Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-11-06
Eulogizes Grover clevsland and the gold
Democrats.
lOregonlan, Nov. 1

I
ightened and patriotic democrats VIII
refused to follow the perverted part
organization in the paths of flnancia
dishonesty and social disorganizatior
OF economic and political revolution
They have come to its rescue in a NOR
vital crisis, they have saved it from
deadlier peril, than that which dis
solved party ties and united all pa
triots in the stirring days OF 1861.
4 The Democrats have done the work
Overwhelming as the majority for Nc
Kinley is,the men whose votes elected
Cleveland four years ago could have
/ turned the scale. 1t could not have
been done without them. For every
Populist drawn to support of the Chi
cago platform, for every feeble or dis.
( honest Republican lured into the ways
Of population and anarchy by the
hope of swindling creditors or Of escap.
ing the restraints of law, for every
Democrat who has deserted he honor
able traditions of his party to chase
after the spoils of official patronage,
for each mischievous miscreant ana
recreant, conscientious and loyal
Democrat who has left the soiled col
ors of his party to fight under the alien
standard which represents to him as
truly as TO its bearers the high, pure
and lasting principles of public faith
and economic integrity, of subsection
to law and respect for public order,
which are the Inheritance and the
charge Of good citizens of all parties
alike.
The country will not deserye its
good fortune, the Republican party
will not be worthy of the trust given
it by good citizens of all parties, the
administration will be unfit to realize
the reasonable expectations of those
who have made 1T, il they shall forget
the obligation TO respect the wishes
and opinions Of the Democrats of the
country, the real Democrats, the only
Democrats that are left, the Demo-
Gratis of the future. These men do
not want office, though in the natural
course of events, under the civil-ser-
vice law, many of them will keep it.
They do want reasonable advisory
voice in economic legislation, and
ought to have it. At no time since
Abraham Lincoln sought the advice
and accepted the aid of all patriots,
have Democrats had such right to
offer counsel to a Republican admin
istration as now.
Let it never be forgotten that the
foundation of this triumph of public
honor and civil war was laid by no Re-
publican, but by the greatest Demo-
crat who has led the party for sixty
years, and by the president, who will
fill larger place in history than any
other since Grant. 1t was Grover
Cleveland who first called halt in !
the policy of silver imitation by fore
Ing Democratic congress, in special |
session, to repeal, the silver-purchase
act. 1t was Grover Cleveland who
first sent the United States army |
TO suppress Populist insurrection in
Chicago, IN the face of a sympathizing
Democratic governor. 1t was Grover
Cleveland who sustained the national
credit by selling bonds in the face of |
gnoraht and passionate popular
,lamor. 1t was Grover Cleveland who
iid'all the things the Chicago plat
'orm repudiated, and which the coun-
Try has so emphatically endorsed. He
made the way so plain that good sense
md patriotism could find no other to
walk in. He destroyed his own party
because it was unworthy, and taught
,he Republicans how to deserve the
confidence of the country, Grover
cleveland is the man of the hour, the
nero Of the battle for honest money
Ind stable government.
The campaign liars of this city are