Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-23
CLEVELAND AND THURMAN.
It Is . Grand Ticket and wm Be . orani I<F Victory.

It h . Grand Ticket and Wm Be . Grand |<F Victory.
 The mature reformer and the venerable statesman comprise the ticket. Tho great administrator. and the profound turist lead the party. The skilful executive and tho grand expounder of the constitution arc united in the cause of the people. The man of destiny and the sage of Ohio re- ceive the highest honors of the Democ- racy. The chieftain in the prime of life and the aged but undaunted hero of an hundred fights are together presented to the suffrages of the nation.
 The men are alike in the substance of their characters. Each is aggressively true. The distinction of each rests on implacable hostility to public wrongs. Each is name to conjure with, force to win with wherever integrity needs . l friend, uprightness an example, courage an illustration. manhood type, faith in | the people an incentive, devotion to the l supreme law a model, reliance on con- science vindication. and the reward of honesty proof. Cleveland is the Thur man of the new Democracy. Thurman | Is the Cleveland of the better days of the republic. It has devolved on the president to lead his party to victory, and, happier than Moses, to go with them into the possession and reclam- ation of the promised land. It has de- volved many time on his nlustrious col league to head the forces of the constitu- tion against the victorious cohorts of centralization, to deserve success while not achieving it, and to await with phi losophy the return of reason to an impas- stoned people. Had the fiat of the AL mighty cast the time and lot of Cleveland in the period and tasks of Thurman, the | 9<,ff f1,a Nax xtr would have wrought out for him . his- tory not unlike to that of the son of Ohio. | Had the latter been confronted with the duties assigned to the chief magistrate, | he would have performed them with the same indomitable resolution
 Both in dissimilar environment have displayed analogous characteristics. To neither is indirection possible. In the one
 is the same wholesome simplicity that is
 in the other. By each is the same judi
 cially clear intellect exhibited. By both
 is the same tendency to repose action on
 the bed rock of principle constantly shown.
 Not will 1t win or Josef but should it be
 donef is the question asked by the minds
 of both. In standing by the compromises
 of the Federal compact, Thurman exhib
 ited strength of purpose and Q clarity
 of vision not exceeded by Cleveland when
 enforcing the reforms of the later time
 Neither has found any work for the honor
 of the party and for the veal of the peo
 pie too small or too large to do. when
 called to it by fellow citizens. Before he
 was summoned to his exalted duties ir
 the state and in the nation, Mir. Cleve
 land was yielding the fail of the
 veto on the stealing jobs of ras
 cally set of retail robbers in Buffalo. IL
 both Democratic scoundrels are the worst
 of all scoundrels. They add to wicked
 ness against the people the turpitude oi
 party betrayal. They combine injury tt
 the public with dishonor to the organiza
 tion, on which depend the best hopes oi
 men for liberty regulated by law. By Re
 publcans their undoing is punishment
 only. By Democrats their overthrow
 augments discontinue with the vindica
 tion of the faith of which the followers O
 Jefferson aro put in trust. Not more com pletely has Cleveland brought to thei
 downfall the banded abusers of delegated
 or usurped powers than Thurman in tn.
 chamber of state put the defenders ana
 benefciaries of the credit mobilier in tht
 pillory of public scorn, and fastened or
 the Pacific railway rings the powers oi
 the law of his own framing. The ad
 ministrative reformer and the Legislative
 reformer are the superlative Democrat,
 of the day. Match themi - Brooklyn
 EaQle.