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Show VLKVKLANO AS A CANDIDATE. Yesterday tho democrats of Michigan met in state convention resolving sundry sun-dry things, among others to endorse Mr. Cleveland's late administration. This Is the usual programme with democratic dem-ocratic conventions, for having had but one executive in office during the last thirty years they are constrained to fall back on him whenever they want to endorse anybody. It , is possible also that the dotnocratio party feels a genuine gen-uine admiration for Mr. Cleveland on account of his undoubted courage, a quality highly esteemed by the American Ameri-can people, whether , found in Mr. Cleveland or in Mr. Koed, But with all the outward signs and inward feelings of approbation we do not believe Mr. Cleveland will figure prominently before tho democratic demo-cratic national convention. He has had his day and opportunity and missed them both. Practical politics deals not with sentiment and takes no undue chances. For nearly a lifetime we have been told tho difficulty in ousting the republican party from power, was its entrenched position behind the officeholders. office-holders. Tho influence of federal pat- ronago was exaggerated in order to stive a plausible exciuo for tho persistent repudiation of the democratic party at the polls. Mr. Cleveland has had all these advantages, and several others on bis side, and yet ho failed. Ho was in ollice and controlled the federal patronage. patron-age. He had the prestige of one national na-tional victory in his favor. A faction of the republican party known as the mugwumps joined forces with him. The one decisive state of New York was in the hands of tho democrats, and with all these elements of strength enlisted in his behalf he was still ruthlessly beaten. It is not likely the democratic party will try a losing experiment twice, and we do not therefore attach any special significance to tho endorsement of Mr. Cleveland. It is merely a matter of form. The race for the democratic nomination iu 1802 is still free for all, with the chances in favor of some western west-ern man if one should happen to loom up in tho meantime above his fellows. Some hopoful democrats look towards Illinois and General Palmer for their coming Moses, but it takes a keen flight of enthusiasm to expect that he will fullill the preliminary condition and do the looming act, iu carrying tho state for his party this fall. Meantime Cleveland Cleve-land as a presidential candidate is dead. |