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Cleveland Our Candidate

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
June
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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"A name entwined with victory" ís again placed at the head of the democratie national ticket. By acclamation and amidst the wildest enthusiasm, Grover Cleveland has been renominated for president. He is the strongest man in the democratie party. He has shown that he possessed more statésmanship than any man now in public life. He is a man who does his own thinking and who has the backbone to carry out his convictions of right and wrong. He has shown the possession of a great capacity tor executive government. He has developed a comprehensive grasp of public questions. He has exercised a practical method of dealing with important questions. He looks at the details of government with the eyes of a practiced business man. He has made a president of whom every intelligent American may well be proud. The democratie party builded wiser than they knew, when they first nominated Cleveland for president. He has placed the party on a higher plañe. He has infused into their ranks the courage of the conviction that their cause is just. He has planned the battle and placed the republicans on the defensive, and made thera defend the indefensibie robbery from the hard earned savings of the people to pile up an immense public treasure. Like a watch dog, he has stood at the treasury door to prevent the squandering of the people's money. With clarión voice he says: Reduce taxation. Let hard earned dollars Stay in the pockets of the men who earn them, and don't squander public funds . No one to-day, doubts Clevelnnd's honesty. No one to-day denies that be is a man with a backbone. No one to-day denies that he has the courage of his convictions and the ability to express what he means in the Kings English. That is the kind of a man we have for our candidate, a man whom every intelligent voter ought to be proud to support for president. The Hudson Post, a republican paper, is afraid the prohibition vote will be large enough to keep the republicans from getting the next legislature and passing a state prohibitory law. The Register persists in telling its readers what is not true concernng the liquor bonds accepted by the common council. If the Register would take the trouble to send a reporter over to the county treasurers office, he will find by looking at the ÜqtiOr bonds there filed that no bond was accepted where both the sureties did not swear that they were residents and freeholders in this city, The Argus repeats - no Ilegal bond has been accepted by the council. If the Register thinks any bond is illegal, let them publish a verbatim copy of that Vond. The closeness of the vote at the taxpayers' meeting is in part an indication that the people of the city have made up their minds that extravagance in managing the affairs of the city should cease. Wc do not think, however, that it meany that they are not in favor of puSJ improvements. But these improve ments should be made with funds a the disposal of the council and no by overdraits on the treasury. Tha is the spirit of the city charter, and under the present city governmen we may safely assert that no war rants will be dravvn on any func which would cause an overdraft in that fund on the first of February next when our taxes are all in. To sign such warrants would be in vio lation of the city charter.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News