The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-30
SOME REASONS WHY.

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World.
There are msny reasons why Grover
Cleveland is a stronger candidate for
he suffrages of the American people
than he was in 1888 and many reasons
why Benjamin F. Harrison is a,weaker
candidate.
The truth of this assertion is shown
in the incidents attendant upon the two
great nominating conventions, which
have put these candidates inithe field.
Grover Cleveland's increasing popu-
larity is shown in the fact that he re-
ceived more than two thirds of the vote
of the democratic convention on the
first ballot, in face of the fact that the
organization of his own state was
against him and the further fact that
this more than two thirds vote was
equally distributed over our wide ex-
tent of territory, with its varied and
diversified interests. ....
Benjamin +. Harrison's,. decreasing
popularity is eyinced in the fact that
with the organization of his own state
in his favor he won the nomination by
a simple majority vote and that vote
made up almost entirely from states
that cannot possibly carry single vote
for him into the Electoral College,
Grover Cleveland's nomination was the
crystalized will of National Democracy
for a man of answering allegiance to
the principles of tariff reform and local
self-government, versus force bill
with the hayonet behind It,.
Benjamin F. Harrison's nomination
was the triumph of the federal office
holder and sectional boss trampling
down the bravest and strongest oppon-
ent of progressive Republicapism in
the party today, James G. Blaine, who
gave to the Harrison administration
all the eclat it ever has won.
In 1888, Republican disaffection had
not ripened into the scandals that have
characterized the Harrison admins
tration. Quay of Pennsylvania, was its
high priest, and Quay methods were
worked for all they we're worth to foist
a President on the people against their
will. Both Quay and Dudley, with his
blocks of five, are now understood and
the cyclone taat has struck their block
houses has stripped their chief of his
power.
In 1888 the Billion Dollar Congress
had not arisen to friIter away the sur
plus that had accumulated in the
United States Treasury and hold up
the y Harrison administration to the
scorn and contempt of all honest men
In 1888 the Republican party had not
committed itself to the Mckinley bill
md its sell out to trusts, corporations
md money syndicates, while the labor
ng man has gone steadily down in the
Gale, with shut downs, lockouts and
'scab" rackets on every hand.
Ia 1888 the Republican party had
lot gone back on the fighting soldiers
# the Union and sold out to the pen
ion sharks, who worked through the
'auper pension bill for their own greed
nd gain, changing the honorable re-
yard of service into a poor house ticket
md paying out millions annually to the
ospital shirks and fancy hundred days
nen, while the men who fought the
attles of their country are left out in
he cold. These men remember that
trover Cleveland openly advocated
based on actual service and
lot as a charity sop.
In 1888 the Republican party had not
epudiated James G. Blaine, the man
Vho threw himself into the breach to
ave the Republican party from utter
when the Mckinley bill
lad passed, the House and
Who succeeded by his brilliant
tratagem of Reciprocity in so modify
ng the bill in the Senate that its
iercest edge was gone.
In 1888 the sober second thought of
he American people had not settled
Iown to the fact that tariff reform was
he one great vital need of the people |
md that just in proportion as we un-
oose the manacles of commerce and
in our great and growing
,ountry will We be prosperous as
,eople and potential in the affairs of
nations.
In 1888 the voters of this country
lid not anticipate the menace of the
orce bill, conceived by the Billion Dol
ar Congress and the imminent danger
o the domestic. institutions of every
tate, north as we'll as south, In the
passage of such a bill. This alone,
we're there no other issue, would popu-
arizs the standard bearer of Democracy
n this campaign. The absolute una
limity with which every Democratic
newspaper wheels into line for Grover
Cleveland on this issue shows this to be
rue.
In 1883 the great states of Illinois
md Nebraska and Kansas and Iowa
lad not made open protest against the
Lbuse of power and high handed
reachery of the Republican party and
made common cause with the Democ-
acy against the extravaganza and out
awry of the Republican party. The
Gales of power were 30 evenly poised
hat Grover Cleveland lost the Presi-
lency in the Electoral College, though
elected by the popular vote of
he people.
Since 1883 Grover Cleveland has