Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-07-04
MR. CLeyELANvs TRIUMPH,

The Enthusiastic Endorsement of Ken
lucky Democrats Shows How Great q
Victory He Has Won for Sound Money.
New York Evening Post, June a7th.
When the last Democratic Congress
adjourned on the 4th of March, after
tloutlng and insulting President Cleve-
land in every possible way if any prophet
had said that within four months
q convention of his party In Kentucky,
chosen on the very issue OF ratlfying Or
rejecting his financial policy, would give
him the most enthusiastic endorsement
by more than two-thirds majority,
such seer would have been called mad.
That is the wonderful thing that has
happened. II is not the only event of
the kind in Mr.. Cleveland's career. On
the contrary, it is the recurrence of such
events that makes his present triumph
more impressive, showing, as it does,
that the people are faithful to leaders
who have once gained their confidence
by an uncompromising adherence to the
truth through evil as well as through
good report.
This victory in Kentucky smashes the
silverites in both parties, and they know
II. Mr.. Cleveland more than any other
man has done this. By his courage and
fortitudo he has not merely snuffed out
a lot of pestilent demagogues in his own
party, sucn as Blackburn, Bland, Voor-
bees, Morgan and Altgeld, but he has
dwarfsd into relative insigniticance a
lot OF weak kneed trimmers and traders
in the Republican party whose names
will readily suggest themselves to the
general reader Furthermore, he has
done what to most people, three months
ago, was incredlble-he has made a
Democratic victory next year possible.
He has done this by turning the party
about face" preventing 1t from walk
ing over a precipice for which ID was
plainly headed. Nothing seemed more
likely, prior to the holding Of the Mem
phis convention, than that the whole
South would go with mad rush for
silver at 16 to 1, in which case the party
would have lost every northern State east
OF the Missouri river, together with
Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia,
and very likely Kentucky also. Indeed,
there is no saying what States they
could be sure of, since the Is 10 mad.
ness will not bear discussion through a
campaign where il is the chief issue, as
In ascribing to Mr.. Cleveland the
foremost place. we do not overlook the
services of MIR. Carlisle, Mr.. Patterson,
and other abe and Jealous workers.
They have fought glorious battle, and
are entitled L second place, but the
battle would not have been fought at
all but for Mr.. Cleveland. We should
have gone to silver monometallism two
years ago but for him, and we should
have wallowed in that mire until we
had learned, by tear-bought experience,
that deprecated and fluctuating cur
rency is never anything but curse,
and most OF all arurse to the poor. 1t
was Mr.. Clevelanl's initiative in calling
Congress togetherin 1893 that made It
possible to repeal he Sherman act. 1t
was his determination that brought
the Democratic senators "up to the
scratch" 1t was lis rejection of com.
promises that compelled the taking of a
vote on the naked question of repeal,
without which We should be in a con-
dition very differeIt from the one we
are now in, and far less satisfactory.
The immediate Consequence Of Mr..
Cleveland's triumph in Kentucky will
be subsistence of the silver craze in
Texas, in Missouri, in North Carolina,
and probably in all The States. Conval-
escence will proceed rapidly, and it will
not be restricted 10 the Democratic
party. The Republicans will get some
of the benefit. We shall soon discover
an improved tone among their leaders.
Harrison, Reed and Mckinley will all
find it much easier to talk than it was
little while ago, and such newspapers as
the Tribune will be much holder than
they were. These things, too, will be
trophies in Mr.. Cleveland's wigwam-
scaips in his belt, so to speak. That he
may live long to wear them is the earnest
wish of the sober-minded American
people.