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Show CLEVELAND, : CANDIDATE? Former President Is Noncommittal Non-committal About Ac ceptlng Nomination. NEW YORK. . March 14. Ex-Preel-dent Cleveland was ' asked this morning: morn-ing: ' "Would you accept a Presidential nomination next year?" "That is Just what I, won't say," was the reply. "Would you take any ,steDS to prevent pre-vent your nomination should the contention con-tention Insist on giving it to your "I can't say anything about that, either," said Mr. Cleveland. Mr. .Straus, however, made a statement state-ment before leaving his house this morning in regard to Mr. Cleveland's views upon the issues of the next Presidential Pres-idential campaign. He said: "Mr. Cleveland gave it as his opinion that the trust question would not be eliminated from, the next Presidential canvass, and expressed himself as being be-ing unable to understand how that question could be entirely divorced from the tariff issue, to say nothing of the absolute necessity of a good fashioned fash-ioned insistence upon tariff reforms for its own sake, arid what It would do for the people of the country." |