St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-23
FOR PRESIDENT
GROVER CLEVELAND.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
hDLAI E. STEVENSON.
CAMPAIGN METHODS.

There is 10 shabbier article of wear
Eng apparel in the United States today
than the bloody shirt which once was
the most powerful of forces in shaping
the political deStinies of the country.
For twenty years the intelligent dis
cussion of an economic problem was an
impossible undertaking in a national
campaign. The Tapping of the red
dyed garment was the one persistent
answer to every criticism on the wisdom
of the Republican party's legislation or
the personal character of the men it
raised to office. Even more effective than
the corruption fund on which it now re-
lies was its stock of Southern outrage
stories deliberately fabricated by corps
ofcompilant romancerS in its employ. The
Sharpest rapier thrust of the most dis
interested OF statesmen was dulled by
lying report of a negro murdered i'm
Alabama, and under the pretense of de-
Tending the freedmen of the cotton belt
i'll their newly acquired rights the
enemy reduced the North to the bond
age of modern protectioniSm. The dam
ger OF the Union is in its territorial ex-
tent. Men who know little of each
other, because thousands of Intervening
miles make communication difficult and
tnfreQuent, grow to be enemies from
being strangers. Had the gospel of
hate continued till this hour to COM
mand the faithful devotion of majority
Of our people, God alone could tell
what would have been the outcome.
The bright flowers of prosperity
and happiness do not spring from
soil fortified by bitterness and
angry feelings. They are the fair har-
vest of peace, confidence and mutual
affection, and to GROVER CLEVELAND
is due their presence in our land today.
The patriotism and moderation of his
administration put to rest forever the
issue of sectional animosity and diyis-
lon. He proved IN the eyes of all fair
minded men that the war Is over, and
that devotion to the stars and stripes
is sentiment more deeply cherished in
no one quarter OF the country than in
another. Whether it be the verdict in
November that his hand shall once
more direct the ship of state, or that he
Shall pass the rest of his life III hOnored
retirement, he will forever enjoy the
grateful esteem OF the good and ap-
preciative. His contributions to the
elevation of American politics are
greater than those of any other man
who ever occupied the White house
His influence and direction transformed
partisan contests from a foul inter
change of cruel personalities into a strug-
gle of principles. The voters of the
United States at the coming election
Will be called on to express their views
on conflicting issues of policy, not on
the truth or falsity of newspaper abuse.
GROVER CLEVEL AND had the courage
ard the nobility of character to insist
on an appeal to popular reason rather
than to popular prejudice, and the
method of his invention is the method
which is approved and applauded by
the decent everywhere today. The
efforts of fools and hypocrites to effect
a return to the base tactics of earlier
campaigns excite only Indignation and
loathing. This is battle of education.
The truth is on the Democracv'S side.
The only question is as to whether it
has had the time and the skill to make
the people recognize and embrace the
truth.