Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-10-16
The Candidates Compared.

When the war of the rebellion broke out
Edward Spicer Cleveland was mature and
very healthy man of thirty-ive years; Phi
meas G. Iounsbury was a country boy of
nineteen, not of robust health.
Cleveland, with his jovial habits and geni-
atty could readily have become a popular
military leader. With the desire of Presi-
dent Lincoln to secure the support of men
who had been connected with the Democrat
ic party, it would have been easy for Cleve-
land, had he been ambitious to serve his
country in the field, to have secured an hon
orable commission.
Lounsbury, the boy, having had no previ-
GUS military training, distrusted his capacity
for military leadership, declined lieuten-
ants commission and went to the front as a
private soldier in the ranks of Company G,
18th Conn. Vols.
Cleveland enlisted as postmaster of Hart
ford. He had deserted the Democratic party
in 1859, when everything indicated Repubi
can victory in the next presidential cam
paign, and when the victory came he claimed
and he received his reward. From this time
on during the war he served his country as
postmaster on big salary, adding to his in
come by lobbying at Washington or Hart
ford on behalf of certain large corporations
anxious to secure government contracts.
Lounsbury did his whole duty as private
soldier until, unaccustomed to exposure, the
malarial air of the Potomac prostrated him
with disease, as it did thousands of others
A desperate, and for time apparently hope
less, struggle with typhoid fever left him
with his health SO shattered that the army
surgeons ordered his discharge for disability,
certifying that his disease was contracted in
the service and that the injury to his health
L ,,aHo %1,-
accepted his discharge, but never applied for
pension.
After President Lincolns death and after
Andrew johnson began to manifest dispo-
sition to desert the Republican party, Cleve-
land to make himself solid with the rene
gade turned his coat once more and sud-
denly that the lining all came out He kept
his postoffice until General Grant as elected
President-and no longer. From that time
to the present he has been political hernia
phrodite, without the respect of the sincere
men of either party, recognized simply as
man who always intends to belong to the
party in power. He has accumulated wealth
without labor, but Is demagogue enough to
think he can use the labor vote to lift him
into the highest Office in the gift of the peo-
pie of the State.
Mr. Lounsbury after regaining his health
set about making his fortune. In his brief
record are epitomized the possibilities before
the energetic, conscientious and persistent
boy in our little republic Starting as a
workingman he learned his trade thorough
ly, rose until he became an employer and
manufacturer on large scale. AS lsborer
he was faithful and honest, as an employer
he was considerate and liberal, having the
kind regard of all. He lived up to the BIZ
BILE standard, "Diligent in business, feFvent
in spirit, serving the Lord" No one ever
suspected him of making money in crooked
ways or of doing lobby work for rich oorpo-
rations. Everybody who knows him knows
him as straightforward business man not
ashamed OF his business; as a consistent
Christian not ashamed of his childhood,
total abstinence temperance man who never
lodges the issue.
we have endeavored to give perfectly
fair and truthful comparison of the two can
didates as they are regarded by those who