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THE INDEPENDENTS
Blaine Denounced as a Corrupt and
Scheming Politician.
They Agree 1o Use Every Effort to
Defeat Him.
rrorpfilinrunr tliof'oaTfiitlon-Thi' Pl»«.
form nu<l Esrriillte Committee.
New York, July 22.—Tho Independents,
opposed to Blaine and Logan, met
in this city to-day. Among the
more prominent faces noticeable were
George William Curtis and Carl Schurz.
The latter was the center of an interested,
animated group. Clarence Bowen, of the
Independent, and others of the seceding
members of the Brooklyn Young Republi
can Club, were present. The Secretaries
made up the lists of those who were to be
present, which showed Massachusetts more
numerously represented than any other
State except New York.
The appearance of George William Cur
tis on the platform evoked cheers of ap
plause. Mr. Curtis called the conference
tt> order near noon, and welcomed the dele
gates. He read the call for the conference,
and when he reached that portion which
related to Republicans “who will not vote
for Blaine and Logan” he was interrupted
by hearty applause. Charles S. Codinan
was elected President.
Colonel Codinan made a neat and appro
priate address, and when he concluded Mr.
Schurz moved that a committee be ap
pointed to act on resolutions and address.
Carried.
Horace E. Deming, of Brooklyn, said lie
believed that this conference should leave
Behind it some mark that would show it
Attended to do some fighting during this
..iipaign. He moved that a committee.be
appointed to report a plan of permanent
organization. Carried, and the committee
was appointed, with Doming as Chairman.
The committee retired for consultation,
and Colonel Theodore Lyman, of Brookline,
Mass., made an address. He bad
no objection to parties. It was
dangerous to be an Independent for several
reasons. There was even the risk of being
called a crank, but we can only go so far
with a party. When party oversteps the
bounds of decency it’s oirr duty to leave it.
When party fails to fulfill its mission it
will die, We want an honorable and able
man for President, and I believe Governor
Cleveland is such a man. Speeches were
made by Thomas R. Bacon, of Connecticut,
and Colonel Higginson, of Massachusetts.
As the Committee on Resolut ions was not
ready to report a recess of an hour was
taken. When the conference reassembled,
the Secretary made a statement in regard
to letters received by the New York Com
mittee from citizens in various States from
Mnine to California.
Mr. Qtiimby, of New Jersey, said that to
save the Republican party, Blaine must be
beaten, and that for every Democrat iu
New Jersey who would vote for Blaine,
there were five Republicans who would vote
for Cleveland.
F. Claflin, of Illinois, said there was a
very strong Cleveland element among the
Republicans in the West. President
Beelye, of Amherst, said he was not pre
pared io join the Democrats, but was in
favor of having a separate candidate. He
also made a plea for temperance principles.
The Committee on Permanent Organiza
tion recommended lhat a National Commit
tee should be appointed, and tho chair ap-
the following: From New York—
HCnrl Schurz, Thpodore Bacon, John H.
Charles B. Miller, K. P. Bower,
P. Folsom, Ethan Allen T>oty, tteorgn
Walton Greene and Horace E. Deming.
From Massachusetts —Win. H. Forbes,
Joseph Tucker, Joseph H. Walter, Samuel
Hoar, Phineas Pearse, George V. Leverett,
nnd Winslow Warren.
From Connecticut—B. E. Baldwin, O. P.
Armstrong and 11. W. Farnam.
5 From New Jersey—D«ni«l Drake .Smith,
Simeon Huntington and W. G. Peckham.
From Ponnsylvania—F. B. Reeves, Stew
art Wood and Joseph Parish.
Chairman Codraan, and Claflin of Illinois,
were added to the committee.
Carl Schurz, in behalf of the Committee
on Resolutions, said there was no intention
ito make a platform for a new party, but
oply to appeal for the Government.
