The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-16
THE PRESIDENTS APTITUDE.

Never before in the history of the coun-
try did sitting administration oppose the
apparently regular candidates and plat
form of its party and openly espouse a
protesting candidacy.-New York World
Oem)
President Cleveland's letter pledging his
support to Palmer and Buckner which was
read at the notification meeting in Louis
vile Saturday evening, will undoubtedly
bring thousands of votes to the sound
money ticket in every State in the Union.
Chicago Chronicle (Dem.)
Mr.. Cleveland is still the chief executive
of the United States, but letter or a tele-
gram from him can have no influence in
political matters unless it is to disgust
some men who have wandered away from
the party fold and send them back to the
support of Bryan.-Cincinnau Enquirer
Gree silverD
No honest Democrat can longer doubt
that duty, however, painful, lies in the
path which the greatest Democrat of the
time and majority of his official family
Kinley is the only hope for the rehabilita-
ton of the Democracy of the fathers.-Chi-
cago Tines-Herald Rep.)
He places principles above regularity and
the voice of deliberate and intelligent con-
science above the voice of the party ma
jority 1t is precisely this that gives to
the action of Mr.. Cleveland an authority
and influence far greater and more lasting
in the ratio of the elevation of the rank he
holds in the party.-NeW York Times
Dem.)
The Republican party is welcome to
Grover Cleveiand-to the whole of him.
During his entire second term he has been
a Republican in his policies, and because of
his treason to the Democratic platform on
which he was elected the party, until it
rose at the Chicago convention and re-
pudiated him and all his works, seemed
inevitably destined to a blghting defeat
New York Journal Gree silver)
The course of President Cleveland in in
dorsing the Indianapolis convention and its
nominees was the only one open to him
that was consistent with his record He
has been long committed to the policy of
tariff reform, the maintenance of the gold
standard and the retirement of the green
backs. The declarations of the Indianapolis
platform these questions are a state
ment of his position.-Chicag Record
Qnd.)
1t is unmistakable that the President does
not regard the standard held up by Bryan
and Sewall or by Bryan and Watson as
borne aloft in faithful hands, nor does
he consider that the voice of the Chicago
convention is 1.-The voice of true Democ-
raey.'' His words are few but sufficient
to show that the chief pontiff believes the
Democracy of the Indianapolis convention
to he orthodox and that of the Chicago as
semby Observation-Disclosures Inter Ocean
(Rep.)
Mr. Cleveland has written a letter-this
time brief one. concise and to the point
He comes out openly and vigorously in
support of the ticket of the true Democ-
racy'' nominated at Indianapolis ard rati-
fled amid the most genuine enthusiasm at
Louisville 1t did not require either the as
sistance of the Cabinet or the proclamation
of its chief to determine which end of the
Democracy was genuine from the point of
view of honest Democrats.-New York
Morning Advertiser lRep)