The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-30
GROVER CLEVELAND NOMINATED.

IN -
Grover Cleveland was nominated tol
the third time for President Oh the
United States. - a..
THE greatest convention that ever
met in This country, in moral force, IN
the hioh character of its delegates, In
couraSe of purpose, in enthusiastic de-
votion TO principle, has nominated fol
President the greatest leader OF modern
times. c,....,..a
is the voice of the popular will, speak
ING in every city and hamlet, from
every valley and hill side In all this
broad land, We have had great lead
ers in the Democratic party betOre
and the country, following our four
great wars, has had heroes for worship
bv the score. But they have mostly
been military heroes, $4,000
But from the first war of lndepend-
ence to the Chicago convention we
have never vet honored any idol of the
neonle or any war hero, with three
nominations for President of the
limited States. Gen. Jackson was three
times a candidate, but he was not three
times nominated by National Con-
yention. Twice he was elected, and in
his first contest, when the election was
thrown into the House of Representa-
tiyes. and John Quincy Adams elected,
Jackson had more electoral votes than
Adams. OF Clay, or any OF the candi-
dates. Ais nomination by the Demo-
cratic party to succeed Adams was
horn OF the popular desire to do him
Justice, and his SECOND nomination 10
succeed himself was the logical result
of a successful and popular admins
tration.
There is another, and still more re-
markable fact in connection WIN
Grover Uleveland's third nomination.
He is nominated against the unani-
nous protest of all the delegates OF his
State. No man has ever yet been
nominated for President, even Tor the
Fl irst time, without vote from his own
State.
Judging the immediate future by
results in the immediate past, the nolnl-
nation of Grover Cleveland, under
these circumstances, is fraught with
peril to the Democracy OF the great
Empire State, in November. To carry
New York State Grover Cleveland must
poll not only the independent, or so
called Mugwump vote, but large Re-
publican vote. That he will do this we
have faith to believe. And now what
is the secret of Grover Clevelands
popularity with the great mass of
Democrats. 1t is not that he is great
orator, or that he is a magnetic man in
his personality-oT that he has perform
ed heroic deeds of self sacrifice for his
country or for humanity.
1t is because of his unselish devotion
to principle, his heroic courage to stand
by the right, as he understands it, re-
gaTdless of results, of his severe and
rugged honesty; and above all, because
his record as President of the United
States is as bright and shining as that
of any of our great men, who from
George Washington to Benjamin Har-
rison, have filled the Executive chair.
There Is still another reason why
Grover Cleveland has been called, and
this is reason that makes us think
better of our poor, selfish human ma
ture. The great mass Of the American
people know that Grover Cleveland
was defrauded of his reelection in 1888,
by the bribery of voters in the
close states. The feeling that al
great tribune of the people went down
when Grover Cleveland was defeated |
has taken complete control of the Dem |
ocratic heart. The demand for Grover |
Cleveland to lead us in the great battle |
of the masses against the classes in /
1892, was born of the highest and |
noblest traits of our human nature-the |
love of justiOe-the Vindication of
Right.
Whether Grover Cleveland shall be
elected or be defeated depends upon
the quality of our patriotism, the STAN
ina of our virtue.
1t depends upon whether there is
enough of the venal and the vile in our
States to sell their sacred heritage of
to the bribe giver and the
spoils promisers of the corrupt and
managers of the party in
power. The result of some recent cleo
tions have caused many patriotic Dem
ocrats to lose faith in the potency of
right principles, however powerfully
mailed in great intellectual leadership,
but we have not yet lost hope.
To lose hope in our cause, with such
, leader as Grover Cleveland, is to lose
Faith in a Republican form of govern
nent; in the protecting arm of an all
yuiding Providence.
One thing is sure. With Grover
Cleveland as leader, we shall gather
o the Democratic party all the inde-
>NANSAAs Va hiO JIlC |
'ood women who have children and
Who love them; all the broad breasted
who believe in the sa-
red rights of the rugged, toiling mass
s, against the absorption of their hard
armed substance by the omniferous
lrones in the great busy hives of
American industry.
The fight for Grover Cleveland for
resident is not fight for Grover Cleve.
and 1t concerts every man in all our
aried walks of life more than it con- /
erns Grover Cleveland. Grover Cleye- 8
md is always quite able to take care I
himself, but you, my friend of the t
hop, of the store, or of the farm, are y
OF. You are the victim of unjust tax.
tion, Of unjust use of part of your :,
from which escape is impossi. y
10 so long as the present party is in =
over.
Grover Cleveland stands for Z
ldustrial freedom; for larger and bet u
r opportunities for labor, and for all i
lat is bestin human government.