Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-10-13
7He PARTIES AND THE CANDIDATES.


From senator John Sherman's Cooper
Union speech.
am niwavs disposed to be kind and lib
eral to all parties. | do not think the re
publican party contains all the good men
and all tho good women Of our country,
but believe it has e large majority of them.
/ am always dsl osed to treat the democrat
&c party furry, but | will say this in sober
earnestuess that since 1898 the democratic
party has not deserved the confidence of
any portion OF the American people We
cannot blame the southern people so much,
because they vera taught that their rights
we're tramploi on, and that they were to be
deprived Of their liberty, or rather of their
5laves They went with their section
and they fought CALAMITY and brevely. |
meet thom IN tho ties OF friendship and good
neighborliness always, heartily and courte-
ously: but tho democratic party since S33
has done nothing to deserve the favor and
kindness Of the American people 1t OPP
posed all the measures Of the war. In 1864
the democrats deolorel the war a failure
when Grant was hanging on great Rpplausel
with bis deadly grip, when Sherman and
Phi Sheridan renewed appauseI rode to
battle and TO victory. All, my country
men, 10 man ought TO be elected president
Of the United States who declared the war
a failure at that time. LApplausel
The republican party has nominated for
president Beniqmin Harrison. IProlonged
cheering " Leu a lawyer IN full practice,
the sound of tho enemys guns came to his
ears, the call OF Lincoln filled his heart,
and he entered the army. He fought
through the war, brave and gallant sol
der lie returned again to his profession
and to his wife and child living in n quiet
suburb OF Indianapolis. lie gradually be
came recognized Us an able lawyer, and
was finally sent to the Senate. For six
years hs sat by my side. / know him as
vel! as | know any man. lie is without
stain or blemish. He is u man of marked
ability, an aLlo debater. Ho has grown
greatly since be has been president of the
| United States. lAppladso. HIS speeches
are models OF propriety and eloquence. in
every net Of bis lie while president ne has
come up to the full standard and measure
of that great office. II there was con
| troversy with foreign powers the strongest
in the world or the weakest, he was fair and
just, but firm aud manly. Applause,
His worthy associate Is Whitelav held, of
your city. Great Applause. Ho has been
placed on the ticket by the side Of Harrison.
Hs 10 an honorable man. ! knew him when
he was a young reporter, making his living
as best he could, and helping his father and
mother. lie has shown himself worthy the
homer conferred upon him by the republican
! party. [Renewed Applause
Now, / have nothing to say against Mr.
| Cleveland. l am not here to belittle uny
man. have sometimes thought he is better
than his party, because be has stood up
firmly on occasion in resistance of some Of
! their extreme demands; but there Is this to
| be roid Of him, that he was "a man full grown
at the opening OF the war, an able bodied
map when the war was On. l have never
! known, nor has it eyer been proved, that he
he'd any heart for or symPathies
with the Unien soldiers or the
Union cause. LCries Of "Never ~ | know
that Harrison, from the top Of bis hoad to
the bottom Of his feet, was in that cause.
DO not see how any patriotic man who
was On tine side OF his country in the war,
can hesitate to choose Harrison rather than
! Cleveland