George William Curtis read an address
which is as follows:
INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
The paramount issue of the Presidential
(election of this year is moral rather than po
litical. It concerns the National honor and
character and honesty of the administration
rather than general policies of government,
upon which the platforms of the two parties
do not essentially differ. No position taken
by one platform is seriously traversal by the
other, both evidently contemplate a general
agreement of public opinion upon subjects
which have been long in controversy and indi
cate an unwillingness to declare upon the
other, and the cardinal questions, the views
of which in the present condition of opinion
might seriously disturb the parties within
themselves. Parties, indeed, now cohere
■mainly by habit and tradition; and since the
great issues which have divided them have
been largely settled, the most vital politi
cal activity has been the endeavor
of good citizens in both parties to
adjust, them to living issues and to make them
effective agencies of political progress and re
form. The indispensable necessity of this
course has long been apparent, for in time of
profound peace at home and abroad the most
threatening National peril is insidious politi
ical corruption, mercenary and demoralizing
spirit, and a tendency, the result of which is
■what is well described by Senator Hoar, of
Massachusetts, “Ths shameless doctrine that
the true way by which power should he gained
jn the Republic is to bribe people with offices
created for their service ami the true end for
which it should he used, when gained, is pro
motion of selfish ambition and the gratifica
tion of personal revenge.” Hut tills doctrine
naturally lias produced results which are still
more alarming. Corrupt spirit and tendency
have so rapidly developed that they seek po
litical power not only to gratify ambition and
revenge, but to promote private gain.
| They deride appeals to public conscience,
defend the soiled reputations of public men
by bold assertion that all public men are
equally guilty, declare that success in obtaiiv
ing eminent position disposes of every impu
tation* and suspicion of wrong-doing and
despising all practical measures to reform the
system of official patronage which fosters
dishonest politics, makes a great party nomi
nally responsible for prolonged and monstrous
fraud, and proclaims that it is the duty of
every citizen who for great and benifleent
ends has habitually supported the party, to
regard the successor the party at the elections
without regard to the character, nt' those
whom it selects as its executive agents, to he
a supreme national necessity.
A tendency more fatal to public welfare
can not be conceived, and when by public in
difference or misunderstanding this corrupt
spirit is able to demand that the country shall
approve it by according to it the highest
honor in its gift, every patriotic citizen must
perceive that no duty could be more pressing,
vital and imperative than that of baffling and
defeating the demand
If the Republican Convention had presented
a candidate whose character and career were
the pledge of resolute contest with tendencies
that we have described: if they had foretold
a stern dealing with political corruption and
the vigorous correction of vast abuses which
long and undisturbed tenure of power by* any
party is sure to breed; if the success of the
candidate had promised infiexible honesty of
administration, purification of Government,
elevation of party standard, every Republi
can voter would have gladly supported the
nomination. But these are precisely
the anticipations which the nom
ination forbids. It offers a can
didate who is an unfit leader.sbown by his own
words and his acknowledged gets, which are
of official record, to be unworthy of respect
and confidence, who has traded upon his of
ficial trust for bis pecuniary gain, a represen
tative ot men, methods and conduct which
public conscience condemns, and which illus
trate the very evils that honest men would re
form. Sucn a nomination does not promise,
in its executive chair, inflexible official integ
rity, cool and wise judgment, a sole regard for
public welfare, and an unshrinking determi
nation to promote reform in the civil service,
and ceaselessly to pursue and punish public
robbers of every kind and degree.
Independent voters have generally support
ed Republican nominations, as more surely
promising reform than those of the Demo
cratic party. Independents, however, can not
support a nomination which is the culmina
tion of a tendency that they would correct.
Republicans can not hope that under such
leadership as we have mentioned the abuses
of the past can be corrected or the party re
formed. We are proud of the great record
nnd services of the Republican pArty, but not
with our consent or connivance shall tho
record he disgraced. Every party must be
eminently renewed by the intelligent inde
pendence of its own members, or it will sink
from an agency to seek good government into
romorsless despotism.
The Republican party first sprang from
moral sentiment. It was the party of political
morality and of personal liberty. It appealed
directly to the conscience of citizen. But
like all parties, it was apolitical agency, not
to be worshiped, but to be carefully held to
the spirit and purposes on which and for
Which it was organized. “I do not know,”
said Mr. Seward, thirty years ago, when be
left tho Whig party to join the Republican—
“l do nrtt know that it will always or even long
preserve Its courage, its moderation, and its
consistency. If it shall do so it will secure
and save the country. 1 f it. too, shall become
unfaithful, ns all preceding parties have
done, it will, without sorrow or regret on my
part, perish, as they are perishing, and will
give place to another and truer and better
one.’ 1
This reasoning must not be forgotten. It is
with a profound conviction of its wisdom
that Republicans faithful to their party, but
holding, with great Republican fathers, dial
political morality and purity of administra
tion arc more precious than party, are now
constrained to oppose the Republican Presi
dential nomination in the interest of what
they believe to be pure Republicanism of
public welfare, and of the honor of the Amer
ican name.
