Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-04
cIEvEnIND,s M4NIFEsr DESTINY.

fIEt EN- IpS M u IFESI DESIIaI.
lie win he Nominated and Elected
whether New York he for or Against
Him.
A, Il. Mcclure in Philadelphia Times, on Mon
daH. -
If the Democratic National Convention
had to meet at this time, or at any time IN
the near future, TO select u candidate for
President. it would nominate Grover
Cleveland by practically unanimous vote
outside of New York and il would noml-
nate him quite rs enthusiastically and as
overwhelmingly if New York were against
him as il New York favored him. Most
OF the New York Democratic leaders know
the truth a few possibly deliberately re-
fused to see the truth, and some who know
the truth and some who don't seem to
know il, persist in constant and often cow
ardlv assaults upon Mr.. Cleveland.
The swift mutations of American politics
might make MIR. Cleveland less available,
or some other man more available, Is
months hence, but it is not probable. If
such a condition of public sentiment
should arise, the same people who to-day,
would nominate and elect Mr.. Cleveland
President, with or without New York,
would then be quite sure to select q candi-
GATE regardless Of the demands of the poll
teal leaders who dream the idle dream
tnat because they can barter themselves
into continued power i'll New YORK CitN,
they can barter themselves into national
power.
The oracies of this always arrogant and
often perdiuus political power in New
York are now earnestly striving tn I'M
press the Democrats Of the country that no
Democrat can be elected President in 1872
unless he is tine favorte Of Tammany Hall
and its surroundings. They declare from
day to day that New York is the battle
ground for 1872, and every such .decara-
tiun is coupled with either direct or
subtle assault upon MIR. Cleveland. 70 lost
to all political reason have these Leaders
become that they openly demand that
saloon politics shall be natianaliHed by the
Democratic convention i'll the selection Of
It's candidate for Presidents and the licrtidY
that defeated Hancock in 1850 and that de-
feated Cleveland in ISIS again protrudcs
its fangs and threatens honest Democracy
with betrayal and death.
II is quite time that these leaders, who
are ever really To hetray great national
cause for the plumber of a great city should
know that the Democratic and reform
people of the country have to-day but one
candidate for President, and that candidate
is Grover Cleveland. They would to-day
speak million-tongued for his nomination,
and they are strengthened in the resolution
to make him their candidate by the
enemies he has made, and especially the
enemies he has made in New York. The
Democratic people have twice seen honest
Democratic candidates for President
smitten by the blows Of traders in their
own political household, solely because of
their integrity; and these people know that
neither Mr. Cleveland nor any other
honet Democrat will be safe from the
1ammany traders unless he is certain to
he successful without their aid.
II was Grover Cleveland who defined so
sharply that none could misunderstood il
the issue of oppressive taxation Of the
people in the interest of monopoly greed,
and il was Grover Cleveland who com
nanded the trust of the people by his stub
born fidelity to honest government and his
implacable hostility to jobbing protligacy;
and on the issues which were so clearly
embodied in his distinct personality he
carried the country by an increased ma
iority over the vote of 1891, only to be be-
trayed and beaten in New York by these
who hated him because he is Just. To-day
the great north has broken from its puliti-
cal bondage by a revolution that exhibits
change of over 100000 in the popular vote,
and both north and south, forthe first time
since the war, unite to give the largest
popular majority of American history in
favor of reduced taxes and honest govern
ment-the issues which point TO Grover
Cleveland as their master leader,
Inc people VINO MrolSlll lne ulltAdnlllta
revolution of 1880 will take no step back
ward. They will vote in 1882 as they voted
in 1890. Whether they shall vote the
Democratic ticket or whether they shall
vote some other national ticket, they Will
vote for candidates who favor what
achieved the late victory. If the Demo-
Gratis shall present the candidate who most
plainly cmbodies hostility to monopoly
taxes and iobbing prolligacy, half Of New
England, and fully half the Republican
states west of Pennsylvania, would cast
their electoral votes for him, with Penn
sylvania fairly doubtful and New York
certain to vote Democratic solely because
it couldn't betray and defeat him. If it
were possible for New York leaders to
nationalize saloon politics by the defeat of
MIR. Cleveand's nomination, the Demo-
Gratis, in the present condition of public
sentiment, would lose every dehatahle
state; the anti-tax and antiiobbng voters
of the country would divide between the
Democratic machine and third party
that could poll from one to two million
votes, and thus give the Republicans the
victory
The people want tax and tariff reform;
they want ballot reform; they want civil
service REFORM they want honest govern
ment, and the New Work leaders who now
malignanty revile Mr.. Cleveland are daily
teaching the necessity of his nomination.
Unless Uncomfortable changes in the polit-
ical situation shall occur within the next
wear, Grover Cleveland will be nominated
and elected President in 1882, and he will
be nominated and elected without even
the trouble of an inquiry as to whether
New York shall be for him or against him.
New York will vote for him or for any
other thoroughly honest Democratic Presi-
dental candidate only when pOwerless TO
defeat him, and that would give Cleveland
the vote Of the Empire State in 1892.