Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-09
OUR CANDIDATE.

Before the Chicago convention as
sembled, the CHRONICLE believed that
one of the old party leaders who had
become prominent for distinguished
services to the Democracy and to the
Nation should be nominated for Pres
sdent. We believe that still, as a gen.
eral principle, but we are now willing
to concede that in the present in
stance Grover Cleveland is the best
man and the strongest candidate that
the party could present
Our candidate grows on acquaint-
ance and we find that he is big man
in every particular as well as on the
hay scales. His integrity of character
stands out boldly in cmtrast with the
tattooed record of the man from
Maine, and his sensible conservatism in
politics is more to be commended than
the pyrotechnic displays in which the
Republican candidate has at times APP
peared before the country.
Cleveland is man who commends
himself to the solid, the sound and the
sensible and that is the ruling element
in the affairs of this Nation. He grows
in popularity daily and certainly has
the most hattering prospect of election
of any candidate that the party has put
forth since the war
1t was not to be expected that
Cleveland would go through the can
vass without being made the object of
calumny and mud Singing. No pub
lie man ever escaped that kind of
thing, not even Washington. Henry
Clay was accused of gambling on Sun
day and the Republicans alleged, and
tried to prove, that Samuel J. Tllden
had perjured himself. 1t might have
been foregone conclusion, therefore,
that something mean would be
trumped up against Cleveland, and it
is gratifying to know that his caluma-
tors have not been able to find any,
thing in his public life to attack
but have been forced to hatch up lies
concerning his private character.
These stories bear the brand OF false
hood from the fact that they have new
er been told till now.
In 1881 Grover Cleveland was the
nominee of the Democratic party for
Mayor of Buffalo and was urged by
his supporters as the reform candidate
who would purge the city government
of the corruption that had crept into
it. He was elected by a majority OF
8,500-the largest majority ever given
a candidate for Mayor-and that in the
face of the fact that the Republicans
carried Buffalo by over 1000 majority
for their State ticket The people who
voted for him then, against their party
faith, were his friends and neighbors
who had known him and watched his
career, private and public, since boy
hood. Previous to that time he had
been elected sheriff of Erie county and
subsequently he was chosen for the
high position of Governor of New
York by the phenomenal majority OF
$4,000. In the face of these facts we
ask if any candid mind can say that it
is possible to believe that cleveland is
a moral leper."
But we fortunately don't have to rely
on these contradictory circumstances
to prove the falsity of the accusations
against Cleveland. We have positive
evidence that they are not true. The
two leading Republican papers OF
Buffalo, both supporting Blaine, testify
that Clepeland's private character is
irreproachable and that he stands high
as citizen. 1t has also TRANSFERRED that
the so-called "Rev.' who started the
SANDER is a disreputable political bum.
mer who supported Cleveland for
Governor OF New York and is mad be-
cause he failed to get an Office. 1t has
also come to light that the editor OF
the afternoon paper in Buffalo that
gave the article publicity has served a
term in Jail for criminal libel, being
unable to find any one who would go
on his bail bond.
These stories told about Cleveland,
being so easily put down, will work in
his interest and the Democracy is
marching proudly on to the greatest
victory the party ever won.