Daily Republican., 1884-07-12

After the anxiety attending four
days session of the National Demo-
cratic party the anxiety has ended by
the nomination of Gov. GroverCleveland
of New York, as the Democratic candi-
date for President. A comedy of blum
ders has marked the actions of the
Democratic party through the whole
series of Presidential elections held
since the war commenced in 1860, and
unless appearances are very deceitful
the nomination of Cleveland will prove
one of the greatest blunders of them all
Mr.. Cleveland may make a very credit
able President il elected, but glance
back over his personal history will
show that his greatness is unearned.-
All the public offices he has ever held
before he was elected Governor of New
York were those of Sheriff of Erie
County, New York, and Mayor of Buff
falo
His great majority of 1872, 900 when
elected Governor was not on account of
any peculiar fitness he possessed or dis
played TO qualify him for the office, for
anybody el,e, even with less ability,
would have run equally as well. His
good luck was more because of the I'M
popularity of the machine methods of
the Republican party by which Secre-
tary of the Treasury Folger was nomi-
mated as the opponent of Cleveland.
1t is true that the Governor did do
many things in the line of his duty
that entitled him 10 the name of q re-
form Governor, but there were many
other things he did after his name be-
come prominently mentioned as a
Presidential possibility that plainly
showed that he could act the politician
IN the lowest sense of the term in
order to make himself popular with all
classes.
His veto of the five-cent car fare bill
for New York City was accepted as an
insult to the working classes, who
would have been benefited by low
fares, while it showed contemplate
toadying to the monopoly of the eleva-
ted Railroad Company, already so
strong and rich az TO respect no rights
not belonging to itself
Even had Governor Cleveland done
nothing to make himself unpopular
with the masses of the working people
of New York City it was plainly shown
Mt the State election last fall that his
big majority was bur AN illusion, for a.
that election the Republicans actually
reversed the whole of it and elected
their candidate for Secretary of State
General Carr, by majority of over
5000 votes, though the Democrats did
succeed in electing the balance of their
ticket by from Il, 900 to 16, 900 majority.
1t is somewhat strange that the big ma.
jOrity idea of Governor Cleveland still
doomed up in colossal array in his favor
even after his party suffered virtual
defeat in the State by the Republicans
electing the principal State officer
and Republican Legislature in both
branches. The Democratic party will
wake up soon to find that it has made
another fatal Presidential blunder. 1t
seemed not sufficient for them that in
1872 that the party should have been
deceived in the same manner by being
persu sded by few dissatisfied Re-
publicans who did not want to vote for
Grant for the second term 1884 is but
a repetition of 1872, except that the
candidate is now a Democrat while then
he was Republican.
The few independent Republicans
who promised to vote for Cleveland
IT he was nominated, and who will nc
doubt now fulfil their promise, though
of his there is no certainty, will be a
poor recompense for the thousands OF
workingmen, heretofore Democrats, who
will vote for James G. Blaine, the Re
publican candidate, and will elect him
trinmphantly to the office for which he
is named. Republicans have NOR.
cause for rejoicing over the nomination
OF Cleveland than if any other Demo
crat of the many named for the office
had been nominated, as the election OF
Blaine is now a well assured fact.