Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1903 — Untitled [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEVELAND BREAKS SILENCE Bay* He Ha* No Desire for ■ Fourth Nomination. The New York World publishes a dispatch from Princeton, N. J., quoting exPresident Cleveland as saying: “It is perfectly absurd to suppose for ah instant that I have any desire to reenter public life. Nor have I remotely ■entertained the thought since I left Washington, more than six years ago. The matter is as far from my thoughts as it was in 1890; when, all must admit, it was not within my hearing or sight I have no higher aspiration than to pass my days in peace with my family around me and take no part in politics which any private citizen cannot take with the utmost propriety. “I have never spoken to anybody on the subject of a fourth candidacy. I have nevet written to a single political friend one way or the other, nor have

I been written to or spoken to by them. There is not a political leader of qny prominence endeavoring to advance any movement to nominate me in any State so far ns I have been advised, nor do I anticipate that, any such effort will bS made by any leader, prominent or obscure, in any locality in the country. “I have on several occasions within a year undertaken to perform the labor which usually falls to the private in the ranks, but there has not lurked within me the hope of any reward save the consciousness of having made an effort to assist in bringing about salutary conditions in the party.”

GROVER CLEVELAND.