Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1888 — Why We Will Win. [ARTICLE]

Why We Will Win.

A correspondent has asked us fora plain Statement of the reasons for our faith in the triumphant election of Cleveland and Thurman. We will endeavor to answer the inquiry briefly, without overstatin" anything that bears upon the grounds of our confidence. We have already dwelt on the wonderful unanimity of the Democratic party for Cleveland, and explained our conviction that the feeling of the people of the United States toward the present president is akin to that of the masses of his supporters toward Lincoln, after he had been severely tried and found true and capable. The sentiment is one cf intimacy between the people and their chief pubilc servant, arising out of equal devotion to a com moQ end and sincere effort to promote it by direct and plain endeavor. No manifestoes of organisations, no journalistic puffs, are needed to introduce Cleveland to the people. They know him as a man knows his' next door neighbor or hiu brother, and they understand that what ho does he doaa for tbem in ibe way they pvould like him to do it. They suspect him of no ulterior motive, nor of cherish* ing any scheme for tho benefit pf himself or any one else but the people at large. They trust him. They have- tried liim. They have found him true, and they will not stop him in the middle of his work. We believe that this sentiment means votes to be counted by the million., and therefore wo think, as wo said five months ago, that in the extent of the Democrat;. majority the result of tho national election of 1888 will relatively more closely resemble that of the state contest in 1882 than tho conclusion of the federal electoral campaign of 1534, The result of 1834 was a Democratic success. From what element can v : . be drawn to reverso if? The Democratic p: rt-y F • ted by any important local ;’ ' • \-‘- sions. jealousies n? sec>-■ v < four years ago. The re v, Li. , • erajic votes polled for tlr: y :W; than thou.' Clove!:"'1 be o - Alb/ and Thurman is, to er.v 1 he. 1.. s• pular a candidate ns flench' -.;s ~ ;.y. As we have soon by r mi coyro l '-■ of influent}.: I iathpeadt ..A Tiiv.,man’s popularlfj i; not link Ii *• strict party lines. Imlcpondents. l&bl iis-nomi* : .w' posisiblb;- liepnhi caua admi”;- wfe Ills early oppoto the hh eso invasion r*u-W him tho favorite of the Paeifie coast, and his st-endfisfe cnti-mo-cpoly chtorpioaslrip of "p.'s rip hi 3 against the jobbery and oppression of the great corporations has made him tho idol of workmen as: :1 labor •r«wnizations. These unquestionable facts render it hpipo'sible for any mind to see tho slightest ground for I'e; iblicaa hep-, of rereraiag the national verdict of Ibba. - New York >Stur.