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SOME OF CLEvELAND's ENEMIES.

] SOME OF CLEN GLANDS ENEhIEes
/ Mr. Cleveland has many friends and
/ admirers. and he has his full share of
! enemies. He has no more bitter polit-
/ zeal enemy than Mr.. Bryan. In the
! current number Of his paper, The Com
/ moner, Mr.. Bryan devotes nearly five
/ columns TO Mr.. Cleveland going into
the particulars of the Cleveland bond
| deal Evidently ne thinks that deal
was the most unpopular thing connect
ed with either of Mr.. Cleveland's ad-
ministrations and hence he attempts
10 make a great deal of il, notwith-
standing the fact that all the partic-
ulars of it have been given to the pub
lie time and time again.
But why is it that Nh Bryan wants
to make Mr.. Cleveland odious in the
eyes of his fellow Democrats? The rea-
son is that he is haunted by the fear
that Mr. Cleveland is seeking the
Democratic nomination for President
and that he may get it In his
voluminous article he virtually says
that in his opinion Mr.. Cleveland de-
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TO think it his duty TO prevent him
from getting it,
But what is the real reason of Mr.
Bryans hostility 10 Mr.. Cleveland? Is
is not that the latter, backed up with
United States troops the injunctions
which were issued against the Chicago
rioters in 1894. and put stop to what
threatened to reach the proportions of
a revolution? II we are not mistaken
Mr.. Bryan's sympathies in that affair
were with the Governor of Illinois,
who refused to use the means at his
command TO restore order. Mr.. Bryan
feels aggrieved that the people sustain
Mr.. Cleveland in that matter. and ne
shows he has a grievance by attacking
Mr.. Cleveland whenever an opportu-
nifty TO do so presents itself. But Mr..
Cleveland isn't hurt by Mr.. Bryan's at
lacks. He doesn't want another nomi-
nation for President, though Mr.. Bryan
thinks he does, but if he did. Mr..
Bryans attacks wouldn't prevent HIM
from seeking or getting it.
And Englishmen don't like Mr..
Cleveland. A New York paper quotes
James 7. Watterson, head of the firm
Of the Blythe Chemical Works, Lon
don, on the political situation. Mr..
Watterson arrived in New York on
Thursday, on his way to the ST. Louis
Exposition. He told the reporter that
in England it was hoped that Mr..
Roosevelt would be elected. He spoke
of Mr.. Cleveland as a 'nonentity," and
said: If there is one foreigner above
all others that is scoffed and sneered
at in England to-day as soon as his
name is mentioned, that one is Mr..
Cleveland" And why is it that Mr..
Cleveland is so unpopular in England?
Is ii not because he made the English
abandon their land grabbing scheme in
Venezuela? OF course it is. Englishmen
don't regard with pleasure the figure
their government cut in that affair
And thus We see that those who as
sail Mr.. Cleveland have personal rea-
sons for doing so. They crafty their
feelings of hostility 10 him by trying
TO belittle him, but the people do not
heed them. He made a record as Pres
ident which they have not forgotten
and which they are not likely to forget
He was a great, strong and independ-
ent President, who saw what
was for the best interests of the coun-
try and had the courage to do his duty.
He isn't candidate for another nom
ination, however, and he isn't going to
be nominated