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Show SHOULD IT HAPPEN. I Tr Ivlr. Cleveland should be nominated by one H branch of the Democratic party next year, the lim- fl B it of just how much the average Democrat can Hp stand for his party's sake, woulc" be reached. The ability of the Democratic editcr to smile, while - under torture would be made; cmr. Hugo's "Man Who Laughed," under fbf weights that crushed him, would have a modern rendering. That the intention to nominate him is being entertained in quarters which are in tnr habit offanying their S points, is manifest enough, that Mr. Cleveland knows it and is ready to rfpond if called upon, has already been shown. J?ut then it it happens, can any Democrat think why he should thus be " honored, why he should be norored above Washington, Wash-ington, and Jetferson and Lincoln and Grant, above all previous presidents, can the oldest and brightest and best posted Democrats in the Na- ' tion recall one measure that he ever championed, one official act that he evnr performed, one official word that ever tell from hit: iips that is worthy of remembrance? The Venezuelan letter of Secietary Olney may I be cited. But it Is clear that even that was but a , ; Dluff intended to arouse a feeling which would cause the people to think another bond issue was perhaps necessary. Hut tha bona question is a sore one to trench upon. The people would have been glad to subscribe for those bonds twice ovei and at par, but no chance was given them. They were turned over to Mr. Morgan to float. That transaction was the real starter of Mr. Morgan in the business of the conquest of the financial and industrial world. Ai d cut of it, and out of the country's despair, Mr. Cleveland himself emerged a-three-fold millionaire, though in private life, ho could Jiot make a living at his profession, if nominated, what will oe Mr. Cleveland's emblem em-blem in the campaign? An empty dinner-bucket, ; or a free soup hostlery? One thing may be looked forward to hopetuJly, in case of his election, elec-tion, the btnkes wiH be ended It will not be a I question of higher wages, ii wil be a question of tood merely, for hungry working men and their , families. There will be a call home of our soldiers sol-diers from the Philippines. A praise service will be rendered by the Tagals, the Moros .and the murderers ex-Queen of Hawaii. The hand of enterprise en-terprise will be paralyzed everywhere, the factory fires quenched, the arm of labor will be broken, ) the railroads will go again in the hands of re ceivers. However, we think maybe his nomination nomina-tion might be a good thing. We believe it would finally shatter the solid south. We do not believe be-lieve that Kentucky or Tennessee or Delaware or Maryland or West Virginia or North Carolina would stand the insult of his renomination, for it would never be thought of, except that the financiers finan-ciers who will press it, will do so only on the supposition sup-position that a solid south will swollow any pill prepared in the name of Democracy. When we reflect that a newspaper which first announced his nomination is owned by the man who negotiated the bonds under Mr. Cleveland's administration and by the act became a dictator among the world's financiers, and that in some way. at the same time, Mr. Cleveland became a multi-millionaire, it will be seen at a glance how degraded our country is, how debauched it is 11a- ! ble to be because a little -of the profits of that deal in bonds judiciously expended, will be enough to renominate him, while the amount needed to " carry a half dozen important states by fraud and purchase can be raised by an assesment on the , bondholders and bankers who reaped such rare rewards when Mr. Cleveland" was President before. |