The Republican nomination has for a time
superseded all other issues by raising the
question of official honesty. This question can
not be avoided except upon the plea that the
official character of the candidate need not bo
considered, and that in order to secure a
party President members of the party ought
to vote for any candidate who has been regu
larly nominated. This is a plea beyond which
party madness can not go. Acquiescence in
it, would require surrender of self-respect of
every voter. There could be no candidate
so unfit that this plea would not lose his
support,, and Republican success justi
fied by argument which defies the public con
science, would be the overthrow of the vital
principle of the party, and show that the
spirit and character which created its great
traditions are rapidly perishing. Upon prac
tical questions ol tariff and finance, and other
questions upon which botli parties are divided
within themselves, vve are also divided in
opinion. We shall vote, therefore, in choice
of Representatives and other officers accord
ing to our individual opinions of their politi
cal views and their personal character. Di
vided on other questions, we are united in
the conviction that the foundation
of office and honor should be
pure, and that the highest office in the coun
try should he tilled by a man of absolutely
unsuspected integrity. As Ihere is no dis
tinctive issue upon the public policy pre
sented for the consideration of the country,
the character of the condldate becomes of the
highest importance to all citizens who do not
hold that the party’s victory should be se
cured at any cost. While the Republican
nomination presents a party whom we can
not support, the Democratic party presents
one whose name is the synonym of political
courage and honesty and administrative re
form. He has discharged every official trust
witli the solo regard to public welfare,
and with just disregard of more partisan
or personal advantage, which, wilh applause
and confidence, both the parties have raised
him from the chief executive administration
of a great city to that of a great, State. His
unreserved, intelligent and sincere support of
reform in civil service has firmly established
that reform in ths State and cities of New
York, and his personal convictions, proved
by his official acts more decisive tlurn any
possible platform declarations, are guarantee
that in its spirit and its letter the reform
would be enforced in National administration.
His high sense of duty, his absolute and
unchallenged official integrity, his inflexible
courage in resisting party pressure and pub
lic outcry, his great experience in details
of administration, and his commanding
executive ability and independence,
are precisely the qualities which the po
* aw*?
monopoly on one hand and demagogue com
munism on the other, and at home and abroad,
without mcnanoe or fear, to protect every
right of American citizens, and to respect
every right of friendly States by making poli
tical morality and private honesty the basis
of constitutional administration. He is a
Democrat who is happily free from all associa
tion with fierce party differences of the
slavery conte-t, ana whose financial views are
in harmony with those of the best men in both
parties, and coming into public prominences
at a time when official purity, courage and
character are of chief importance, pre
sents the qualities and promise
which independent voters desire and
which the great body of Republicans, be
lieving those qualities to bo absolutely indis
pensable in the administration of tne Govern
ment at, this time do not find in the candidate
of their own party. Such independent voters
do not propose to ally themselves inextrica
bly with any party. Such Republicans do not
propose to abandon the Republican party,
nor to merge themselves in any other party;
but they do propose to aid in defeating the
Republican nomination, which, not for rea
sons of expediency only,but fop iiigh moral
and patriotic considerations with due regard
for the Republican name and for the Ameri
can character, was unfit to be made.
