Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-03-29
TUESDAY MARCH 90. 1892
A Good Example.

Aswe have heretofore stated, CIEyE-
LAND club. consisting OF good ana true
Democrats. has been organized IN th's
city. These gentlemen prefer NJ CLEvE-
LAND TO all other men MS the nominee OF
The next Democratic National Convention
for President Of the United States. and they
have deemed 1t their privilege and their
duty 20 do all they can 20 secure 20 tEeiT
favorite the Office which they areso anxious
20 have him occupy. No sound Democrat,
jmbued with the sound principles OF his
party, would ever think OF denying 20 ms
fellow-citizens the right TO promote the
cause of good government in their own
way.
1t was with much pleasure that we read
IN the published report Of the proceedings
OF the Richmond Cleveland Club in o.
ganizing for the presidential campaign the
statement that the object OF the club Is
"to organize those whose FIRST choice FOR
President is GROVER CIEvELASD, but who
desire the Virginia delegation 10 60 to to
the National Democratic Convention tn
pledged and uuinstructed. so that they
may act for the best Interests of the Demo-
cratic party" We have all along favored
the course thus resolved upon by the
Cleveland Club. We have several times
reminded our readers of the great influence
which the Virginia delegation 70 the
Democratic National Convention of 1876
exercised in that body as a consequence
of going TO st. LOUIS unpledged but ready
TO vote for the man who should seem TO
them. after full consultation with their
brother Democrats from all parts OF that
country, the pest equipped for the battle
royal that was then imminent. In the
convention Judge MEREDITH, OF this city,
was made chairman of the Committee ON
the Platform Of the Democratic Party, the
Hon. THOMAS S. FLoURSoY was chosen 10
fecond the nomination OF MIR. IrDEN'
and Virginian 1--WE cannot recall has
name) was appointed on the committee Sc
Jected 10 inform Mr.. TILDEs of his nomi.
nation.
We saw. therefore, that the Richmond
Cleveland CLUB have set good example.
They propose to do all they can 10 better
she fortunes of their fayorite until the
,nembers Of the national convention shall
have come face 10 face IN Chicago, and
then either to continue their labors ~
that behalf or to array themselves under
the banner ot new favorite, as may then
and there seem to them the wisest course.
We see no reason whatever for Directing
10 this programme If the members of the
Richmond Cleveland Club shall walk in
the way which they have thus blazed out
for themselves, they will find themselves
an due time in the path that leads to Demo
cratic success in the pending presidential
campaign. They will never regret having
adopted wise policy. Three months
hence all good Democrats will become
united upon one man, and before Novem-
her arrives we shall under that one ever
favored so strenuously on the one hand,
or advocated so uncompromisingly on the
other. to the nomination OF any particular
aspirant.
Let us all agree to disagree for a short
snace Of time-say for thirteen weeks. Then
we shall all agree TO agree. 1t Is less THAI
three months from now 20 the time OF the
assembling of the Democratic National
Convention. CLEVELAND men, HILL men,
GoRUAN men. PATTIsoS men, WHITNEY
men, GRAY men, and all other men who are
Democrats can surely control their tempers
while they set forth the merits of their
fayorites. They can, as the Cleveland
Club propose to do, advocate the man of
their choice without traducing the other
aspirants. A friendly tussle viii do no
harm. Let there he fair play all round
the board. We shall not expect any INA
chine methods" TO be resorted to here in
Richmond, ii what are styled machine
methods" are Objectionable. But If the
organization of Democratic clubs, making
Democratic speeches, encouraging Demo-
cratic voters and working for Democratic
success constitute machine methods"
then. like SIKEsY. we are ready TO run
with the machine"