Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-02
A CAMPAIGN OF THOUGHT.
Grover Cleveland Sizes Up
the Situation.
He Comments OIL the Quiet of
the Campaign,
Good Is Bound to Result from Sober
DeliberatiOn.
The Ex-President Makes One of the
Most Logical Arguments He Has
Yet Promulgated-Oth-
err Speakers.

| By the Associated Press.
New YORK, Nov. 1.-Grover Cleve
land spoke before the Business Men'i
| Democratic association tonight in the
Lenox lyceum. The audience numbered
about $500 persons, and the boxes were
mainly occupied by women. Thomas ]
O'Donaghue escorted Mr.. Cleveland tc
the platform, and he received an en-.
thusiaetic reception. After bowling an
acknowledgment and considerable
more cheering. and when some routine
business had been transacted, Chairman
Simmons introduced the ex-president.
A LOGICAL ARGUMENT.
Mr.. Cleveland said he ventured the
assertion that never in the recollection
of any one present had presidential
canvass been carried on with such lack
of noise and excitement, and in shch an
apparent atmosphere of popular thought
fulness. "If this is actually the condi-
tion," said he, ''and our voters are really
thorghtful, it should be a cause of con-
graduation on the part of every Ameri-
can citizen, for it must be that sober
deliberation in the exercise of the right
of suffrage is the foundation of our hope
for national perpetuity. II we assume
that this quiet is attributable to
thoughtfulness among the people, there
would seem to be no place for fear or
misgiving as to the result, on the part
of those who support the Democratic
principles. These principles were
presented two years ago to
the voters of the country, and
hat
mendous majority. Since then the drift
of public opinion has been in our direc.
tion, and the doctrines opposed to ours
1t must be conceded also that the in
telligent and disinterested men who
have left the ranks of our opponents
and joined our standard are exception
ally numerous and influential. The
fact that with all these things in our
favor we are still not absolutely sure of
success would be startling if we did
not know the desperate and disreputable
methods which confront US. Our orpo-
mems, vanquished iii every alEuLaent
worthy of presentation to the reason Of
our countrymen, have appealed to their
passions and prejudices through the dis
tribution of most infamous lies concern
ing the record and action of our party
and its candidates. This, however, is
not their main reliance, nor is it our
greatest danger.
''It is a confession most humiliating
to American citizenship that with q
cause so thoroughly entrenched in rea-
son, and commencing itself so clearly TO-
the intelligence of patriotic American
citizens, we daily hear the prediction of
Republican success, based upon the
ability of that party to purchase the
votes of the people a reflection, it SCENE
to me, that cannot fail to arouse the
American conscience to the wickedness,
as well as the peril, of debauched suf-
frage. 1t is plain proposition that our
government is only true to the princi-
Piles upon which it rests, when in it's
operation it represents the honest
and intelligent sentiments of the
people. The time has surely come
when those who see the beginning OF
corruption should look beyond it and
beneath it, in the endeavor to discover
the source of our danger, and the forces
which give it it's deadly strength. It
has its source in the perversion of our
government to the furtherance of limited
and special interests, and in the invita-
tion thus extended to anticipate con-
tinuance of governmental favors in COM
pensation for partisan support. The
forces behind it are greed and selfish
ness, willing to prostitute the suffrage
of the people to pecuniary gain.
"This deal between a political party
and private enterprise, By which gov
ernmental aid is exchanged for partisan
support, is covered by the pretext oi
care for the business interests of the
country. While we readily concede the
Importance of these interests. and hold
that no political party should be un-
| mindful of them or needless of their
prosperity, we insist that no plea for
their promotion shall be used to justify
the political methods which endanger
the integrity and benefcence of our in
stitutions.
sit seems to me to be peculiarly fit
and proper that the patriotic business
men of our country should repudiate
the suggestion that care for the interest
they have in their keeping can be an
excuse for corrupt political practi es.
They can teach with especial authority
the lesson that business interests are
safest under fair administration OF an
honest and just government, represent
ing the unbought suffrage of our people.
Beyond this, however, our bu 4iness
men, and all our other Americans who
love their country, ought to make com
mon cause in the effort tu turn back the
tide which leads to the perversion of the
functions Of our government. invites the
corruption of our voters, and menacel
the sure foundation of political virtue
W. C. p. BRECKENRIDGE SPEAKS.
As soon as the applause which fol
lowed Cleveland would permit Con
gresaman Breckinridge of Kentucky wa
introduced and said, in part: eth,
election of Cleveland and Stevenson il
conceded by everyone by majority 81
large, both in the electoral and popula
vote, as to demonstrate that the countr,
has come to the conclusion that the day
OF the usefulness of the Republican
party are over"
ut is almost impossible" he con
timed, ito lay imposts without hurtip,
or helping certain industries. The law
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