They desire not to evade the
proper responsibility of American cit
izens by declining to vote, and they
desire also to make their votes as effeclive as
possible for tionest and pure and wise admin
istration. How can such voters, who, at this
election can not conscientiously support
the Republican candidate, promote objects
which they desire to accomplish more surely
than supporting the candididate who repre
sents the qualities, spirit and purpose which
they all agree in believing to be of controling
importance in this election. No citizen can
l-igntfully avoid tho issue or refuse to cast his
vote. Tne ballot, is a trust; every voter is a
trustee for good government, bound to an
swer to his private conscience for his public
acts. This conference, therefore, assuming
that Republican and Independent voters who
for any reason can not sustain the Republican
nomination, desire to take a course which,
under the necessary conditions and constitu
tional methods of Presidential election, will
most readily and surely secure the result at
which they aim, respectfully recommend to
all such citizens to support the Electors who
will vote for Grover Cleveland, in order most
effectually to enforce their conviction that
nothing could more deeply stain the Ameri
can name and prove more disastrous to pub
lic welfare than deliberate indifference of the
people of the United States to increasing pub
lic corruption, and to want of official integ
rity in the highest trusts of the Government
Mr. Curtis during the reading was fre
qre itly interrupted by applaus", and when
lie had finished tHe resoliftions were
adopted without a dissenting voice. Mr.
Williams, of Massachusetts, in a few re
marks criticised the action of Governor
Long, of Massachusetts, and Theodore
Roosevelt, of New York in indorsing
Blaine after having denounced him in the
convention, and he denounced rule of
the convention which compelled delegates
to stand by the choice of ttie partv^
Mr. William Everett, of Massachusetts,
offered a resolution naming Cleveland and
Hendricks as nominees of vhe conference.
Laid on the table, and soon after the con
ference adjourned on motion of Lyman, of
Massachusetts.
After adjournment the Conference Na
tional Committee went into session, and
discussed a plan for permanent organiza
tion, but no definite action was taken, and
the matter was referred to a sub-commit
tee, consisting of Messrs. Deming and
Miller, of New York, and Pearce, of Massa
chusetts, to report a plan. It was also de
cided to have an executive committee of
ten, who shail have power to increase
their number. They will be appointed in a
day or two. Reports from general
committees in various States were received,
and it was thought that the most efficient
work could be done in New York. New Jer
sey. Connecticut and Massachusetts, and
strong efforts will be made to carry those
States where the State Committees are to
lie organized, as also in Pennsylvania.
The sentiment expressed shows that tbe
majority of the members are in favor of
conducting the campaign in an independent
manner, with perhaps an occasional con
ference with the Democrats to avoid pos
sible collision.
A Sketch of Grover Cleveland.
The present Governor of the State of New
York, and the Democratic nominee for Presi
dent of tne tJniiea States, comes from a New
England stock. His great-grandfather, Aaron
Cleveland, was born in 1744, a*. ci« of the
Haadams that dot the Connecticut River just
above iia mouth. Ho was a man of great lit
erary talents, and his inclinations led him in
to the idinistry. His charges were in Ver
mont and Connecticut, where he died in 1815.
One of Ids sons was “Father Cleveland,” the
city missionary of. Boston, who died in 1872 at
the age bf one hundred years, A daughter
married I>r. Samuel H. Coxe, whose son, Dr.
A. C. ( oxe, is the Episcopal Bishop Of W estern
Now York. The second son, Will am, was the
grandfather of Grover Cleveland. A son of
William, earned Richard, was the father of
tho present Governor of New York. Richard
Cleveland was born at Norwich, Connecticut,
in 1804 and graduated at Yale College in 1824.
Many of his classmates still survive. After
teaching frihooi and studying theology at
Prince on lie was ordained a Presbyterian
min ster in 18D. His first charge was at
Windham, ■•'omiecticut. In PtiP he married a
daughter of Abner Ne ill, of Baltimore. Then
he had charge of churches in Portsmouth,
Virginia, and. Caldwell. New Yo k. alter which
he wont to Fayettevi'le, near Syracuse, New
York. Thence lie want to Holland Patent,
near Utica, New York, where ho died in 1853.
fl u wife aiei at the same p ace in 1882, aged
seventy-eight, a few months before tne dis
inguisbed triumph of her son Grover at the
polls in November of the same year. She had
nine children, the fifth of wnoin—Stephen
Grover—was born at Caldwell, N. Y., March
,Bth, 1837. Ho was name I for his fa’ tier’s
pie ieccssor in tho ; astoratc, hut dropped tlie
“Stephen” because everybody called him
“Grover.”
