The President And The People

The President in his litt!e excursions evidently makes a very pleasant impression. The simplicity and sincerity of his speeches and the heartiness of his manner are very characteristie, and he maintains the dignity of his office while he wins the sympathy of Mr. Lincoln's "plain people." It is in this sympathy and confidenoe that his strength lies. He is not perhaps, as an indignant democratie journal says, the most un popular man in the democratie party, but he is none the Iosb strong because he is not grossly praised by every democratie paper and politician. He is not strong as a partisan, but as a patroit; that is to say, the general feeling in regard to him is that he is an npright man and magistrate, who while a democrat, is yet devoted assiduously to the iuterests of the country rather than of a party, and who seeks to serve his party by promoting the public welfare. The favorable general impression which he has made as an able, intelligent, industrious, and patriotic rather than partisan executive is the platform upon wbich, in the event of his renomination, he will stand before the country. His nomination would proceed, of course, f rom the democratie party would gain the advantage, as in 1884, of selecting a oandidate who is his own platform. The nomination of no other man in the party could possibly te so strong as that of Mr. Cleveland, beeause any other nomination would be practically the disapproval of the Cleveland administration, and he is not a agacious democrat who thinks that his party would probably win upon such a platform. No number of votes gained from Bourbon demócrata for another candidato could atone for the loss of the votes that would follow the repudiation of Mr. Cleveland. If those who anticipated from bis administraron a more positivo advunce of reform are disappointed, it is not becauoe they feel that reform would have gained by the tion of Mr. Blaine.-