The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-09-11
Sestim6ny from Cleveland's Home.

'ASso'OA OAOAV OEOtcE ClCvCl3UO6 'l0Q6A
pendent" friends may make to fortify his posi-
ton with manifesto of their personal conf
dence in the integrity and purity Of his private
character, there are some facts which they CAT
not deny. He has been resident 3f Buffalo
for the greater part of his life. He has grown
up with this remarkable prosperous city He
as seen it take start in fresh visor and en-
terPrlse. He has seen it's population almost
doubled within the past twenty YEARS. He has
seen it's vast and widely extended commercial
resources developed to an extent far beyond
the predictions of the most sanguine of O quar-
ter of century ago. With industrial growth
ana &c commercial enterprise the city has made
eataIe e aPs na in pu saS
social improvement. During all these years,
Cleveland has seen the national government
pass through the most eyentful period of it's
existence He has lived in a time that has tried
mems souls; that has quickened young, pa
true and earnest in American citizenship to the
'front.' A long, devastating civil war; a severe.
almost equally perilous, struggle for ''recon,
Ptruction'; the establishment Of d national
banking system; the maintenance Of public
credit; the protection Of American industry
against the competition of European paupe1
labor; the reform of tho civil service-on all
OF these trying issues tho American people
have been compelled to assert their manhood,
their the courage, their devotion to principle.
'AASAO AAtao NAONcI ClCScAdilu SlOOu. NlaL mas
he been? AS citizen up to the time he was
elected mayor, the man was almost a nonenti-
ty: There is not all institution devoted to the
city's progress in industrial development, in
material resources, in literature, art, public
morality, with which Grover Cleveland has been
even remotely identified, or to which he ever
gave the slightest encouragement Selfish and
self-engrossed, he has devoted himself to his
private business without the faintest DEMON
stration of public spirit Prior to the time
when peculiar condition Of things suggested
him as an available candidate for mayor, his
name would not have been mentioned with the
fifty leading men in Buffalo. As for social po-
sltlon, whatever difference of opinions may
exist as to the depraved character
OF C!eveland's associates, no ono will claim
respectable parlors in the city of Buffalo, or
that he endured the society of refined, cult
waited women if he could avoid it As for
Cleveland'a opinions upon great national is
sues, as fotstis views upon questions that will
If he has an they have been Just those that
any man might have who 'takes the Demo-
cratic ticket straight every tinic." it has made
no difference with him whom the Democrats
might nominate, or upon what platform
count on him to vote with the ''boys'
every time. Little Importance has been
attached to his private political utter
ances; and there has not been public utter
ance OF Ills on natlOnal issues worth recording.
And this has been the social and political train
ing of the man now presented by tho Demo-
cratic party for election to the highest Office
within the gift of the people of the United
States! In the excitement of the mo-
ment the Republicans of Buffalo deserted their
own candidate to make Cleveland Mayor. In
the heat of fractional animoslty, Under an CT
roneous idea that it would do the party good
to subject it to the process Of self chastsement
and deluded by the plea that Cleveland was
the special prophet and champion of ''indepcn-
denco" and reform the Republicans of
New York elected him Governor. They have
had time to know him better: they have had
opportunity for more political reflection. Now
that they are called upon to make this man
the Nations Chief Magistrate, they do not
purpose to have a hand in such nonsense Here
in Buffalo Cleveland is best known, and he is
known to be what we have described him.
Hence it is that in the very city where he was
elected mayor there is not one Republican Of
any prominence who has declared an intention
to vote for him for President Nine tenths Of
the independents" are actively at work for
Blaine and Logan. And in western New York,
which did SO much to help his "boom" for
Governor, not a leading Republican is on
Cleveland's slde-not one.-Buffalo CONNER
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