The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1884-09-18


partisan and personal advantages,
which, with the applause and con.
fdence Of both parties. has raised
him from the chief executive AL.
ministration Of great city to that
of a great State. His high sense of
public duty, his absolute and IN.
challenged official integrity, his in.
flexible courage i'll esis:i':g party
pressure AID public outcry, his
great experience in the details of
administration, and his command.
ing executive ability and indepen.
dcnce are precisely the qualities
which the political situation dc.
mands in the chief executive officer
Of the Government, to resist cor
porate monopoly on the one hand
and demagogic communism on the
Other, and at home and abroad,
without menace or fear, to protect
every right OF American citizens,
and to respect every right Of friend.
ly States by making political lnor
ality and private honesty the basis
Of Constitutional Administration
In these utterances Of earnest and
patriotic men. the Democrats OF
this State and o! the Un.on find al
exact definition Of the paramount
issue in the present canvass.
Again and again, The Democracy
have presented to the country can
didates who joined marked ability
to cleanncss of personal character
and experience in public life. No
!: "tattooed man" has ever received
the nomination of the National
! Council Of the Democratic party.
The personal qualifications of the
! Democratic nominees now com.
mand the general recognition they
always deserved. There is good
reasons for it. The Independent
Republicans remind US that the
country has seen, with surprise and
shame, a Republican Vicc.Presi.
dent driven in disgrace into private
life; Republican Secretary of War
participating in felony a Republi.
can Secretary of the Navy growing
rich, while our fleets, for which
millions of money were appropriat.
ed, became the laughing stock of
nations; a Republican Attorney.
General accused of sharing in petty
frauds. The last Republican Speak
er Of the House of Representatives
was convicted Of nepotism and
mendacity. Ncfarious associations
for obtaining corporate contracts
bestowed their "gratifcations" and
"tokens of thankfulness'' upon the
Republican who was elected Presi.
dent four years ago. Fresh, too,
in public memory is the story of
the star.route frauds, of the doings
of the whisky ring, of the land
grants to grasping corporations, and
the land grabs by alien absentees.
The people, this year, were ripe for
political revolt, but the managers of
the Republican machine scoffed at
criticism and hooted at warning.
Rendered reckless by long lease
of misused power, debauched by
ill.gotten gains, the machine.made
delegates in the Republican Con-
vention chose as their party's can.
didate for President a man who
attracts to him, IS with a magnet,
each official rogue and hungry
knaye; and who draws to him, as
like unto like, every political specu,
lator who Graves the means OF pc.
culation in the future, or who needs
immunity for misconduct in tAe
past. So it Is that, in the person
Of the leading candidates, Cleve.
land and Blaine good and evil will
struggle for the mastery In Novela.
her.
The success Of the Democracy ia
desired by leglons Of citizens WHO
have heretofore looked upon the
Democratic party with dislike, II
not with distrust Former differ.
ences are forgotten, now that the
country must choose between the
high.minded champion Of admins,
tratlye Fefpr!n' and the self.regard.
ing representative Of what is most
debasing in American public life.
In the days Of the Revolutionary
war, the emhattled freemen Of the
UnitedColon;es we're one in thought
one in purpose, one in action,
Whatever tAeir former associations
or prejudices; whetAeF they dRelt
on the silvery Hudson or the taEny
James; whether they tramped
through the pines of the Carolinas
or shivered anl starved on the
slopes Of Valley Forge. their only
thought was TO dare all things, tc
endure all things, to do all things
in order to win the right Of selfrule
and accomplish national indepen'
dence. This year. also, the Amer
ioan people fight for freedom and
deliVerance-frecdom from the
tyranny of wrong, and deltTerance
from the despotism of corruption
In union, for the Union, is politica
strength and victory.
i Fellow-citizens: You would. o.
loyal Democrats. take an active
part in the present campaign, ever
if you were absolutely sure that
whatever the event in November
you would retain u frugal, just anc
capable government in your ovr
State. But you have not that Ger
tainty. Upon the election of Blaine
the Dolitical cauldron would aoair