Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-06-20
THE RENoMLNArloN.
President Cleveland ITe Is and President
Cleveland IIc VIII BE IInIiI ISn2

freslueht cleveland tfe Is and President
Cleveland Hc WIN BE Until 1898.
Grover Cleveland has been rcuominatcd
! FOR the Office of President-a position Of
power ana magnitude that has been within
the git OF only ono people and one country.
Inc pubic chest iDtrusted to his care is the
richest of which history speaks. The Fed
eral levy he approves is fourth largest in
nations The army President has called
lorth was the greatest that has responded
| 10 either patriotism or conscrption. The
scope OF his force upon the llves of his fel.
low-countrymen rs usually broader than.
the vision Of men. Without the American
character the Presidency would be impos-
sioici with that character as a basis, there
Is sun grave matter for consideration in
making choice of an incumbent.
That Grover Cleveland is the leader Of the
people has proof in his message of last De-
ceInber, the most remarkable of public doc
uinents issued since the war That be is
better than the mass Of his party, saws
the Chicago Herald, may be learned by a
contrast OF his walk in the right with the
shambling gait in which the convention an
proaches the line laid out for it by the man
who led 1t out of egypt. That he is even
brayer than the mass of Jeffersonians in bis
party may be suspected when we behold
henry Watterson upholding single-handed
The cause OF the champion Whom Watterson
not long ago so ludicrously undervalued.
France was once cursed with Faineant
Kings; America has been tried equally with
donothing Congresses That Cleveland
should be renamed before his message had
been sent back 10 a do-nothng Congress
does not comport with the right logic of
events. But II is done 1t is 4 fact. a reality
/ Speaking to tins reality, the commentator
may give notice to the party that, by this
| paliering act, II has surrendered its power
/ OF creator into the hands Of its creature
There IS Of Cleveland his message Of Ds.
ceHnber. To reafirm him is to affirm il. To
send him before the countryis 20 carry bis
| platform to the printer. laasruch as the
| party had no star or victory but in his star
! Of destiny, SC that party must fall with his
message. VIA 1t, can it deny, that to refuse
unequiyocal Endorsement 10 that message Is
to destroy the hrst Of its own chances of
SUGGEST
This man Cleveland has been in enough
crisis to show his meitlc. When a big veto
was necessary nc sent it in as wilhnglv as
ne pat his signature on the roaring down
fail OF J. 9. BlaiBe's Government tcinple ar
Bar Haroor. The Fairchiids have palsied
MS arm the Forakcrs have measured his
neck; the thieves and scoundrels for whom
the people have timidly permitted him In
reach out have recorded his weight. The
party of reform $50 promlsed) have met and
1 have locked TO no other source Of encouraoo-
inent and direction. There is no lodging
the issue between high and low taxes
Should the party stulhfy itself how. It win
lose IN ls52. u can not change the question
tnat Cleveland has put TO the polls No
other motion IS in order Cleveland win ha
elected, though he send 70 recreant Demo
Grants, as his letter OF acceptance, as bitter
a rf;ilippic as he transrnis ted to q Congress-
that gave no promise of reform.