When his father died Grover was fifteen
years old. In the course of a few months he
became the assistant ot his brother who had
charge of a b ind asylum Then, in 1855, ho
sot out for the West in company with one of
his young friends who a so wished to grow
up with the country. Both of the young men
were attracted by the city ol Cleveland-on
account ol the name. But friends in Buffalo
persuaded the young men to stop in that city
and Grover » leveland entered the law office
of Rogers, Bowen & Rogers as a student. A
liberal salary was soon allowed him because
he earned it—and, In 1853, lie was admitted to
the bar. He still remained with the firm
which had acted as his preceptors. For three
years ho held the position of Assistant Dis
irict-Atiorney of Erie County (Buffalo). N. V.
Ho was then nominated by the Democrats, in
1805, for District-Attorney, but lie was def'ext
ed. His first law partnership wis with tfle
late 1,. V. Vanderpooi. This continued till
August. 1880. Since that date be has belonged
to the following firms, all in the City of Buf
falo: Laning. Cleveland & Foisom; Bass,
Cleveland & Bissell; Cleveland & Bissell, and
Cleveland, bissell & bicard. The latter firm
continued to the time of his election as Gov
ernor of New Vork. In 1870 Mr. Cleveland
was elected Sheriff of Erie County by a large
majority. Eleven ears later he was tne Dem
ocratic candidate for Mayor of the City of
Buffalo and was elected by a decisive majori
ty. His administration was so satisfactory
and his course s> fa r and unpartisan that
better tilings we e expected for him. Th re
foe, when the Demoe. atic St ite Convention
met at Syracuse in September, 1882, all eyes
were turned toward him as one of the leading
candidates for Governor. He was elected by
102,854 votes over Charles J. Folger. tho Re
publican nominee, and took possession of the
offi e January 1. 18
Governor Clove and’s thorough legal train
ing has served him well in the Executive
chair. It is some years since a thorough law
yer-Mr. Tilden—last held the office. His
practice has been to scan all the bills sent to
him and not to seek the advice of lawyers, as
eortin Governors have done. He makes thor
ough work of this inspection, and his vetoes
carry conviction with thorn. There could be
no other outcome after his application of a
strictly legal analysis to the mass of miscel
laneous legislation that reaches him. In spite
of the amendment to the Stale Constitution
forbidding special leg slation, many bills of
that sort have entered his - hamber < nly to be
killed. The same care and painstaking were
observable when more general interests were
at stake. Last year be vetoed the Five cent
(E evated Railway Faro bill in Justice to the
Corporations, a though h ‘ knew ii was an un
popular thing to do. Then he vetoed a gen
eral Street Railroad bill because the rights of
the people were so 100 ei.y guarde i. Ilis veto
of the Buffalo Fire Department bitl was
against the intcro ts of certain party man
f liers in his home city; but he vetoed it for
hat very reason ami because it was not in the
interest of the people at large. The same
care oi the public led him to veto a Hill which
-~ - - ---- in y i, i' toe present restrictions aiui
allowed the trusts*-* <W —,,» in
vest in wild cat securities. His veto of the
i’rison Commission bill was because he
thought it ought to report sooner than next.
January. He has steadily put his fo-. ton all
measures to exempt from taxation. His dis
approval of two or three of tho New York Re
form bills was because they were so ioosoly
drawn. Tiie remainder of these oills had been
already signed.
A lew specimens of Grover Cleveland's ve
toes will show how tersely and yet how fairly
he disposes of the various matters that come
before him:
Authorizing New York City to contribute
$50,000 for the Bartholdi Statue fund. 'Jr.* .in
stitution al.
To amend the charter of the City or Albany.
“The present charter of the Ci*y of Albany
provides for the designation by tire Common
Council of ihree official papers, which shall
publish all ordinances and other matters re
quired by law to lie published. Ttie amend
ment proposfl^by this bill provides that if
amongthe official papersthus designated, one
of Die ijuiitical parties shall not lie represent
ed "them oinmon Council may designate a
fourth official paper, in order that suen party
may be represented. 1 should like to approve
a bill providing for one official paper for the
City of Albany. If two are deemed neces
sary, it should, perhaps, to provided that they
Shall be papers representing the views of
each of the great parties: Put any bill per
mitting the designation of four official papers
in the City of Albany appears to mo to be en
tirely unnecessary and a useless expendi
ture.” £
Relative to the Cohoes watt* supply. “Af
ter a very full hearing, a little more than a
year ago, I approved chapter 429 of th*laws
of 1883. One of the principal argument used
for its passage was that, the water Unwished
by the Cohoes Water Company wai impure.
