Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-16
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.

bhe New York Sun.
~ The withdrawal Of Cleveland
from the Democratic ticket is the only
possible hope Of saving that parry from
utter annihilatiOn.-L HOria.
bB-A certain paper in Indiana has q
very wholesome dread of lila mes
magnetism. 1t took tie form of chain
lightning. -Ipltt,tgGpoLtS JOurRGL
"a The Springfield Republican is
considered to ma e given up the idea
that Cleveland can carry Aassa hUsetts.
Its hostility 10 Butler has somewhat
placated it toward Elaine.
Settle DemOcra s were going 70
make this an aggressive campaign, and
they have succeeded gu te we'll. But
their aggressiveness b IS all Ieen con-
fined to an effort TO get away from the
Republicans.
BB@ Cleveland's main purpose seems
TO be to say nothing and 10 say it IN IS
short spa as possible. For his success
in the line OF brevity Governor Cleve-
land should have due credit Pitts
JssTqh Dispatch.
BaS~NDt maay months ago the New
York Times characterized Grover ( leNe-
land as ga low priced statesman. His
public and private record justlies the
Times estimate of the man- - B..BGtO
Commercial advertiser.
M The Smith NJ Weed who is abe
constant companion o Governor Cleve-
land is the Smith NJ. Weed who under
took, as the cipher kilograms show TO
pur base the electoral vote OF South
Carolina Tor Ti!den. in 1876.
IA Democrats represent Blaine as
''b'ue.' That's all r ghU. His party is
painting the country @'red, - and win
land him in the IN hite'' House IN
March next. led. white and blue are
popular cOiOrs yet, we believe
R6y@ Cleveland s letter elsewhere pub
Gshed may G regarded as literally 1.-The
voice of one crying in the wilderness"
He does not, however, further carry out
the parallel. since he heralds not the
salvation, but the destruction of his
parJy.-DetrOit Post.
~ One hundred and twenty-five
Blaine and Logan songs have been
copyrighted. Two or three maniacs
have been admitted to lunatic asylums
trying to make Cleveland and Hendricks
Jingle in words that would express their
herOism and patriotism.
"a On the whole, the letter tends to
give the impTe ssiOD that the Governor
mas waded beyond his depth IN Nation
al politics, and, tind.n sW mining
rather desperate work, is beginning,
like other drowning men, TO clutch st
straWs. BllBGtO ETpreSs.
IA The most dangerous thing the
Democrat; leaders ha, G ever met has
appeared this year, !. e., the rank and
file have taken to thinking for them
selves. 1t is a fatal symptom, and be-
yOnd the rea h of the remedies in the
Democratic harmac .lpeia.
-, Tr,4r,y.
but it is long enough to make every
Democrat c. eek Jingle who remem-
beers that his party has in it a T.den, a
Thurman, a Bavard and a Mcdonald.
and vet has chosen as its standard
bearer so small-siZed a statesman as
Grover Cleveland.-PtttsOalrgb Com
DzerciGL Gazette.
Bs-As the Democrats are constituting
the platform on the al-impOrlant tariff
quest on in Numerically opposite
wa s. Cleveland's eulogy of its plain
statement Of Democratic ia tn and
the principles upon which that party
appeals to the SURFACES OF the p Opls''
is q huge joke Cleveland Herald.
BE-The letter is Mr.. Cleveland in
the same sense that the Queen adj
dresses to Parlia rent are the queens
It conta n, what the Democratic mana
gers of his canvass think it is prudent
for him to utter, and it shows that the
party has no policy on National issues
which it dares lMill0GtEtes SeHtG-
mel.
B~ The one merit of Cleveland's let
ter is its brevity. BIT it will be dis
cOuraging to those Democrats who ex-
pected such a manifestation of states
manship as would dazzle the world and
cha .enge the admiration of mankind
l. would be a ia rly credita lie school
boy performance, and it is not ing
more. C.nci7STSUtj Commercial GBzette.
~ One thing is certain: IL the
Democratic COnven ion should be held
next week, the name Of Grover Cleve-
lani wOul not be menti0ne !. Another
thing is e. ually certain: If the Repub-
lean Convention should be held next
week, there would lie no other name
mentioned than that Of Blaine. All
this after a discussion of sixty days
E,t4Ici5HGg6 Commercial Gazette.
~ Mr.. Cleveland. after continuously
breaking the news 10 the public that he
intends to accept the nom nat on, boldly
declares that he cordially indOrses the
plat Orm-" He goes even further than
this and asserts that the platform is Q
sspla statement" We might think
Rr. Cleveland intended this fOF joke
were il not for the fact that the whole
country knows that, for obvious rea-
sons, he is not in q frame Of mind 70
Joke at present Anyway, he public
viii laugh at his assertion that tie plat
bOrm is 80 plain that 1t needs no sup
Plemeat or explanation Cleo SGJlJ
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