The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-07-17
EDITORIAL MATTER
From Tri-weekly issues Of Monday and Friday
The Next President and Vice.
President.

President.
AT last the days of suspense ant
speculation are over, and we are M
longer in doubt as to the occupancy
of the White House for the foul
years commencing on the 4th of next
March.
Grover Cleveland of New York
will be the youngest President ever
inaugurated, as he was born in 1897
His rapid advancement from the
mayorality Of the city of Buffalo;
through the Executive Office of the
Empire State, to the highest and
most responsible position in the gift
Of the American people, and all with
in period of four years, presents one
of the most remarkable incidents in
the political history of the country.
In referring to the career of this
worthy child of destiny who sprang
from the sphere of labor and won
every foot of the ground he has
gained, by industry, honesty, patrlo-
tism and fidelity to every trust, we
speak of his election as fixed fact,
and why should we not? When
nominated for Mayor in a city boast
ing many thousands of Republican
majority, he easily passed the barriers
that had been SO formidable to others,
and in scoring this victory gained
votes enough to have overcome the
Republican plurality in New York
in 1880,
Nominated for Governor of New
York in 1882, with the Garfield ma
jority of 10000 to overcome and the
Secretary of the U. S. Treasury,
Judge Folger the most popular Re-
publican in the State as his opponent,
backed by all the power and ma
chinery of the Arthur administration,
he triumphed by majority of 1922
600 With such antecedents, such
prestige of fair deserving and won
drous good fortune, can any sane,
cool, calculating man doubt his sue
cess in November?
To be sure there is at the outset in
New York shadow of dissension in
the disappointed greed of some of the
Tammany leaders, but we should re-
member that Tammany opposed Til
den and yet the old man reached the
"home base" with $4,000 majority:
and that Tammany supported Han.
cock, and yet Garfield got almost as
large majority in the Empire State
as Tilden did.
We did not get our personal choice
in this nomination, for we preferred
Bayard, Mcdonald, or Randall, but
above all personal preferences we
want Democratic victory and it is
very apporant that Cleveland was
the first choice of the Eastern and
Western as well as of several of the
Southern States after the withdrawal
of Tilden, and that he was the prime
fayorite in all of the doubtful States,
New Jersey, Connecticut, Wiscon.
sin and Illinois.
The nomination of Hendricks ol
Indiana, the Vice President whose
salary Wheeler pocketed for four long
years, for the second place on the
ticket, was unanimous, as it should
have been, for in his elevation as
would have been the case in that ol
Tilden, the American people propose
to redress and avenge great wrong
To Thomas A. Hendricks the South
owes a great debt-during all the
dark days succeeding the war; dur
ing all the terrible years of carpet
bag misrule and lawless COMPRESSION
al reconstruction and bayonet tyrany,
ne stood in his place in the Senate
battling manfully for our rights
'gainst fearful odds.
For eight more months we must
endure Republican rule, but there is
consolation in knowing that it will
virtually die when the polls close
upon the November election. Till
the end of the long dark period is
reached let us possess our souls in
patience.
The Mississippi delegation at Chi