Show THE candidates grover cleveland is today to day the most popular man mail in america Ar at one time it was thought that 11 his claim claici to this was disputed by bl blaine aine but the hie recent republican convention shows that blaine stands even lower than II arrison in the estimation of liis his own owl party why he has lia thus fallen in popularity wo do not pretend to say but the vote shows the lamentable fact sonic some have said paid that blaine was inclined to be honest and for that reason his hie party relegated linn him to tile the shades but be that as it may he is not the great man mail today to day that lie he was two months ago ago ili his own ungrateful L party will realize this chis t too 00 when their campaign 0 comes on this fall and they need experience and judgment to guide them in ill their radical conduct cen duct cleveland on the other hand has grown in public estimation since lie he has been i in public life his character liis his courage and his it integrity are too well known to need comment here A E stevenson the vice dennial candidate is it a citizen of illinois to which state lie removed from kentucky in the year of his life ile he is is a prominent democrat and a lawyer of considerable renown ile he lias has not been in public p ul life a great deal although 0 he has served in congress several terms once der defeating eating the publican republican Rp candidate in a 1 republican district by 1200 votes general stevenson served as first assistant under postmaster post master general vilas and his record as an officer stands very high in that department part ment ile he is a forcible and effective public speaker and there is no doubt but what his name will serve to make illinois a democratic state at the coming 0 election |