The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-10-27
BUCHANAN PARKER.
SO Grover Cleveland Calls His
Present Candidate.

VIII II Win Votes For Young Ameri.
eans to Invite Them to Side With
Slavery, Secession and States
Rights and Such, Since Democracy
10 interchangeable" According to
cievsIandf
To-day am more attached to my
party than ever" wrote Grover Cleve.
land in a magazine recently praising
the Democratic party, giving as his
reason for his attachment that his
party has an enduring permanency."
He elaborates the idea that today's
Democracy Is the same that it was
when he preferred james Buchanan.
He says that "a slight resemblance
between some of the incidents of the
pending presidential campaign and
those Of 1856 causes me to recall the
choice then made of my party affilia-
tion." He emphasizes the point that
his choice Of party then made was so
deliberately reached. and so well
thought out that genuine Democracy
has always since been sufficient for
me-"
The Immediate Importance of this is
that the only living ex-president put 1t
forward to persuade the young men of
| 1904 to choose as he chose What did
he choose? First of all, "non-interfer.
ence by congress with slavery in
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Of Columbia" This was the very core
Of the Democratic platform in 1856,
when It declared that we reiterate
with renewed energy Of purpose the
well considered declaration Of former
conventions upon the sectional issue
OF domestic slavery and concerning
the reserved rights Of the states."
Such was Grover Cleveland's choice.
Not only slavery, but states rights,
which so soon precipitated the attempt
at secession for the sake of slavery,
armed rebellion and civil war.
We need say nothing now upon that
Platforms denial of all right to make
internal improvements; of the least
shadow of any right under the consti.
tuition to encourage, develop or pro-
tect American industries; of its declar-
alton that "the time has come for the
people Of the United States to declare
themselves in favor of free seas and
progressive free trade throughout the
world" Many other things were in
that platform so ardently preferred by
this patron saint, who declares that
Democracy has not changed from that
day to this, and almost every one of
the ideas that he chose has been
proved by the mighty logic Of tre-
mendous events to have been most
pernicious, fraught with danger and
destruction to the country.
Having chosen the slave trade party
and its principles, and having turned
his back upon the Republican party
then just formed for free soil, free
speech and free men," Cleveland, in
his zeal of youth, could not approve
the Republican platform declaration
that believing that the spirit of our
institutions. as well as the constitution
of our country, guarantees liberty OF
conscience and equality of rights
among citizens, we oppose all legisla.
tion impairing their security" That
was good enough for Abraham Lin.
coln,, but Grover Cleveland would
have none of it, but chose to go with
Jefferson Davis.
All that Cleveland saw was that "the
Republican party had appealed to the
peoples romantic sentiment and love
for the spectacular by the nomination
OF John c. Fremont for president
How very like these words are the
burden Of the Democratic attack upon
Theodore Roosevelt now. The mighty
issues Of human rights appealed to
him not at all. He saw none of them
but confesses he was attracted be-
cause "the Democratic party chal
lenged the sober and conservative
thought Of the country by the nomina
tion Of the mature, undramatic and ex
perienced Buchanan" Evidently Par
ker seems to him to be the Buchanan
Of today. OF course he is not "experi
enced." no candidate of great party
was ever less SO than Parker. but he is
mature" and "undramatic," and, like
Buchanan In other controlling charac
teristics.
What did "the mature, undramatie
and experienced Buchanan" do for the
country? When the storm gathered
. thick and fast, and state after state OF
the South, solid then as today, at
: tempted the mockery Of secession
!. meaning thereby they tried to destroy
the Union, Buchanan wrung his hands
in hopeless despair, and publicly pro
claimed that he was powerless. thai
the government was nothing but 9
rope of sand" Yet he had taken and
.. broken the presidents oath that 81 dc
solemnly swear that will faithfully
execute the Office Of president of the
United States, and will, to the best Of
my ability, preserve, protect and de
fend the constitution of the United
f, States" That was the man whom
Cleveland chose. and still admires
: comparing Parker to him now. Botf
Buchanan and Parker are alike con
stitutionalists," and we have Cleve
lands word for 1t that Parker's party
B is the same as Buchanan's party. Il
: the one any safer for the country thar
the other was? Is 1t not clear CASE
. once more of what Garfield meant
g when he said TO young men, "Pitcf
q your tent among the living and moi
e among the dead"
D "The honor Of the nation and the