Morris tribune., 1884-10-08
AT CLEVELAND'S HOME.
How the Democratic Candidate Is Regarded
BY His Observation-Disclosures that
He Will Not Garry His Own DEM
ocratic Ward.

The infinite difference between the
two candidates for the Presidency is
nowhere more marked than right here
in the home of Grover Cleveland. A
short review and the statement OF a
few facts cannot fail to interest the
public.
Here it was that the Governors
shameful immoralities were, commit
ted. Here it was that the ministers OF
the Gospel arose unitedly and denounc-
ed him. Here it was that a newspaper
first published the Shiny account OF his
brutal and stolid immoralities. Here
it is that his own law partner, the Hon.
S. Rogers, states why Cleveland IS Inc
enemy of civil-service reform, and
why those who have the good of their
country at heart should strive for his
defeat.
To be sure, it may be asserted that
"a prophet is not without honor save in
his own country" 1t is equally true
"that charity should begin at home"
and that a pretty good place to find out
about mans character is among his
neighbors and friends. 1t is certainly
a fair comparison to point to Blalne's
standing in Augusta and Garfield's in
the old Nineteenth District. When
such comparison is made 1T can but
dishearten the friends of the seducer
of Maria Halpin.
A prominent attorney of the city in
conversation to-day spoke as follows:
"Cleyeland is a man of about the same
calibre as your John Farley; but he has
not the acuteneSS, in many ways, that
your Mayor has often exhibited. Lest
some of your readers in Cleveland may
think this somewhat overStated, please
let me call their attention to a few
facts: -.
"First-Cleveland was elected Sheriff
of this county when he was an attor,,
new. What attorney in Cleveland
would accept the Office of Sheriff for
Cuvahoga County? / know some OF
vour ATTORNEYS, but 1 do not think OF a
Single one who would not look upon
the office as little better than an insult.
Would Henry Ranney, or Virgil Kline,
or Andrew Squire take it? Would any
lawyer with anything but shysters
practice take it? But CLEVELAND was
glad to get the office, and when he qua
take it he was that kind OF stoild,
| he did his own hanging. When he was
made Mayor people here thought that
he was at the top of the ladder to which
his capacities at all fitted him. He
knows nothing of public life-nothlng
| of statesmen or craftsmanship. am
anxious that the people of the west
| know Just what sort of a man he is IN
every way except from the bpll-beet
standpoint"
| From what would seem to be abso-
| lutely trustworthy sources l am fur
nished the following figures:
The Third Ward of this city (Cleve-
lands own ward) polled 1913 majority
| for Hancock in 1880.
There is a club called the Independ-
ent Anti Cleveland Club organized in
this ward which numbers 2S6 voters:
All but twelve of the membership OF
| this club are Democratic.
1t is openly asserted, and bets are Of
| own strongly Democratic ward.
| II trust I may die before | see my
party and country sink to the depths OF
| infamy that would be indicated by the
election of Grover Cleveland Presl-
| dent" said an old man who has always
voted the Democratic ticket.
The old man may be certain OF long
| life if he lives till just previous to such
an event as that. 1t was view which
President Garfield delighted to indulge
| in his optimistic moments that when
the general public acting as one man
| has Investigated and made up its mind
| on subject it is pretty sure to act
| about right.
Cleveland is creating no enthusiasm
anywhere. The men who support him
are thick-headed, stubborn, blind Dem
| ocratic partisans and the frog-blOOded
self-Wilied Independents, so-called
who are too smart to enthuse over any:
body, and no man was ever elected
President who did not create good
deal of enthusiasm. The Jeffersons
the Jacksons, the HarrisOns, the Tay.
the Blaines of our history were all men
of magnetism. Some men of magnet
ism and personal qualities have beer
defeated, to be sure, but not In TALL
field and a square fight.
A correspondent of the Chicago Ifi'
botne writing from Buffalo says:
AS it is claimed that Cleveland is
popular in his home, and that Buffalo
and his county will give him a large
majority, have spent day or two in
seeking from all sources reliable infOr.
nation, especially in reference to the
Irish and German, Prohibition, and
Cleveland so-called Independent
strength.
The First Ward has most of the
Irish population, and is called the Irish
ward. Itgave Cleveland l 400 mai ority;
I learn from the Alderman of that
Auditor, both Irish, that the vote in
that ward will be very close, with a
probable small Republican majority
Others claim with confidence 500 Re.
publican majority. Among the Irish
clubs in the Blaine procession were
over 400 Irish, formerly Democrats
from the First Ward, and it is signifi-
can't of the current sentiment among
both Irish and Germans that "Protec-
ton to American Labor" and mo
British Free Trade for Us" were the
conspicuous notices on most OF their
banners.
William Kelley of the Third Ward,
Irish Democrat, raised the first indie
pendent Blaine and Logan flag in the
city, and is confident that at least one
third of the 400 Irish Democrats of
that ward will vote for Blaine and Lo-
gan.
In the Thirteenth Ward there have
been $50 Irish Democratic votes, and
over one-third of them have declared
themselves for Blaine.
In one district of the Seventh Ward
twenty-four German veterans of the
Rebellion, all heretofore Democrats,
have joined the Logan Legion, which
now numbers over 1000.
George Dittley, a German, was the
Democratic candidate for Alderman in
the Seventh Ward last year, and now
wears the badge of the Logan Legion.
Patrick LaWlor, prominent Irish at
torney of this city, heretofore Demo
GRAFT, is now an active Republican, and
James Campbell has resigned. the
Presidency of the Irish National
League of this city that he might be
free to take an active part for Blaine
and Logan.
These are straws showing the polite
al current and are facts to justify the
claim made by the Republican County
Committee that the city will give 800
and the county 1000 for Blaine and Lo-
gan.
It is another significant fact that the
seeding Irish Democrats are now the
| most active workers for Blaine and
Logan and are organizing into ward
clubs. A full canvass of the city and
county by ward and district has been
made, and the above is the present cal
| Tho Pop,1h1ioono claim q