Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-09-12
Testimony from G leve1and's Horne.
Whatever effort Grover Cleveland's ''inde
pendent" friends may make to fortify his posi-

Whatever effort Grover Cleveland's ''inde.
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 it take start in fresh vigor and en-
terprise He has seen its population almost
doubled within the past twenty years. He has
seen its vast and widely extended commercial
resources developed to an extent far beyond
ter of a century ago. With industrial growth
and commercial enterprise the city has made
steady, satisfactory progress i'll public
education, culture, the arts and sciences, and
social improvement During all these years,
Cleveland has seen the national government
pass through the most eventful period Of its
existence. He has lived in time that has tried
mems souls; that has quickened young, pa
triotic blood, and brought what was sound,
true and earnest in American citizenship to the
front A long, devastating civil war; severe,
almost equally perilous, struggle for "recon-
banking system; the maintenance of public
credit; the protection of American industry
against the competition Of European pauper
labor; the reform of the civil serviceon 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 been? AS citizen up to the time he was
elected mayor, the man was almost a nonent1-
ty There is not an institution devoted to the
citys progress in industrial development, in
material resources, in literature, arr, public
morality, with which Grover Cleveland has been
even remotely identified, or to which he ever
gave the slightest encouragement Selfish and
self-engrossed, he has devoted himself to his
private business without the faintest demon
or 80 liz c1,1vr prr tn fba
when peculiar condition of things suggested
him as an available candidate for mayor, his
name would not have been mentioned with the
fifty leading men in Buffalo. AS for social pc.
sition, whatever difference of opinions may
exist as to the depraved character
that he had ever been seen a dozen times 10
respectable parlors in the city Of Buffalo, OF
that he endured the society of refined, Guilt
waited women if he could avoid it. As fox
Cleveland's opinions upon great national is
sues, as for his views upon questions that viii
put patriotism and statemanship to the test
if 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 difference with him whom the Democrats
the candidates were presented You could
count on him to vote with the "boys"
every time. Little importance has been
attached to his private political utter
ances and there has not been 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 to make Cleveland Mayor. In
roneous idea that it would do the party good
to subject it to the process of selfchastise ment
aud deluded by the plea that Cleveland was
the special prophet and champion Of ,,sindepen,.
New York elected him Governor: They have
had time to know him better: they have had
opportunity for more political reflection. Now
| that they are called upon to make this man
| the Nations Chief Magistrate, they do 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 it is that in the very city where he was
| elected MAYOR there ia not one Republican of
| any prominence who has declared an intention
! to vote for him for President. Nine-tenths Of
| the independently are actively at work for
which did SO much to help his 'sboom' fox
Governor, not leading Republican is on
! Cleveland's slde-not one-Buffalo CONNER
cial Advertiser.
At the Massachusetts, Republican nvention
| it was moved that the remainder OF the ole
ticket be renominated by reclamation Car.
RED unanimously, and the following were de-
! clared nominated: Governor, George d. Rob-
| inson Chickopee; lieutenant governor, Oliver
Ames Of Easton; secretary Of state, Henry L
I Pierce, of Abingdon; treasurer, Daniel A. Glea-
son of Medford; auditor, Charles r. Ladd OF
/ Springfield; attorney general, Edgar A. Sher:
man Of Lawrence. ( s..'ss
! Senator Aldrich put the whole question OF
| feaIty to the Republican party by Republicans
in 8 nutshell, in his address at Newport, when
] he said that before the Chiaago Convention
some good Republicans had preferred that
| Arthur should be nominated, some that Haw-
| lev should, and some that Edmunds should,
I but that Blaine was nominated and that all
/ Republicans should now pnt their shoulder to
4 the wheel for the success Of the Republican,
I party. That is good doctrine.
The republican state officers OF Vermont arr
] Governor, Samuel D. Pingree; lieutenant gov.
4 ernor, e. j. Ormsbee; treasurer, William IL
| Dubois secretary of state, @. W. Porter; audi.
tor, e Henry Powell
Hon. John G. New of Indians, in regard to the
4 situation ID Indiana, says: Blaine and Iogas
will carry the state by from GOO to 10, O00 ma
! iority. j have no fear of the result
/ Six hundred and forty-six Bay View, Wis,
#orkingmen unite in an address denouncine
Cleveland and the democratic partys