The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-07-18
Opinions of the Press.

He has labored against the Democratic
party, not for it. He is engaged in per-
sonal policy which does not include the
building up and strengthening of the
Democratic party. but the building up
and strengthening of Cleveland. He may
be strong with those who are not Demo-
Gratis. With Democrats he is weak. He
is not the man of the Democracy. If
every Democrat elected to Office should
go on as Grover Cleveland has done, the
Democratic party would speedily die out.
-Nelc York Sun.
Democrats and Independents will re-
fuse to support him. The machine will
rally its own hcnchmen. Thinking Dem
ocrats, literally by hundreds in every
county, reject him. Independents can
take no candidate thrust forward by the
manipulatfons of bosses on q platform
contemptuous of civil service reform.
OF all Democratic plumbers since the re-
fusal as a party to sustain the war for
the Union, this nomination of Grover
Cleveland is the most stupendous. The
only question about his defeat is the
magnitude of the majority under which
he will be buried Utica Herald.
After all the cvasions and assertions of
the debate in the convention have been
analysed and measured in cold blood, it
will be found that three points cannot be
cvaded: First, the old school Democrats
have been showed aside as they were in
1872 and 1880 in the cause of mere eXped-
iency; second, the acknowledged repre-
sentatives of the labor organizations of
the Irish in New ork. of the anti-mOn-
opolists everywhere, have been publicly
kicked downstairs third the prohibition
lists, greenbackers and labor reformers
have had formal notice that they are to
expect nothing but opposition from the
Democracy.-Chicdgo Inter- Ocean.
The nomination of Cleveland is a mis-
take. The whole claim of Mr.. Cleveland
upon the attention of the Democratic
party rested upon the fact of his election
to the gubernatorial chair in the state of
New York. That elevation was a politi.
cal accident. 1t was owing TO dissen-
sions in the Republican party of the En-
pire State. 1t is not pretended that Mr..
Cleveland is Il man of any more than or
binary mental ability. He has had no
experience in craftsmanship. save such
as has cast grave doubts upon his capaci-
ty. So far as the country is concerned,
he is an unknown man; where he is best
known in his own State, he is not recog-
nized by the ablest Democratic newspa-
pers as fit and proper person to be voted
for for President. The opposition in the
Democratic ranks to Cleveland. so far as
the State of New Y DIRK is concerned, rests
at last and honestly in the conviction that
he is not in any sense the friend of the
common people.-Pr0rilcHc JomRoi.
Grover Cleveland was not nominated at
Chicago because he was considered the
representative Democrat of that body or
of the party, but because he is expected
to catch the voters in New \ ork who are
disattected toward the Blaine nomination.
1t is. therefore. clearly not nomination
on the merits Gas the party regards mer-
it's but one of eXpediency. Cleveland is
new to public life, and has short record
to quarrel over. Nobody has regarded
him as one of the distinguished men of
the Democratic party, one whose services
entitle him to recognition. The man who
passes his tiftcth year without making
his mark in any way cannot be regarded
as in anyway very great man. 1t needs
a very able man to be President of the
United States, and it is going to need a
man of Il great deal more than common
strength of character and original force
to withstand the pressure of his hungry,
reckless party and prevent shipwreck TO
the business interests of the country. if
Democrats should win this fght.-Htrt-
ford COurdnt