Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — The Public Faith in Cleveland. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Public Faith in Cleveland.

While in a free republic like ours we discard the idea of one-man power, it has more than once happened that one man has stood for the country; for a national principle and sentiment; and has been the platform, as it were, of a great political party. The unique position of the one man has not always been recognized at the time, but has been afterward decided by the verdict of history. Washington had his enemies, opposers and even detainers, nut ue otanas now and will forever as the representative of the American revolution. Jefferson means Democracy. Lincoln stands for the American Union. He has been called the Great Emancipator, but he was the Greatpnionist. It is the glory, too, of our history that these men did not stand up for themselves, but for principles. To support Washington or Jefferson or Lincoln individually was to support the cause of American independence, of the reign of the people and of the preservation of the Union. The position of Grover Cleveland is not unlike that of these predecessors.

He stands for a cause and is his own platform. Washington, as wo know now, was a Letter representative of the American people of his time than a majority in the Continental Congress was; Jefferson’s greatest act, the purchase of Louisiana, may be styled his own act—done without the suggestion or authorization of a party; Lincoln stayed steadfastly by the idea of the restoration oi the Union, whatever his or any other party did or forbore to do; and Grover Cleveland stands for the ideas of tariff reform, of a sound currency, of real reform in the civil sei vice, however partisans may wrangle and conventions and platforms disagree. The citizen and voter, confused and possibly disgusted by the tacking and trimming of the platform makers and '‘resolutioners’’ of Mr. Cleveland’s party, turns to Mr. Cleveland himself and says: “Well, I believe in him, anyhow.”

This does not constitute Mr. Cleveland an autocrat or a despot or a dictator. It does not make a man any of these because he is an honest man and people believe in him. Mr. Cleveland's character and attitude toward public questions merely place him in a large and open place where he may be seen lof ail men. He is not hedged about by ! retainers or counselors or managers, i much less proprietors. Any man who wants to vote for Grover Cleveland can ; do so and find abundant reason other than that he, the voter, is a Democrat, or that Mr. Cleveland is the “regular nominee” of the Democratic party of the United States. The independence, the isolation of Mr. Cleveland’s position, cuts offjall entanglements and complications. He was not nominated to strengthen the party in any particular State or section of the Union. A man may vote for Grower Cleveland with a clear mind and a good heart and without regard to any other man. —Kansas City Star.

A PITIFUL APPEAL. Puck.