The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-09-11
A DISMAL FLAsCO.

New York Sun: Next to the devoted
earnest and patient members of the Dem
ocratic party, the bltterest disappoint
ment Of this phenomenal campaign hal
come upon the Independent Republican,
In an unlooked-for moment of mora
elevation they bolted from the Republi
can camp and clamored loudly at the
doors OF the Democrats The latter zol
only took them in readily but gave them
the seats Of honor, and set up the candi
date whom they all cried for, and with
out whom they declared they would bt
in despair for the lack of q man to sup
port. Mr.. Cleveland they averred, was
entirely unsmirched In his personal
character, a believer In the civ
IL service scheme 10y whic1
the old Republican rascals were to bt
kept in Office; not enough of a Democrat
or party man to jostle the foundations
of their party politics, 80 that they
would be made uncomfortable; and fol
him they thought thought they could
whip in their recalcItrant prejudIces SC
as to conscientiously vote to beat the
regular Republican candidate.
Well, they got the man they wanted
and he pleased them nightly, for a time
even better than they expected. The
former Republican journals tina:
had turned Independent, began
vigorously the labor of making
such q political figure of him as might
nationally be presented to Republicans
as candidate for the presidency. His
ignorance, his inexperience, his selfish
ness, his mental incompetency, his ina
bilitY to comprehend the powers and
responsibilities of the Office beyond the
Flooding routine duties a clerk might
perform, were all punched together and
presented and exalted under the sole and
alluring characteristic of independence.
In order that the advocacy of such an
unusual candidate might be rendered
more consistent and exrlicable, even the
Presidency had to be dragged down to
the leVel of the new aspirant's quAlifica-
tons, and degraded TO q political insig-
nifcance, In order that it might be made
TO fit the candidate, since the the csndI-
date could not be made to 1T it. But
their great satisfaction was that they
imagined him to be personally untaint-
ed. This was an unprecedented basis
for presidential campaign, but never
theless it furnished comfort to many
voters of no political color, especially
to the rebellious Republicans who gaz-
ed upon their candidates. fancIed purity
of morals as sorrowful fugrtives might
gaze upon q guiding star.
That delusion, however, has come to
an end. They can only see avery black
and very foul blOtch where first they
thought there was a shining light.
Their candidate, whom they supposed to
be morally pure and personally unobjec-
tlonable, has turned out to be man not
only gross and immoral in his habits,
but the confessed father of an illegiti-
mate child and presumably the betrayer
of an unfortunate woman. The palpa-
BILE result SO far of the revelations in re-
gard to Grover Cleveland has been
that practically the whole OF our relig-
ious press of all denominations, power
deservedlY most influential. after having
at first almost unanimously declared for
the Democratic candidate, is now against
him, and large portion OF it calls for
his withdrawal from the canvass. Even
If the issue with him as a candidate had
not been a question of personal charac-
ter, his admitted disgrace Is such that no
patriotic Journal, religious or secular,
can rightiullY overlook 1t; nor can any
reasonable member of the community
advocate the election of such a man.