The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-14
THE New York Star MARBLES
.1ti.as strong Ticket"

admission of candor by the press, not
blinded by partisan bigOtry.
Says the Cleveland Press:
1t is strong ticket.
If Grover Cleveland was to make
race, he could have no stronger
running mate than Allen G.Thurman.
The Democracy of the nation loves
and reveres the grand old man for his
ability, integrity and the record he
has made, and Tnurman's nomination
will give the Democracy great strength
in New York, New Jersey and Con
necticut, and make some of the Pacific
states the closest kind of fighting
ground
We do not think that Thurman's
nomination will have much II ct up.
on the result in Ohio. To be sure, he
will have warm supporters in Ohio,
and men, too. who do not es rule
actively engage in political work, but
he will also have strong opposition
within his pal ~ ranks. The Mclean
crowd will knife Thurman, partly be
cause he has never hesitated TO de
nounce their nefsi iOus methods as
injurious to the party, partly because
Thurman assisted in the prosecution
of the Franklin forgery cases, aud
more especially because they hate
anyone who is honorable and beyond
the reach of the peculiar Influences
welded by the Mclean gang John
Mclean keeps men In his employ,
under pay, 10 ridicule and abuse the
administration of President Cleveland,
and the nomination of Thurman is
not in the line of pacification of the
Cincinnati boss. This Cincinnati gang
of guerillas is contemplate and ali
that, but it has influence, and its mem
bership is scattered throughout the
state, and will not hesitate to under
mine the Cleveland Thurman electo
raj ticket. Thurman has always had
the enmity OF these political cutthrOats
and he will have it now, when John
Mclean is ambitious to sit IN the u
) Senate, which he knows he will not
do ii the influence of the administra
ton can prevent it. If the Ohio De
mocracy wants q fighting chance. it
must first "read OUT Inc traitors,
forgers, boodIe-hunters and other
scoundreIs who have had too much to
say as to party management in the
past years. Until this be done aud
the machinery placed in the control of
honest and sincere Democrats it makes
John Smith be nominated-OhiO may
be counted on as Republican. But, rs
already opined, Thurman will be found
q tower of strength elsewhere than in
Ohio. The people of New York state,
of New Jersey, Connecticut, Massa-
chusetts, and other Eastern states, re-
spect ability, honesty and dignity in a
man. They look upon Thurman as of
the same school as that other grand
ex Senator and Statesman, Roscoe
Conkling. They know Thurman as 3
man who waged mighty war for the
people as against the grasping. gigan-
tic corporations, as man who never
hesitated when patriotism called on
him, as man who never quailed in
the presence of the most powerful and
dangerous influence when he knew he
was right and was battling for popular
rights. AS the old Roman, with drawn
sword, stood between the people and
the railroad wolves in the Senate, so
did he later appear as the earnest ad
vOcate for, or impartial, humane judge
of the rights of the workingmen in
their great contests with unscrupulous
and unmerciful capitalists, and it will
be surprising if the great labor organ
izations of the East and their fellow
societies of the West do not remember
this erstwhile champion and friend,
who, rich and powerful himself, with
no personal ambition to promote, bore
out from the courts and the halls of
arbitration the wOrkingman's share of
Justice. Nor must Thurman's popu
larity among people of the Pacific
slope be lost sight of. There are IL
electoral votes out there, two more
than Indiana has, two more than New
Jersey and Connecticut combined pos.
sess. With the Pacific slope, Indiana.
Connecticut, and the solid South, the
Democracy can afford to lose New
York's electoral vote, and the fsct that
Thurman was the candidate of Cali
fornia in the convention argues that
the people of the Pacific slope have
not forgotten his patriotic services for
the people as against the railroad lob
byiSts who Were corrupting pretty
nearly everything in Washington
when Thurman was in the Senate.
NEW YORK HERALD: Cleveland
and Thurman have been nominated.
The Democrats have selected a success :
full President and venerated states
man, to lead the ticket. Cleveland is
worthy to sit in the choir of Jefferson
and jackson. Thurman to succeed
Calhoun and Van Buren.
N. Y. TIMES: The Democratic par
ty has put two able and trusted men
Eefore the country as its candidates.
We may fairly say its two ablest and
most trusted, and it enters upon the
contest for the Presidency upon plat
form unusually sound, temperate and
manly. Beyond question, Thurman's