The Labor enquirer., 1884-08-30
OLD VITO.

It's strange; tits passing Gtrange, it's
wonderful the assurance oil politicians
and political organs when ad yocating the
cause of themselves and friends; and in
no way has this been exemolifed more
than by the fiattering tsulogies bestowed
on Governor Clevelanfl's letter accept
ing the democratic nomination for pres
ident. "The most ablo and statesman
like document of the last Fifty years,
says one lunatic. 'An able document" !"
says another Another hirellng says,
"the production of scholar and pat
riot.n IA true exponent of democratic
: principles says some seeker after pay
ing postofhce and SO the ninnyham-
mers bleat away. How foreign to the
true facts is all this rot What an 5un-
manly scramble for the aesh.pots of
Office are these fellowt guilsy of, whs
wade through SO much muck to attain
some sinecure and to evade honest labor
which they themselves have done more
than all else to make CALLING aad repug-
nant; for no one with grain of mother
sense believes that any of the gush they
emit is intended to benefit either the
republican or democratic norainees, only
in expectation that they themselves
will be attached somewhere on the tail
of the kite. t.-t' :, 81
What are the facts relating to Cleve-
lands letter. a mountain conceived
and brought forth mouse-but in this
case, one with a very long tail. With
the help of numerous lpidwiges and ex-
pectant friends, and after long labor,
the mite was born. His tail is too long,"
says one. Another said, "his ears must
be cropped One was for clipping him
in one place, another was for curtailing
him somewhere else /; Nnd so they kept
it up until, as one born out of due season,
it was presented to & sgulliEle country,
with the crafty design chat it,size would
be its salvation, and in running the
gauntlet it would escape humiliation at
the hands of its enemies. ~
The statement in the letter that the
faith and principles of the democratic
platform need no explanation. may sat
isfy those behind the scores, but we
who pay for the show cannot tell from
the programme what is intended-it may
be farce. fraud, comedy or a tragedy.
/ would judge from the tenor of the
letter that its author has undergone a
great transformation in his views on the
subject of the duties of the legislative
and executive branches of government,
since he made himself SO obnoxious to
the large majority of the people of New
York by his numerous yetoss of their
expressed wishes through their represen-
tatives. No better way, or safer, can be
devised to judge man than by his own
actions and if Cleyeland's letter, short
as it is, does not convict him as dishonest
and unreliable, nothing can. ;
This man says we should remember
the Office of president is executive in
its nature. We know it. he says, "the
laws enacted by the legislative branch of
the government, the chief executive Is
bound faithfully to enforce We know
it, and are glad to learn that he is not
ignorant of true democratic doctrine
for we had concluded, from his acts of
userpation as governor of New York,
that he had received his education in
the same class of schools as the ruling
autocrats of the old world. This is no
time for man with the big head to be
made the Eruler of great people who
are determined that more representa-
tive government shall prevail in future,
and that no tool of oppressive monopoly
shall have the power to veto their will,
The worklngman who would vote for
Cleveland i his own worst enemy, and
deserves to be slave. with no right Of
suffrage
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