Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-06-16


By its action yesterday IN renomi
Mating President Cleveland By aecla
nation and without dissenting vote
The National Convention simply rsti
fed and pat into effect conclusion
which had already been reached BY
tine Democratic masses 81 the country,
and been manifested in one State con.
vention after another. 1t was not the
case OF preference By some States
and Of acquiesence BY Others, bat OF .
spontaneous and universal wish in the
expression Of winch the various States
Wed with one another in friendly NV
airy. Not since the days Of the early
Presidents has there been such entire
unaniInity in partys choice, and
the scene Yesterday in which this
great uprising Of popular feeling cul-
minated was without doubt The most
thrilling ever witnessed in = political
gathering
There Is profound moral As well
as political lesson in Yesterday event
and It Is a lesson which cannot be too
strongly urged upon the attention Of
the young men Of the country. It has
come to be one Of the accepted aphor-
isms of modern politics that a man
cannot succeed in reaching high polit-
icaI preferment without knowing the
ropes and standing in with the
boys, which IS another way Of saying
that man cannot succeed in politics
without cultiyating he arts OF the
demagOgue The immeasurabIy val
uable lesson of Mr.. Cleveland-s career
Is that it places the stamp Of falsity
upon tins profigate doctrine. No man
in the history Of the United States
has risen 50 suddenly and so rapidly
through the various stages TO the high
est political Office on earth as Mr..
Cleveland, and yet if cannot be denied
that no public man since Washington.
jefferson and Madison has so utterly
repudiated the demagogic arts BY
which it IS too often assumed that
political success must be won.
The rise of Nh. Cleveland and the
splendid career which eliminated
yesterday illustrate the triumph of the
moral forces Of society and a deveL
opcd public conscience over the in
trigues and the trickery Of profes-
sional politicians -Four years ago.
and ever since two men, representing
contrasting types in the public life of
the country, confronted one another.
Hoaors and success came to Dir. Cleye-
land Che did not seek them as the re-
ward Of honest, diligent, answering.
painstaking performance of the duty
that lay at hand Mr.. Cleveland trust
ed to the people to recognize con-
scientious work and loyal devotion to
duty. He is President of the United
States. the idol of his party. and will
lead it again to victory. Mr.. Blaine
trusted to his perfect mastery of the
art and science of political chicane
and to the dazzling effect on the people
Of spectacular intellectual qualities.
He failed twice to secure the nomina-
ton which he deliberately sought, and
when he won it the third time was in
glorously defeated at the polls, and
ne is nov in retirement from which
he is not likely to emerge.
There is lesson, we say, in these
events-in these two careers-which |
should be commended to the patient
and studious contemplation of the
countrY's young men, to whom will I
be confded its political future. 1t is /
the pregnant lesson that honesty, in
telectual, as well as moral, unbending
integrity, firnness of purpose, will
ingness TO appeal to the intelligence
and moral sentiment of the people |
rather than to rely upon deceiying or
hoodWinking them, mark the plain
and laurel strewn pathway to the
highest honors the Republic has to |
bestoW Republic.