Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-03-04
MEANS CLEVELAND
SUCCESS OF REORGANIZERS
MEANS GROVER.
Republican Papers Sailing Under Democratic
Flags Loud in Praise Of the Stuffed Prophet.
Democrats Who Opposed the Ticket in Last
Two Campaigns Seek to Control Party.

democrats VINO VPVOSCO tuS S'ChSt !" Last
Two Campaigns Seek to Control Party.
The democrats Of the country are under
obligations to Mr.. Lleveland's friends
for the frank avowal Of their purpose to
make Mr.. Cleveland the nominee 10 case
the reorganizers obtain control. The
Montgomery Advertiser publishes an
interview given by the president of the
Memphis Commercial-Appeal company
to the Brooklyn Eagle. These three
papers, all prominent among the reor-
ganizers, join in lauding Mr.. Cleveland
as 1.-THE man" to be nominated. The
president OF the Memphis paper, after
declaring that he spoke for himself rather
than for his paper, is reported as saying:
"Mr. Cleveland should be nominated"
'Mr. Cleveland has no elements Of
weakness as a cadidate." II do not be-
leye Mr.. Cleveland would refuse to run.
He would probably refuse to run If his
candidacy was on mere proposition OF
politics, but is national emergency
which calls for his services. The demo-
cratic party should 20 ahead and no'ni-
nate him without asking his consent, and
in notifying him should say: I'VE have
nominated you because the country
requires your service and because the
democratic party desires to restore
| ho r. fl,n hat If fof nd
solidity which you gave it as president.
Here is the opinion Of the president ofthe
Memphis paper. 1t is drawn out by the
Eagle, whose editor claims to be the
political Columbus who discovered Mr..
Cleveland's new ability, and it is repro.
duced in the Advertiser, whose editor
was postmaster under Cleveland, graft
tude for which finds daily editorial ex'
pressions. The boiling newspapers are
full OF such interviews and it is plain to
any one who cares to see that it is
neither harmony nor success that the
reorganizers desire, but return to
,Clevelandism.
But that is not all, The Memphis man
gives away another secret, nanely that
the objection to the reaf1irmation Of the
Kansas City platform is not opposition
to silver alone, but opposition to the
party's position on imperialism and the
trust question as we'll. He says:
''The south is unalterably opposed to
the reaffirmation Of the Kansas City
| platform. The south knows that the
democratic party cannot be successful
so long as it goes before the country on
| those issues. There is no issue OF expan-
sion. That issue is dead. To argue
against expansion is to argue against the
commercial development of the SOUTH"
So imperialism (he calls it by the more
euphonious name Of expansion) is also
dead! The paramount issue OF 1900 is,
in his opinion, no longer a debatable
question. A the party said about
human rights and self.gove,nment must
be repudiated il the party would be "suc.
cessful" No republican paper has
advocated commercialsm more boldly
than this man who is described by the
interviewed as zone of the staunch
southern old-school democrats" 1t
would seem, then, that carpet-bag
government is not bad in itself, but that
it depends on who appoints the carpet
Dagger. A system which was objection
able when enforced by the north against
the south is, according to this "staunch,
old.school democrat" all right if enforced
by the United States against the Fill pinos
in the interest OF the commercial devel.
opment of the south. This certainly
does not represent the sentiment Of the
south, but it is reproduced to show how
complete ia the surrender demanded and
how low plane the next campaign is to
be fought if the reorganzers have their
way in the convention.
On the trust question, also the Com
mercial Appeals president opposes the
last national platform. He says:
"Mr. Bryan is not factor at all. Heis
not democrat. He has never been a
democrat. He would exterminate the
trusts by destroying the business Of the
country. He would prevent business
house, incorporated in our state, from
carrying on business in other states. II
he found a bug in the house he would
tear down the house. am not a de-
fender Of the trust system in any of its
illegal or oppressive aspects, but am a
business man, and do not consider Mr..
Bryan's prescription for business either
sound or democratic"
He refers to the plank Of the platform
which denounced private monopoly as
indefensable and intolerable and pro.
posed as remedy, not that corpora
ton should not be allowed to engage in
interstate commerce, but that before do
ing so it should show that it has no
water in its stool. and that it is not try