| Show CRAVING A declination DECU NATION AssUR and denial have bave become the chief arts of politics if we may I 1 judge by the anxiety republican newspapers display in the desire to have grover cleveland peremptorily de decline allne ellne a for the presidency he h e is certainly the one man they fear most the correspondents began early in the spring hunting down such a determination by the president lt it wan wait charged by a correspondent that the land office commissioner W A JF sparks bad written a certain leter strongly anti cleveland and it bad been traced to new yoi boik k and into the possession of fred stokes stakes after karones Ka robes talks columns and columns of newspaper cheap talk the whole thing fell through then it was all alleged eged that ex representative dorsheimer Dora Dors beimer had received a letter f from rom the president in which be stated he be would re f fuse use a nomination rp Dors dorsheimer hetmer de nied having received such a letter or having beard anything which would lead him to believe such a letter had been penned panned senator george georgec Geor peC C vest Is now frantically appealed to as one who knows of toe the existence of such a letter and he makes a when troubled with the gout republican papers entertained grave fears that he would not net survive now that he kives gives promise of surviving they are worried lest he be should be president Clev elands is a singular position disliked ally by republicans and also by some of his own party he be to is recognized by the former as the most formidable and dangerous tool foe by the latter as a mu man man many y do not want bat bat without whom th they eyare are lost party ties are badly stretched and the times show us that party principle is not nearly so strong is as men under a party name once oace grave and important issues are forgotten the past of the man and his bis promises have now become the weapons of defense and aggression where once fidelity to fundamental principle was the banner under which parties gained bained a grand success or sustained an honest and noble defeat |
