The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-06-25
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! the trend of public sentiment through.
out The country is surprised that Grover
Cleveland was nominated by the Chica.
go convention or that he was nominated
upon the first ballot. Mr.. Cleveland
made no effort to secure the nomination.
If he did he did it Sc quietly that no one
knew it, and yet delegation after delega-
ton from the north and the south and
from the east and the west rolled into
Chicago with the name of Grover Cleve-
land inscribed upon their banners. 1t
was not the work of democratic federal
o~fice-holders for there are none in the
union. 1t was not the work of politicians
for the politicians have their favorites i n
their states and could not nor would not.
in the nature of things, almost solidly
unite upon one man as their choice. No.
Neither federal ofice-holders, nor poll
ticians MOI purchased votes nominated
Cleveland. His nomination is the voice
of the democratic p%arty-of the people.
Mr.. Cleveland, in many respects, is an
extraordinary man. He is not a poll
tician. He is not a time server. He is
an honest n straightforward,
a%ristocrat; he is of the people. Herein
lies his strength with the masses.
During his term as president he saw
that the people were being robbed by an
exacting, onerous wal tariff. The ma
tional treasury was being filed with gold
wrung from the laboring masses. He
saw that the idle treasure was an ever
present temptation to the cupidity of
man. He held that the money should
be in circulation among the people; not
stored in the national vaults. He recon-
mended that the tariff should be revised
and modified IN its eXactions. The Mills
bill was introduced. tt Mr.. Cleveland
were a politician he would have deferred
definite action upon the measure in the
house until after the November election
in 1883. But Cleveland is honest ia all
he does. The Mills bill was passed by
the mouse, and the st. Louis convention
which nominated him endorsed the
measure.
We know the rest. Harrison was
nominated upon a platform with a high
protection plank in it. The Mills bill
was denounced as a measure which. if it
became a law, would rum every industry
in the country. The republican bosses
fried the money power for all it was
worth and gathered an cOrrup.
ton. Quay, who was then chairman of
the republican national committed, re-
Gently said it cost 100000 to elect
Harrison. Against this vust sum;
against the Misrepresentation of the
republican press and speakers AS to the
effect of the Mills bill should it become
a law; against the Quays, and Dudleys,
and Davenports and Elkins of the re-
publican party and their corrupt meth
dds Mr.. Cleveland presented only his
pure, clean. honest administration of the
government. 1t didn't win. Honesty
was no match for corruption in the
game of politics as it was played in 1888
and Cleveland was defeated and Harri-
son elected.
1t would be naturally supposed that
the democratic party would not take up
a defeated leader and again make him
its standard bearer. Nor would it do so
unless there were the most powerful rea-
sons why it should be done. Since Mr..
Cleveland's defeat great changes have
taken place. These changes have pro-
duced a radical change IN public senti-
ment. Mr.. Cleveland left a treasury
grooming under the load of Sl40,OOO,OU
of gold. in less than two and a half
years Harrison FILTERED it all away. Mr.
Cleveland recommended and enforced
economy all along the lines of his admin
istration. Mr.. Harrison has permitted
and encouraged an extravaganza which
has about baukrupted the national
treasury. Mr.. Cleveland left the Mills
bill in the hands of a senate committee
where it was strangled to death. Mr..
Harrison signed the Mckinley bill.
which is eating out the substance of the
people and enriching a few trusts, com
bines. and monopolies. Mr.. Cleveland
retired from the presidency with the in
congress in the hands of the re-
publican party. MI. Harrison's admin
stands rebuked by the people
the election of a half dozen or more
democratic governor in northern repub
ican states and a house of representa-
lives overwhelmingly democratic.
The people have taken a second
and brought about all these
They have put their seal Of
condemnation upon the iniquitous Nc
tariff and a billion dollar republi-
IAN congress. They demand a change
IN the administration Of the government