The Forrest City times., 1892-09-16
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The meeting of the general com- mittees of TammanY l,all in New York on Friday night last-the speeches. the resolutions, the spirit thereof-are all indicative of a loyalty to the democrat ie cause and the democratic candidates surpassed in enthuiasm at the opening of no presidential canvass in the histo- ry of the party.
 The visit of MT. Cleveland to New York, his conference with tine most prominent democratic leaders of tue state and the city on Thursday, his manifest satisfaction with what he saw and learned, equally the manifest satis- faction of his friends with the result of the consultations, afford unquestion- able evidence that there are no further misunderstanding at 10 the plan of the campaign, and that there is 10 be unanimity of action all along the dem ocratic lines.
 "The conference at the Victoria hotel on Thursday night, says chairman Sheehan, was tine formal opening of the democratic campaign There is every reason to believe that it has opened auspiclonsly and that with the changed condition of the past few days the man. agers of Mir. Harrison's canvass have becoine aroused as they never were be- fore, to the seriousness of the situa- tion that confronts them in the Esn- pire state.
 It was a manly act on the part oi Mir. Cleveland ts emerge from his re- tirement at Gray Cables and go over to New York to take counsel with his friends, making no disguise of the fact that his mission Was purely of d politi- cal character, giving unequivocal as- surance to the leaders of his party that he fully realizes the necessity of or ganization which they have wellnigb perfected, and tbus resenting the i'm putation often laid at his door that he IS not in sympathy with the methods essential to make the organization effective.
 The question with Mir. Cleveland is not, or should not be, what shall be done to secure the independent vote, or the vote of the mugwumps, but how to unify and solidify the democratic vote and rally it's individual strength at the polls. The independents, if they are honest in their profession of admiration for Mir. Cleveland, will support him, but as long as they choose to remain outside the democratic line, it will become them to complain of democratic methods or to inveigh against the partisan machinery by which alone the success of Mir. Cleve- land is made possible.
 It is only by thorough. compact az gressive organization that either of the two great parties can expect to carry New York. There are principles at stake which require this organization. The race for presidency cannot be, nor ought it to be a scrub race. It de- mands skillful management and ma nipulation, and above all is the neces- sity that the candidates be in complete touch with the parties of which they are respective standard bearers. Nor does it follow that political methods are corrupt or dishonest methods. They may be quite as legitimate as business methods, and as rule, they are.
 Mir. Cleveland clearly recognizes this fact. As democrat, solicitous for nothing so much as the supremacy of his party, he cannot fail to recognize it, and it is but right that in cam paign of such momentous importance as that now engaging the attention of the country he should place himself in the hands of those who are most com petent to- direct the canvass and who have given him the pledge of their faithful devotion and united support.
 In his campaign-harrangu letter of acceptance, issued from the placid wa ters of Loon Lake. MT. Harrison stated that the tariff doctrines as enunciated in the national democratic platform, are not the principles taught by Mir. Jefferson. A most unfortunate asser ton to be made by the successor of Mir. Jefferson, who never said one thing and meant another, nor did he ever re- sort to the subtitle subterfuge of decep- ton to gain or retain office. No one familiar with MT. Jefferson's teachings can be left in doubt as to where he would, if living, stand on the tariff is- sue which now divides the two great political parties of the country. MT. Harrison seems to be unmindful of the times and their particular surrouud- ings wher Mir. Jefferson wrote. Our industries were then all in swaddling cloths of infancy, where the fostering care of the government was necessary to theAe continued existence. There were no monster monopollsts in that day dictating the policy of the govern ment: no Carnegies luxuriating in lord