The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-09-12
Testimony from cleveland,s Home.

Whatever effort Grover Cleyeland's einde.
pendent" friends may make to fortify his posi-
ton with a manifesto of their personal conf.
dence in the integrity and purity of his private
character, there are some facts which they can
not deny. He has been a resident of Buffalo
for the greater part of his life. He has grown
up with this remarkable prosperous city. He
has seen IL take a start in fresh vigor and en-.
terprise. He has seen it's 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 the most sanguine of aquar-
ter of a century ago. With industrial growth
and commercial enterprise the city has made
steady, satisfactory progress in public
education, culture, the arts and sciences, and
social improvement During all these years,
Cleveland has seen the national government
pass through the most %eventfuls period of its
existence. He has livedin a time thathas tried
mems souls; that has quickened young. pa
triotc blood, and brought what was sound,
true and earnest in American citizenship to the
front long, devastating civil war; q severe,
almost equally perilous, struggle for "recon-
struction''; the establishment of a national
banking system; the maintenance of public
credit; the protection of American industry
against the competition of European pauper
labor; the reform of the civil service-ou all
of these trying issues the American people
have been compelled to assert their manhood,
their courage, their devotion to principle.
Where has Grover Cleveland stood: Whathas
he beeng As a citizen up to the time he was
elected mayor, the man was almost a nonenti-
ty. There is not an Institution devoted to the
city's progress In industrial development, in
material resources, in literature, art, public
morality, with which Grover Cleveland has been
even remotely identified, or to which he ever
gave the slightest encouragement. Selfish and
seif-engrossed, he has devoted himself to his
private business without the faintest demon
stration of public spirit. Prior to the time
/ when 9 peculiar condition OF Things suggested
him as an available candidate for mayor, his
name would not have been mentioned with tho
fifty leading men in Buffalo As for social po-
sition, whatever Inference of opinions may
exist az 70 the deprayed character
of Cleyeland's associates, noAone will claim
that he had ever been seen a dozen times in
respectable parlors in the city of Buffalo, or
that ne endured the society of refined, Guilt
waited women IL he could avoid it AS for
Cleveland's opinions upon great national is
sues, as for Ills views upon questions that viii
put patriotism and craftsmanship to the test
II he has any, they have been Just those that
any man might have who takes the Demo-
cratic ticket straight every time. = it has made
no difereace with him whom the Democrats
might nominate, or upon what platform
the candidates were presented. You could
count on him to vote with the tsboys,
every time. Little Importance has been
attacheu 70 MS pllyate pOhflcai utter
ances; and there has not been a public utter
ance OF his on national issues worth recording.
And this has been the 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 70 make Cleveland Mayor. In
the heat of fractional animosity, under an 81
~roneous idea that it would do the party good
TO subject tito the process Of self chastisemen}
and deluded by the plea that Cleveland was
the special prophet aud champion Of sindopen-
dence" aud reform the Republicans OF
New York elected him Governor. They have
had time to know him better: they have had
opportunity for more political reflection. Nov
that they are called upon to make this man
the Naton's Chief Magistrate, they 10 not
purpose to have a hand In such nonsense. Here
in Buffalo Cleveland is best known. and he Is
known to be what we have described him
Hence 1t 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 votefor him for President, Nine~tenths Of
the independently are actively at work for
Blaine and Logan And in Western New York.
which did 50 much TO help his ssboomn for
Governor not a leading Repnblican ia On
C~levelAnd's side-not one.-Buffaio CONNER
cil Advertiser.
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