News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-07-24
WASHINGTON, D. G.
J,Iu IA 1894

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mighty voice of five millions OF peo-
pie, who, by the sweat of their brows,
earn their daily bread, the name of
Cleveland will be made odious, and
the insult of his nomination be hurled
back to scatter dismay in the ranks
of thankless Democracy.
Viewed in every and any light, from
this standpoint, and from information
coming from every quarter, Cleve-
lands nomination was the weakest
that could have been made. He has
nothing to commend him to the peo-
pie. He has been a chronic office
seeker, having been Sheriff of his
county, Mayor of his city, and when,
by accident, he was elected Governor
of New York, almost his first act was
to violate the simplest rule of propri-
ETY. and right by attempting to dictate
to the strongest Democratic district
in the United States whom it should
nominate for office. AS Governor he
has placed himself in the open arms
of the opponents of labor and tried
to reverse the action of the Repuoli-
can party in reducing the hours of
labor. He vetoed the five-cent rail-
road fare bill the bill to reduce the
car-d1ivers' and conductors hours of
labor from 16 to II hours per day,
and the child labor bill. With all the
cry raised in his behalf of reform,
they cannot and do not point to any
great feat that he has ever performed,
except that as Sheriff he hanged two
men, and they were hanged in the old
fashioned way, without any reform
method to entitle him to the Presl-
dency because he was a good hang
man.
An amusing feature of the cam
paign is now being developed. The
Post of this city has an earnest edit
orial this morning against the throw
ing of mud and making this a per-
sonal canvass in which individual
character is to be smirched. In view
of the fact that for one month every
Democratic paper in the land has
been engaged in the most foul, filthy
and indecent SANDER of Blaine and
Logan, and of all who support them,
it certainly is the most cheeky, and at
the same time amusing episode likely
to be presented in the campaign, but
the winding up of the article, for au-
dacity stakes the cake" 1t advises
that even if Democrats do indulge in
this practice of personal denunciation
and mud singing, that they are excus-
able on the ground that in this cam
paign they are the plaintiffs, the Re-
publicans the defendants, and as de-
PENDANTS they should only deny, but
not fight back.
Before the canvass is over we Opine
that the Democracy will be the de-
fendents and the Republicans the
plaintiffs, who will make the charges
and prove them, that the Democracy
are the friends and allies of the En-
glish free-traders, who would destroy
American enterprise and industry !;
that they are the enemies of the SOL
diers who fought for the unity of the
J nation, as shown in refusing to rec
ognize the great patriotic body of vet
Grams by even naming one on their
ticket; that they are the opponents
: of universal liberty, in denying to the
) colored people, who number six mil
: lions of our people, single repre-
sentatiOn in their convention or on
f any committee, and that they have
+ sold themselves body and soul to the
heartless monopolies which thrive on
the exertions wrung from labor, and
e whose most willing tool they place al
Y the head of their national ticket.
: Secretary Teller of the Interior De
: partment, has requested the Secreta
e ry of War to expel Capt. Paine ant
0 his colony of settlers from the Indian
Territory, whittier they have gone anC
Y taken up their abode, contrary TO Law
n and the treaties made with the Indi
V ans in that territory. Mr.. Teller has
n made one of the most efficient anC
n popular Secretaries of the Interio
that has ever been at the head of tina
department. Said a Democrat 0
high standing to your correspondent
the other day: "Though Mr.. Teller
is an intense partisan, his decision
IS have been the wisest and fairest, ant
his administration of the affairs o
l. his department the best of any Secre
: taIy of the Interior with whom | hav
had any dealings, and l have ha
i transactions with all of them sine
d Lincoln's first administration"
1t Correspondents for Democrat
papers are sending out word fror
te Washington that Carl Schurz ha
r come out for Cleveland and Hendricks
ID Bless their souls, the Dutch tram
went over body and boots to the Den
= ocrats before Cleveland was nomina al
q ed; and, furthermore, he never wa
N a Republican but for the sake of o
fee. Carl thinks he will make a sui
thing of it this time. After Clevt
~ land fails of election he thinks he wi
y be in position to get at the none
-, - crib of the city of New York.
;! Meeting prominent Carlisle-Mo
ne rison Democrat last evening your co
u respondent asked him for his opinio
~ of his party's ticket. ''Before tt
le convention" he said, "the Clevelan
: men insisted that a man must /
y. nominated who would be a platforl
I = in himself. l did not know then pr,
! n cisely what they meant, but l kno
- now. They wanted a man nominate
- that would be sat upon-for that's Il
l' use made of one kind of platform
= isn't it?-and they haI e succeeded
1t is wondered what the New You
Sun will have to say to the Democra
ic Senators and Representatives wh
d begged Secretary Chandler to real
99 point DIR. Wales, Chief of the Burea
is 5 of Medicine and Surgery in the Nav
III Department. DR.. Wales, the afor,
y said Congressman assured Mr.. Char
u dler, was we'll known to them an
- ought to be kept in office. The Set
u rotary found him to be a rascal an
.. turned him out. Surely, if the 81
20 is honest, it will side with and sup
le port Mr.. Chandler; but what will
i0 have to say about the Democrat
Congressman who wanted the rascs