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lew CIcVelduQ INCENSE SWluSeTS AFe
believing for third term for Cleve
land, but the vast majority Of Repub
licans would never have permitted Nc
Kinley, with all his popularity, to have
third term even if he had wanted 1t,
which he did not, and the vast major
ity of Democrats will not consent for
Cleveland to have third term, no mat
ter how intensely he Graves it. They
would not agree to 1t even il they knew
beyond a peradventure that they could
elect him and could elect no other Dem
ocrat while grass grows or water runs.
AS to the Posts prophecy that some
day some man may secure a third
term have no very pronounced opin-
ion. There is no telling to what COM
plexion things may come ut last, but
should any man secure third term the
days of the republic will be numbered.
Then the time for an American Caesar
will have arrived.
The truth is that there is much more
sentiment in favor of constitutional
amendment making the presidential
term six years and making the incum-
bent forever ineligible than there is
for a third term. A systematic agita-
ton for that amendment ought to be
begun at once, and it ought to be kept
up until it is adopted, so as to forever
blast the un-American ambition of any
man in his aspiration for an honor
which Washington, Jefferson, Jackson
and Mckinley declined and which the
American people deliberately refused to
General Ulysses Simpson Grant in the
very height of his popularity.
An Honest Man.
Those cynics who believe that all
public men are corrupt should ponder
the case of Hon. John II. Reagan, the
eminent and venerable Texas states
man who has held high official position
nearly constantly for sixty years. He
besides holding minor offices, has been
n representative and senator in con-
gress and cabinet minister in the nd
ministration of Jefferson Davis. Yet
Judge Reagan says he is too poor to
bear the expenses of attendance on the
st. Louis convention, and he is toe
proud to permit his friends to pay his
way. Such public men as Judge Rea.
gan are among the glofies of tho repHb.
lie. He is busy writing a book Of
"reminiscences which ought to be a rich
contribution to history and which ought
to place the grand old man ION Easy
street" financially.
Some Of the Kentucky Democrats are
giving new illustration Of the pro
verbal courage of their race by boldly
advocating the repeal Of the civil serv
Ice lag, # everybody opposed to the
system voted for the repeal, that Law
would be wiped from the statute books
by an Overwhelming majority, but
| there's the rub" While most states
men are opposed to the law, mos
statesmen are afraid to vote to abolish
1t.
Mr.. Babcocls, ehaigman Of the Re
publican congressional campaign com
Inittee, and Mr.. !Oyerstreet, secretary
| thereof, both have hot fights on hant
for reelection. They may save other
and lose their own seats.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat, Re
publican, says, "The Democrats canno
make Illinois q pivotal state" Com
menting on which utterance the Wash
ington Post, Independent, sagely re
marks, Apparently they will not nee
TO, as the Republicans have already al
Tended to t. that job.E
It is said that the consideration t
be received by Governor Yates Of y
linois fop withdrawing from the guber
Material race in favor Of Deneen ID tina
he is to have the senatorial toga Whicl
row adorns the shoulders Of Uncl
Shelby NJ Cullom, who is one of TIL
most successful political pot hunter
now perambulating this mundan
sphere. OF course Uncle Shelby vii
Object most gtrenuously to such fore
bic DISBURSEMENT. Fhat VIII be q mos
interesting fight, Uncle Shelby doin
business on his similarity In persona
appearance to Abraham Lincoln an
Yates running as the son of his father
The signs of the times indicate tina
certain 1panciers have little faith i
the continuanea Of prospertty. Wa
street bankers and brokers afe takin'
in sail and preparing for a storm b.
discharging one-half their employees
and the railroads centering in New
York are doing the same thing. What
the matter?
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