Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-10-10
REPUBLICAN POLITICS.
Progress Of the Cam of Blaine
S8 and Logan. b h

why Er-senator GRADY Bolts Cleveland.
New York Telegram ..5.53
Il Elk Senator Grady, rising to protest against
the passage Of the resolution md the adoption
Of the address, made long speech h He re-
viewed the whole political career Of Cleveland,
and quoted freely from the columns Of the
Times and the Herald II the pastsin support of
the position he Grady had now AIKEN In the
course Of his speech Grady said:
Neither in The nomination Of the ticket nor in
the methods by which it was brought about is
there the slightest claim upon the great body
of Democratic voters for It's support The
great majority Of the delegates to the conven-
ton who named Cleveland their first choice
represented Republican constituencies. The
n1linberso delegates who openly aud earnestly
opposed his nomination were recorded, IN spite
Of all their protests rs favorable to his candi-
dacy. Every influence that could be employed
or engineered by the monopolsts who have
secured control Of the party management was
a1erted to make him the candidate, and az you
well know, the delegates who left their homes
loud in their professions Of hostility to hls car-
didacy as inviting certain defeat to the party
gave evidence soon after their arrival at Chicago
Of change Of heart, which only the most sim
pie and charitable have ascribed to pure and
worthy motives The expressed design Of men
WHO uEsSO uiS uoIuiIldtlUd NJ dS w CeICl1lbtC
disgruntled Republicans, not to please Demo-
Gratis. Preserving to myself the supreme right
Of O. citizen exercising an act Of sovereign
ty, I decline to prostitute my prerogatlye
to the purposes OF party managers. SUI
frage has been bestowed on me by the instltu-
for the countrys welfare TO the prosperity
and benefits Of this land I dedicate it, and /
can reconcile without dissertation any DISPOSE
ton of it that would result in the support of
the political nondescript, clothed in the out
ward garb of a Democrat ignorant Of the car
assumes to profess, and accepting from Demo-
Gratis their votes that he may delight Kepubii-
cans and Independents by the manner in which
ne will exercise the powers conferred upon
him by u betrayed and dsluded party But
my vote will not be lost to the Democracy, 1t
will be numbered by hundreds Of thousands.
whose motives cannot be impunged, for their
action can not be inspired by selfish hopes of
reward. 1t will be registered for the princi-
Piles which the Democratic party progressed
when it held popular confidence, and for aban,
doning which it lost popular support It will
be given for the candidate who has no hope Of
election and no desire for sordid benefits, for
political preferment but who braves fatigue,
abuse. and pecuniary loss that true Democrats
may find his candidacy. a channel through
which they may express their sentiments
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captured and betrayed by Know-nothing dem
agogues hungry for places and spoils, to join
the pure Democracy which struggles for prin-
ciples which the party organization has
abandoned. I denounce the candidate whose
only merit is his obscurity. that I may
follow a statesman whose life has made g'o-
rious the history Of his country I decline to
bow down before a craven image because
prefer to follow the teachings OF the apostle Of
the trae political faith. Preferring shining
ability to a dull mediocrity, true reformer
to sham reformer, a statesman to a hang
man, an illustrious citizen to q political ad-
venturer, decline to support Grover Cleye
land for the Presidency, and here and now, in
the presence of n leader whom I have always
regarded as my political sponser, in the midst
of brethl en- and comrades with whom l have
shared many hard fought battles in tho politi-
cal field, and before the eyes OF all the coun.
try, to whom have this night laid bare my ~
motives and purposes, I declare myself in
favor of Benjamin T.. Butler, soldier, jurist,
statesman, and patriot, and I appeal to time
for my vindication. ~.