St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-25
Cleveland's Policy-SOund business Dec
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ALBANY Correspondence Philadelphia Times
Nov 2I

NOV Il.
''No harm shall come 10 any business in
terest as the result of administrative policy
SO long as | am president. / intend to sur
round myself with the best and broadest
minds in the party and then bend all my
energies toward making an administration
that shall at least assure every element that
a transfer of executive control from one
party to another does not mean any serious
disturbance of existing conditions"
Tnis strong and important sentence was
uttered by President-elect Cleveland this
morning while leaking of some of his hopes
and ambitions for the country which
he is to rule for the next four years.
erlsh condition OF the commercial
world and its needless anxiety for the future
of trade, an anxiety born OF feeling Of
uncertainty as TO what a political revolution
may mean to the industries of the land.
While he was speaking in this particular in
stance of business interests as applied TO
trade, the scope of his expressions often took
the broader range Of application to those who
depend upon their daily toll for bread, who
till the soil for a living or engage in the
thousand aud one avoeations that create and
keep healthy the commerce Of the country.
His hope and intent seemed as strong for
one element as the other and he dealt in
what be said as thoroughly for the common
citizen as for the higher and more sensitive
representatives, of the wealth and power of
the nation. Referring to the feeling Of un-
rest in strict business circles, which l had
suggested, he said:
ALL INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE.
SIT is almost incredible to me that there
should be any feeling OF uncertainty what
ever AS 10 the future, SO far as the result of
the recent election is concerned. Those who
are to succeed to power By the will of the
people, as recently expressed, are as much
interested in tue future of the United States
AS those who yield it. They also have an
equal stake in the prosperity aud advance
ment OF the country They are as thoroughly
committed TO a maintenance Of values and
as earnestly anxious for a sterling busine IS
prosperity as their opponents. Naturally
they will be careful about pronOuneng for a
policy inimical 10 the interests of the very
class which. more than any other, has thus
honored US with its confidence. Coming into
power after 81 long an absence, the party
ought, and will Sd far as the executive
is concerned, bring liberal views and good
impulses into the control of the government
II would be unnatural for the party not to be
actuated by desire to continue in power by
demonstrating that it deserved the highest
confidence of the people. This it cannot do
if it would unsettle business and make fac
tious war upon well conceived plans of gov
eminent This is the view l take of tina
proper position Tor party Just assuming the
control of the country in crisis like this and
the standard by which | shall be guided
while in the presidential Office. If l follow
It hope for aud expect fair and honest
resp ,use from the Republicans with whom
NAV have relations, as vel! as the hearty
supper: OF my own party"
HIGH ORDER OF EXECUTIVE CONTROL
This last sentence impressed ne as being
perhaps tile most important expression made
bv the newly elected president. IL seems to
illustrate the best possible temper, the most
hopeful spirit, and point to the fact that it is
his intention to make an administration so
wise AMI conservative that the Republican
senate and the party behind it shall nave no
possible reason for captious oppnsitiou to his
policy or methods. 1t would seem TO indicate
disposition to recognize the necessities of
the present unprecedented political con itiou
and to improve the great chance he now has
to strengthen his party and make himself a
name that shall last Us long as time endures.
II is not at all necessary that
he is To have semi-Repub-
Hcan administration to accomplish this,
only high type VI. executive control that for
bids party excuses. This seems the focus
of his idea, but 1t is not so easy to bring it
to bear. Any person who will take wit
him and observe the care with which he uses
his words and study the character of the man
as it is portrayed in his every day life is
forced to believe that be is possessed of an
iron nerve and endowed with a courage that
borders upon obstinacy. II this be true, lie
il in possession of q power that is far more
valuable In such an emergency as be has to
meet than great mental gifts. With the
natural construction tn It may be put upon
his words ii would seem that be Is starting
out with reliance upon his own judgm, nj
and with disposition to let the strong,