Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-06-11
"Dixie and Cleveland. .

ST. LOUIS, June 5, 11.35 a. m. The |
first band to enter the hall was the
Fifth Regiment band of Baltimore, one |
of the finest in the South. 1t struck
the keynote of the convention. 1t en-
tered playing ''Dixie," and the audience
rose to it's feet and greeted the welcome
strains with the most tumultuous greet
ing. The music was the choice of "DiXie'
Land, and it is the music to which the
democratic party is marching. The
South is on top.
I2m Immediately behind the Fifth
Regiment Maryland band marched the
Democratic club of Buffalo, bearing upon
a red silver banner the "Cleveland De
mocracy of Buffalo, The club marched
to the music of ''Dixie," as if their steps
were trained to the march of the South.
At the opening of the great Democratic
National Convention of 1888 ''Dixie"
comes first, Cleveland follows. So it is to
be to the end of the chapter.
The foregoing was despatched
from the great hall which held the
democrats who met at ST. Louis last
week to re-nominate Grover Cleve-
land, and it shows pretty well the
character of the men who are at
present attempting to run the gov
eminent, and who hope to be con-
tinued in power another four years.
And this within twenty-three years
from the time when the loyal men OF
the North, after the great eXpendl-
ture of blood and treasure, succeed
ed in subduing the greatest and
wickedest rebellion in the world S
history! Who are the men who
gather in a great convention to NOM
mate a president? A majority OF
them the men who, as officers, sol
diers and citizens did their utmost
to destroy the very country they
J now seek to rule; the men NORTH
who after four years Of war declared
5 the war ga failure" and the brave mer
t who were in the field "Lincoln's hire
| lings :" the men who did all thel
1 cowardice would allow them to dc
to bring the war to an end with re
| bellion unconqured. These are thu
men, some of them, who were cog
INFANT of the fact and Instruments
in the crime of numbering Thousand
and thousands in the prison pens o
the south; the men who prolonge
the war two years after the success
of rebellion was known to them
:. selves to be a failure these me
who were marching to 'Dlxle,
many of them are men who car
little or nothing for the welfare
the country, so be they can becom
the Tweeds and ''boodlers" of til
great cities and become partners
, things of corruption and plumber.
These are the men who are Clev'
> lands strikers, shouting for I'll
destruction of system of nations
;. revenues that carried the countl
through the great crisis of the wa
~ and has paid more than billion al
- half of the debt created IN Il
shareholders rebellion; these me
who met at ST. Louis and march'
1n and cheered at the sound OF I'D
r. ie." are those who are opposed to
h. system of protection that has create
e. fostered, and made possible al
he profitable, hundreds of industries u
&C. known to the country under a
ms ferent system. These are the m
VS. who would give to Canada, to Gre
" Britain, to the broad world, t
nd privileges and advantages that
he fearing, industrious, intelligel
Ow enterprising people have created
ye themselves; things that belong
lat us as truly as do our lands and