The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-26
A CONTRAST


To those interested in politics, the
following from the indianapolis jour
nal may be interesting:
Grover Cleveland was a young man |
of %, unmarried, and with no family, |
when the war broke out.
BENJAMIN Harrison was a young man |
of %, with wife and two young chill |
dren dependent upon him Tor support, |
when Lincoln's appeal for volunteers
to save the Union cameto him.
Grover Cleveland did not volunteer,
but when the draft came hired a
sailor as a substitute. who died In a
poor house, saying that Cleveland
still owed him s150 for his services.
Benjamin Harrison abandoned
lucrative civil Office To which he had
been elected by the people, left his
family, raised regiment and went 70
the war, remaining until the end,
marching with Sherman to Atlanta
and from the sea to Washington.
Grover Cleveland remained at home
in Buffalo, in inconspicuous safety.
Benjamin Harrison stOTmed the
bFeastworks at Resacca, and at Peach
Tree creek evoked the praise OF his
superior officer, and for his bravery
and ability was made brigadier gen.
eral.
Grover Cleveland by means of what
he calls cleveland luck'' became pres
dent of the United States through the
murder and suppression Of republican
majorities in the southern states, and
| through the grOssest crimes and frauds
upon the ballot in New York city.
Benjamin Harrison by reason OF his
| high character, great abilities and
| superior qualifications, has gradually
grown into the esteem of the people,
until he has become the nominee or his
party for the presidency.
Grover Cleveland through his party
| friends humbly pleads for campaign
in which personalities" may be es-
| cheWed.
Benjamin Harrison through his party
friends, invites the most rigid scrutiny
into every act of his public and private
life.
. Grover Cleveland is the nominee of a
party that endeayored to destroy the
/ union and the government.
/ BENJAMIN Harrison is nominee OF a
rarty through whose agency the union
was preserved and the government
maintained.
Grover Cleveland is the nominee of a
party which threw the country into a
civil war to perpetuate human slavery.
Benjamin Harrison is the nominee OF
party which made free men and cit
liens out of the slaves, his own sword
and valor assisting in the great work.
Grover Cleveland is the nominee OF
party that tried to naturaliZe slavery
in the constitution.
BENJAMIN Harrison is the nominee of
a party that wrote freedom to all men
In the organic law of the nation.
Grover Cleveland is the nominee of a
party that has waded through blood to
power; that has suppressed the votes Of
4 ornh uIlSnA ffonlf with oil
ner of crime against the ballot-fraud
forgery, false counts, intimidation
midnight whippings, and assassination
and murder.
Benjamin Harrison is the nominee OF
party that declares it ''the supreme
and sovereign right of every lawful cit
iZen, rich or poor, native or foreign
born, white or black, to cast one fre'
ballot in public elections, and to have
that ballot duly counted; and holds the
free and honest popular ballot, and thu
just and equal representation of all thu
people to be the foundation of repub
Iican government"
Grover Cleveland is the nominee of /:
party that denounceS the system" o.
protection to American industry, ant
seeks to introduce free trade under tn,
guise of a revision of the tariff.
Benjamin Harrison is the NOMINEES
Il VI a parry OAdO uCCld1C co 1OoO1 uAlCO1u
promisingly in favor of the American
system of protection, and opposed t.
its destruction, as proposed by tn
) president and his party"
Grover Cleveland is the nominee of
party whose policy is hailed with salts
faction and hope throughout free trad
England.
Benjamin Harrison is the nominee o
party pledged to Support the inter
ests of America"
Grover Cleveland's administrator
permits the introduction of Chimes
labor into the United States by failuT
to enforce the law, and because tn
treaty with China is still hung up b
Incompetence in the state department
Benjamin Harrison is the nominee G
a party pledged to hostility to the intro
duction into this country of fOreig
contract labor and of Chinese labor
alien to our civilization and our const
, tuition, and demanding the rigid Ell
fOTcement of the existing laws agains
it, and favoring such immediate legIi
lation as will exclude such labor frOI
our shores.