The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-07-19
q Cleveland for President.
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| With Grover Cleveland as It's candidate the
Democratic Party appeals with unmistakable
| directness to the moral sense of the people OF.
the United States. Shall the next President
be man who has weakly yielded to tempta
ton, or man who has unswervingy adhered
| to the right against powerful enticenants to
do wrong? A man who begs pecuniary re-
wards of those his official action has enriched,
or one who defes corrupt dictation and seeks
only by Just courses to deserve the approval
| ofright-thinking men? A candidate attacked,
| impeached tainted, and besmirched all over,
or candidate beyond reproach? A Grover
Cleveland whom honest men respect or a
James G. Blaine whom rogues love?
| This is the supreme issue. 1t is thisswhich
the voters of the Republic are to decide. 1t
4 is not the issue of protection; free trade has
nothing to do with it; there is no admixture
of foreign policy the want of foreign policy;
| insincere professions cannot put it aside; the
| glare of boosted torchhght briliancy will
not outshine 1t. The sober sense of an intel
| ligent electorate, the honest convictions and
| the patriotism of ten millions of voters are
/ appealed to, and they will settle this question
conclusively and for the right.
1t is not only in what he clearly represents
but in what he distinctly opposes that Grover
! Cleveland is strong before the American peo-
pie His career has made him the exponent
| of clean and honest politics. In the admin
| istration of public trusts he has shown that he
is superior to partisan bias, indifferent to such
| party interests as are in conflict with official
probity and the public welfare. He has been
severely tried in the important and RESPONSE
BILE post he now occupies. He has resisted
the opportunities of designing politicians, he
has defeated the purposes of selfish schemers.
| All those members of his own party who are
not absorbed in private aims which are in con-
| flict with the public good are outspoken in his
/ praise; and he has won the good opinion OF
| all Republicans who are not so far gone IN
/ partisanship as to have lost the power to COM
mend upright conduct in political adversary.
Favored as he is by the right-thinking ele-
ments of both the Democratic and Republl-
can Parties, it is noteworthy and potent ad-
vantage to Grover Cleveland as candidate
that he has incurred the bitter hostility OF the
worthless, disreputable, and dangerous men,
bers of his own party. Tammany hates HIM.
/ Butler sees no good in him. Could candi-
date find stronger recommendation than this
I in the opinion of voters whose political action
is shaped solely by considerations of public
welfare ? The official acts which have won
| for Gov. Cleveland the intense hostility of
Tammany are the very acts which have most
| strongly commended him to the support of
independent Republicans. The favor ofthese
/ two classes, of wholly corrupt and selfish
guerrilla contingent within the Democratic
| Party, and of men with whom plain common
| sense and the most ordinary form of political
| honesty are controlling influences, no one
man, be he ever so skillful in the art of bal
ancing, can hope or wish to possess. Grover
| Cleveland had not been one month in Office
as Governor of the State of New York before
he had decided in his own mind and had made
plain to all observers that his official action
was to be guided solely by his own intelligent
Judgment Of what the public interest demand
ed. And that is, above all, the safe and the
saving policy for President of the United
States.
No Democrat with whom patriotism is not
subordinated to private grudges will withhold
his vote from Grover Cleveland. OF Repub-
hcans, those who are entirely satisfied that
Blaine and Logan faithfully represent the
principles upon which the party that preserv-
ed the Union was founded will doubtless vote
against him. Those of the Republican faith
who are repealed by the most unwise choice
made at Chicago last month will find no diff
Guilty in voting for him, since he is one of the
best representatives now to be found in pub
lie life of those administrative principles and
reforms to which they are committed. A
Democrat who has made enemies of the dis
\ reputable elements of his own party is not
greatly to be feared by Republicans, even
when he is a candidate for the Presidency.
The Times will heartily support Governor
Cleveland. In opposing Mr.. Blaine it finds
itself already upon impregnabc ground and
in excellent company. 1t has closely watched
the career of the candidate nominated al
Chicago yesterday, and it has entire conf
dence in his probity, in his intelligence, and
in his administrative ability. He ought to be
the next President of the United States, and
we believe he will be.