The Portland daily press., 1892-11-03
CLEVELAND AND Els PARTY.

Inc HOn. CJr0Yer cleveland Processes
to believe that the only danger to the
Democratic ticket lies in the corrupt use
of money by the Republicans. He com
placently assumes that the Democratic
party is right, and that the justice Of
its cause is acceeded to by great pre-
ponderance of the American people, but
he processes to fear that enough of the
American people will be debauched by
the free use of money to turn the victory
the other way. Mr.. Cleveland would
have done better to hold his tongue.
Everybody knows that two thirds of the
electoral vote which Mr.. Cleveland viii
secure will come to him by virtue of
force and fraud. Without the Solid
South he would stand no better chance
of an election than Gov. Weaver, and
had the Republican vote there not
been practically suppressed by long
continued exercise of force and fraud
he would not get half the electoral
votes of that section. South Carolina
will throw its electoral vote for him
simply because the shot gun and the
tissue ballot have taught the Republicans
that it is dangerous and useless to go to
the polls. Louisiana will give its cleo
toral vote to him simply because long
series Of bloody massacres deliberately
perpetrated by the Democracy of the
state has intimidated the Republican
voters. Mississippi will be on his SIDE
for the same reason. 1t ill becomes a
man who is willing to become the bene-
ficiary of midnight murders and assassl-
nations, of tissue ballots and fraudulent
counts to pirate about the danger to the
suffrage from the corrupt use of money.
Where one elector is debauched in this
country by the use of gold an hundred
are deprived of the right of suffrage by
force and fraud perpetrated by the DEM
ocratic party. We're a free ballot and
fair count certain all over this country
on next Tuesday Cleveland would be as
sure to be defeated as the sun is to rise.
1t is truly an edifying spectacle which
Mr.. Cleveland presents shouting fraud
while his hands tightly clutch the votes
of the Solid South, the most of which
are his simply because of the savagery of
the Southern wing of his party and their
experiences at fraud.
But what about money. One would
think to read Mr.. Cleveland's address
that the Republican party was band of
millionaires conspiring to abridge the
liberties of the country by the use of
gold, and that the Democracy represent
ed the brains and Drawn of the country.
It is only necessary to call attention to
some of the men who are running the
Democratic party to show how false that
picture is. Why Mr.. Cleveland himself is
considerable of al lutocrat'' (. He has been
credited with contribution of $4,000
to the Democratic treasury. Then thereis
William G. Whitney, whose possessions
are way up in the millions, the bulk of
them got through that giant monopoly,
the Standard Oil Company; he is in the
forefront of the Democratic campaign.
Robert B. Roosevelt, the chairman of the
Democratic committee of New York, is
many times millionaire. The Brook
lyn magnates of the sugar trust, the
Havemeyers, are all Democrats, and they
made such liberal contributions to the
Democratic campaign fund that the lasq
Democratic House dared not raj fin
ger against the Sugar Trust, about which
Democratic organs were bowling SO lusti-
". Then there is Richard Croker, the boss
of Tammany Hall, who counts his wealth
by millions. All these have contributed
to the Democratic fund-some
of their gifts reaching as high as $50, 900.
What has been done with all the huge
contributions which these men and hun
dreds of others ha been pouring into
the Democratic treasury? Have they al
been spent to educate the voter? Have
they all been spent to disseminate the
great principles of Democracy about
which Cleveland is so fond of prating?
is it true, as Mr. Cleveland virtually
alleges, that the Democratic party
contains all the saints, all the patri-
OTIS, all the thinking men in the country,
while the Republican party is nothing
but an organized conspiracy of rich men
to rob the people of their rights and re-
duce them to condition of virtual serf-
dom?
Why, right over in New Jersey, not
many miles from where Grover Cleveland
was uttering these sentiments, the peni-
Tertiary has recently engulfed about a
dozen ballot box suffers, every one of
them Democrat, and every one of them
engaged in rolling up Democratic ma
jorities by fraud. Right in the city
where he spoke is the greatest political
for corrupt purposes which
the modern world has seen, every men,
Der of which is Democrat, and without
whose aid Cleveland would have no
chance whatever of carrying the Empire
State. The two main stays of Grover
Cleveland today are the corrupt organi-
cation known as Tammany Hall, and the