The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-11-01
VERY BAD FOR CLEVELAND.

ouent DEVELOPMENTS caused it to see the error INTO
which it had been led, and lately it has pro-
nounced against the ex-Sherif of Buffalo, In an
editorial in last weeks issue it says:
at is difficult to think of a more grotesque and'
in some respects revolving spectacle than that no"
presented to the American people oy the canuiua-
az Of Mr.. Cleveland. What adds to its singulari-
ty is the fact that those who figure conspicuousiy
in the scene do not seem to appreciate either It's
real character or their position, or, II they do'
eyince a power of concealment as rare ana mar
Vicious as the scene itself.
"Grover Cleveland, who less than four years ago
,vas fmerelv O. commonplace lawyer IN bunaio'
about forty three years of age, suddenly jumped
into the Mayoralty of that city, and then' oy an
other lump, mounted to the Chief Magistracy oi
this State: and when his Gubernatoriai term Is
ahout half completed, we find him before the peo-
,,o "a the Democratic candidate for President OF
.ho United States. Such combination of cir
cumstances was never before seen In tne h's'ory
Of a small man. If the age of miracles mas pass
ed. that of political accidents has nO'' ro"f
rsars AGO no one saw anything in the anteceden'
-s.ord of Mr.. Cleveland fitting him for the Presi-
dency, or giving the remOtest hint that any parry
would select him as candidate tor tnls nisu
Office. He happened to become the Mayor VI
Buffalo; then he happened, under pecui'"' o,'
cumstsncss. to be nominated and elected as tne
Governor of this State, and then, when the Dem-
ocratic party wanted candidate for PRESIDENT
he haupeued to be the man who, as tue noinina-
ting convention thought, would be most CERTAIN
to carry the State of New York, especially In VIC"
of the objections of many Republicans 70 tue
nomination of Mr.. Blaine. These streaks OF sneer
,ood luck. and not the abilities of the candidate,
and not anything in his public record explain
wbv the Bayards, the Thurmans and the handa'iS
Of the Democratic party invited to play second
fiddle to a man in all respects Immensely their III
ferior.
.eTbe grand rallying cry with which the people
,,oro ,o be carried by storm and Mr.. Cleveland
was TO be shouted into the Presidency we nave IN
the two words, purity and reform. Ihese "0raS
ware to do the business. Personal purity was 10
take the lead as the guarantee OF REFORM MI
Cleveland was to be paraded before the people as
the very paragon of the idea, and through n'.
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purity the Democratic party, SO often rejected by
the people, was at last to win the long coveted
prize. The conscience of the people would he sat
isfied with the purity of tho conaiia'e; th" i""e
pendent Republicans would come to his help ana
Christian voters could, for once at least vote aS
they pray and pray as they vote The campaign
would be mainly one of personal character anu
for the purpose of such contest Mr. Clevelands
stainless record left nothing to be desired
"AIas! alas. for human calculations ana
hopes. The campaign had not fairly opened
when it became known to the general puolic tna'
this pure man, whose personal character was "
be the charm of his candidacy and the pledge Oh
his success. was himself sOiled with gross and
disgusting immortality, uniting him to be Presi-
dent or to fill any other Office in the gilt oil the
peopIe. The facts were not and are not denled
either by himself or by his friends; and there is
no evidence before the people that the admitteo
facts are not specimen facts in the private history
of this man. Such facts do not usually 60 Alone
They live in serial groups, and have way Oh re-
peating themselves. The strong presumption
from one group is that there are other undlscoV-
cred groups of the same kind
'The Independent, the moment the disguise was
thrown off and the real character Of Mr. Cleveland
was disclosed, took the position which 1t main
tains to-day, and will maintain to the end OF the
canvass. That position is that the facts, as
known and admitted on all hands, utterly and ao-
solutely unfit Mr.. Cleveland to be candidate tor
the Presidency of this great Nation. Common
decency, to say nothing about Christianity de-
manded that his name should at once have been
withdrawn, and some one put in his place whose
candidacy would not be an insult to the people,
and whose election would not be a disgrace to the
country. We should deplore, more than we can
express, his political success. We call upon the
ministry of the land to teach their people that
partisanship cannot obliterate the Seventh Com
mandment from the law of God; that the family,
environed by the sacred mOralities which alike
define its function and guard its purity and honor,
is the unit Of the state and the sheet anchor OF
the social system, and that the man who, to graft
fly his base passions, becomes the betrayer and
corrupter of womanhood, is not to be honored or
trusted in any sphere of life. We call upon tae
religious press to give loud echo to such teach
ings, and we ask every voter who thinks Of voting
for Mr.. Cleveland, and who, with the light now
before him, cannot do so ignorantly, to consider
well what he is proposing to do, and what would
be the moral effect of knowingly electing such
man to the Presidency.
at would be useless to waste words on those
thick and-thin Democrats who, when they 90 to
the ballot box, leave their conscience at home,
and always vote the party ticket, asking no ques-
tons as to the character of the candidate. There
are, however, many Democrats who mean to keep
a good conscience toward God and man, and we
earnestly suggest that in the Democratic candi-
date for President they are confronted by facts
which sternly demand that they should be gov
erned by the higher law of purity and righteous
ness.
sThose Independent Republicans who, on the
basis of moral reason, refused to support the
Republican ticket, and who, in Ignorance OF the
private record of Mr.. Cleveland, committed them
selves to his support must in order to preserve
the ledst SHOW VI COueiotcucy, w WV W.
him. To ignore the facts to the grave and seri-
GUS charge against him is willfully to shut ones
eyes to the truth. To pretend that this charge,
considered in application to his candidacy, is
matter of no consequence, is to set up most de-
basing STANDARD of morals, and virtually say to
public men that good or bad private character
will not be considered by the people in casting
their votes. To condone the offence on the as
sumption of sincere repentance, without parti-
Gle of proof is simply to encourage its repetition
by others, if not by the offender himself. We do
not see how Independent Republicans, upon their
own showing, can, by any possibility, vote for
Mr.. Cleveland. They may do it if they will, but
theirs is not the kind of Independent Republi-
canism in which we believe. We cannot under
stand how il can look at itself in its own mirror
uncrimsoned by the blush Of shame"
NpThs New York Sun (Dem.) says "the In