That laiv contemplated the furnishing of a
hew supply of water, etc. Nothing has been
done under that law, and it is now proposed
(to repeal all of it that permits new works to
fie erected and authorizes putting down new
ipipes, which will enforce the continuation of
file present supply. This purports to be a bill
to amend the law of 1883, but there a-o two
sections of it which am nl that law In
terms. The rest is an independent act. and
confusion is sure to arise, I think between
the provisions of the two acts. I think if the
scheme of the act of Lssy to be abandoned
it should bo repealed and another law sub
stituted, or the sections of the old act should
be amended in such a way that the existing
liaw would be clear."
Notably' do tho vetoes of Governor Cleve
land show that they have been dictated by
#?ound common sense. But a brief glance at
his positive acts will show that he has also
been of service to the State of New York iu
.signing bills. By this it should not be under
stood that to veto bills B merely a negative
service, for it is usually a service of the most
positive kind when a Governor stops the
enactment of bad laws that have been passed
by the Legislature and that have come to him
for approval. Among the chief measures that
have been signed by Governor Cleveland are
two or three that have changed the order of
things that prevailed hitherto by placing the
completion of the n :vv Capitol on a sound
business basis and by maintain ng. the com
pleted portion upon correct and economical
princip.es. Various bills of great interest to
the several localities in the stale have also
been approved. The bill requiring telegraph
and other wires to be placed underground in
tne cities of New York and Brooklyn has be
come a iaw, as has also a bill guarding the in
terests of the people while making less com
plicated the machinery for organizing street
railways in cities.
The official life of Governor Cleveland is
very monotonous and very irksome. He is at
his desk from early in the morning till late at
nirht, and his hours of rest are few when the
Legislature is in session. His callers are
many and they are not always considerate of
his time. Yet he never loses his temper. He
is truly democratic and he is very readily a;>-
proached. An hour is taken from his desk
for lunch, and rather more than one for his
dinner.
Governor Cleveland resides in the Executive
Mansion which has been occupied by all the
Governors, from Tilden down. He keeps no
horses, his preferences being to walk. In per
son he is large and heavy. His face is full
Without showing the extreme fullness that
pvery corpulent person has. In fact tho ex
pression of his lace is of an unusually pleas
ant nature.— Detroit Free Frees.
Blaine and Logan should at once
enter into an agreement to stick by each
other. It would look bad if one or the
other of them should join the stampede
to Cleveland.
POLITICAL POINTS.
the Republican party plenty of rope it
will hang itself.
Ben Butler « reported to be
“tired out.” Well, the country is a tri
fle fatigued, too.
——“ Rlaino is everything,” says tho
Milwaukee Wisconsin t “that Cleveland
is. not.” So glad.
Blaine and Logan will both take
the stump. They sec tho nc essity of
somebody supporting the ticket.
An early spring pea has been
named after Governor Cleveland. The
pea is secure from a November frost,
any way. —Rochester Herald.
i President Arthur speaks very dis
paragingly of Republican prospects.
While on this subject we may say that
Mr. Arthur is likely to vote for Blaine
and Logan, but it is no sure thing that,
he will. —Cincinnati Enquin r.
The aggressive Mr. Blaine is not
kicking for an aggressive campaign.
He prefers to dodge under the hedge,
but he will be obliged to come out and
face the music all the same. He will
please accept this as a notification.
The repugnance some Republican
editors display toward Grover Cleve
land because he was once a Sheriff sug
gests that their ac piaintance with .Sher
iffs lias not always been of the hail-fel
low-well-met sort. Cincinnati En
quirer.
Kelly can make his bargain with
Blaine as soon as iie pleases, lie is
like the truant husband who, on being
reproached by his wife for coming
home so late at night, replied that ho
had no other place to go. —Ehiladelphia
Times.
