Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1886 — PRESIDENT CLEVELAND SOLID. [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND SOLID.

An Opinion of His Strength Among the People of the Country. [Washington special to Chicago Daily News.] Gen. J. B. Clark, Clerk of the House, ■who has been circulating about the country a good deal since Congress adjourned, says there will not be a word of opposition to the administration from the Democratic politicians this fall. All the opposition and grumbling that was heard in the halls of Congress last winter has died out and the nominees are looking for tbe good feeling Mr. Cleveland’s administration has aroused among the people to help them in the canvass. “The streng h of Mr. Cleveland among the people,” continued Mr. Clark, “is something beyond the conception of an ordinary politician. Democrats and Republicans are alike for him,and his party critics are not saying a word. I have met a great many prominent men who heeded what was going on about them, and they all sny the same thing. I met a par.y of New York business men, bankers and merchants, men of wealth and prominence, several of whom told me that they had been Republicans all their lives, and had voted for Blaine, but that they were going to vote for Cleveland in 1888. They did not care, they said, who nominated him. He would get their votes, and the votes of thousands like them would go for him. They claimed that what they said was no more than was said by the majority of the men they met in business life. “But they were not the only ones I heard

express themselves with thio wild enthusiasm. I heard it everywhere I went. The politicians are taking it up. Representative Matson says Mr. Cleveland could carry Indiana to-day by 25,000 majority. Somehow the people seem to like him. There is something catching about his way of saying and doing things. When he is pigheaded and stubborn and makes mistakes they excuse him or laugh at it and like it. There is no getting away from the fact that he has got a mighty strong hold.” General Clark said, further, that the Democrats can not help renominating Mr. Cleveland, and that the Democratic politicians have nothing to say against it.