Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — The Turning Point. [ARTICLE]

The Turning Point.

From the New York Si n, (Dam.) Well, Ohio perforins for Grover Cleveland in 15.34 the same oilice Which North Cttro.ina performed for Horace Greeley iir 1572. It kills him as a candidate. The Demo'craii mill not have GroVEK CLEVELAND FOR PRESIDENT, They would not have Greeley, not alone because he did not represent the ideas of Democracy, but still more be cause he bvas not fit to be President. For the same high and resistless reasons they will not have Grover Cleveland now. He does not represent the ideas of Democracy and he is not fit to be President. Yet in one most important respect the difference is enormous between these two candidates, both imposed upon the Democracy by revolting Republican factions. .Horace Greeley was a man of vast intelligence and knowledge, of spotless personal character and noble, unselfish motives. Grover Cleveland is a man tatlooed With shame, base and degraded in HIS PERSONAL RELATIONS, LIVINW ONLY FOR HIMSELF AND HIS OWN SELFISH AND EGOISTIC ENDS, PROFOLNDLT IGNORANT, AND OF BARREN, COMMONPLACE MIND. But Ohio ends Cleveland, as North Carolina ended Greeley; an L in the present case, as in the former, the great regret is over the madness and the catastrophe of the Democracy, lhe unfit and deluded candidate deserves his fate; but the wise and patriotic raustsorrow at the calamity of the party, for it is the calamity of the country.