Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-10-23
The New York INDEPENDENT which at

The New York Independent which at
the beginning of the canvass was one of
Cleyeland's strongest supporters, was
prompt to throw him over the moment
the disguise was thrown of and the real
character of the man was disclosed.
The following expresses the Independ-
ent's views of the situation as it now
stands:
THE CLEVELAND CANDIDACY.
IL is difficult to think of more gro
tesqne and. in some respects, revolving
spectacle than that now presented to
the American people by the candidacy
OF Mr. Cleveland, who, less than four
years ago, was merely commonplace
lawyer in Buffalo, about forty-three
years of age. He suddenly jumped into
the mayoralty of that city, and then, by
another jump, mounted to the chief
magistracy of this state; and when his
gubernatorial term is about half COM
pleted, we find him before the people
as the Democratic candidate for Presi-
dent OF the United States. Such COM
bination of circumstances was never
before seen in the history of small
man. Ii the age OF miracles has passed,
that of political accidents has not.
These STEAKS of sheer good luck, and
not the abilities of the candidate, and
not anything in his public record, ex-
plain why the Bayards, the Humans,
and the Raudalls, of the Democratic
party, are invited to play second fiddle
to a man in all respects immensely their
inferior.
The grand rallying cry with which
the people were to be carried by storm,
and Mr.. Cleveland was 10 be shouted
into the Presidency, we have in two
words, purity and reform. These words
were TO do the business. Personal
purity was TO take the lead as the guar
anty of reform. MIR. Cleveland was to
be paraded before the people as the
very paragon of the idea, and through
him, and especially through his clean
and unsulled purity, the Democratic
party, so often rejected by the people,
was at last TO win tho long-eoyeted
prize.
Alas Alas! for human calculations
and hopes! The campaign had not
fairly opened when it became known
to the general public that this pure
man, whose personal character was to
be the charm of his candidacy and the
pledge OF his success, was himself soiled
with gross and disgusting immortality.
uniting him to be- President, or To fill
any other office in the gift of the people.
The facts were mol and are not denied
either by himself or his friends; ard
there is no evidence before the people
that the admitted facts are not speci-
men facts in the private history of this
man. Such facts do not usually 90
alone. They live in serial groups, and
have way of repeating themselves.
The strong presumption from one group
Is that there are other undiscovered
groups Of the same kind.
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The Work House, or, IS we Americans
call IL, the Poor House, IS the logical,
incident aud one end OF British freelrade.
/ Cheap production is the soul of the ac-
cursed theory, and low wages and cheap
labor its means and necessity There
| is no possibility 10 the working men and
women of Great Britain of laying up out
of earnings fund for old age. They new
CT even think Of doing it. Their sure
provision for are or disability is the
Poor House, and they contemplate il
without shame or reluctance. Use and
! despair reconcile them to what, to an
American. is horror. The fathers and
mothers Of these enslayed victims Of
British free trade know no other refuge
for old age, or loss of work. or loss of
ability to work, than the Poor. House.
They themselves have no other idea of
a home. aud their children after them
win have none. VIII not our workmen
who have some thought of voting the
Democratic ticket seriously consider the
terrible fact that last year in the cloth
making district of England 50, 900 oper-
atiyes received relief = that in this
small district Of less than 600 square
miles there are q work house unions
having n capacity for S,792 factory
paupers! 1t is just the same in the Iron
districts, the Cotton, Silk, Hardware
Cutlery, Porcelain and Pottery districts.
The poorhouse attachment to low wages
and miserable living exists everywhere
in England British Free Trade staryes,
and robs its laborers and buries them in
pauper's graves, Grover Cleveland is a
British Free Trader New York Tribune