Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-07-17
GROVER CLEVELAND,
what strong Republican Paper says of
the Democratic candidate.

ne bemocratc shnutuse,
lIarpor's Weekly.
The nomination OF Gov. Cleveland de-
fiues sharply the actual issue of tho prosi-
Dental election of this year. Ro is a man
whose absolute official integrity has never
been questioned, who has no laborious and
doubtful explanations to undertake, and
who is universally known ~ tho governor
of New York elected by an unprecedented
majority which was not partisan, and
represented both tho votes and the consent
Of an enormous body Of Republicans, and
who as tho chief executive of tho state
has readily withstood the Establishments
and the threats Of the worst elements
OF his party, and has justly earned
the reputation of courageous indepcn.
dent and e4icent friend and promoter OF ad
ministrative reform. His name has become
that OF tho especial representative among
our public men Of the integrity, purity,
and economy OF administration which aro
the objects of the most intelligent and
patriotic citizens. The bitter and furious
hostility Of Tammany Hall aud of Gen. But
Ter to Gov. Cleveland is his passport to the
| confidence OF good men, and the general
conviction that Tammany will do all that
1t can to defeat him will be an additional
incentive to the voters who cannot support
Mr.. Blaine, aud who are unwilling not to
vote at all, TO secure the election OF = can.
didate whom the political rings and the
party traders sinstiuctivcNy hate and united.
ly oppose.
So firm and "clcan " and independent
in his high Office has Gov. Cleveland shown
himself to be that he is denounced as not
| being Democrat by his Democratic
| opponents. This denunciatiOn springs
from the facts that he has not hesitated &c
prefer the public welfare to the mere in.
terest Of his party. Last autumn, when
the Democratic district attorney of Queens
| county was charged with misconduct, the
| governor heard the accusation and the
defense, and decided that it was his duty
to remove the officer. He was asked by
his party friends TO defer the removal until
after the election, as otherwise the party
would lose the district by the opposition
| of the attorneys friends. The governor
understood his duty, and removed the OH
Ger some days before the election, and the
party did lose the district This kind OF
courage and devotion to public duty in the
teeth of the most vruleut opposition OF
traders Of his own party is unusual 10 any
public man, and It shows precisely the
executive quality which is demanded az n
time when every form of speculation aud
fraud presses upon the public treasury
under the speciOus plea OF party advantage.
The argument that in an election IL Is
not man but party that is supported,
and that the Democratic party is less to be
trusted than the Republican is futile at q
time when the Republican party has
nominated a candidate whom a great body
Of the most conscientious Republican:
cannot support, and the Democratic party
has nominated 8 candidate whom a great
body of the most venal Democrats practi
cally bolt, Dlstrust of the Democratic
party springs from the conduct of the very
Democrats who madly oppose Gov. Cleye
land because they know that they cannO
use bin. The mere party argument II
vain also because no honorable man vii
be whipped 10 to vote for q candidat,
whom he believes 10 be personally dis.
qualified for the presidency on the grOunC
that a party ought 70 be sustained. NJ
honest Republican would sustain his partl
for such a reason, and the honest Repub
, licans who propose to vote for Mr., Balm
will do so because they do not believe, a
. the protesting Republicans do believe, tina
: he made his official action subseryo per
son8l advantage Nothing is more hope
less than an attempt TO persuade sue
Republicans To sustain their party b
voting for an unworthy candidate. Shoul
they help TO reward such a candidate b.
comforting upon him the highest offlcia
honor in the world they could not reason
ably expect the nomination of a worthie
candidate at the uext election, and the!
could not consistently oppose the election
Of any candidate whom their party nigh
select. The time to defeat unfit nomina
tions is when they are made, not mex
time. The nomination of Gov. CLEVELAND
is due not go much to tho preference of hit
party as to the general demand of tht
country for a candidacy which stands fol
precisely the qualities and services which
are associated with his name.