Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-02
THE MAN AND THE ISSUE.
Cleveland Certain to Be Nominated and
Electcd-His Tariff Reduction Message
VIII Do 1t.


Cleveland Certain to he Nominated and
Electcd-His Tariff Reduction Message
VIII Do 1t.
As the day set for the Chicago convention
approaches suppliants for its undoubted
honors and their possible disappointments
multiply. 1t is a barren State that will NOT
make the virgin walls Of the auditorium
echo with unstinted praise of favorite son.
Certain States will be embarrassed with
more than one candidate Certain others
VIII lament, as Indiana in 1854, that they
have any local candidate at all Clearly
apparent as it is that no candidate will be
able to marshal any thing like a majority
upon the first ballot the outcome of the con-
ventlon no man can predict. Republicans
can do no more than hope for the best in q
situation altogether novel to the party that
for quarter of a century held the reins of
Government
The situation regarding the earlier June
convention, says the Chicago Times, is de-
cidedly different. The denomination of
Grover Cleveland is as fully and certainly
forshadowed as was the denomination OF
Lincoln and of Grant. Like assertion two
years ago would have been hazardous.
Many Democrats were disappointed, even
chagrlncd, at the course of the President
regarding the distribution of the offices, the
rewards for which selfish and narrow
minded partisans struggle. Though it would
DC natural and proper as time went ON and
vacancies occurred that the President should
select Democrats, long ostracised from pub
lie employment, violent partisans would not
brook delays. If Grover Cleveland would
not make the clean sweep which the first
OF the Republican Pres ldents had made
before Bull Run was fought their voice and
influence would be for another jackson.
Until the sober sense of the great body of
the party, the four and o half millions, four
millions Of whom at least are not Office
hunters was clearly manifested, some part
OF he Democratic party fancicd that lead
er to their liking might be found in the Gov
erIor OF Ecw York, politician who, trim
ming as regards the tariff, Is outspoken in
his advocacy of the spoils doctrine. This re-
source has failed neither Hill nor any other
Democrat will he named at the st. Louis
convention in opposition to Cleveland.
The character, antcccdents, and close as
sociations of the later nominees will effect
Tor better or worse the chances of Cleve-
lands reelection. The expression of tho
Chicago convention upon the all-important
question Of the reduction of National taxes
VIII have its influence for good or i'll upon
the public mind. But Cleveland will enter
NfSN VIZ NoAAA Will OONlOuS dQ-
Vantages. He has been wise, Industrious,
prudent, honest and courageous. He has
been pre-eminently safe. The same con-
servatlsm which feared and fought against
his election lest disaster follow the change
TO which the country had grown unaccus-
toned, now that its fears have been dis
peiled, will battle in his behalf
But Clcvcland's strongest claim upon the
suffrage as upon the regard of his fellow
citizens, taxed in time of profound peace as
they ought not to be taxed were the Nation
struggling for its very existence, lies in his
earnest, clear-cut, intelligent and courage
Gus demand for tariff reduction.
Politicians may incline to circumscribe
the States in which the real battle of the
coming campaign will be fought. The man
and tho issue presented by the st. Louis
convention will make a battlefield of every
State in the Union, even Of Pennsylvania.