New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-19
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Tlldcn we know, and Hendricks we know
but who IL Clrycland3 man selected bcrnuq,
ho was uoatly unknown h. al. How is IL pos.
rblr That man of any faculty whalc,c. 10y hi.
own admission - Jealous aud uuwayor.uR par.
tsan. has lived through the put twenty-five
years Of great cNcitcments and startling
changes without becoming known To- hi, fellow
citizens aud making some Kind Of record
Those must answer who profess to believe that
the man is statesman and has some faculty.
one thing il ccrtain II Mr. Cleveland il not, IN
The NeU- York Sun says he Is, an ignorant and
incompetent man, then it Is the first instance In
all human history of intellectual and moral
greatness wholly concealed from human discov-
cry until forty seven years of life have passed.
But Mr. Cleveland voted. He states. and his
friends boast, that he has steadily voted the
Democratic ticket. The world must accept the
best obtainable evidence as to this mans opin-
ions and character if he had not ability enough
to speak his mind, or was not so esteemed by
his felOw-men that he was ever selected for
any political trust, even for a seat in the Lcgis-
laturc his votes as citizen are the best evil
dence that can be had.
He voted as a pro-slavery Democrat in 1850.
but so did many better men. He voted for the
friend of rioters, and for the various candidates
of the peaceat-any price Democracy, while
better men were risking their lives to preserve
the Union. He voted that the war was a failure
in 1851, and by his vote denounced cmancipa-
ton of slaves He voted in 1866 to denouncc
negro suffrage, and to deny equality of civil
rights to all colored people. He voted that the
4. Y,Iiti.,1 81.
people were unconstitutional and void. and
should be set aside by revolution. lie voted
IN 1865 for the doctrine that the public prom
iscs 10 pay gold should be repudatcd by nav
mcnt in deprecated paper only. He voted that
specie resumption was n crime, and that the
people must have "rclief" by unlimited issues
of paper He voted in SIG that protection of
American industry is a crime, and that the
country must have "A tariff for revenue only.
He voted that it was all right for Mr. Tildcn to
tIy To get the Presidency by bribery, and that if
was the greatest fraud of the age to prevent
him. He voted again in 1850 for Il tarin for
revenue only.
If, in any particular, however slight. Mr..
Cleveland dsscntcd from the wcll-known posi-
tious of his party, on the subjects and at the
times above mentioned he carefully concealed
it. Not one word of dissent or protest does he
appear to have uttered. even when the most in
famous crimes were committed OF attempted ON
behalf oi his party. In all this career Of folly
and crime, the Democratic party was sustained
by the votes u Grover CicYoland-aud Sis
tanned still more, if he was really a citizen of
Any ability and weight OF character los he
silent ac1uicsoncc. and his refusal 10 utter the
protests or d,s-cnts wlirh other Democrats of
intelligence of character, 81 of loyalty. 80 often
and 800 indignantly uttered.
That ia thc portrait OF Mr. Cleveland, painted
by himself. This IL the man for whom lIesi-