The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-07-16
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John ~ Dayisls recent ailuslou
to Grover Cleveland in correction
with woodrow wilson's nomination
for the presidency does not agur
I'well for the latter IN the opinion Of
the Huntington Granddaughter.
which digs down Into history and
shows that the Democratic party
was really at its weakest under
Cleveland, as follows:
Hon. John W. Davis, Democratic
congressman from the First West
Virginia district, and nominee for
reelection, asserts, or is at least
credited with the assertion. that
WOODROW Wilson IS the strongest
candidate. nominated by the Demo
crats since Grover Cleveland
This assertion is somewhat
strange, NOT to say absolutely anam-
molous. Grover Cleveland was I'M
denlably a strong candidate. since
he won two out of three contests for
the presidency.
But to what purpose? He was
elected in 1892 upon a platform
which, If placed in major compost
ton beside that upon which Wood
row Wilson is running today, the
twain would appear, to the ex-
perlenced eye, twins.
Mr.. cleveland went into the
White House as Mr.. Wilson expects
to 60, with Democratic House and
democratic Senate accompanying
him He went pledged to a tariff
for revenue only policy. The ac-
com0anging House and Senate. in
spite of the ties which bound them
and bound MI. Cleveland to tariff
FOR revenue freeStrade propaganda,
broke faith with the platform and
the people, and refused toi carry out
(the radical program which had
then been reiterated by Democratic
platforms for twenty years and
which has since that time been
quadriennially reiterated by Demo-
cratic platforms. Mr.. Cleveland
was repudiated in the convention or
1896 by the John w. Daniels,
James K. Jones, William i. stone
and William j. Bryan wing of the
party, and free trade, while rele-
gated in favor OF free silver, was
held well in the forefront, though
eclipsed by the great paramount"
issue of free silver.
Mr.. Cleveland was a strong mes
because nominated at opportune
times, and upon platforms that ap-
pealed to the dissatisfied. But III
the theories upon which he suc-
ceeded we're true Democratic doc
trlne, then the Democratic CongressI
of 1894 repudiated its profess
sIons. and flung itself and the party
which made it isto discredit. I'll
Mr.. Wilson is to be strong like Mr..
Cleveland, he will have "a sad end
ing, even granting tina. he shall be
elected president. It as a WE'LL
known fact that, once the Democrats
possess both houses OF Congress and
attempt to carry out the Democratic
free trade provision OF their platform
ItAey2wiIl experiesce a storm in their
own house which wills divide 1T
against itself, and causeit to crum-
BILE into ruin, as it did in the years
Immediately preceding the presiden-
tial campaign of 1895 when Cleve-.
land, the supposed conservative, was
repudiated in the nominating conven-
ton, asd when Bryan, the avoWed
radical, was repudiatedNin the gen
eral election.
Democrats can not win upon the
tariff for two reasoss. The first OF
these reasons is that they are
wrong in many essentials in their
proposed dealings with this ques-
ton. The second is that they have
when given an opportunity to do the
ye III things they propose under their
is12 platform, failed ignomini-
Ously, and branded themselves as
thypocrites and their cause the cause
Of insincere man1pulat6rs'
whether the Democrats propose
Irwin Upon Mr.. Wilson's personal
IIty5or MI. Bryan's platform, is not
known. Neither deserves to win'
and If Republican derellction shall
thrust victory upos them it Will
prove but a temporary boon which
their own indlscretion will cast 10
the winds as oursted bubble.