The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-10
Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 5, 1S84

! WASHINGTON, ID. C., Sept. B, 1884.
EDITORS CLARION: Republican news
gathers have been so sorely pressed fo
news items that in many instances the mos
aimsy fancies are being substituted fo
actual facts, and the most absurd GOSSIP
disseminated instead of useful inform a
ton.
| For the want of some solid charges upor
which they could antagonize Gov. Cleve
! land, and successfully assail his record
they have resorted to the miserable expe
dent Of attacking his moral character
Notwithstanding they who have known him
intimately for number of years, have sup
ported him for the high positions of Mayor
of the large city of Buffalo and for Gov.
ernor of New York, are willing to vonch
for his integrity, his uprightness and his
moral worth, against all such insinuations
and Productions, and are willing to apply
to any one who thus assails him, a para
phrase of the lines of Sir Walter Scott:
"Sir | if thou hast said"
That Grover Cleveland SIS not the Peer"
OF any man in the Republic here,
North or South-"far or near"
"Thou hast lied"
either under great mistake, or with all
the ignoble intent that wilful and mali
cious envy can prompt
Again, the effort is made to misconstrue
his letter of acceptance becauses he uses
the common expression "the laboring class
c" which is objected to because the over
sensitive critic declares that we have no
classes in this free country, as if there were
any real difference between the meaning of
Glasses" and masses" in this connection.
AS to that letter, the prevailing opinion
among well-informed and discriminating
fellow citizens is-that it is SHORT, sensible
and to the point" containing all that is
requisite and proper, and avoiding all eff
fort to create sensation or make a dis
play, by bringing forward personal views
on irrelevant matters, by the simple endorse
ment and approval of the Democratic
platform as. adopted by the Chicago Con-
Vention.
If any allusion to the tariff, particularly
80 far as it relates to the "infant industries"
Of the Republic, is desired, enough to set
forth his views on that subject is contained
in that portion of his letter which follows /:
"0ur workingmen are not asking unreal
sonable indulgence but as intelligent and
manly citizens, they seek the same consid-
Grafton which those demand who have
other interests at stake, They should re-
ceiVe their full share of the care and atten-
ton of those who make and execute the
laws, to the ends that the wants and needs
OF the emf loyers and the employed shall
alike be subserved and the prosperity of
the country, the common heritage of both
be advanced"
This also very clearly indicates his views
in regard to "workingmen and laborers,"
those whom he has been charged with en-
deavoring to injure and impose upon by
unjust discrimination against them IN his
veto messages.
The action of the recent great assem-
blage of Irish-Americans in New York,
puts quietus on the report which his OPP
ponents have circulated-that hei losing
the support of this 'class" Of our fellow
citizens.
They "resotped' that the Democratic par
ty had always maintained the dignity OF
citizenship irrespective of creed or place
Of birth, and they commended Governor
Cleveland's record in the highest terms.
Washington City still continues quiei
with the exception that excursion parties
from different parts of the country have
been numerous, and seem to consider the
Capitol quite favorite resort.
The Washington monument is approach
ing completion and is said to be now the
highest structure of the kind ever erected
1t requires nine minutes for the elevator to
reach the top, and those ascending to that
point can Mook down on the Capitol" and
embrace in view the mountains in Mary.
land beyond Harper's Ferry. Somebody
says that the American Flag thereon is now
waving from the highest structure ever
built by man. r.