The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-08-20
THE IRISH VOTE.

lation OF any journal OF Its character
in America. In its issue of July 18th
il says:
We presume the Democratic party
wants TO win at the coming election.
On that supposition the Presidential
fight is narrowed down TO contest
between General Butler and MI.
Blaine. Ifthe Democracy wants to
stand up and be knocked down for
the seventh time in quarter OF cen
tury. that, of course, puts another
face on matters. Under these cir
cumstances, one candidate will be as
GOOD as another. Whether II is
Cleveland, or Bayard. or Field, 1t
will make no difference, except as to
the size of the majority the Republi-
can party will roll up next Novem-
Der. The candidacy of Mr.. Cleye-
land. for instance, would make the
election of Mr.. Blaine extremely
easy. General Buffers nomination
would mean that with him in the
White House, the country for the
next four years would have a thor
oughly American policy. Is there
any other one on the list OF the Dem
ocratic candidates whose success at
Chicago would give this assurance! =!
Let not the Democratic managers
deceive themselves with the thought
that the voters we speak of will sup
port the Democratic party no matter
who receives the nomination. These
voters will be willing to vote for, and
work for, General Butler But with
him out of the race; they will vote
for. and work for, Mr.. Blaine, for
the reason that the latter viii repre-
sent a policy that the Democratic
party, through its failure to noml-
nate General Butler, will have repu-
dated. The Republican
party can look forward TO next No
vember with equal eouanimity if the
Chicago convention adopts the suici-
cidal policy of rejecting the only
candidate who can lead the Democ-
racy out of the slough of desponden-
cy in which ii has so long founder
ed.
The New York Ffeemaa's Journal
is the leading and most influential
organ of the Roman Catholic Church
published in America. In It's issue
of July 18th, and in its editorial col
umns, in speaking Of the nomination
of Grover Cleveland, it says:
In ali the line of principal cities
of the State OF New Iork-from
Buffalo tc Brooklyn-there is a sui
len and sour Iepudiation ofthis NOM
ination on the part of those great
bodies of men who rOte. Governor
Cleveland has been nominated by
the votes OF States that either we've
sure for any Democratic candidate,
or of States that are sure to vote for
]. G.. Blaine. His nomination makes
Ohio certainly a Republican State,
Indiana most probably, and New
York exceedingly doubtful. Were
the election to be held on the first
Tuesday in August, Blaine would
carry New York with hurrah. MIR.
Grover Cleveland, two years ago,
was elected Governor. We think he
could have been elected by Demo
cratic majority of some twenty or
thirty thousand. The Republican
"kickers" j" swelled his majority to
ridiculous figure. But these Repub-
lican "kickers" were Blaine men.
Mr.. Cleyeland's friends count on the
anti-Blaine men as being as vicious
''kickers" as the Blaine men We're.
Therein lies their mistake,
Ancestry does not amount TO much,
except the living race prove worthy
oft. James g. Blaine's grandfather.
OF that fierce old stock of North of
Ireland "Covenanters," was a sol
dier in the war of our independence
of course, ION the side Of the re-
bellion." Mr. Cleveland, also, has
an ancestral record. As we find it,
his ancestors were Puritan preachers
from generation to generation. His
record says, moreover, that he him.
self once labored as teacher of the
blind. The plat
form of the Democratic Convention
at Chicago is an oracle that talks
with stammering lips and double
tongue, especially on the one active
issue, the tariff. 1t is a:'horizontaln
platform, with sloping jump-off on
one side to appease protectionists.
In other works-plain English-it
is damnable nonsensel =
We are puzzled. straightforward
talk we know. The talk we hear
around US we do not know. AS at
present advised, we do not see how
Mr.. Cleveland, with his record, can
hope to carry the vote Of the State
of New York. Except the presenta-
ton of things change, we will have
to deplore the nomination of Mr..
Cleveland.
The Catholic Reciec, of New York,
charges that Governor Cleveland
worked against a bill in the New
York Legislature--so that it might
not come before him for approval
denying to priests of the Roman
Church the privilege of administer
ing the last consultations of religion
to dying Catholics, and refusing to
permit spiritual attendance to Cath
olics from clergymen of their own
faith.
The Northwestern Chronicle, pub
lished at St. Paul's, is in the diocese
of Bishop Ireland, and is the accred-
tied church organ of that locality. 1t
says:
Grover Cleveland is before the
country as the Democratic canGi-
date for the Presidency. Expedien-
cy dictated the nomination. While
Governor he distinguished himself
chiefly by favoring corporations and
monopolies, and by making strenu-
Gus efforts to prevent the passage in
the Legislature of a Liberty of Con-
science bill, which would have given
Catholic inmates OF the State insti-
tutions the right to receive spiritual
ministrations from their own clergy
men. Ifelected President he will 90
TO Washington for the first time in
an official character, totally inexpe-
rienced in the practice of Federal
affairs. and holding out to the Ma