The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-10-25

hon. GEORGE n. WENDLlN1t OA
Iational renown as lecturer Of pro-
ound ability and brilliant accomplish
nents, in speech recently delivered
t Shelbyville, Ind, gave the follow
ng as his reasons for supporting Pres
dent Cleveland:
Il am for Grover Cleveland. l am
or him, not because he is Democrat,
lot because he is the nominee of the
st. Louis convention, but because L
believe that he is as unselfish AMI de-
voted patriot as Abraham Lincoln,
as sagacious politician as William
Ii. Seward, as simple and unpreten-
tioas as Ulysses 8. Grant, as incor-
ruptibIe as Roscoe Conkling, and be
cause he combined all those shining
qualities with the iron will and iron
nerve of Andrew jackson, and took
by the throat the greatest enemy to
human labor and human freedom that
the world has known since human
slavery went down before the eman-
cipstion proclamation. 1 hail Grover
from the chains of protected monop'
oily. / greet him in the name of mil
lions of toilers in mines and factories,
on prairies and in forests, as their
bondage of an insidious taxation that
drains their resources and would keep
them and their children race of hirO-
lings. / believe such men as Cleve-
purpose. 1 see Washington front un-
| fiinchiDgly the power of q British
king see Jackson with the righteous
rage and strength of Sampson throttle
the United States Bank 1 see Lincoln
with divine strength in his troubled
heart and divine compassion in his
sad face, strike down slavery; l see
Cleveland shifting with the power of q
giant gigantic wrong, the last relic
of feudalism on our continent, and
then see that God reigns in the his
tory of nations, and raises up great
man for each great crisis.
81 care nothing for the present gains
of politics. I have asked no personal
favors, will ask none at Cleveland'l
hands. I have seen him, talked with
him, admired his rugged honesty, his
broad common sense. his conservation
Of himself to duty. He believes in
God and believes in the people, and
believe as he does, and believe in
Cleveland, too. He led his party to
victory with the grandest motto that
ever a leader wrote on his banner
Tell the truth. He would not lie tC
get the Office; he would not lie to keeI
it. He has torn away the veil and
exposed the inequalities and iDjustice
of the protective system, and. faithful
to his motto, he told the truth. He
came up. not through luxury, but
through adversity. to his high place
and he learned iu his youth, and
knows far better than Gen. Harrison
knows. the struggles and the bitterness
of ill r.quited toll. L utter not one
word against the character r intellect
ual fitness of Benjamin Harrison. H.
is honest, but-so is William Wander
bilt. He is upright, but-so is many
an English duke. He is shrewd, but
so is Wall street banker. He il
respectable. but-so is the high salarieC
manager of many an eastern manager
of many an eastern insurance com pa
ny. He is able. else he would no
have been for many years the western
representative in federal courts of tn,
most powerful corporations But
want for President now in this coutes
with the millionaires man who's,
honesty, shrcwdness, and sympathie
. are enlisted in behalf of the poor, in
behalf of the wage Garner, in behal
of the farmer, aud pot in behalf of tn,
so-cailed legal tights of thousands o
factory lords and kings
L do not fer one moment doub
Grover Cleveiand's triumphant re
election. His message, stripping bar
the iniquity of protection, was a bugl
cali. a war cry, that has stirred gen
erous people as never since Lincoll
called for men TO save the Union
Millions of Americans who love free
dom, fraternity and equp lity, are re
spending to his summons for bel,
against the mighty, aud the uprisin.
Of liberty loving people is sublime
We are on the threshold of a new era
An era in which We shall see fewe
Lnillionaires, but see instead greate
prosperity more evenly distributed
throughout the land"