Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-07-02
A MESS!

platform and a tail-end principle Of
Ito the victor belong the spoils.''
Free trade England is rejoicing at ev-
cry pore, joy in England over
one free trade boom than over a thous,
and solid cities with protected indus
tries. The London Times watches
"Cleveland's campaign with cordial
sympathy" The London Star calls
him a solid reformer." The London
Meas and Post says a Republican vie
tory would be a blow to " British CON
mercial greatness" Can our Irish
citizens vote for JOHN Bull who Grip.
Piled every Irish industry?
WILSON'S SELF GOVERNMENT"
Henry Watterson, a Democrat as
pure as Kentucky rye, tells how the
Chicago convention was managed.
with five of Cleveland's cabinet OF
the ground working like beavers tc
secure a third nomination for the de
feated eX-President. There is Mr..
Whitney, backed by the whole Stand,
ard Oil Combination, and Don NJ
Dickinson, with an army of eX-post-
masters at his back, and Mr.. Fair
child attended by VIM. r. Grace, who
is loaded down with Wall street mon,
ey. Then we have Mr.. Bayard to lend
his grace and dignity to the scene, and
Mr.. Villas to touch up the whole with
a few lurid civil service tints. All this
is abominable, because it Is hypocriti-
cal, working its spells i'll the name of
reform while using all the agencies
and methods of machine politics"
In the Wheeling registers report of
the Democratic convention such dis
criptive adjectives are used as the
disorder was little short of disgrace
full, " the sergeant-at-arms ordered to
3" throw out d~isorderly persons" an
Alabama delegate denounced the gath
eriug as "a mob" OF the West Virgin
ia delegates } voted for German, / for
Pattison, for Hill and the rest for
Cleveland.
The honest American voter-he who
means what he says and says what he
means-knows exactly where to place
the Democracy now III regardto Amer
lean enterprise and labor. 1t has torn
off all disguise, and is for free trade as
il is in Great Britain, and nowhere else
on the globe. The English have new
er been able to convince their own col
onies Of the advantages of free trade,
but they have converted the Democrat
iC party.-4me11CaR.
Cleveland's record as president con-
sists mainly of promises which he did
not redeem. He protested to be acivil
service reforner, and made absolutely
the worst appointments to public office
of which there is a record in the histo-
~ of the country. These bad appoint
ments were not confined to a particu-
lar section or any department of the
public service. They were c~onspic-
uously unfortunate both at home and
abroad. In his dealings with foreign
countries he displayed such lamenta-
Bile ignorance of the elementary princi-
pies of diplomacy as to saddleupon his
successor a number of vexatious dis
putes, which have since been settled by
President Harrison's administration,
with great credit to the country, but
which at the time caused profound hui
initiation and chagrin to all patriotic
citizens. The Department of the In
terror during his administration was
denoralized by unseemly dissensions,
and the Postoffice Department, instead
of being improved during his term OF
office, refrigerated, and only through
the energy of his successor has it re-
covered lost ground and become the
model of other nations tocopy. Moth
ing whatever was done for the army,
and not a step was taken for the revi-
val of the merchant marine of the
country. Mr.. Cleveland's single
achievement was his free trade mes
sage to Congress in 1887, which de-
feated him the following year, and
which, if there were not sufficient reas-
ons for his defeat in November, could
surely give him his quietus again
Phil Press.
"Will we never get through blum
dering, ~ said Mr.. Watterson, when
the result was announced.
Another well known delegate said /:
This beats all the conventions l ever
knew, excepting the one which met
here i'll Chicago in 1864, and nominal
ed Mcclellan on a platform declaring
the war a failure. We have nominal
ed Cleveland against the united and
bitter opposition of his own State, and
in the face of hisdefeat on his tariffmes-
sage Of 1888 we have arranged the
platform so as to make it a great deal
worse than it was in 1888. We have
refused to adopt a plank that declared
IN favor of sufficient protection to make
up the difference in the wages between
this country and Europe. A tariff for
revenue only is of course precisely the
kind of tariff Great Britain has, and
means duties on sugar, coffee and other
such things as will afford the most re-
Il Now how under heaven are
We to win on such a platform, when
we were overwhelmingly defeated on a
much less radical one in 1883. But as
though that wasn't enough, we have
nominated for NiCe-Presideut a man
who favored the unlimited issue of
fiat money, and whose only promi-
nenCe as a statesman was derived
from his wholesome and prompt re
moval of fourth-class postmasters for
political reasons. 1t seems to NE
that We have buried the party beyond
resurrection
Seventy-two New York delegates
voted "no' on the motion to make
Cleveland's nomination unanimous.
1t is good for brethren to dwell togeth-
er in Democratic peace and under Mr..
Wilson's beautiful theories of self
government cant govern themsel-
YES.
No more remarkable convention in
its methods and results has ever been
held in this country. The ma who
has been nominated for President did
not have a delegate from his own State,
and that State is one vital to the sue,
cess Of his party. His chief manager
here is also from New York, in which
he had not a vote he could command.
and 1t is no eXaggeration to say that
quite t~wo-thirds of the Convention en-.
tertained no notion that Cleveland
would carry the Empire State, and a
large proportion of these doubt the
possibility of his election at all.
Among the killed or severely wound.
ed are included not only David b. Hill.
of New York, and Horace Roles N