The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-09-11

. What tho Republican party Has Done.
It crushed our treason and rebellion and gave
new vitality and force to the sentiment Glib
erty and Union now and forever, one and in
separable"
1t gave freedom to 4, LOCO 900 of bondsmen.
1t raiseda servile race into citizenship.
1t restored prosperity to the industries of the
es2lntry and dotted the country over with busy
factories, furnishing employment to multiplied
thousands of working people.
1t has increased the wealth of the nation
more than three fold
the nation sold $1,000 Cox, COZ, more Of it's pro-
ducts in twenty three years than had previous
ly been sold from tho first settlement of the
country to 1860.
1t has spanned tho continent with railroads
and made the desert place of the west to BIOS
som with busy life.
It has given to the country staple currency
in place of the wild cat issue fostcred by tho
democracy.
It has raised the standard of the nations
retit to Il point never before attained by any
government
1t flas paid off the national debt faster than
was ever done by any nation.
1t has reduced the interest burden from
sl52,cOo,oco to less than 5000 GOO annually.
1t has reduced the losses from embezzle-
ments from $31S on every $1,CGO under
James Buchanan, to less than ono cont on each
LOCO
1t has reduced the cost of collecting the
Federal taxation, the last Republican congress
reducing it fOurfold moro than the Democratic
party did in eight yeags
1t has kept every pledge mado to the peo-
pie
1t has made the nation great, prosperous and
rich beyond the widest dreams of the people.
While reducing the national debt at a rapid
ratio, it has paid in pensions to the gallant sold
iers who fought the battles of the Union, the
enormous sum of s!Go, 0Oo,OO0.
Such is the Record of Republican policy and
administration for twcnty-three yeaas Dur
ing all the time the Democracy has met once
in every four years, passed columns of reso-
buttons and then gone up and down the coun-
\ ny, grumbllng and finding fault
Testimony from Cleveland's Home.
Whatever effort Grover Clevelands s'inde-
pendent" friends may make to fortify his posi-
ton with manifesto of their personal conf
denco in the integrity and purity of his private
character, there are some facts which they can
not deny. He has been resident of Buffalo
for the greater part of his life. He has grown
up with this remarkable prosperous city. He
has seen it take start in fresh vigor and en-
terprise He has seen its population almost
doubled within the past twenty years. He has
seen its vast and widely extended, commercial
resources developed to an extent far beyond
the predictions of tho most sanguinc Of quar-
nd commercial enterprise the city has made
steady, satisfactory progress in public
education, culture, the arts and sciences, and
social Improvement During all these years,
pass through the most evontful period of it's
existence. He has livedin time that has tried
mems souls; that has quickened young, pa-
trlotic blood, and brought what was sound,
true and earnest in American citizenship to the
almost equally pcrilous, struggle FOR ''recon--
sruction'; the establishment of q national
banking system; the maintenance Of public.
credit; the protection Of American industry
against the competition of European paupcr
labor; tho reform of the civil service-on all
of these trying issues tho American people
have been compelled to assert their manhood,
their courage their devotion to principle
Where has Grover Cleveland stood: What has
he been? AS citizen up to the time he was
elected mayor, tho man was almost nonenti-
ty. There is not an institution devoted to the
city's progress in industrial Development in
material resources, III literature art, public
morality, with which Grover Cleveland has been
even remotely identified, or to which he ever
gave the slightest encouragement Selfish and
sclf-engrossod, he has devoted himself to his
private business without the faintest demon
straton of public spirit Prior to the time
when peculiar condition Of things suggested
name wonld not have boon mentioned with the
fifty leading men in Buffalo. AS for social po-
sition, whatever difference Of opinions may
exist as to the dcpraved character
OF Clcvcland's associates, no ono will claim
that no had ever been seen dozen times in
respectable parlors in the city of Buffalo, or
that he endured the society OF refined, cult
vatol women if lie could avoid it As for
Clcteland's opinions upon great national is
sues, as for his views upon questions that will
mi atr,Ot atatnma In the fASt-,
If he has any, they have been just those that
any man might have who stakes the Demo-
cratic ticket straight every time it has made
no difference with him whom the Democrats
the candidates were presented. You could
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 his on national issues worth recording.
And this has been tho social and political train
ing Of the man now presented by the 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 er-
roneous idea that it would do the party good
to subject it to the process Of sclf chastisement
the special prophet and champion of s'indepen-
New York elected him Governor: They have
had time to know him better: they have had
opportunity for more political reflection. Now
that they arc called upon to mako this man
tho Nations Chief Magistrate, they do not
purpose to havo 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 1'boom" for
Governor, not a leading Republican is on
Cleveands sldc-not one.-Buffalo CONNER
cial Advertiser.
At the Massachusetts Republican Convention,
it was moved that the remainder of the old
ticket be renominated by, reclamation. Car
ricd unanimously, and the following were de-
clared nominated: Governor, George D. Rob-
inson, Chickopee; lieutenant governor, Oliver
Amcs of Easton; secretary OF state, Henry L.
Pierce, of Abingdon; treasurer, Daniel A. Glea-