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Show CLEVELAND'S POSSIBLE NOMINATION. There is a steady but shrewdly managed campaign cam-paign going on, the purpose of which is to reconcile recon-cile the men who call themselves Democrats to the nomination of Grover Cleveland for a third term President next year; to get the party into the same condition it was in when the conven-i conven-i tion was held in 1892 and when in reply to a ques-; ques-; tion asked a delegate: "Who are you going to nominate?" he said: "Oh, Cleveland, of course, d n him." Certainly there is great danger that he will he nominated, and once nominated, his ' election is not impossible, and this is such a presage pres-age of disaster that the Democracy in every State should arouse itself while yet there is time. : As we have more then once said, the South espe- dally should assert itself. There is a general be-; be-; lief in the South that the candidate must be a northern man; that no southern man can count upon northern support. We tell them, there is nothing in that idea, because Democrats North are very much like ; Democrats South, they will vote the ticket as a rule, regardless of the candidate. But while that is so, they still have a choice in candidates and they would vastly prefer to vote for a man who fought for the South, rather than one who hired a substitute from a jail to go iu nis stead to the war: Such a man as Daniel i of Virginia or Gordon of Georgia or either of i many more. The press of the South should assert itself as never before since the old war days. j And it should be along the line that while it has .been almost two score years since the war closed: while during those years the South has fully earned re-recognition; while it has borne rthe heat and burden of many campaigns, and has jail the time been ignored; still in that time all that the North has been able to give them has been Grover Cleveland and they refuse to accept him a third time. They can give reasons, too, for such a Btand. His first administration is practically a blank because Congress kept such a brake upon him that ho was prevented from carrying out his ignorant and provincial designs, while his second administration was so surcharged sur-charged with misfqrtunes to the whole country, that a further trial of him would be in the nature of a crime. They can further urge that because of him and PJ. - I-n.il.l,., - , 'WiMtiWIIWWJMnlimi,, IU JJ)aMMIBIipuPI his Hawaiian policy the Republicans were able to appropriate the claim of being expansionists which of right belongs to the party which claims to be Democratic on Jeffersonian principles, for In his day no other such an expansionist as Jefferson Jeffer-son lived. Again, the one special claim which the Democratic party plead as an excuse for being alive is that it is and always has been the close friend of the common people, and always jealous of the encroachments of the very rich, while it is as clear as sunlight that except for a few managers man-agers of trusts and interest gatherers in New York City, Mr. Cleveland's name would never again be mentioned as a possible candidate. These truths and plenty more should be taken up by the South and the old and new west, and with them should be coupled a demand for the nomination of some particular man whom the party par-ty in every section could rally around. This can be done now; if it is postponed until late next winter it will be too late. If Senator Cockerell of Missouri is not too old he would be the ideal candidate. Next year wil be exposition year in St. Louis; all eyes will be turned that way. What will the Democrats do if compelled to go into campaign on a platform denouncing expansion, ex-pansion, when the wonders whicn nave followed the- Louisiana Purchase and the California Conquest Con-quest will bo the themes of orators and writers in every state? |