Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-09-11
testimony FROM olevs,ana,s Home.

Whatever effort Grover Cleyelands ''indo-
pendent friends may make 20 fortify his posi-
ton with a manifesto of their personal conf
denee in the integrity and purity OF his private
character, there are some facts which they can
NOT deny. He has been a resident OF Buffalo
for the greater part Of his life. He has grown
up with this renlarkable prosperous city. lie
has seen it take a start in fresh yigor and en-.
terprise. He has seen its population almost
doubled within the past twenty years, He has
seen is vast and widely extended commercial
resources developed to an extent far beyond
the predictions of the most sanguine Of aquar-
ter OF a century age. With industrial growth
and commercial enterprise the city has made
steady, satisfactory progress IN public
education, culture, the arts aud sciences, and
social improvement During all these years,
Cleveland has seen tho national government
pass through the most eyeatful period Of its
existence. He has llyedin a time that has tried
mems souls; that has quickened young, pa
trlotic blood, and brought that was sound,
true aud earnest in American citizenship to the
front A long, devastating civil war; q severe,
almost equally porilous, struggle for recon
structionn; the establishment OF u national
banking system; the maintenance OF public
credit; the protection of American industry
against the competition OF European pauper
labor; the reform OF the civil seryiee-on all
OF these trying issues tho American people
have boon compelled TO assert their manhood,
their courage, their devotion 10 principle.
Where has Grover Cleveland stood: Whathas
he been! As a citizen up TO the time no was
elected mayor, the man was almost a nonenti-
~. There Is not All institution devoted 10 the
eiS's progress in industrial development, ir
material resources, IN literature, art, public
morality, with which Grover Cleveland has boer
even remotely identified, or 20 which he over
gave the slightest encouragement Selfish AM
self-cngrossed, he has devoted himself 10 his
private business without The f~ailitest Demon
stratiDn of public spirit Prior 20 tho time
when a peculiar condition OF things suggested
him as an available candidate for mayor, his
name wonld not have been mentioned with the
nifty leading men Ia Buffalo As for social pc.
slfion, whatever difference OF opinions may
exist as 10 the depraved character
Of Cleyeland's associates, no one Will claim
That he had ever been seen a dozen times in
respectable parl0rs in the city of Buffalo, OF
that he endured tho sociery Of refined, cult
waited women il he could avoid it. As for
Cleyelands opinions upon great national is
sues, as for his views upon questions tina will
put PATRIOTISM and Statemanship 20 the tnst--
II he has any, they have been just those that
any man might have who takes the Demo
cratic ticket straight every time.r il has made
no difference with him whom the Democrat
might nominate, or upon what platform
the candidates were presented. You coult
NeNhb ph nun W fDG WIFI hAV DOVE
every time Little importance has beer
attached To his private political utter
ances; and there has not been a public utter.
anco of his on national issues worth recording
And this has been the social and political train
ing OF the man now presented by the Demo
cratic party for election to the highest ofic.
within the gift of the people OF tho Unitet
States! In the excitement OF the mo
ment the Republicans Of Buffalo deserted theil
own candidate 70 make Cleveland Mayor. II
the heat Of fractional luminosity, under an er
roneous idea that it would do tho party gooC
to subject 1t To the process OF self ehastisemen
and deiuded by tho plea that Cleveland wa,
the special prophet aud champion Of 'tindepen.
dence" and reform the Republicans o.
New York elected him Governor. They have
had time 10 know him better: they nave hat
opportunity for more political reflection. Now
that they are called upon to make this maj
the Nations Chief Magistrate, they do no
purpose TO have a hand In such nonsense. Here
IN Buffalo Cleveland 10 best known, and he i
known 70 DO what we have described him
Hence ii j. that In tho very city where he was
elected mayor there is not one Republican 81
any prominence who has declared an intention
70 vote for him for President Nine-tenths 81
the Independence arc actively at work foI
Ile'ne ard Logan. And in western New York
which did go much TO help his s'boom" fol
Governor, not a leading Republican il 81
Cleveland's sIde-not ono-Buffalo CONNER,
cial Advertiser.