The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-17
Grover Cleveland.

UrOfcI O1t lcldilu.
The nomf alton of this gentleman
at chicago, yesterday. is very signifi-
cant Of two things. First, that the
is in earnest for reform
AID clearly government, and that it
has at last resolved to emancipate it
self from the tyranny of bosSism, and
John Kelly. Cleveland, while he
does not rank with Thurman, Bayard
and others of the illustIious gentle
men who competed with him at Chi
cago, in mere brain power, is yet the
peer of any of them in all the quail
ties which go to fit man
for the exalted place he will fill if he
is elected He is fit representative
of the better class of faithful. honest
men who have for so long stood ana
breasted the tide of corruption in New
York. The business men of the
country will feel that he is a man to
be- trusted. That the financial and
commercial interests of the nation will
be safe in his hands. He is an ardent
tariff-reform democrat, devoted to an
amending and implacab4o hostility to
the unfair, dishonest and ruinous
policy of class favoritism which has
been the one leading characteristic of
republican policy ever sine, the war,
which has built up all the enormous
private fortunes which threaten the
peace and good order of the country,
and which stand ever a jeer and
jibe at the poverty and wrei chedness
which enwraps and encloses the help
less poor of the land, who grow poor
er while the rich grow richer. His
nomination means that the democracy
are determined to make an effort to
revive the great industries, the de-
struction of which by the republican
party, Was but the removal of a pow
erful drawback to the scheme of rob-
berry meditated by the ultra protection
lists. The rotting commercial marine
of this country which was at the
same time a source of profit, and a
standing menace to the favorites who
fattened on protection, was destroyed
in this interest. Cleveland's policy
will be to restore it for the double
purpose of dealing fatal blow at the
corruptionists, and of encouraging
the revival and solid establishment OF
the carrying trade as it once existed
as it was when the dark mantle OF
war fell upon the oceans whitened by
the commerce of America, and which
utterly destroyed it finally.
To the serried hosts of the
brave and devoted democracy
which will gather about him
in solid phalanxes will be added all
the cleaner and more Disguised repub
licans who have so positively refused
to fight under the furnished banner Of
the plumed knight. and the paid and
pampered DICTIONARIES of monopoly
The one single threat is the open ani
avowed hostility of Kelly. No mat
ter what his promises are or may b.
, in the future he will ultimately op
pose Clevland's election, with wha
success remains to be seen. But the
convention has decided it seems, tx
I make direct issue with Kelley. 1
i understands what a war will
the boss means. 1t knows whe1
: it so decided just what strength
| he has in hand and what he can de
pend upon to follow him in a crusad
against the nominee. 1t is presume
able that in the count of forces it see
! its way clearly to the upsetting of tn
boss as well as the final and trium
plant election of its nominee. Their
are wise and true men at Chicago, an,
, we think they may be safely trustel
in this affair. 1t will be no small o
, mean advantage to democracy if Kel
ley is fatally crippled as malign an,
dangerous political influence whic1
has once, at least, thrown itself square
!. ly across the pathway of democracy
and defeated it when otherwise j
, would have been triumphan
beyond a doubt. Such a circumstanc
as the destruction of Kelly at the in
ception CT a democratic accession t.
power would go very long way to
l ward insuring the permanencY o
3 such power. 1t would be and consti
!. Uute a pledge of elevation and cleanli
3 ness which cannot fail to exert tn
} most favorable influence upon tn
| pending campaign. The downing o
Kelley may win US Massachusetts, an,
Connecticut, and it will surel,
strengthen US in several other states
in all of them in fact. Because where
, ever there Is a democrat VIII,
worked earnestly for the election
of Hancock you find man VIII,
hates cordially the trickstering politi
clan who stepped in in thu suprem,
moment of victory and sold him gu
to the Philistines for the pittiful con
sideration of getting even2 with tn,
decent and clearly element in th'
party, which he could neither cajole o.
terrify.
Now we have candidate who car
and will unite all, let us work fol
him as never men worked before. NJ
tairer chance has come to us yet since
the war. Let us see to it that its full
advantage is gathered, not thrown
away as formerly in useless and dis
graceful chickering's among ourselves
Let 1T Not Be Forgotten.