Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-22
EX-GOVERNOR CLEVELAND.
The Next Presidents Conduct I'm All Re-
spects Admirable.

EX-GOVERNOR SICNGINNOs
The Next President's Conduct I'm All Re-
spects Admirable.
The admirable manner in which Gov
ernor Cleveland has borne himself since
his election to the Presidency has not
escaped public recognition. Whatever
may have been said of him earlier, he is
now no longer an untried man. Since
the early days of November the eyes
of the Nation have been fixed upon
him with a peculiar interest. He has
been scrutinized closely by friend and
foes. His every movement has been re-
ported, his every utterance bearing
upon public offices has been eagerly
caught up and made the subject of
comment. He has lived in the fierce
light of publicity. His official position
as Governor of a great State has rem
dered him peculiarly open to observa-
ton; and his home has been the resort
of pilgrims from all parts of the Union,
and representing all sections of his
party. The opposition has watched
him with the utmost jealousy also.
Every opportunity to find him making
mistakes in action OF in utterance has
been searched for with the avidity of
the hound upon the scent. The man
who had successfully passed through
this ordeal at any time would be re-
garded as evincing no ordinary circum-
spection. The man who succeeds in it
in the present peculiar relations of par
ties has achieved signal triumph.
If during that period Governor Cleve
land has said word or done one act
inconsistent with sound good sense, or
with proper appreciation of the re-
sponsibilities of the position to which he
has been elected, it has escaped the pub
lie attention. His opponents, as well
as his supporters, are alike unaware of
it. There is not a little that is instruc-
tive in the movements of the former
class. Smarting under the bitterness of
their defeat, and having just gone
through campaign in which they had
ability of the Democratic candidate for
the Presidency, they were quick to find
evidence to justify the position they had
taken with regard to him, while they
might salve their own wounds with the
the victors. They have been signally
'oNCIHoL CICNC1dAo
has not furnished them shadow of the
opportunity they sought. He has ac-
commodated them with no mistakes
whatever. He has not omitted to talk
frankly, and in one instance he has Civ
en- to the public in writing statement
of what his policy will be in a most inn
portant feature of his incoming admin
istration. In so doing, he has neither
divided his friends nor furnished COM
fort to his foes. He has had the good
sense to preserve reticence on points
where the indication of his action was
unnecessary, as in the case of his prob
able course in the formation of his Cab
met, for instance; while he has, at the
same time, given evidence of the prin-
ciples that are to guide him in a man.
ner which has strengthened the conf
dence of the more disinterested and pa
triotic men of the Nation. He has neith-
er been diplomatic nor evasive in these
assurances at any time.
These things have done much to as
sure the people that in President Cleve-
land they are to have sensible, saga
cious and discreet Chief Magistrate. In
the absence of qualities for the lack of
which he was criticised by politicians
Ill GlIc ldbC W NC
found an important advantage. He is
unfamiliar with the ways of Washing
ton; he is IMMERSED in the arts of the
Politician; but it looks now as if he
might come into Washington like cool
breeze from the country, which is
needed to purify the sultry air of the
capital. The Nation asks for new era
in its administration of public offices.
1t is appropriate that business methods
should take the place of the schemes of
the political partisan in carrying on the
Government. We require man who
will put his mind to bringing the Gov
eminent back to business practices.
Governor Cleveland is not only, we be-
lieve, fully competent to that task; he
has set his mind on discharging the
duties of his Office in just that spirit.
He is better fitted to succeed in it than
if he had been bred politician. His
alleged weakness is in this point of
view an important equipment.
If Governor Cleveland was not edu-
Gated in his politics at Washington, he
has borne himself in the time of trial
since his election to the Presidency with
careful circumspection which few
men bred in that school could have
equaled. He has proved alike salts
faction to his friends and the despair of
his enemies during that period of test
ING. Better than ALL he has raised the
best hopes of the Nation for his coming
usefulness in Office. - Boston Herald