New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-12
AGAINST MR.. CLEVELAND.
A LEADING DEMOCRAT OF KANSAS SPEAKS
OUT.
CoGENr REASONS FOR OPPOSING THE CHICAGO
WCKET AND PLATFORM.

TICKET AND PLATFORM.
Topeka, Kan. July Gin sober truth there Is
no ou ger any Democratic party In the country there
Is simply Cleveland craze as destitute Of any
sense or reason ghost Dance and assure you
there are a good many sefrepectng Democrats over
1.-THE country who taking no part In H. as the
result Will show next November"
The speaker was Colonel William r. TOml'nS0n, Tor
many years the senior editor and part proprietor OF
Tho Kansas Daily Democrat the lcadine Democratic
daily paper In Kansas. Editor Tomlinson week
ago IN The Democrat" came ont in column
leader against Cleveland and for Harrison and Reid
a declaration which caused not little nuttct ia the
Dernocratic ranks. Continuing, Mr.. TOmlinsOn said.
with fine touch OF irony: Yes Grover Cleveland has
shown In his capture Of the Chicago Convention that
he IS the autocrat of Democracy. The irutess %aTch
af the centuries has been solved At last man has
been discovered who Is bigger than his party. sachep
Croker of Tammany Hall, Is heap big lnun.' but
what are all the chiefs of Tammany combined com
pared with the great sachem and all conqucrng brave
who holds as trophy the scalplOck OF the entlre
Democratic party.
WAS ever the humiliation Of a great party more
ablect and complete The beaten candidate OF loo7'
,spdtcd by his party In his own state, trampine upon
oil tho traditions, all the presidents OF American
history, yet strong enough to force nomination
at the hands of his party at Chicago for third tnc
Notwithstanding his famous and emphatic decari
ton In 1854 In favor Of limiting the Presidency 10 one
term. And vet this man who is on record as ue
claring in the solemn language against the evils
Of second term; who wanted an amendment III
c0rporated into the Constitution preventing the III
cumbent of the White House from accepting a re-
pomn alton for President IN the irony OF fate ana ~ inc
lasting humiliation Of the Democratic party Is hhseH
candidate for the third time for chief executive OF the
nation 49,,
yet this man, who Is forcsworn. who has thuS
TITLED with his convictions as no man who has ever
tc heId ~
stamp Of George william Curtis, rs "A model ana uo
loftest type of the American statesman
So much for this revelation of Grover CleVemhu
aa a man. Viewed from the standpoint OF prlhclple' III
10 sense is the sage Of Buzzards Bay Democrat
His record, both Governor OF NcwfOrK anu DIS
President Of the Republic, bellies the assertion oi us
Democracy The nomination Of Grover Cleveland Is
the exallation Of the Mugwumps not the elevation OF
recognition Of true Democracy.
"If Grover Cleveland is in any sense Democrat
am happy TO say that | am not a Democrat. WI INC
tariff issue Mr. Cleveland 10 an outandout iIeerD'er
while | am a firm believer I'm the good old Democratic
doctrine of a tariff for revenue, with incidental pro
lection. On the money issue, Mr.. Cleveland Is eou
bug while l an enthusiastic advocate oil Tree
coinage On the question of civil service, Mr. 'leve
land is Mugwump of the most aggravated type "mie
/ am believer in the JacksODian doctrine, TO the
yictors belong the spells of war;
Tile beaten candidate Of 1858. forced against all
precedent upon the stalwart ana justly Hu'e""nt D1
mocracy OF the great state of New York. the dol Oh
The Mugwumps there be no such thing as
Grover Cleveland again seeing the interior OF thc
White House as u Presidential occupant.
An the past unpopularty OF the eAircsident, The
odum of his record ruler of the Republic VIII RE
up In Judgment against him 10 aid in dragging nm
down to defeat lie Will prove Il Jonah, many unes
more disastrous 10 the Democratic party than Ill 70
The Irish voters alenaed by his foreign policy While
President vii! In the close states OF Indiana, New
York and Connection, vote against him; lhe
hundreds Of thousands of old soldiers through
out the North who are INDIGNANT , over
of bills making appropriations for ihe snploil OF
mam.d and enfeebl.d veterans. Will vote thc hspuo
lIran ticket IN even greater mutudes than III lSoo
Above all whatever the leaders may say or 90 10
prevent IT, the legions Of salwart Democrats OF ram
many Hall and throughout the Empire state VIII on
the day of the election quietly vote for the Harrison
and Reid electors 10 avenge the insult TO me popr
chief David h. Hill, and by burying tile knife dc"p
in Grover Cleveland. forever get rid OF the ii'cu
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