The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-03
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 Among the many fine tributes paid the memory of Mir. Cleveland by his political opponents we do not remem4 Der more ftting one than this from our Republican contemporary, The New Bedford Standard:
 Tt was Gods mercy to this coup- try" sasd Senator Allison on q mem orable occasion, that Grover Cleveland, and not Harrison. was elected presi. dent" This was after he had saved the nation from financial dishonor by his refusal to join in compromises with respect to the repeal of the silver pur- chase act. Mir. Allison himself did not stick as emphaticaliy and as forcibly ought; and the Republican party. ofh- cially has always seemed to feel 1t duty to ignore and to disparage the service MT. Cleveland did for his coun- try in his endeavor to maintain the fi- nancial standard. He has been held. over and oyer again. responsible for a panic which was none of his making, and which was produced largely by the reckless silver legislation of another administration than his. We suppose there are partisans who will so on and on repeating, and perhaps believing the slander. Fairminded Republicans al- ways were ashamed of it. and now that ss1f- l-teS At4-ll. 4l- s1n1 LnAH are more ashamed of it than ever.
 Is not that well ana handsomely said? The Republicans ought to be ashamed of themselves. ThongR MT. Cleveland was acting along strictly Democratic lines. and carrying out ths highest conceptions of Democracy. he .t xhS S.n,a st,,,. = akf-@. k&. 4ts. honor and credit of the whole coun- try. and thus doing the best service for all the people. Republicans and Democrats alike. and the Republicans should have thanked instead ef abus- ing him.
 But if the Republicans ought to feel ashamed Of the contumely thsy heaped on MT. Cleveland because ]. he was bravsly doing his duty how much more should, his Democratic traducers take shame to themselves for their conduct towards him? When General Brass, in the Democratic National Convention of 1892, we believe it was, said of MT. Cleveland: We love him or the enemies he has made.' he ut tered severe condemnation of those who had so assiduously traduced and maIigned MT, Cleveland, and some of them, to their everlasting shams be it said. were members of his own party who had received favcrs tt his hand and who. should have stood by him to the sna.
 Perhaps this ingratitude Is only part of common human nature. Washing ton was tradaced. viiliaed. naiignsd and abused most bitterly in his day but 1t could not last In the face of his high character and great services. Mir. clevsiand has had a like experience but hss like his great predecessor. win yet come into his own and his name will stand among the foremost men of the age when his enemies have been forgotten and the bitter things that have been said about him will be blot ted from the pages of American his. tory. Sfisconception and Tnisrepresen- tation cannot fIoufish in the light of truth and justice, Ehmity and malice and envy cannot endure forever. Truth is mighty and will prevail,~ we are told. and the truth about Grover clsveiana will yet shine out in letters of gold. we have an abiding faith in those stirring lines of william Cullen Bryant;
 Truth crushed to earth shall rise
 again
 The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain,
 And dies among his worshippers