Evening journal., 1893-02-13

the oidtime Democrats those who
have through many campaigns "borne
the heat and burden Of the
day should question the wis
dom and even the justice Of award
ing this great honor TO a fresh recruit.
Yet such Democrats should remember
the peculiar circumstances of the case.
Mr.. Cleveland carried a number of
Western States which had never before
since the war voted for a Democratic
candidate for President He carried
them by the help of voters who had
become thoroughly dissatisfied with the
Republican party. The revolt became
a revolution. II overthrow the Repub
lican party and its former strongholds.
IL elected the Democratic candidates
without the vote Of New York. 1t
most unexpectedly gave the Democrats
control of the Senate.
In this revolt Judge Gresham was the
most conspicuous figure. He had been
member Of a Republican administration
and prominent candidate for the nomi-.
nation of his party for President He
had been a brave soldier. He was an
honest man and a just judge. The
Western people admired and trusted him.
No other accession TO the Democratic
cause gave IL such help as the announce
ment of Judge Gresham that he would
vote for Grover Cleveland. For some
time past Judge Gresham has been out of
sympathy with the Republican party. In
1888 he denounced the organized bribery
by which Indiana was carried for Harri-
son, and TO a World correspondent made
this memorable declaration:
1T is the Pharisees who are doing this.
lt is men of prominence and respectable
ity who raise these large sums of money,
knowing the use that they will be put to,
men who deal openly in corruption one
day and go to church the next.
At the opening of the late Preside n
tial campaign, he said:
"The most insidious of all forms of
tyranny is that Of plutocracy. Thought
full men see and admit that our country
is becoming less and less Democratic and
more and more plutocratic.
He repudiated the sxcesses of the Nc
Kinley bill, and upon every important
issue now before the country he Is as
thorough a Democrat as Grover Cleve-
land himself The political wisdom of
recognizing in this honorable way the
element which Judge Gresham repre-
sents, and which did so much to secure
Democratic ascendancy, ought to be
obvious TO ALL IL will strengthen the
Democracy for future victories in
Indiana Illinois and Wisconsin, and
increase the confidence of the
people everywhere in the breadth
of its patriotism and the
elevation Of its purpose. AS for
Judge Gresham himself in giving up a
congenial life position on the bench,
where he was in the line of sure promo
ton, he has set an example of self
sacrificing patriotism worthy of high
praise Though comparatively a poor
man, he raised no question of the made
quacy of the salary, as others have done /;
but when the President elect urged hin
the duty and the opportunity of serving
his country by helping to execute the
will of the people as declared in the
great uprising of November. he put
aside personal inclinations and even
braved unjust aspersions of his motives
in order to aid the man whom he trusts
and the cause in which hs believes
There will be no lack Of ability, of vigor,
of good sense, of hone 'ty or OF genuine
Americansm in the State Department
with Walter Q. Gresl am at its head
Mr.. Cleveland has stai ted well.