New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-14
c1rrtI4NUS VAR RECORD.

CLEVELANDS VAR RECORD.
Tho war record of Grover Cleveland is not
.a1;t,hIo ono If is scarcely better than that
of his associate on the Democratic ticket.
Thomas A. Hendricks, who made speeches in
tbc darkest hours of the great struggle for Tree
dom in which he bOasted that he never volun-
teercd himself and never asked anybody else TO
voluntecr - declared that the Emancipation
Proclamation was "a wicked thing" and should
be recalled. and slavery rc-estabshed by the
Democratic party; and that the war was an aoo-
rtion war which never could and never ought
TO succeed!
While Hendricks was in that way doing his
best TO aid the enemies of his country, what was
Grover Cleveland about? The answer VIII DO
fonnd in letter from Buffalo printed on the
fifth page of to-day's TRIBUNE. Grover Clcve-
land was the friend of the traitors VINO under
the nrotection of the British flag were plotting
treason ON the Canadian border. He was
Democratic officc-hoder and candidate for
Office in Erie County who never did thing 10
show his sympathy with the Union cause I'M
less il be that of sending criminal rs suDSti-
tutc when he was drafted. In all that long
struggle he never raised his voice. used his pen
or gave his presence in support OF a single
movement of the many that were started IN his
own CITY to carry forward the war Tor the pre-
scrvation of his country. Was he i'll sympathy
with the Union cause? Apparently the had Just
about t~ same sympathy for it that Hendricks
had but ne lacked the ability to give as effective
aid To the enemy. His obscurity has until re-
Gently drawn around his past life the veil of
oblivion.
81. 1 t. RON vtlI n a.
vca,s that have interviewed since the war I His
voice has never been uplftcd in support OF Il
single one Of the great measures which nave
brought peace and prosperity to the Nation
The conspiracy against human rights ~ III the
Solid South has never elected word OF protest
from him. He now hopes to be made President
because of that ombinatiOn which was made to
fight the Union, and which is kept together Only
because of the sympathics OF the rebellion. lie
supported his party. and held Office under II,
when it declared the war n failure. lie was
with it in its opposition to the Emancipation
Proclamation, to the Civil Rights blll, To the re-
construction of the South to the resumption ct
spece payments and be- is with it to-day III its
efforts to force upon the country English free
trade theories, which will benefit foreign manu-
facturers.
Grover Cleveland has never shown any SYM
pathv with the soldiers and sailors. As Mayor
of Buffalo he vetoed an appropriation of $500
for the proper observance of Memorial Day.
He vetoed as Governor bill to authorize the
Supervisors of Chautauqua County to approprl-
ate money for soldiers monument. on the al
legged ground that the appropriation was not
necessary for SURPRISES connected with the
safety and substantial welfare of the tax
payers" A bill passed at the request of every
Grand Army Post of the State to prohibit per-
SONS, not honoraby discharged soldiers or
sailors from wearing Grand Army badges, was
vetoed by him bill, copied after an excel
lent Massachusetts statute, to authorize the
Secretary of State to furnish hOnoubly dis
charged soldiers and sailors of the war t0m
this State with certificates, was vetoed Several
bills TO organize veteran associations, ana one
10 organize the Veteran Reserve of the National
Guard, met like fate. An appropriation for
ouc-armcd veteran, made almost a helpless
cripple in the service of the State. was vetoed.
But when it came to taking money from the
people 70 pay scandllous Tweed claims for the
benefit of " Tim Campbell, Tony Hartmann
and such notorious characters. the Governor
promptly gave his approval.
"Dan Manning is the head of the machine
which nominated Cleveland, and is his chief
associate. Manning through his newspaper,
which is the confidential, personal rs well as
political organ of the Governor demanded that
the Sons of Veterans should not be organized
to perpctuato the follics and the Iurics Of
their fathers. and that the Grand Army of the
Republic should itself adisband." These are
the words which Clevcland's manager used to
utter base SANDER against the soldiers of the
Republics
rs prominent membership Cor years comprised iotd
brari,ng WhO ~ me escdpe Mtr ehdrac-
tys or because here rus MONEY mt The soldiers who
had aud the best citizens had little or no nnu-
In the order In many places The decorations Of the
graves we're made tho subjects of order" or brutality
and iltcrlcy. and then the better influences get
control hut the effort keep taxes all their energies
The patriotic citizens who soldiers and those who
not the conviction that the organization
has nltliyed ts useusss ana Is part OF military
spirit that ought not to bs fostered among people that
would he free.
When the public takes into consideration
these facts in regard to Grover Cleveland and
his associates, it will not wonder that he should
be codly received at the unvcing of soldiers
monument in his own city.