River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-11
Testimony from cleveland's Home.

Whatever effort Grover CievelanGs 'fnde-
pendent friends may make to f0rtify his posi-
ton with manifesto of their personal conf
dence in the integrity and purity of his private
character, there arc some facts which they can
not deny He has been resident of Buffalo
for the greater part of his life He has grown
up with this remarkable prosperous city. lie
has seen it take q start in fresh vlgOr and en-
teTpTise lie has seen It's population almost
doubled within the past twenty years. He has
seen it's vast and widely extended commercial
resources developed 10 an extent far beyond
the predictions Of the most sangdine of quar-
ter of a century ago. With industrial growth
and commercial enterprise the city has made
steady, satisfactory progress IN public
education, culture, the arts and sciences, and
social improvement During all these years,
Cleveland has seen the national government
pass through the most eventful period of ITS
existence. He has lived in time that has tried
mems souls; that has quickened young, pa
triotic blood and brought what was sound,
true and earnest in American citizenship TO the
front long, devastating civil war; severe,
almost equally perllOus, struggle for recon
structOnh +, the establishment OF 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 serYlce-on all
of these irving issues the American people
have been compelled TO assert their manhood,
their courage their devotion to principle.
Where has Grover Cleveland stood: What has
he BEEN As citizen up to the time he was
elected MAYOR, the man was almost nOnent-
ty There is not an instittution devoted TO the
city's progress in industrial development, III
material resources, in literature, art, public
morality with which Grover Cleveland has been
even remotely identified, or to which he ever
gave the slightest encouragement Selfish and
engrossed, he has devoted himself to his
private business without the tSintest demon-
stratlOn of public spirit Prior to the time
when peculiar condition of things suggested
hill faA- ff.w rnuFar Ia
name would not have been mentioned with the
fifty leading men in Buffalo As for social po-
sitiOn, whatever difference OF opinions may
exist as to the depraved character
of Cleveland's associates no one Will claim
that he had ever been seen dozen times IN
respectable parlors in the city of Buffalo, or
that he endured the society of refined cult
waited women if he could avoid IT. AS Tor
Cleveands opinions upon great national rs
sues, for his views upon questions that VIII
put patriotism and craftsmanship to the test
If he has any they have been Just those that
any man might have who takes the Demo-
cratic ticket straight every time. 1t has made
no difference with him whom the Democrats
might nominate, or upon what platform
the candidates were presented You could
count on him to vote with the boys
every time Little importance has been
attached to his private political utter
anees; and there has not been public utter
ance of his on national issues worth recording.
And this has been the social and political tram
ing of the man now presented by the Demo
cratic party for election to the highest office
within tho gift of the people OF the United
States! In the excitement of the mo-
ment the Republicans of Buffalo deserted their
own candidate 10 make Cleveland Mayor. In
the heat of faetional luminosity, under an er-
roneous idea that it would do the party good
to subject it to the process of self chastise ment
and deluded by the plea that Cleveland was
the special prophet and champion of ''lndepen-
dence" and reform the Republicans of
New York elected him Governor. They have
had time to know him better: they have had
opportunity for more political reflection. Now
that they are called upon to make tins man
the Nations Chief Magistrate, they do not
purpose TO have hand in such nonsense Here
IN Buffalo Cleveland is best known, and he Is
known to be what we have described him
Hence it is that in the very city where he was
elected mayor there Is not one Republican OF
any prominence who has declared an intention
to vote for him for President Nine -tenths of
the independents are actively at work for
Blaine and Logan And IN western New York,
which did so much to help his ''boom" for
Governor, not leading Republican is on
Cleveands slde-not one.-Buffalo CONNER
cial Advertiser.