The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-06-18

The convention 10 meet at Chicago next
Tuesday will be divided into two distinct
Glasses one representing the people and tho
other the politicians. That class represent
| ing the people will support Grover Cleveland
| for President while the other. with an eye
single 10 future preferment. will support some
! one else whom they think they can use Thus
the fight will be Cleveland and Democratic
| Principle against some one else and the spells
Of Office. Fortunately, the friends Of
| Principle are in the decided major
itv and Il is believed that they
are firm. determined ard we'll organized
! Their opponents will make one moro desDe-
| rate effort TO break their ranks and defeat
them, but the indications are that having re-
NAMED firm and solid against all the many
| onsaughts which have been made on them
during the past year. and having so far sig
nally .riumphed over all their enemies. they
will remain firm and solid 70 the last. ltthey
do then victory is certain. Principle itself Is
strong; but determined Principle backed up
bY the people is invincible.
Then after the people have triumphed IN
mated. the subsequent compaign will be con-
Quoted on the same old lines OF Principie
vs.. Corruption. On one side. the Demo
cratic hosts under the great champion OK
Tariff Reform and the rights Of the people
will be narshaled against the cohorts OF Hro-
lection. Monopoly and Force. In this hght
the Democracy will be opposed by the con-
e . IL 1lfef
benefit the people are now taxed 30 heavily
and the very tribute which is now exacted
from the great mass of consumers TO enrlch
the few manufacturers will be used 70 cor
rupt the people, and fasten about them more
firmly than ever the chains of Monopoly. 1t
will be q campaign in which principles and
popular rights will be attempted 10 be con-
troled by huge corruption funds. and If 1t
succeeds not only will general debasement OF
the country naturally follow, but upon its
heels will come the infamous law of force to
enable the party which has thus bought its
way into power to maintain itself in power
by bayonets. bludgeons and shot-guns.
There can DO no doubt as to how the con-
test will end For many years since the war
the monopolists were able TO keep the people
in subsection through ignorance and misrep-
resentation as to the effect ola tariff reformed
50 as TO weigh as lightly as possible upon the
masses. But now the eyes of these dupes of
the favored protectionsts are opened TO the
fact that protection simply means their rob-
berry for the enrichment of a few sons
of fortune, and they will assert them
selves and throw of the shackles
of their oppressors. And the Administration
of Grover Cleveland, based upon principle
and right, will be conducted upon the same
ideas as those which will govern the presiden-
tial campaign. and for the next four years at
least the affairs of State will be managed, not
for the advantage Of any man or class Of men.
but for the welfare and prosperity of the
whole people. Corruption funds, however
large. will be insufficient to blind the people
as To their true interests. or to again deceive
them as 10 the evils of tariff laid under the
guise of protecting them. but really framed to
keep them down and make the rich richer
while the poor are growing steadily poorer.
This being the issue of the approaching
campaign it is not strange that everybody is
now turning their eyes eagerly towards Chi
cago. If the champion of Tariff Reform.
which will tighten the burdens of the people.
be chosen as the Democratic standard bearer,
there will be a sigh of relief throughout the
land; if he should happen to be defeated the
Democracy will Loyalty support the chosen
leader, but there will be lacking much of the
enthusiasm which would be called forth by
the name Of Grover Cleveland.