Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-10-03
Party and Candidate.

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Party and Candidate.
Whether to blame the libertin'
Grover Cleveland for the imper
Thence of indulging aspirations t.
the Presidency or the politician
who offered him to the country as
candidate for the the place mad
illustriOus by Geo. Washington, i
a question much agitating the in
telligent public. The agitation o
the questions will proceed until il
November the people shall bur,
both the ring candidate and tn,
ring party that presents him unde
a mountain Of OblOquy and con
domination.
Not one single good reason-nO
one fact that ought for a momen
to challenge the thoughtful con
sideratiOn of an intelligent citizen
can be given for Cleveland's can
didacy. Ought a party that thus
declines inquiry into its record by
running away from its represen.
tative public men and taking up an
obscurity, nowise identified with
national affairs, to be trusted ? An
example of the absence of fact OIL
reason to justify Cleveland's candi
dacy was recently furnished by the
New York World, a Cleveland
organ, when asked hy subscriber
to give four good reasons for snp
porting the Democratic nominee
The World answered as follows:
LIST. He is an honest man.
2nd. lie is an honest man.
Sd. He is an honest man.
4th. He is an honest man.
Could there be better confession
of the weakness and unftnes of a
candidate ? Asked to give four
good reasons for supporting him,
one of the ablest of his advocates is
driven to the poor eXpedient of
naming one alleged reason, four
times. SO little is there TO this
man, outside of his mere private
career that anybody can find to
discuss. Poor old sham Broker
dom; "tO what base uses" have
the party of Jefferson and Jack son,
Of Cass and Buchanan and Doug
lass and Wise come last under its
new tangled leaders and prophets {:
The "WOrld's" answer to its sub
scriber is almost as satisfactory as
that of the boy who being asked by
his teacher to name four leading
productions of the countries situa-
ted in the far North, replied "Three
polar bears and seal" We really
pity the embarrassment of old
bourbon speakers and writer's
when they are asked by the p eople
"why should we vote for your can
didate for President? Is honesty
the sole qualification of public men
for high place ? Indispensable it
undoubtedly is but so are ex-
perience and capacity and Cleve-
aid has neither.
Butts it true that Cleveland's
past and present attitude specially
makes him the symbol of honesty?
The fellow who prayed first to the
'GOod Lord" and then to the
Good Devil' because he did not /
EEL assured as to whose hands he
should fall into, is the model whom |
Mr.. Cleveland initiates as to the
issue of this campaign,
he tariff. Is it honest to dodge
Everybody knows Blaine's attitude
md Logan S position on that ques-
ion. They are OutspOken advOca-
es of the American theory of Pro
ection. Who can speak for,Cleve-
and or for Hendricks on that mo-
nentOus subject Is it proof of
)levelands honesty that he was
for Governor and after.
Yards for President by Manning,
Iagone, Thompson and their gang
# ringsters and cOrruptiOnists in
Sew York? Is it proof of his hon.
sty that as Governor of New York
le has been the ready instrument
# the mOnopolists who Cypress
nd would practically enslave the
'eOple? But why continue to ask
questions which cannot be answer
Il satisfactorily in vindication of
)leveland? A weaker candidate
7as never offered for popular snf. !
age. A more overwhelming con |
emnatiOn never awaited party
han that certain to Overtake the q
llscly called democracy that ]
fiers a candidate so utterly un-
'Orthy.