Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-03-19
THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

rythlng about them indicates CnaC tne people
have hearts to feel.
THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
Boston Globe, Dem.
There are no ifs, ands or butts. What is
said is said firmly, unequivocally and with
out mental reservation. In short, the mes
sage is the work of one who has convictions
and is willing that all the world should
know them.
Commercial Advertiser, Ind. Rep.
The inaugural address, so far as we may
Judge by the necessarily brief examination
we have been able to give it, is on the whole
cheering and satisfactory document, and
we trust will be received by men of all par
ties in generous, respectful and patriotic
spirit.
Boston Advertiser, Rep.
It has no backward look. It does not pro-
pose any undoing. 1t accepts the status
gained as the starting-point for new adj
vance. In no point does it retreat from the
best professions made by himself and by
those of his supporters who, during the cam
paign, assured the people that he was sim
cere, earnest and infleXible in his devotion
to reform policies.
Hartford Courant, Rep.
The inaugural of President Cleveland has
the merit of brevity, and the further merit
of plain enunciation of general principles
about which there is little dispute among
patriotic citizens. The test of the new ad-
ministration will be the application of these
principles to particular measures. In this
brief address there is much to concur in and
little to criticize.
New York Herald, Ind.
AS the Democrats are now to try their
hands at the wheel in giving practical effect
to these views because the people desired
, this change, would it not be we'll for the
Republicans to heed the Presidents appeal
and sacrifice their spleen to the patriotic
thought that whatever party is best for the
country is at least best for US all, and that it
is at least time for an experimental change.
Philadelphia Times Ind
Those who have thought of Mr.. Cleveland
as an apprentice in politics will be unde-
edge to perceive how clear en- understand
ing of constitutional Democracy inspires
both it's substance and its phraseology. 1t
would have been easy to write more
rhetorically brilliant address, but the closer
it's language and it's spirit are studied the
more admirable it will appear.
New York Times, Ind Rep.
Mr.. Cleveland's inaugural address is dig
nified, simple and forcible. 1t has in it the
tone of sincerity and directness that has
come to be regarded as characteristic of the
man. 1t is long time since the party
which was largely represented in the vast
crowds at Washington has been called on to
listen to so much sound doctrine, so clearly
declared, and evidently backed by so reso-
lutte and practical will. 1t remains to be
seen how that party will receive the appli-
cation of the doctrine which is sure to fol-
low. Itshould be added that the Presidents
declaration regarding the freedmen is ma
tional, just and honorable.
Philadelphia Press, Rep.
The inaugural address of President Cleve-
land is chiefly fine array of polished plati-
tudes. If lofty professions assured wise
practice and good government, it would
be eminently satisfactory. The address
is strongly silent on the silver question.
Whether Mr.. Cleveland is subdued by his
rebuff in Congress or whether he exhausted
himself in his letter is left to conjecture. He
might we'll have repeated and emphasized
his position and thundered back a bold re-
Spouse to his assailants in single sentence.
Surely Jackson would not have failed to re-
assert in his inaugural the one thing that he
had attempted before his Inauguration.
n. y. Journal Of Commerce, Ind.
1t is refreshing to hear once more some
ringing words of devotion to the Constitu-
ton and the solemn pledge that it is to be
it's first adoption. This in itself isl rebuke
to the centraliZing policy which for so many
years has made light of the restrictions and
limitations of the power and authority con-
tided by it to the Federal Government.
The President assumes these obligations,
not as gift for his own aggrandizement,
but as trust to be administered for the COM
mon welfare; and he associates with him in
the great task he has undertaken every citi-
zen upon whom the franchise rests, as alike
pledged by oath and interest to maintain an
honest administration of public affairs.
New York Tribune, Republican.
1t would be easy to dismiss the inaugural
address of President Cleveland with smile
at its superabundance ofagreeable common
places. But we prefer to assume that Mr..
Cleveland is an earnest and sincere man in
the utterance of phrases which, in the
mouths of many, would have no meaning
whatever. Weprefer to trust that his inau-
gural address, if it suggests that he has not
yet arrived at definite and clear ideas on
many subjects, may still honestly disclose
the tendency of his mind. He has shown
himself sincere and earnest in the matter of
silver coinage, and faithful to his beliefs.
We prefer to accept the declarations of his
inaugural as assurances of a purpose not
lightly formed, so far as it has been formed
at all, and by which he means to abide.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S SILVER LET
TER.-Thu letter of Mr.. Cleveland is viewed
in New York financial circles with high ap-
probation, both of it's views and the e'man-
ner in which they are presented. Mr.. f: ID.
Tappan, President of the Galatin Nation
al Bank, said that the letter was an excel.
lent one-'a clear and able document" "
Without entering into any philosophical
disquisition on the currency the President"
elect had expressed the truth of the silver
coinage question in plain, straightforward,
sensible way which everybody could un-
derstand. Mr.. George S. Coe, President of
the American Exchange National Bank,
said of Mr.. Cleveland's communication
that it was San admirable letter." judicious
in it's views and judicious in the language
used to express them. He had heard only
praise expressed by all whom he had heard
speak of the letter, and he thought it was
regarded as an evidence that the financial
policy of the new Administration would be