Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-07-18
CIcyeIan,I,s Nomination.

The nomination Of Gov. Cleveland by the
Democrats last week to head their national
ticket settles the fact that this years cam
paign will be fought on tho record, tendon.
cies and promises OF the two parties Cleve-
lands nomination is satisfactory to the bolt
ing Republicans and they will not put third
ticket in tho field.
Tho nomination is purely one Of expedien-
cy. truer thing never was said than when
John Kelly's man Grady told tho convention
that, in order to please a few disgruntled Re.
publicans they were proposing to pass by all
the Democratic leaders and take up new
and untried man on the one chance that he
might catch a few votes outside his party.
The convention did thus pass by Bayard,
Thurman, Randall, Mcdonald, and other par
ty opponents and Cleveland's nomination
was the result-not because his party has de-
voloped sudden love for reform, but be-
cause it hoped by this means to secure indie
pendent votes.
For Republicans to attempt to belittle Gov.
Clevelands candidacy will be neither wise
nor effective. As governor of New York no
has shown a spirit of independence and a
real sympathy with reform movements His
weakness lies in the fact that beyond this he
is unknown and untried. He has had no ex
perience in national affairs and has yet to
show whether he has grasp for questions of
national importance. More than all else, he
has behind him the same old Democratic par
ty which throughout its existence has stood
as a bar to every reform and whose one I'M
derlying principle to day is a hunger for Of
fee No candid man believes that Gov.
Cleveland, however good his intentions, would
be able to withstand the demands of his par
ty, and herein lies the one insuperable objec-
ton to a change, which no independent bolt
err, however virtuous aud however dissatisfied,
can wipe out.
Cleveland's nomination makes it certain
that this campaign, in the great states where
manufacturing and commercial interests pre-.
dominate, will be one of the hottest in the
history OF American politics. Whether just
ly or not, the New York workingmen feel that
Gov. Cleveland is not their friend. This
feeling is based chiefly on his action in veto
ing bill establishing fve.cent fares on the
New York elevated railroads, and a bill nam
ing ~ hours as days work on street rail
ways. The first. named bill was vetoed on
constitutional grounds and the second on the
ground that it was = piece of class legisla-
ton. But whatever the grounds, laboring
men cannot be made to believe that Gov.
Cleveland at heart is not the friend of cor
porations and monopolies as against them
selves. On this feeling the Republican lead
era will work by every possible means, and a
stronger effort will be made than ever before
to carry the workingmen's vote over bodily to
the Republican ticket.
The feeling of the foreign element against
England and Germany will also be worked
upon and intensified by reason of Mr..
Blaine's we'll known views of what pertains
to the honor and dignity of the American ma
ton. Already an organized movement of
Irish-Americans in favor of the Republican
ticket is in progress and promises to draw
thousands to its standard in every part of the
country where an Irish element is found.
Accessions like these promise to more than
Offset whatever of Independent Republican
strength Gov. Cleveland may attract to his
ticket, and give grounds for a we'll assured
hope of Republican success in November.
Clevoland's sire myth is of a negative rather
than of a positive character, and gives a col
or to the canv ass far other than would have
been the case if some well-known and &C.
knowledged Democratic leader had been
placed in nomination.