Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-07-14

than by assuring his triumph.
For this time democrat victory will arrest
and, we believe, finally, the
insolence and hopefulness of the corrupt
and freebooting element among republicans
which have found their final expression in
the Blaine nomination and have at last de-
stroyed that dream of reform within the
party which has for so many years sus-
tanned the patience of tens of thousands of
its best members.
THE N. Y. TIMES ENDORSEMENT.
The New York Times, republican, in
leading editorial on the nominations made
by the democratic national convention, says:
with Grover Cleveland as its candidate
the democratic party appeals with unmis-
taxable directness to the moral sense of the
people of the United States. Shall the next
President be man who has weakly yielded
TO temptation, or u man who has unsWerv-
ingly adhered to the right against pow
erful entcements to do wrong? A man
who begs pecuniary rewards of those his
official action has enriched, or one who de-
fes corrupt dictation and seeks only by just
courses to deserve the approval of right
thinking men? A candidate attacked, i'm
L,
or candidate beyond reproach? A Grover
Cleveland, whom honest men respect, or a
James G. Blaine, whom rogues love?
"This is the supreme issue. 1t is this
which the voters of the republic are to de-
eide It is not the issue of protection free
trade has nothing to do with it; there is no
admi1ture of foreign policy, or its want of
foreign policy insincere professions cannot
put it aside; the glare of a boosted torch
light briliancy will not outshine it, The
sober sense of an intelligent electorate, the
honest convictions and the patriotism Of ten
millions of voters are appealed to, and they
will settle this question conclusively and for
the right.
"It is not only in what he clearly repre-
sents but in what he distinctly opposes that
Grover Cleveland is strong before the Amer
lean people. His career has made him the
exponent of clean and honest politics. In
the administration of public trusts he has
shown that he is superior to partisan bias, in
different to such party interests as are in
contact with official probity and the public
welfare. He has been severely tried in the
important and responsible post he now oc-
cupies. He has resisted the opportunities
of designing politicians, he has defeated the
purposes of selfish schemers. All those
members of his own party who are not alb
sorbed in private aims which are in conflict
with the public good are outspoken in his
praise, and he has won the good opinion of
all republicans who are not so far gone in
partisanship as to have lost the power to
commend upright conduct in political adj
versary.
Favored as he is by the right-thinking
elements of both the democratic and repub-
lican parties, it is noteworthy and potent
advantage to Grover Cleveland as a candi-
date that he has incurred the bitter hostili-
ty of the worthless, disreputable and dan
gerous members of his own party. Tam
many hates him. Butler sees no good in
him. Could a candidate find stronger re-
commentator than this in the opinion of
voters whose political action is shaped SOLE
ly by considerations Of public welfare ?
The official acts which have won for
Gov. Cleveland the intense hostility ofTam-
many are the very acts which have most
strongly commended him to the support OF
Observation-Disclosures. The favor of these
two classes, of wholly corrupt and
selfish guerrilla contingent within the dem
ocratic party, and Of men with whom plain
common sense and the most ordinary form
of political honesty are controlling influ-
ences, no one man, be he ever so skilful in
the art of balancing, can hope or wish to
one month in office as Governor of the State
of New York before he had decided in his
own mind and had made plain to all obser-
vers that his official action was to be guild
ed solely by his own intelligent judgment
of what the public interests demanded.
And that is, above all, the safe and the
po1iov prasi6apt Of ba Init 6
States.
mo democrat with whom patriotism is
not subordinated to private grudges will
withhold his vote from Grover Cleveland
OF republicans those who are entirely Salts
fed that Blaine and Logan faithfully rep
resent the principles upon which the party
that preserved the Union was founded will
doubtless vote against him. Those ofrepubli-
can faith who are repealed by the most un-
wise choice made at Chicago last month
will find no difficulty in voting for him,
since he is one of the best representatives
now to be found in public life of those adj
ministrative principles and reforms to
which they are committed. A democrat
who has made enemies Of the most disrepu-
table elements of his own party is not great
ly to be feared by republicans, even when
he is a candidate for the presidency.
THE Times will heartily support Governor
Cleveland. In opposing Mr.. Blaine it finds
itself upon impregnable ground and in excel
lent company. 1t has closely watched the
career Oft the candidate nominated at Chicago
Friday, and it has entire confidence in his
probity, in his intelligence, and in his adj
mnistrative ability. He ought to be the
next President of the United States, and we
believe he will be.
1.-THE nomination of Thomas A. Hendricks
as the democratic candidate for Vice. Presi-
dent is one, we suppose, which will be COM
mended, and may excite some enthusiasm
among those democrats who count the year
Of grace 1876 as the beginning of political
era. Upon independent and anti Blaine re-
pubicans his nomination will make mere
ly negative impression. He is good demo
crat, reputable man. He has sometimes
expressed with clearness and force his opin-
ions upon political subjects. He has of late
had little part in public affairs, and his
views upon the issues which are now engag-
ing the attention of the voters of the coun-
try are NOT very wall-known He will