Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
TIE TWO GRADYs.

We entertain sympathy for Senator
Thomas +. Grady, of New York He was
ssui cat to California in the miist of his
penonce for opposing Cleveland four wears
az .o aid The new Democratic campaign
in a seotiau where, it WIS supposed, the
eao7; OF 1884 would not rise up tn confront
hu. Ills managers we're ili-advised, how
ever, fer the echo OF his vigorous opposition
10 Grover Cleveland, tour years ago, invests
hm IS he stlmps about Califoruis, and
drewns sll the spologetic explorations his
wit can advance No matter where Mr
Grady appears some one pulls scrapb book
upon the unfortunate orator, and confronts
the Grady of 1888 with the Grady of 1884
Thus, in Sacramento, lie was brought
face to face with his opposition to the Tam.
many resolution of September, 1884, in
dorsing Cleveland. In that great and stormy
meeting in Tammany Hall Mr.. Grady
warned the Democracy that his protest
against the support proffered Grover Cleve
land would be vindicated by the experi
enos the party would gain" And has 1t
not2 He was nominated to please small
corps OF radical reformers, whom he has
already betrayed in his desertion of civil
service reform. 1t was Mr. Grady who
warned the Democracy: Take heed, he
has deceived you once; the fault is his.
Let him deceive you again, and the fault
will be yours And both Mugwump and
Democrat have found the warning TO be
prophetic.
We cannot bring ourselves to repeat the
coarse personal assault of Mr. Grady upon
Mr.. Cleveland, based upon charge of
greed that led him to desert noble pro-
fession for the spoiis of an Office of the
lower level. Nor are we disposed to recite
the Indictment drawn against Mr.. Cleye-
land by the orator Grady of 1854 for deser-
ton of the cause of the workingmen when
he refused to put one of their number into
the Bureau of Labor Statistics nor the
soarifying the orator OF 1884 gave the Presi-
dental candidate of that year for descend
ing from the high office of Governor to
dabble in the local contests of legislative
district, and punish those who dared to
differ with him.
But one portion OF Air Grady's Charge,
made at that time, and upon which the Mr..
Grady of 1888 is dead silent, has such ap-
plication now that we cannot refrain from
reproducing it. In charging that Mr..
Cleveland abused the executive office by
dragging it into a local contest to defeat a
candidate disagreesble to Mr.. Cleveland.
the Grady of 1884 charged him also with
breach of the promise made in his letter of
Gubernatorial acceptance:
Public officers are the servants and agents of
the people to execute laws which the people
have made and within the limits of Constitu-
interference of officials of any degree, whether
State or Federal for the purpose of thwarting
or controlling the popular wish, should not be
tolerated.
Now" said Dir. Grady, can such inf
deity to his pledges plead for more ex
tended trust in his honesty? Can the Gov
ernor who would stoop 20 interfere with
a Senatorial contest, ne trusted to ab.
stain rs President from all Invasion of the
local afeirs of St8te?y Mr. Grady's ques-
ton of that hour has been answered all
along the line from 1885 TO this date by
Grover Cleveland of Washington. Profess
ing regard for the purity and elevation of