Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-06-27
A work WELL DONE.
With Splendid Leaders and a Sound Plat
form the Democracy Is Ready to Max
= Winning Fight.

With Splendid Leaders and a Sound Plat
form the Democracy Is Ready to Make
Winning Fight.
The Democratic National convention has
done its work well, says tho Albany argus,
and the entire country is satisfied with it.
The name it has placed in the field for the
Presidential campaign carries with it the
assurance Of q most glorious victory. 1t
had been, long before the convention was
thought of, forogone conclusion that Presi-
dent Cleveland should succeed himself, and
when State after State instructed delegates
tovote only for the stout-hcarted incorrupti-
bic leader IN the White House, the thought
of opposition TO him vanished The Arjus,
in pursuance with its usual course of re-
framing from any thing that would APP
pear like dictation to the Democratic con-
vention as to what choice it should make,
did not attempt to forestall the action Of
that body by holding convention in its
columns and making nominations like so
many Of its esteemed contemporaries.
The record which Grover Cleveland has
made, not only for himself, but also for his
party, by his wise and prudent administra-
ton of the affairs of the Nation, made his
nomination question of simple justice and
gratitude on the part of the Democracy.
He has gone forward on the path of duty
he marked out for himself four years ago.
when he received the highest honor in the
gift of the people, swerving neither to the
right nor to the left, calm and unmoved
amid the storms of malice, misrepresenta-
ton and bitter partisanship that ragged
around him. Enemies have beset his path
at every step.
He has stood in the way of so MANY
schemes, he has protected the Treasury
from so many daring raids, and has been so
1nfiexlble in carrying out the pledges of his
party to the people, that he has drawn upon
himself intolerant, abusive and unjust at
tacks such as no other faithful servant of
the people has been subjected to. The
American people, who have never failed to
sympathize with an Official of theirs unjust
ly assalled, have been drawn closer to Mr.
Cleveland by reason of tho malignant war
fare waged upon him. They have also
learned to respect the Presidents indlvidu-
atty and Independence. From the begin
ming of his public career he made it appar-
ent that whatever might be the points in
which he was lacking. through inexpcrience
and unfamiliarity, he had ideas of his own
and meant to start out in his administra-
ton with policy and purpose.
The politicians found they had no man Of
wax whom they might mold to their pleas
ure, but a man who was acting out himself
and manfully striving to do his duty by the
Nation They were compelled to acknowl-
| edge that such a course was making Mr.
Cleveland tremendously popular, and that
his popularity was genuine, rested on a
sound basis and had been abundantly
earned byvhimself. The people sec in Mr..
! Cleveland a man who honestly and earnest
ly strives to bring about lasting reform in
every branch of the Government and has
| reaped the reward of his patriotic labor
Politicians of selfish type NAV carp at
| him, but they know he has established him
| self with the people. The respect and es-
TEEN in which he is held by Republicans is
something which no observant man among
them fails to see; the many predictions of
Democratic disaffection have ended in
unanimous Endorsement in every conven-
ton held by the party.
! 1t was but natural that the seal of ap-
prevail should be stamped on his grand and
/ popular Administration by the National
convention Of his party.