Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-03-23
HONOR TO WHOM HONOR
rs DUE.

.a On general principles every patri-
otie citizen should hold in high re-
spect those who have been declared
worthy of honor by being elected to
exalted positions. But this is not
always an easy thing in the case of
political defeat and loss of power.
Just now, when the new administra-
ton is setting sail, the acts of presi-
dent Cleveland and his cabinet are
being closely scrutinized and care
fully weighed in regard to the effect
on the two parties, as well as on the
country While intense politicians
might be willing to see the admins
tration make bad start, the people
are more anxious to have such man
agement as will best conduce to the
good and prosperity of the country.
Up to this time it can be truthfully
said that the new president has more
than met the expectations CT his re-
publican friends, and grati6ed the
better elements of his own party.
The only complaints that are made,
and the main disappointment suffer-
ed, are among a class of hungry,
radical spoilsmen in the democratic
ranks. AS a whole, we think the
great army Of patriotic, industrious
men, who compose the rank and file
of the republican party, are the best
satisfied class in the country to-day.
The republicans claim that the new
president is carrying out their princi-
plies and can have no complaint as
long as he continues so to do. The
Nashua Teleg, aph, one of the most
ardent Blaine republican papers, has
the manliness to do honor to Mr..
Cleveland, and puts his case pretty
clearly in the article below:
1.-THE president having planted
himself squarely upon platform of
Republican principles, the question
now heard on every hand is the same
twill he stick p Those principles,
as explicitly outlined in the inaugur-
al, are as follows:
Sound finance.
Civil service reform.
The Constitution as it IS.
Economy in administration.
The repression of polygamy.
Fair treatment of the Indians.
No entangling foreign alliances.
Equal and exact justice to freed
men.
Enforcement of the laws against
servile immigration.
These are the exact entire declara-
tons of the inaugural, so far as a
policy is outlined. Every plank is
republican, and it is to be found in
all the later republican platforms.
Some of them are not to be found in
Democratic platforms. To carry
them into practical administration is
to reverse the Democratic policy IN
many respects.
While every Republican must there
fore wish the president success, he
will not be entirely confident that he
will succeed. Certain it is that now
the President, having taken his posi-
ton and declared it. must stand by
it, or fail ANONYMOUSLY. He cannot
retract. The witnesses are fifty mil
lions of people ''Will he stick r
becomes, therefore, a very important
question. Every republican-every
patriotic citiZen-must wish the Pres
ident success because the prosperity
and endurance of the republic are in.
volved. This government cannot be
wisely administered on any other line
This is what republicans have said
For this they have contended.
There are indications that the pres
ident will divide his own party in car
rying out the above principles. Blu
he will not divide the country as Ions
as patriotism is stronger than parti
sanship. The real struggle has no
begun yet, and it is therefore to-
early to determine whether the presi
dent will stick in good faith to th
Republican principles that he has an
nounced. Some months later we Cal
tell better about that. Meantim
there is nothing for republicans t
do except to say to the President a
Sumner said to Grant, ''Stick.