St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-15
MIKE THE CAMPAIGN AGGRESSIVE

MIKE THE CAMPAIGN AGGRESSIVE.
The Republicans have opened the cam
paign with what they probably fancy to be
extraordinary vigor and effect. They have
discovered that the masses of the voters have
no idea as to whoClevcland is 1t is certain
that the Irish, the Catholics, the working
men, and great many other people viii not
support him. The nomination is nowhere
received with enthusiasm. The usual ac-
counts of Democratic ratification meetings
are being presented in which it is stated that
there were by actual count eleven men and
twenty boys present, and that the whole was
''fzzle," But the strongest, in the Repub-
lcan estimate, of the charges against Cleve-
land is that he was once sheriff of
Erie county, New York, and that with his
own hand he hanged two Irishmen. Then
there are kilograms from scores of unknown
towns in which it is stated that the BtgabOo
organ Grinder has determined not to support
Cleveland, and extracts are given from the
editorial IN which the important fact is an
nounced. There are also being published
hundreds of letters signed by an ''Old Demo-
craft who announces that he has been a life
long member of the Democratic party, and
has supported all its candidates and its.
measures; but now, the nomination of
Cleveland is too much, and he will give his
ballot and his influence to the glorious man
from Maine.
There are also letters from ''German,"
an ''Irishman, . ''Catholic,'' working
man, and dozens Of others, all of which an
nounce the unaterable disgust of the writers
with the Cleveland ticket, and their conclu-
sion to support the immaculate nominee of
the Republican party: and there is the old
time style of editorials in which it is asserted
that the Democratic party is hopelessly split
on the nomination; that Cleveland is a non
entity, and that he will be defeated with
greater ease than has been any candidate
of that party since the nomination of Lin
coin.
II the people are disposed to take a proper
view of this Republican distribution of rot,
they will discover that it indicates the ex-
istence of grand uncertainty in the minds
of the Republicans as to the outcome of the
pending contest. If uncertainty be not in
Dictated, then it means that Republican
speakers and orators have sunk to a level
but trihe above imbecility, or else they be-
lieve that public intelligence is so inferior
that this class of hypocrisy and stupid inven-
ton will be received unquestioned as facts.
It is the old, old thing; and Democrats will
not be sorry to find that their opponents are
not in the least advancing in their morals,
their logic, their decency, or their compre-
hension of the good sense of the public.
Democrats should understand that this
campaign on their part must not be conducted
on the defensive. They should understand
from the very beginning that all these COM
munications from ''old Democrats and
members of various classes and nationalities
are mainly conceived, and written in the of
fees of the newspapers in which they origi-
which has appeared in every campaign before
the present one, and are only different in the
change of names. Democrats viii under
stand that the issue before the country is not
what Pat Malloy, or Nix Opdyke or old Demo-
Gratis may think Of Cleveland, or what ticket
they purpose to vote. but shall the present
scandalous, corrupt and remedilessly dishon-
est party be relieved from the control of the
government! Let this be borne in mind
When Republican asks if it be true that
Cleveland, while sheriff, hanged two Irish
men with his own hands, let it be answered
that if he did throttle a couple of criminals
he is just the man the country needs. to ap-
ply the moose to the political criminals who
for so many years have been robbing the
country and asssssinating honesty and de-
ceney. What is to be settled now, is matter
which is as broad as the nation; it
is, shall the republic liyel The
temple of the republic has been occupied by
the Republican money changers, and the
only question before the people is as to
whether they shall be allowed to remain, or
shall be driven from it to give place for the
priests and the worship OF those who laid its
foundation.
Let it be distinctly understood that it will
be wretched waste of words to reply to a
single one of the SANDERS which the Repub-
lican organs viii invent and circulate. Let
it be understood that there is not flaw in
the life of Cleveland: that he is man of
the highest order Of intellect; whose
faculties are trained to perfection; that
he has shown himself to be a statesman and
a patriot, and that beyond all question he is
one of the best aud purest of the men whose
names have ever come before the public as
candidates for national office. tits folly to
admit that he needs any defense. Let the
Democrats attack from the very beginning
and never cease till the campaign is ended
If deemed best the attack can be conducted
against the personal record of the Republican
candidate; but the main deferses of the
enemy lie in the capital Here are intrenched
Incompetence and corruption. and against
these should she assault be constantly di-
rscted.