Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-09

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the politics of this country. If you will
| join this party, and work with it in the
months to come, if You will work until the
month of May, you will then have built up
a party which will give Grover Cleveland
the support he needs, and whose nomina-
! tion he will be thankful to accept, knowing
| that he will have party behind him which
| will hold up his hands and will not try to
urag him down. base that assertion upon
my belief in Cleveland as patriot and a
statesman first, last and every time.
A Word or Two for Democrats.
''Now 1 have just word to say to the
| honest money Democrats who are holding
Office. Most of them are men of integrity
| and ability, and yet they do not have half
a chance to be themselves, because they are
| weighted by the same iendlsh party
| pressure which Cleveland knew, and at
present it is pressure which mortals can
not Withstand. Wouldn't common sense
| seem to dictate, that the best thing man
can do under such pressure is to stand
from under and let the whole concern drop?
CHOW q word or two to those voters who
are faint-hearted. What is it to throw
away a vote, or to s'vote in the air." as it is
sometimes called? Isn't it to vote with
party you don't believe in? If the Amer
lean people are satisfied, year after year,
with a choice between two evils, never ask
ing for anything better, they are sure to
have evil as the result of their choice, are
they not? What does loyalty to an old party
mean? Doesn't it mean that voters sur
render their rights as private citizens into
the hands of the political managers? Can
our statesmen be expected to trouble them
selves about the general welfare of the pub
|, IL
please, we are loyal to our old parties?
81 have not much more to say. We have
started on our course and we will not turn
back. 1 wish to repeat the words of the
revered Lowell, which have aready quoted:
SIT is time for lovers of their country to
consider how much of the success of our e1-
pertinent in Democracy has been due to
such favorable conditions as never before
concurred to make such an attempt plausi-
BILE; whether those conditions have changed
and are still changing for the worse; how
far we have been accessories in this degen-
Grafton, if such there be.
''This club cannot rest upon the laurel it
won in 'S4; we have a yet greater work be-
fore US, and those who come after US will take
note of our deeds. When the years have
passed by, what shall our grandsons have to
say of us? May they not say, my grand
father was member of the Massachusetts,
Reform Club, and the Massachusetts, Re-
form Club was the alma mater of the new
party"
Keep Politics Out of the Silver Question.
Yesterday Mr.. Means issued a supple
mentary appeal to the members OF the club,
in which he said:
''The Democratic party is all right now on
the currency question. Do not say Keep
the silver question out of politics, but say
rather Keep politics out of the silver aues-
tion.' 1t would kill Cleveland politically
if he were to accept the nomination of a
party formed especially for the purpose of
advocating the principles which he stands
for. The anti-Cleveland Democrats will
have no use for Cleveland if they are not
left at liberty to treat him as they have in
the past. The Columbian party ought not
to hurt the feelings of the anti-Cleveland
Democrats by taking upon themselves the
task of nominating so prominent Demo-
crat as Cleveland. We do not need a new
party, 'rah for Cleveland. These utterances
are all very well as free expressions of
opinion, but they have no reference to the
arguments which were presented for
answer
''Within very few days a member of the
Reform Club told me that Cleveland had
said to him personally that he (Cleveland)
couldn't work any more reform than he did
IN the civil service without breaking up his
party.
"Of course that fact has long been known,
but it is interesting to know also that Cleve-
land had been brought by party pressure
into frame of mind which made him will
ing to make this plant to member of the
Reform Club.
'Perhaps it ought to be considered an ap-
peal rather than plant. The way to re-
spond to this appeal is not to put him un-
der his former handicap, but to give him a
party which will support him. 1t is impos-
sible to get away from the fact that if he is
not supported by the Columbian party he
will have no support at all 1t would be
simple irony to call the backing of the
Democratic party support Possibly in
their present straits the Democrats might |
be coerced into nominating Cleveland, but |
it is one thing to nominate candidate and |
another thing to support himif he is elected. |
The Columbians have made a good choice in |
naming their party. For one thing, the |
name means that they will not turn back. |
at is name especially proper for the year |
1892, and it suggests struggles, disappoint- |
ments and final success which will surely be |
the lot Of our undertaking."