The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-09-17

You cannot do it without being a
deserter. No matter whether you
dislike Grant, or Meade. or Sheridan.
The battle on which the hope OF
union and humanity hangs is to be
fought there on the lines they form.
No man knows this better than Gro
yer Cleveland. Il am chosen" be
says, to represent the plans. pur-
poses and policy of the Democratic
party If elected, he will do it.
James G. Blaine is selected to exc
cute the plans, purposes and policy
of the Republican party. And ne
will doit You may not like the
general, the commissioned authority
the Republican party has selected.
But you fight on the Democratic
side, with the Democratic party,
against the Republican, on every
thing on which these two parties
differ if you vote for Grover Cleve-
land. If you elect Cleveland, you
abandon further hope of civil SER
vice reform for this generation You
take the side of Free Trade against
Protection. You bid farewell for a
lifetime to honest elections In the
South. You suffer the great Nor
mon cancer to spread over the breast
of the Republic. There is but one
thing on which Grover Cleveland
has Enthusiastically planted himself.
That is that, if elected, he will be a
party instrument. What he said in
his speech of acceptance he echoes
in his letter. In that feeble docu-
ment. which, as compared with Mr..
Blaine's. is as a mole hill to the AL
legheny Mountains, he declares that
when 1.-The party has outlined its
policy and declared its principles,
nothing more is required of the can
didate than the suggestion OF certain
we'll known truths Is he for Pro-
lection? Nobody knows. Does he
wish to put down Mormon;sm :?
Nobody knows. Is he in favor OF
repeating the tenure of office law ?
Nobody knows. There is not sin
gle question at issue before the peo-
pie in regard to which you have any
warrant of his action, except in his
avowed purpose TO carry out the will
of his party.
The men who love, honor and
support Mr.. Blaine have quite as
lofty an ideal of purity and integrity
in public station as those who op-
pose him. They make no distinc-
ton between public and private vir-
tue. If man be not controlled by
law of right and duty in private life,
he is not to be trusted amid the
temptations of public Office. We
vote for no corrupt or unclean man
for President. AT the same time we
do not mean to help any party TO
gain the presidency by crime.
The company of men who have
formed a nasty and unjust ludg-
ment of Mr.. Blaine contains many
persons whom | love and honor,
many of whose friendship | am
proud. They have been honestly
misled. But in the main, the hon
esty, purity, education, strength of
the nation is in the Republican par
ty. The men who saved the nation
are more patriotic than those who
tried to destroy it, The men who
abolished slavery love freedom and
labor better than the men who
struggled to preserve it. The men
who paid the debt are more honest
than those who tried to repudiate it.
The mea who kept the currency
sound are better financiers than
those who tried to debase it. The
men who stand for fair elections at
the South are more fit to be trusted
than the minority who are hoping
to seat their man in the presidency
by murder and fraud. The purity
Of the American home, without
which there can oe no purity or
health anywhere, is safer with those
who are trying to extirpate Mormon
ism, than with those in whose eyes
Grover Cleveland IS the standard of
personal excellence. The men who
have achieved the independence of
American manufacture, whose poll
icy has called out vast industries
into life, and who would exert every
force which government could right
fully WELD to keep up the rate of
the workmen's wages, are wiser and
more farseeing than those who would
put these great interests under the
heel of England again, and would
let the price of American labor
be determined in the British mar
kets.
am, yours ever affectionately,
GEORGE +. HoAR.