The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-10-10
R~EP UBBhEGGAAHH Poi 9h ETE He's.
Progress of the Campaign of Blaine
and Logan.
why E~z-sonator Grady Bolts Cleveland.

why Ex-senator Grady Bolts Cleveland.
New York Telegram.
Ex-senator Grady, rising to protest against
the passage of the resolution and the adoption
of the address, made a long speech. He re-
viewed the whole political career of Cleveland,
and quoted freely from the columns Of the
Times and the Herald in the past in support Of
the position he GRADY had now taken. In the
course of his speech Grady said:
Neither in the nomination of the ticket nor in
the methods by which it was brought about is
there the slightest claim upon the great body
of Democratic voters for its support The
great majority of the delegates to the conven-
ton who named Cleveland their first choice
represented Republican constituencies. The
number of delegates who openly and earnestly
opposed his nomination were recorded, in spite
of all their protests as favorable to his candi-
dacy. Every influence that could DO employed
or engineered by the m~onopolists who have
secured control of the party management was
exerted to make him the candidate, and, as You
we'll know, the delegates who left their homes
loud in their professions Of hostility to his can
didacy as inviting certain defeat to the party
gave evidence soon tfter their arrival at Chicago
of q change Of heart, which only the most sim
pie and charitable have ascribed to pure and
WI Wy SNAfNP AAAS vi AIGu
who urged his nomination was to coneiliate
disgruntled Republicans, not to please Demo-
Gratis. Preserving 10 myself the supreme right
of a citizen exercising an act of sovereign
ty, l decline to prostitute my prerogative
to the purposes of party managers. Suf-
frage has been bestowed on me by the institu-
tons of my country that it may be exercised
for the cOuntry's welfare. To the prosperity
and benefits of this land dedicate it, and /
can reconcile without desecration any DISPOSE
ton of it that would result ia the support of
the political nondescript, clothed in the out
ward garb of a Democrat, ignorant Of the car
dinal principles of the political faith which he
assumes to profess, and accepting from Demo-
Gratis their votes that he may delight Republi-
cans and Independents by the manner in which
he will exercise the powers conferred upon
him by a betrayed and deluded party. But
my vote will not be lost to the Democracy. 1T
will be cast for the candidate whose followers
will be numbered by hundreds of thousands.
whose motives cannot be i~mpunged, for their
action can not be inspired by selfish hopes of
1t will be registered for the princi-
pies which the Democratic party professed
when it held popular confidence, and for aban-
dOning which it lost popular support 1t will
be given for the candidate who has no hope Of
election and no desire for sofdid benefits, for
political preferment, but who braves fatigue,
abuse, and pecuniary loss that true Democrats
may find his candidacy a channel through
which they may express their sentiments.
turn my back on the Democratic party,
captured and betrayed by ~Know-noshing dem
aSogues hungry for places and spoils, to join
the pure Democracy which struggles for prin-
ciples which the party organization has
abandoned. | denounce the candidate whose
only merit is his obscurity that I NAV
follow a statesman whose life has made glo-
rious the history of his country I decline to
bow down before a craven image because j
prefer to follow the teachings Of the apostle OF
the true political faith. Preferring shining
ability to a dull mediocrity, a true reformer
to a sham reformer, a statesman to a hang
man, an illustrious citizen to a political adj
yenturer, | decline to support Grover Cleve-
land for the Presidency, aud here and now, in
the presence of a leader whom / have always
regarded as my political sponsor, in the midst
OF brethren and comrades with whom / have
shared many hard-felght battles in the politi-
cal field. and before the eyes of all the coun.
try, to whom / have this night laid bare my
motives and purposes, / declare myself in
favor of Benjamin 4. Butler, soldier, jurist,
statesman, and patriot, and I appeal to time
for my yindication.