The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-07-16
CLEVELAND AND WEAVER.

Setting aside the fact that there Is nc
nossible hope of the Third party winning
and that all that vote for the Third party
IN tbe South can accomplish is simply u
weaken the Democratic aud strengthen the
Republcan party to that extent and also
M, cons;dering. for the present. the equally
Valuable fact that by helping, IN this way
70 eleot the Republican ticket the adhe'
rents of the Third party will cut themselves
entirely off from any financial relief what.
ever especially that which is promised by
the removal of the 10 per cent. tax ON State
banks. let us see how il is possible for any
loyaI Southerner to vote for Weaver against
Cleveland.
few wears ago General Weaver made
sneech on the celebrationof some Republican
victory. He was at that time. as he IS now
a bitter Radical. aud the English language
could not supply words to express his hate
Of the Democracy. After congratulatlng
his hearers on the defeat OF the Democratic
party he declared that now and forever II
is established as an eternal truth that
the Democracy in no place or State can
over be trusted with government. As
marty il should disband Just as a section OF 10
did at Appomattox. Here we have the old
FIGHT over ngsin-the Confederate Demo
cracy. North and South. in which the infa-
nous copperhesd division of Iowa appears.
What is tho use Of further srralgning the
defunct Democracy. with all its Loary
crimes. at the bar of public opinion!
We know that its acts compromise
murder, treason, theft. arson. fiaud,
perjury and all the crimes possible for an
organization 10 connive at 1t would be a
mercy to put its record a million miles deep
in the pit that is mentioned in Holy Writ
and may add, that if large and distln-
guished assortment of its members we're
sent along 1t would only he common JUS
tice.n And after proceeding in this strain
at some length Gin which, by the way. he
admirably described the Republican party,
he finally concludes in these words:
NO Republican can ever, under any cir
cumstances, have any part or lot with the
hungry, rebellous. man-hating, woman
selling gang corporated under the name OF
DemOcracy-a name so full OF stencil ana
poison that it should be blotted from the
vocabulary of civilized man and handed
over TO the barbarism that 1t has so iitiv
represented"
These are the words of j. b. Weaver. for
whom white men in Virginia and the South
are now asked to vote as President OF
the United States. Compare them with the
following letter written by Hon. Grover
Cleveland only few days since:
GRAY GABLES. BUzzARD's BAY, Mass.
July 7. 1s92.-J. w Campbell. Esq: My
Dear Sir desire TO thank you for sending
me a copy of the resolution adopted by tie
Democracy of Middlesborough. and TO as
sure you that the kind illusions 10 me
therein are fully appreciated. | do not
wonder that those adopting these resou-
tons speak OF the Force bill as a horror of
Republicanism. Such doctrines as il en-
bodies are a direct attack upon the spirit
and theory OF our Government. and while
such a measure especially menaces the vel
fare and prosperity of the South. 1t must be
condemned and denounced by all those
everywhere who love their country and
have the least claim to be numbered among
those who believe Ill the principles of true
Democracy. Very truly. yours,
GROVER CLEVELAND"
Look on this picture and then on that.
We Third party yirginians, and see under
which king you would prefer to serye-one
who denounces you, and lauds to the skies
your would-be Republican oppressors, or
the one who denounces the Force bill as "a
horror of Republicanism" and a measure
that specially menaces the welfare and
of the South. }" and ought to be
condemned and denounced by all those
who love their country"