Arizona republican., 1904-07-09
rlr. Grover Cleveland.

Aside from the nominees the one
 man in the United States who will
 have gained the largest amount of sat
 isfaction from the proceedings of the
 democratic national convention is MT.
 Grover Cleveland. a private citizen re-
 siding at Princeton. New Jersey.
 Just eight years ago, after having
 been president of the United States for
 two terms. and after having enjoyed
 the extraordinary honor of being the
 presidential candidate of his party in
 three campaigns hand-running, MT.
 Cleveland found himself the most un-
 popular democrat-among democrats
 in all the nation. The convention of 1896 was an assemblage of angry, sul-
 len delegates, attended by an angry mob. With them the personality of
 the nominee was secondary to the hu- initiation of President Cleveland. It was he that had forced the repeal of the Sherman purchasing law; it was he that had finally struck down silver" There had been three years of hard times, following the panic of 1893. The country was discontented and tired of democratic rule. The success of the republicans was as nearly certain as anything could be- It was the deter imitation. therefore, of the democrats assembled at Chicago to make Grover Cleveland the scapegoat of the party's sins and drive him into the wilderness of oblivion. MT. Bryan was nominated solely because he had been able to ex- press exactly in his famous speech the swelling sentiments of the democracy. All the pent up exasperation of the party found a vent in that fervid and wild harangue.
 Nor did democratic anger at Cleve- land subside with the adjournment of the convention. All through the cam baign democratic orators and demo- cratic papers denounced Cleveland more than they did Mckinley. All in all Mir Cleveland had a unique exper- fence. From one end of the country to the other he heard himself excoriated by his fellow democrats as a traitor. Had he dared to appear before any democratic meeting in that campaign he would have been insulted and hiss ed from the platform, president of the United States though he was.
 But "old Grover" never fiinched. If he cared. he made no sigr. That "backbone like a telegraph pole" never bended. He went into private life af- ter the election of Mckinley, the na- tional chorus of democratic epithets still ringing in his ears. So far as ap- | pearances went, he was the most dis credited man that had gone from the White House since Andrew Johnson. | All Yiseacres of the superficial sort | declared that it was a pity MT. Cleve- land had not rested his fame on the | record made in his first term; as 1t was, the indignities heaped upon him had more than offset the honOrs of second term, they declared. Four years later, in 1900, conditions in the party were almost the same. Such tentRnciss toward a reaction against raaisAtisEn as manifested themselves did not include a friendlier feeling to- ward RfT. Cleveland. He was still a political pariah.
 Bot what a change in the last four SeaFs-VRther, what a change in the last six months! The elements which have been dominant in democracy for eight years are completely routed. Bryanisrn survives, here and there, to be sure, but Bryan himself, after eight years of Hnd:sputed leadership, is dis credited az badly today as Cleveland was in 1926. The very name of Cleve- land at St. Louis elicited such tumult- uous cheers as must have been bewiId- ering to Mr. Bryan. Cleveland is once more the greatest man in the demo- cratic party, for there Is none to dis pute the pre-eminence of his personality. With all his fail- ure, from the republican stand point, to measure up to the requirements of the present day in and notwithstanding that the American people would not think of accepting another democratic administration. Mir. Clevelands re- : individuality has triumphed He has forced millions of mutineers to return and acknowledge him bigger than any of them.
 In all the history of American poll tics the case of Cleveland is without ( t parallel. No greater tribute could be paid to unshaken boise in the face of time-serving and the chasing of rain