The Democratic advocate., 1884-07-19
A Strong Endorsement.

The Philadelphia Ledger is an independent
Republican paper. 1t is essentially news
paper, but it has uniformly supported the Re
publican national tickets 1t has similar in
huence in Philadelphia to that of the Balti-
more Sun in Maryland. OF the Democratic
ticket the Ledger says:
''GoYernor Cleveland has shown through
the whole of his life, private and public, from
boyhood to his present distinction. that he
has the sterling qualities hefitting the exalted
office Of Chief Executive of the United States
1t is the highest function of that office to ad
minister the laws with an eye single to the
public welfare. Our government has been
tersely described as .'of the people, by the
people, and for the people, No eminent
public man has exhibited better understand
ing of that definition of the American Gov
ernment than Grover Cleveland; none has ex-
empli6ed it better than he has in his perform
ance of PUBLIC dnty, and but few, very few
indeed, have exemplifed it 50 we'll. His
Guiding characteristics have been loyalty to
duty, courage in the discharge of it, and the
best and most faithful performance of it within
his power. These are strong words; strong
because they are true.
The traits we have mentioned are not rev.
elations of his public career alone. They
showed themselves in his early boyhood, when
MS grocers shop boy he won by his
faithful work the good will and strong attach
ment Of his employers; again, as teacher of
the blind; again, as law clerk and law student,
battling his way through most discouraging
difficulties; again, as assistant district attor-
ney and lawyer; as sheriff of his county, as
mayor of Buffalo, and as Governor of the
state of New York. He is known among his
neighbors (tha hgmblest and the highest) as
man to rely upon, ''safe to trEst to do what
is right. These characteristics, with bis
bright intelligence and strong abilities, have
given him his distinctions and preferments;
for the office has always sought him and not
he the otBee:
''Cleyeland won oqr admiration hY his three
marked traits Of character; his indomitable
industry, unpretentioas courage and Hnswery-
ing honesty. | never saw a more tharaugb
man at anything he undertook This is the
testimony of one of his associates in the law
office in which he passed from boyhood to
vigorous manhood. II bespeaks . fully
equipped man, and that IL the man he has
shown himself to be in fighting the battles Of
the people against the combined spoilsmen
and ''rings'' of his city and state. There
have been men, and there are men now, with
noble ideals of what true and pure govern
ment means as n trust held for the people.
1t has happened to but few of these TO have
the opportunity to realize their ideal in office,
and, of those who have had the opportunity,
fewer still have carried the ideal into consis-
tept, igeSorable practice. Governor Cleve-
land is one OF th9se Yha have. In his view
and IN his practice as Q public officer. the
money of the people and the interests of the
people are held as trusts for the people, to be
exercised as carefully, as faithfully and as
honorably as the most sacred private trust.
His views of public office, as heee expressed,
are his guides in every performance of public
duty; so il may be repeated that man with
such traits of private and public character,
broad minded and bright minded, self fpoised,
selfreliant, independent and courageous as
Gov. Cleveland is-has the sterling qualities
that beft the Office of President of the United
States.
At the evening session Of the convention,
eE Senator Hendricks, of Indiana, was nom
mated for Vice President. His name is "a
miiar to the country as thar of the Demo
cratic candidate for the Yiae- Presidency in
1876, on the ticket with Mr.. Tlden, and also
as q very prominent and highly esteemed
Democratic statesman. Eight years ago at
st. Louis, as on the presen. occasion at Chi
cago, Mr., Hendricks was among those who
were the first choice of many National dele
gates for the chief place upon the ticket; aud
then, as now, strong persuasion was neces
sary to get him to agree to accept the second
place. He is the most influential citizen of
Indiana. There has rarely been Democratic
National ticket so fully worthy of public con-
-6dence as this one is.