The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-18
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Independent View OF IL ,selIslous Scwspa-
pcr-The Democratic Cake All Dough-. y
Sc'c fort Iidcpaldent. N.E
The grand rallyins cry with which: the
people were TO be carried by storm. and
Mr.. Cleveland was 10 be shouted into the
Presidency we have in the two words,
purity and reform. These words were to
10 the business. Personal purity was to
take the lead as the guarantee OF reform.
Mr.. Cleveland was to be parlded before
the people as the very paragon OF the idee,
and through him, and especially through
his clean and unsullicd purity, the Dem.
oc.atic party, so often rejected by the peo-
plep, was at last to win the long-coyeted
prize. The conscience OF the people
would be satisfied with the purity OF the
candidate; the Independent Republicans
would come TO his. help, and Christian
voters could for once, Mt least, vote as they
pray and pray as they vote. The cam
paigu would be mainly one OF personal
character, and for the purpose Of such
contest Mr.. Cleveland sstainless record left
nothing to be des red.
Alas! alas! for human calculations and
hopes The campaign had not fairly OPEN
cd when it became known to the general
public that this pure man, whose personal
character was to be the charm Of his can.
tlidacy and the pledge OF his success, was
himself soiicd with a gross and disgusting
immortality, uniting him to be President
or to fill any office in the gift OF the peo.
In II Il
MED either by himself or his friends; and
there is no evidence before the people
that the admitted facts are not specimen
facts in the private history OF this man.
S1ch facts do not usually'go alone. They
live in serial groups, and have a way OF
repeating themselves. The strong pre-
sumption from one group is that there
are other undiscovered groups Of the same
kin 4, 3 tx .5r;-Lys.-,.
The INDEPENDENT the moment the dis.
.uise was thrown OIL and the real charsc.
Ter: Of Mr.. Cleveland was disclosed, took
the position which it maintains to-day,
and will maintain to the end OF the can.
vass. That position is that the facts, ms
known and admitted on all hands, utterly
and absolutely unfit Mr.. Cleveland to be ii
candidate for the Presidency OF this great
nation. Common decency, to say nothing
about Christianity, demanded that his
name should at once have been with.
drawn, and some one put in his place,
whose candidacy would not be m insult
to the people, and whose election would
not be a disgrace to the country. We
should deplore, more than We can express
bis political success. We call upon the
ministry OF the land to teach their people
that partisanship cannot obltcrate the
Seventh Commandment from the law. OF
God; that the family, cnvironed by the
sacred moralitics which alike define: its
functions and guard its puritics and honor,
is the unit ol the State and the sheet
ancEor OF tile social system, and that the
inan who, to gratily his base passions, be-
comes the betrayer. and ,corruptcr OF
womanhocd, is not to be honored or trust
ed i'll any sphere OF lie. We callaipon
the religious press to give 4 loud echo to
s'ich, teachings, and we. usk every voter,
who thinks o:a voting for.Mr., Cleveland,
and who, with the light now before him;
cannot do SO isnorantly,ato ,eonsi,lerswcli
Whist lie is proposingfto do" gptl nwhat
would be the. moral effect Of Knowingly
clecting such d man to the Presideney.f;ii
y It would be useless to waste words on
those thick-and-thin Democrats ,who,
when they 90 to the ballot box, leave their
conscience ut home, and always, vote the
party ticket, asking no questions rs to the
character Of the candidate. There are;
however, many Democrats who mean to
keep good conscience toward God and
man and we earnestly suggest that in the
Democratic candidate for President they
arc confronted by facts which sternly de-
mand that they should be governed by
the "highest law Of purity and righteous.
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