Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1892 — IT IS A STRONG TICKET. [ARTICLE]

IT IS A STRONG TICKET.

CLEVELAND AND STEVENSON WILL WIN. The Democratic Is a National Party, and as It Exists To-day Is a Vigorous and Vitalising Force—There Is Absolutely No Opposition to the Ticket. Wliv Cleveland Is Strong. Grover Cleveland Is strong with the people because, as President, he was honest, fearless, conservative, and industrious. His administration was without scandal. His appointments were excellent. The country during his term thrived. There was no stagnation in business. The public revenues were not wasted in gratuities to the undeserving. He failed of re-election because sf the use of enormous amounts of Republican campaign money in doubtful States. He received 100,000 more votes from the people than Harrison did. In 1890, two years after his defeat, the people, voting by districts instead of by States, indorsed him and his policy, and reduoed the Republican membership in the House of Representatives to 90, and two Democratic United States Senators were gained from States which had not had Democratic representation in the Senate for a quarter of a century. The Hon. Frank P. Bond, in his address to the Democratic ratification meeting Monday night in Memphis did well to call the attention of the Southorn people to the courage of Cleveland in calling to high office many of the most prominent of Southern men. He knew nothing of sectional lines, and the South felt while he sat in the presidential chair that it had in him a friend indeed. The colleges of the country have become strong

allies of the Democratic party since Mr. Cleveland took the leadership in the cause of tariff reform, and nearly all the graduates these days are disciples of Grover Cleveland. He has never, in his voluminous writings, given the Democrats any cause to apologize, and yet he has always been explicit and clear. He comes into the field again as the exemplar of the highest aspirations of the Democracy, and his name is a sufficient platform of itself. The doctrine of personal liberty enunciated in the Democratic declaration of principles is in line with the strictest Jeffersonlsm, and this plank will be of important effect in Illinois and Wisconsin, thereby increasing the chance of Democratic success in those States next November. Massachusetts having twice elected William E. Russell Governor may well be considered a doubtful State, lor Mr. Russell has stood before the people of his State, each time, as an advocate of tariff reform. It can not be maintained that the Democratic National Convention could have nominated a stronger ticket than Cleveland and Stevenson. If they can not win, nobody can. Democratic speakers will have no excuses to offer during the campaign. It will all be clear sailing. The men who pay taxes, either direct or indirect, will take kindly to Cleveland’s nomination, no matter in what quarter of the country they may be found. The folly of the Republican protection-reciprocity scheme has been thoroughly exposed, the manufacturers themselves Anding that it has not brought them relief trom congested markets. The situation at the present time is altogether assuring to Democratic hopes, and the outlook will grow brigher every hour.—Memphis AppealAvalanche.