The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-30
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NA great intern a IL on 9 /
exhibition at St. Lou
-. is have specified July
1880 s as the best day for
the intending visitor
to arrive liz the Mound City thousands
have selected that date and win gov
ern themselves accordingly. The op-
portunity to see a worlds fair and a
national convention at the same time
and for the same expenditure does not
occur frequently. For that reason,
aside from the general interest in the
proceedings. the Democratic national
convention Of 1904 will attract an I'M
usually large attendance.
The shortened appellation Demo
cratic" has been accepted SO long both
by leaders and by rank and file in the
party that the full title-which is used
nowadays only by hypercritical cam
paIgn orators and platform builders
almost produces q shock. Yet the fact
remains that even to this day the cor
rect expression is "Democratic-R epub-
lican." At its first inception, indeed, it
was known as the Republican party
It was 50 denominated by Jefferson in
a letter to Washington. It was the
short lived successor to the better
known ti-Federalfst party. The
term Democrat was inspired by en-
thusiasm for the French revolution. At
first it was looked upon with great con-
tempt by the new Republicans" The
Democrats formed clubs all over the
country and called each other "citi-
zens.F to the horror of the other po-
litical parties, who saw nothing but
revolution in the term. In the Third
congress (1793) the Republicans and
Democrats united. and ever since that
time the proper name Of the party has
keen Democratic Republican.
The conditions marking the assem-
bling of the two great nominating con
ventions are vastly dissimilar. The
Republican nomination for president
was entirely outside the realm OF spec
ulasion. At st. Louis an almost exact
antithesis viii prevail, Uncertainty
viii be the rule. and speculation will
have no bounds The surprises and
possibilities of a presidential conven-
ticn ale 100 fresh in the memories of
aspiring statesmen TO permit of apathy
On the part OF a single delegate
No man who has twice been the re-
ciplent of the Hottest gift nation can
bestcw and who is the only living ex-
president Of the United Stateg need ex-
psct to b. forgotten at a national con-
vention OF his own party. Grover Cleve-
lana, twenty-second and twenty fourth
president was born at Caldwell, Essex
county, y. J., March IS, 1897. He was
the son of a Presbyterian minister. The
family removed to Clinton, n. Y, when
the future statesman was a boy and he
was educated in the schools of that
town. In 1853 his father died. and he
was obliged to go to work His first
position was that of teacher in the
State Institution For the Blind. Soon
afterward he started for Cleveland, O.,
where he expected to study law. Pass
ing through Buffalo. he was induced to
stay there and obtained a position with
"a leading law Grm. Admitted to prac-
tice in 1853, he was assistant district
attorney for Erie county in 1853. He
was defeated as Democratic candidate
for district attorney in 1865, but was
elected sheriff in 1870. In 1881 he was
chosen mayor. He was elected gov
ernor in 1882. having the remarkable
plurality of 192.854. At the Democratic