The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-05-11
Henry Wnttersnn,s Folly.

Thoughts, bl6 CllOlC6 Vi al ONtIh tlcilllIS
majority Of democrats outside OF the state
can or will deny.
Again:
That Mr.. CLEVELAND is largely the pop
ular favorite, and that it is never sale for
place-seekers or place-holders to oppose
the wishes of the people, will account for
the reticence OF nine out of ten of those
democrats who, feeling and believing that
Mr.. CLEVELAND can not be elected, and
freely admitting this in their personal
intercourse, refuse to speak out their
minds like men, but instead allow them
selves to be used as witnesses to q false
hood both dangerous and cruel to their
party.
In the face of these admissions, Mr..
WATTERsoN declares that it would be po-
litical suicide for the democratic party to
renominate Mr.. CLEVELAND because" he
says, "of two simple. conclusive reasons"
The alleged reasons" are as follows:
First, he would lose the state of New
York as surely and as disastrously as it
was lost by Judge FoLGER, when hun
bred thousand republicans stayed away
from the polls and gave the state to Mr..
ENELAND D1 ucdIlI Two AuuQIGd lAOu-
sand majority.
And, second. with his proclaimed and
extreme views upon silver coinage we
could not hope to gain votes in a single
one OF the republican states of the North
west, and would surely risk the loss of
such states as West Virginia, Virginia and
North Carolina.
These so-called reasons" for maintain
ing that Mr.. CLEvELAND's nomination
would be democratic suicide are simply
no reasons at all. They are only the ex-
preston of Mr. WATTERsoN's individual
opinions, which are unconsciouslv, no
doubt, colored by his preferences and
prejudices His opinions are worth no
more than those of any other good demo-
crat of intelligence and good opportuni-
ties for studying the situation.
Against Mr.. WATTERsoN's dictum that
Mr.. CLEVELAND would surely lose the
state OF New York" we put the contrary
assurances of the democratic press of that
state and of citizens of New YORK in whom
the country has the utmost confidence.
When such men as CHARLES :. FAIRCHILD
and FREDERICK X. CoUDERT and WILLIAM
r. GRACE and such newspapers as the
Brooklyn Eagle, the Buffalo Courier, the
Albany Argus, the Syracuse Courier and
the Utica Observer unite in saying that
Mr. CLEVELAND would be stronger in New
York than any other democrat who could
be named, we are bound to believe them
in preference to those who said Mr.. TILDEN
could not carry New York in 1876, who
pledged HANCOCK $4,000 majority in that
state in $780, and who said in 1854 that
Mr. CLEVELAND would lose the state by
$4,000 if nominated.
As to the northwestern states, the only
ones which are at all debatable appear to
Mr.. CLEVELAND himself There is every
reason to believe that the latter. if nomi-
mated, will carry Wisconsin, and be would
have an excellent chance to carry Illinois
and Iowa. No other democrat could
possibly carry more than one OF these
states.
What is the matter with HENRY WAT
TERsoN, anyway? Time was-and that
not many years ago-when he would
have secuted, and did scout, the idea OF
the national democracy submitting to
Tammany dictation. He made his repu-
tation as a journalist and a politician by
his brave and wise insistence, in the
face Of tremendous opposition, that the
democratic party should be true to great
principles, and should adhere to the
leadership which personiied such princi-
plies, regardless of everything. In those
DAYS of Mr.. WATTERsoN's glory he cared
nothing for the clnmor of demagogues
and time-serVers. The clatter of spoils-
men and jobbers did not disturb
him in the least. He despised
alike the whining of the towards and the
threats of the mercenaries He had ideals
in those days, and he fought for them.
He believed that the democratic party had
a cause and a mission, and he insisted that
it should always be faithful to them.
For the results he was willing to trust
God and the people. But Mr.. WAITER
SON and the C0tTlCr-JOurndI have lowered
their political standards of late wears, and
now they are carefully trimming their
calls 10 every breeze that blows. Today
they are calling upon the democratic
party 10 abandon the man whom they ad
nit to be the choice OF an overwhelming
majority of its members, run away
| from the issue which this mar
pre-eminently personifes, and name como
obscure favorite son or other, who stands
! for nothing and means nothing-all a
the behest of a band of New York pro
fessional politicians, whose promises t
the national democracy, whether of sue
cess or disaster, have never vet been full
| filed
| 1t won't do. Mr. WATTERsoN. You tolC
the democratic party, in your golden days
TO be true to Its principles and true to it
self, and it could afford to let conse
quences take care OF themselves. 1t hal
not forgotten your teachings, if you have
1t has even more courage and more con
science than it had when you were 81
much better equipped with both thar
you seem TO be today.
Justice Is Done.
The people of Dubois county and, in
lesser degree, the people of the whole stat
of Indiana, are to be congratulated on TIA