Show STILL ACTIVE I POLITICS Henry L Stoddard writing in the New York Mail and Express says that the writing cf Mr Clevelands name leads him to recall that a gentleman gen-tleman who recently rpent an afternoon after-noon with the expresident was impressed im-pressed by the amount o political correspondence cor-respondence which Princetons leading citizen is carrying on He is In fre quenit communication with his old followers in many of the staies and hfe visitor came away frccn his home with the thought deeply impressed upon him that Mr Cleveland is not I yet cut o nu > lic life or rather Viat he does not so consider himself He is writing as many political letters today to-day as he ever did said this visitor and vou would < be amazed to see the number of letters he receives everyday every-day He repISes to all of them in his laborious way particularly if the I writer asks his counsel and advice as II I I to the future of the party I had assumed i I as-sumed that Cleveland was out of consideration I j con-sideration for 1900 but I am fairly I convinced now that he looks forward confidently to a great popular demand I for him in that yeaiso great as to form the basis for the organization of j a new national party if necessary to put him In the field as a presidential i candidate I That Mr Cleveland keeps up a large political correspondence with his old I time followers shows that he Is at I least greatly interested in current events but i does not of necessity show that he looks upon himself as a I probable presidential candidate in I 1DOO The tenor of the letters he receives i re-ceives and writes would disclose the I fact whether or not he so considers himself but nothing less would If Mr Cleveland in reality looks forward I for-ward with confidence to a wih confdence great I popular demand for him in 1900 a a I presidential candidate he Is but deceiving I de-ceiving himself The Gold Democrats whose members are insignificant and give no signs of increasing might pick him up but no one else will by I any possibility But he Is much too I shrewd a politician to permit himself to be picked up to lead a movement I that has no possible chance of sue1 ceeding Above all things else he is a i politician I |