that TO these men he said
enough to indicate that he would ac-
cept another nomination If it We're to
come to him, and it will be surprising
if, as result of the conferences, an
attempt is not made soon to start a
Cleveland boom in the Bryan country.
So far as the democracy of the east
is concerned--and that is the section
where Cleveland is strongest and
their greatest showing--it appears very
willing to accept Cleveland as it's NOM
inee next year. The New York World
and the Brooklyn Eagle, influential
journals In the east, are still working
overtime getting his boom started.
Cleveland himself has prepared two
interviews for publication in the World.
both of which gave him an opportun-
ity equal to that of last Friday night
to go on record as not wanting another
nomination, but he said nothing.
Meanwhile, these two newspapers,
which have his confidence in an I'M
usual degree, and do not publish any
thing which would displease him are
asking for his nomination. And Mr..
Cleveland made q long journey to st.
Louis for the express purpose of talk
ing over the situation with the gold
democrats of the middle west
Notwithstanding Grant was refused
a third term, in compliance with the
unwritten law of the republic, there
are many reasons aside from those
that this Cleveland talk is
meant TO be serious. His friends ara
s,;ying that the fact that his services
as president was not continuous. Har.
rison coming between his first and sec
ond terms, and that there will be a gap
Of eight years between the close o. his |
second term and the beginning of the
-erm of Mr.. Roosevelt's successor. will! |
operate to suspend this unwritten law |
But even If this We're true, and it prob
ably is not, il public opinion as ex-
pressed thus far may be relied upon, |
what guarantee is there that the DEM
'cratic party can be prevailed upon to |
nave its salvation undertaken in that !
way? Apparently there is not now Il
single democratic state calling for Mr.. |
temperance In politics.
This would be equally true IL he had |
served one term instead of two, and |
here were no third term prejudices to
overcome. He saved the country from
/ debased currency, but that very fact
makes him an impossibility among
hose democrats who adhere to Bryan
md the Kansas City platform. If nom
mated at all, it will be by minority of
he party, and the Bryan protest will
take form in u bolt an6 a
bird ticket, or open support of Roose-
'elt.
Looking at it from every practical
Joint of view, it seems absurd to talk
bout Cleveland for third term. His
nomination would insure the election of
roosevelt by a record breaking ma ior-
ty and so divide the democracy as to
postpone for many years the coming of
time when it can hope to make
uccessful presidential campaign. The
TRANCE part of it all, to those in Wash
ngton who are following the political
rift, is Cleveland's own blindness to
he real situation; for he is blind, OF he
you'd not permit his New York news
aper friends 10 exploit him as they are
ow doing.