The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-08-20

ln3n Win iaDOr W e EdNC rti1"i 4
YOU the nature of the yetoes tha'
have made Governor Cleveland Sc
obnoxious to the workingmen o
New York, and now ask you, reader
in all candor, can you support suet
a man for the highest Office in tht
gift of the people? The three vetoe;
we have been speaking of prove be
yond shadow of doubt that Gov
Cleveland's sympathies are not wltt
labor. In the near future the batti'
between corporations and the people
will have to be fought out. Imagine
having such man in the Presiden'
tial chair when the battle comes OH
We should undoubtedly hear OF his
yetoing all legislation looking to :ht
restoration to the people Of the mil
lions of acres stolen from them by
the railroads. Can such a man DC
trusted in the position to which the
Democratic party asks the working
men to elevate him?
The Boston Pilot says edltorlaily
"The nomination Of Governor Cleye'
land will unquestionably haYe the
result of affecting seme hundreds OF
thousands of votes, either by giving
to Blaine or keeping them from the
polls. Blaine and Logan can beat
Cleveland and any other Democrat.
The Buffalo Catholic CRtoa 0ao
Times. printed in the county where
Cleveland has been Sheriff, and in
the CITY of which he has been Mayor,
edited by Father Cronin, whom we
know-says that if the wrong man
is nominated (meanng Cleveland
ninety per cent Of the Irfsh-Ameri-
can vote viii be given for Blaine.
The Albany Catholic Telegraph
printed at the capital of New York,
has the following in regard to Cleve-
lands candidature:
1.-THE Democratic party has moth
ing better to put up against the
strongest Republican for President,
without a war record, that has been
put forward since the days OF Lin
coin. than Grover Cleveland, It has
not the ghost of q chance OF seeing
that for which its heart so long has
yearned-a Democrat in the Presi-
Dental chair. Ii ii has nothing bet
ter TO put up than the man who has
vetoed popular measures, passed by
both Houses, who has displayed re-
ligious intolerance in tie exercise OF
his functions, who has shown HIM
self the friend Of the criminal classes
in letting mt-rderous jail-birds loose
upon society, while he refused to
hear the petition ofrespectable citi-
zens in behalf of falsely imprison-
ed gentleman of worth and intelli-
gence; II it has nothing better to
put up than a man who publicly
stultifed himself by an official com
unworthy Of one in his
high Office; if, in word, it cannot
pat forward anything better than
the representative Of efete Know
Nothingism and blue-nosed bigoiry,
it would save the party from igno-
minious defeat, by Withdrawing from
the contest. and stepping down and
out.
Mr.. d. c. Feely, a prominent Irish
Catholic lawyer Of Rochester, says
| can think Of no man who could
be named who is so obnoxious 20
the Irish as Governor Cleveland. lie
could not carry New York State, and
would make a sorry figure if nomi-
mated for the Presidency by the
Democrats. His unpopulariiy is
due TO his treatment of Editor Pur-
cell. whom we regard as a represent
ative Irishman to his treatment of
John Devos, editor of the IRISH No
ton, and to his veto OF the five-cent
fare bill, which showed him to be a
mere creature OF monopolies.
One final extract from a later is
sue of the Irish World, edited by
John Devoe, and We must conclude
for want of space:
The Democratic National Conven-
ton, lured by the bait Of the hide
pendent Republican support, has
thought proper to break away from
the cherished traditions OF the party
and insult Its most loyal and devo-
ted members by the nomination of a
narrow-minded bigot for the Presi-
iency of the United States. 1t is q
Of war, and those on
whom the war is to be waged must
take up the gage of battle or forever
submit to intolerance and bigotry.
No middle course is possible. The
hour for compromise has passed.
Either Cleveland must be defeated
at the polls. or the men who have
been the mainstay Of the Democrat
Ic party for half a century must sub
NIT to intolerabie dictation, degra-
dation, and insult at the hands ofan
and undemocratic ma
chine. On the one side, we have the
party, freed from the
presence of its most liberal element,
having as its candidate the ablest
American statesman, and q platform
that comes more nearly in accord
with the wants and wishes of the
great majority Of the people than
any party programme for many
years. On the other is the party
that once was Democratic, with q
that is TO all intents and
purposes a Republican, In the sense
most obnoxious to the Democrats, a
platform that evades an honest pro-
on the question of the
most vital interest 10 the toiiing
and an unhoiy alliance with
the men whose control of the Re-
publican party made it odious to the
great mass of the Democrats in the
past. Mr.. Blaine's election viii be
the triumph of the party of Ameri-
can progress at home and abroad +;
Mr.. Cleveland's viii mean retrogres-
sion at home and slavish subseryi-
ency 20 English interests and Eng
lish ideas in the relations of the
United States with foreign powers.
Irishmen of spirit have no choice.
Cleveland must be defeated, end the
only way to do that effectually is
by voting for James G. Blaine for
President. Let US organize for the
fight, and crush Know Nothingism
for all time