We are told that Steve Elkins and
Mahone had a conference yesterday
which “[closed with the assurauce by
Mahone that he would support the
Blaine and Logan ticket.” This being
the case, the Democratic party will no
doubt throw up its hands and quit right
here.— Exchange.
Now that Cleveland has been
nominated Mr. Blaine had better imitate
Davy Crockett’s coon and come down.
If lie is looking for a more promising
field for his eilorts let him form a
partnership with Capt. Coslentenus, or
one witn Miss Hurst to supply the pub
lic with magnetism to order.— Buffalo
Couri r.
The Democratic Presidential
ticket has one great advantage over the
Republican in not having any tail to be
wagge 1 by factious opposition. No
blush of shame can legitimately find a
lodgment on the cheek of any man at
the mention of Cleveland’s and Hen
dricks’ names. There is no tlavor of
railroad lobby or stolen Indian lands
about them. — Richmond ( Va. ) Slate.
The Democrats have offered to
the country a clean and capable man.
Ho is the candidate preferred almost
unanimously by those who bolted the
nomination of Mr.* Blaine. He appeals
directly to the common sense ot the
people, and his record is assurance that
he will give them if he is elected a safe
and able administration. It is our hope
and belief that the people appreciating
these things, wili elect him by a de
cisive and unmistakable majority.—At
lanta Cons'.Uu ion.
- iiwu.irtoKs' response to
Secretary Chandler’s sensitive attempt
to defend his administration ot the Na
val Department is indeed a crusher; but
he might have crushed the Secretary
Hatter still had he descended to the lat
ter’s level. It would have been a per
fectly fair retort to his twaddle about
“any attempt to make polit‘cal capital”
to ask what he was doing in attempting
to show that Democrats were responsi
ble for his retention of incompetent
men in the department. - Detroit Free
Press.
The Blaine organs in the same
breath declare that Blaine is the hearty,
enthusiastic choice of his party and
point, in proof of .t, to his votes in the
Chicago Convention. But Cleveland,
they say, ik not the choice of his party
ami his name is received by it in glum
and sulky silenee. On the first ballot
Blaine had *282 vo’es, and was nomi
nated on the seventh by 522 votes.
Cleveland on the tirst ballot received
31)2 votes and was nominated on the
second ballot by (183 votes. Wh ch one
was the choice of his parly?— Detroit
Free Ficss.
As to “Accident.”
The Republican party has so woefully
avoided nominating distinguished men,
and been so pain, ully careful to select
inexperienced and unrenowned mem
bers, that its outcry against Cleveland
as an “accident” and a “nonenity” is
peculiarly absurd. To listen, to' this
outcry no one would imagine that in
18n6 it passed over such tyros and un
knowns as John P. Hale, Cideon
Welles, C base, Giddings, Sumner,
Seward, and nominated the experienced
statesman, John C. Fremont, who had
served three weeks in the Senate.
in 1860 it again overlooked school
boys like Chase, Seward, Collamer,
Cameron, Wade, and nominated the
well-tried and celebrated Lincoln, who
had served without distinction one term
in the House of Representatives.
In 1868 it failed to see such green
horns and abecedarians as Wade, Sum
ner, Fessenden, Wilson, Colfax, ( hand
ler, Cameron, Butler, but nominated
Grant, who had when nominated lived 5
in Washington as General of the Army
about two years.
In 1876 it was apparently unaware of
the existence of such \ oung pupils as
Blaine, Morton, ( handler, Boutwell,
Morgan, and nominated the sage and
well-seasoned Ha.es, who had won a
world-wide fame as Governor of Ohio
and member of the Congressional
Library Committee.
As a matter of fact, with the excep
tion of the nomination of Lincoln and
Grant, for a second term, and of (tar
field and Blaine for a first one, the Re
publican party has always fished out
some unknown or inexperienced man
as its candi ate for the Presidency. Two
only out of the six who have been nom
inated have had any title to the nomin
ation on the score of known and proved
qualifications. The talk of the Blaine
organs about Cleveland’s being a “ton
enity”anl an “accident” is wholly
absurd and ridiculous. Had their party
been in u need by su h talk onlv one
out o‘ their five I'yfcsideal* would ever
have been elected to the Presidency.—
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