Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — Depew’s Tribute to Cleveland. [ARTICLE]

Depew’s Tribute to Cleveland.

Chauncey M. Depew’s famous speech in introducing Mi. Cleveland at a banquet in New York on Oct. 9,1890, deserves to bo reproduced now to show what a leading Republican orator thought of the Democratic candidate when he was not the, standard bearer of his party. Here is what he said: “If I were asked to name the most forceful character in American life, the man who best represents the energy, the unswerving determination and the courage of the true American; the man who knows duty, and it alone, when public servics commands it; the man who wars in war and is for peace in peace, I would name General W. T. Sherman. But if lam to name the typical American, the man who loves and believes in his country beyond everything else; the man who, determining once in what direction his duty leads, cannot be swerved from the path—the man who is doggedly persistent in what he believes to be right—the man who thinks not of self, but of his country and its needs, I would name Grover Cleveland. “What he has accomplished is the very highest, attribute to the possibilities of American citizenship. A country lawyer in the city of Buffalo, he shed luster upon the high profession which he had chosen. As the mayor of his native city he presented as his record a clean and economical administration. Coming into the highest position in the land without previous experience, and with scarcely a precedent to guide him in the conditions which surrounded him, he won the affection of his party, and commanded the respect and admi ration of his opponents. I find myself in one of the proudest positions of my life in being permitted to present to you Grover Cleveland as the typical American.” And it was Depew who nominated Harrison at Minneapolis. . The workers and toilers of this great country have been fanned by the vampire wing, lo these many years, and the life giving currents have been diverted to these great vampires, the beneficiaries of protection.—Miami County Sentinel. Carnegie, from his castle in Scotland, wired congratulations to Harrison on his renomination. But Harrison can’t return the compliment— the Pinkerton* met with defeat at Homestead the other day, Rensealaer Democratic Beutinel. .