The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-08-14
National Americana
The w. {. L. Z. and Grover Cleveland.

1t was said by a Democratic dele
gate at Chicago that Grover Cleve-
lands private character is such that
his election to the Chief Magistracy
of the Nation would be disgrace to
the American people. The same
charge has been made by Buffalo
paper, and by a prominent minister
of that city. The editor of proml-
nent Democratic paper at Rochester,
N. Y. who is in hearty sympathy
with his party and its pla form, has
temporarily withdrawn from his pa
per because he cannot support the
libertine he knows Grover Cleveland
to be.
Can the W. G. 7. U. be in any
way instrumental in the election OF
such a n. an to the presidency2 Evi-
IDENTIFY and decidedly not. Making
due allowance for campaign lleing,
these charges against Cleveland come
from sources which make it absolute
ly necessary for the W. c. I. U. to
Investigate thoroughly before one
single vote shall be given him through
the influence of the women OF the
country.
The Cleveland Catholic Universe
makes these significant remarks;
1T will not do to treat the charges
of the Buffalo Telegraph with any
contempt Of silence. They must be
met, either by Governor Cleyeland OF
the Democratic party. Ii Governor
Cleveland cannot meet them the
Democratic party can only Eaeet thtHt!
by demanding his Immediate Wlth-
draual from the head Of the tieket.
Prominent members of the W. C.
T. U. have severely criticised Blame $
letter on the revenue question, and
though Neal Dow has said that Blaine
has been true friend ts pfohlhltlIon'
these women have pronounced him
unworthy the receive the votes OF pro-
hibitionists. Blaine's mere inconsls-
teneies as prohibitionist, though he
! 70 not running as q prohibitionist, are
oonsta ~tly paraded before the public
in the ;ntert.-t Of another against
whom the most infal.~' crimes are
charged. And this by the '-adefs % %
the grandest temperance organizatlo-
that ever existed.
Will these women say that they
will not be responsible for Cleveland's S
election if the votes given st. John
shall accomplish that end? But this
is the very assertion the brewers make
when charged with being responsible
for drunkenness. Neither brewing
nor voting is wrong per Sc. Both
may be right and both may be wrong.
If the legitimate fruits of brewing
are bad then it is wrong. Ii the legit-
innate effect Of vote will put bad
man or bad party into power, then
it is wrong vote. The intention of
the brewer or the voter may be ever
so good, if he forsees that his beer
will make drunkards, or his vote will
aid the wrong party, he is just as
guilty as if he meant to do the wrong
We cannot believe it possible that
the women Of this country who have
brought the prohibition work to so
prosperous a condition, will deliber-
ately aid the dram-sellers of the coun-
try in placing party in power, two
GllTuS VI WHOSc WcuutIS uclISuG Ill
denouncipg them as fanatics: a party
which has just declared in q National
Convention, with not one dissenting
vote, that it will not only oppose Sub
mission and Prohibition, but Sunday
laws as we'll. We have more faith in
praying women than that. We can
not belive that the W. G. T. U. can
do SO hypocritical thing as to pray
for prohibition and elect the Demo-
cratic party. Thousands Of honest,
old, lifelong Democrats, who ha1 e
fought for half century under the
banner of that party, have declared
that they cannot support it on whis-
ky platform. Tens of thousands of
the leaders of the rum army the bit
terest enemies Of the w. C. T. u,
have left the Republican party and
united with the whisky party The
women of America will never put
such a party in power, or vote direct
ly or indirectly for man like Grover
Cleveland.