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

1t was the most her0ically contested
struggle of modern times and every ele.
ment of ambition, jealousy and hatred
was an intensifying factor In the con-
flict.
A nomination in such stubbornly
contested convention as that of Thurs.
day can only be effected after long and
prortacted balloting and the triumph OF
Grover Cleveland on the first ballot, by
over two-thirds vote, Is due mainly TO
two things the overwhelming public
sentiment in his favor and the match
less political diplomacy OF ex-Secretary
No man ever bore himself more
grandly in a political battle than mas
Grover Cleveland in the sklrmlsh that
has Just closed. 1t is true TO say OF
him that he did not lit o hhger 10
further his interests and ne would
cease to be the Grover Cleveland OF 10.
day who left the Presidency proud OF
defeat if he should indulge IN any
freaks of political Juggling Tor personal
aggrandizement. In fact No e&piesseu
some misgivings as to the expeulency
| of his nomination and had he been de-
| feated he would nave bowed with def
| erence to the will of the convention ana
with pen and tongue labored incessant.
| ly for the success of its nominee.
We have reached a crisis in our
political contests when integrity and
craftsmanship are valued by the peo-
| pie. and of that supreme sentiment Mr.
| cleveland is the ideal representative.
| Others may win great victories by ac-
| cidental tides but only to invite revul-
| sion and disaster, but the victory won
Thursday at Chicago under the honest
| banner of honest government tor the
people must give its grandest lustre IN
| the fruits and stability of its triumph.
Grover Cleveland is the ablest states
man of his party and the peer OF the
ablest of any party. He enjoys tne
respect. esteem and confidence OF his
fellow couutrymen to a greater extent
than has ever been the good fortune Oh
any other American during his life
time. Washington, Jefferson, jackson,
Lincoln and Grants motives were i'm
pupned and their characters Vililied,
but no man questions Mr.. Cleyelands
LOYALTY, courage and integrity. His
four years of public trust will go in to
history as the honest administration of
modern times unstained by either the
crimes of the jobber or the waste of the
pTofipate and he stands single and
alone. among the Presidents of the last
two generations, who respected their
public pledges to dignity free govern
ment by some higher and nobler aim In
the distribution of partisan plunder.
Cleveland is strong candidate with
the masses and of that let all in inter
est take timely notice. He will lose
many Democratic votes from insincere,
selfish and discordant elements in his
party, which are largely inspired by
political disappointment, but more than
three hundred thousand men OF sincere
Republican faith in the debatable
states will openly espouse his cause and
press the result to successful revolu-
ton. That the attitude of the Repub-
lican party in their platform on the
Force bill will send Cleveland up to
Mason and Dixon's line with solid |
front is as certain now as that the |
Miner law will divide the electoral vote |
of Michigan. He will carry Indiana
even with the Gray sores fostering as
the campaign progresses. He Will dis
turb Republican confidence In Iowa,
Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota, and
Montana. Massachusetts and New |
Hampshire with their ever increasing
flock of independent voters promise to
UC SlCNclduu bJdJSOi thu 1illllOlot WIN q
favorite son on the tail end of the ticket
in the person, General Stevenson, now
threatens to become pivotal state |
with an equal chance that its electoral
vote will be given to the Democratic
standard bearers. A solid South
and broken North now con-
fronts the Republicans and it is
within the range CT possibility that
Cleveland may win without the vote
of New York. But if any one as
sumes that Cleveland will be scalped in
New York by the Tammany and Hill
people they don't understand the situa.
tion as it has been shaped at Chicago.
Cleveland will carry New York as Van
Buren carried it in 1886; as Polk carried
It in 1874; as Pierce carried it in 1852;
as the united Democratic vote carried 1t
in 1860; as Seymour carried 1t in 1868; |
as Tilden carried it in 1876, and as he
carried it in 1884, despite Democratic
.reachery in New York City.
1t IS notable fact that New York
las been carried for every other Demo-
cratic candidate for President the past
'ixty years and there is no reason to
ioubt that history will repeat itself |
his year. 1t is a condition and not a
heory, that now confrOnts Tammany,
md Iammany and Hill will therefore ,,
upport Cleveland in the sort of a way
hat they support candidate whom
hey want to elect, and that means the
Electoral vote of New York for Cleye- [
and, by large majority, and it also [
means Cleyeland's election in No G
'ember. I
The platform, when sifted of the reg.
IlatiOn clap trap that is inseparable | I
rom all modern party deliVerences, is | [
ound, sensible and patriotic. 1t de- G
ounces the Mckinley tariff act as the ! a
atrocity of class legisa- e
ion, and it declares unequivOcally for a
eVenue tariff, limited to the necessities
the government, economically ad-
Mustered 1t criticises the hideous t
nd hated Force bill as revolutionary c
olicy, tending only to perpetuate and '
ltensify sectiOnalism and race antag. v
nism. The monetary plank, while not f
ltirely free from ambiguity, is an hon C
u expression in favor of a stable cur n
;ncy, and free coinage has been elm c.
lated from our party conflicts by the q
erOic revolt and victory under the G
ad of Thomas +. Bayard.
There is no idiotic theory in the plat
,rm to breed revolt, as was bred in the
hio Democratic platform Of last year, y
I'd the one great issue in this cam !,
sign will be the tariff, the whole tariff ~
I'd nothing but the tariff. Upon this y
atform Cleveland and Stevenson will y
} elected, unless some unforeseen oc. ~
Irrence similar to the Burchard epi- '.
de of 1884 shall prevent it, and both "
them grandly typify the nOblest gov 81
nment of the earth, where the popu-
will is the supreme law.
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