The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-31
DEMOCRATIC CONNIE lent
On Cleveland'S Nomination of
PeCkham.

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From the Rochester Union and
and Advertiser, straight Democrat:
MIR. Wheeler II. Peckham is Just as
much Democrat, no more and no
less, in the ranks of the Democratic
party, as the New York Evening
Post is Democratic journal in the
ranks of Democratic journalism, or
a. Lucifer is al angel in heaven.
Mr.. Peckham has for years recog
M I'd no more obligation to support
Democratic nominations or any
action of the Democratic party in
delegated convention assem- bled,
than to support Republican nomina
tions or any action of the Republi-
can party in delegated convention
assembled.
Notably, in the campaign of lsSS,
when the Democratic governor Of
the state OF New York, now the
senior Democratic United States
senator from the state of New \ ork,
was in nomination for reelection,
and was reelected, and when the
junior Democratic nited States
senator of the state Of New York
was, as he still is, chairman of the
Democratic state committee, con-
Quoting the canvass against the Re.
publicans and their allies, Wheeler
ii. Peckham not only voted against
Governor Hill and the Democratic
platform, and for the Republican
candidate, Warner Miller, and the
Republican platform, but he did so
openly and def antly, to the end
of taking the executive depart
ment of the state government from
the Democrats and turning it over
to the Republicans. Warner Mil
Ter stood upon a platform which re.
tfirmed the Republican national
platform upon which Harrison and
Morton were nominated at Chicago
the previous June, upon the Plat.
form of the Republican state con
vention which nominated him at
Saratoga, and upon his own plat.
form of high license, much higher
than his pirty platform proposed as
he read it. That platform Gun.
equivocally condemns the course of
Governor Hill in obstructing by his
vetoes acts for increasing the fees
for licenses, and we approve the
efforts of the Republicans in the
last Legislature on the liquor qles-
tion"-which efforts were hypocrit-
ical and dishonest, and mad for
their sole aim the putting of Cover
nor Hill sin hole" which they
didn't do.
The nomination of such con
spicuous supporter of W arner Miller
for governor in 1883 on the Repub.
lican platform, and especially on
the Republican issue of high license
which Warner Miller made para.
mount, as Wheeler I'll. Peckham, is
unbearably offensive not only to the
two Democratic United States
senators from New York, who bore
the brunt of the fight against the
Republicans in this state in 1888,
but to every man Of the ESQ, AGA
against whom Warner Miller and
Wheeler H. Peckham were arrayed.
No self-respecting man of the
ESQ, AGA can do otherwise than
resent the proposed honoring of
such a renegade Democrat and open
ally of the Republican enemy as
Wheeler Ii. Peckham.
Fromthe Chicago Herald, straight
Democrat: Mr.. Cleveland has
chosen Mr.. Peckham, not because
of pre- eminence at the bar, which
he does not emf not because of
experien on the bench, which he
has never occupied; not because he
possesses that tranquil temperament
which is assurance of judicial spirit,
for Mr.. Peckham is notorious for
chronic mental intemperance. Mr..
Cleveland has named Mr.. Peckham
for no other discernible reason than
to exasperate the senators from
New York. In doing this Mr..
Cleveland ignores the solemn trust
the Democratic party has twice
placed in his keeping-its own safe.
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