The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-21
SIX MONTHS OF CLEVELAND.


The New York Evening Post sets up man
of straw and demolishes it with the greatest
ease imaginable. In burst of admiration of
the administration it says:
cit is six months since Mr. Cleveland was
inaugurated The first half year always
strikes the tone of new administration, and
| the occasion suggests review of what has
| been accomplished between the 4th of March
| and the 18th of September First and most
| important of all, it has been demonstrated, to
| the comprehension Of even the blindest parti-
| san, that the public interests are as safe in
| the hands of one party as in those of the
other. The superstition which had come to
possess large proportion of Republicans that
| the accession of the Democracy to power
| would involve the ruin of the country has been
| forever dispelled. 1t seems almost incredible
| now that only few months ago there were
hosts of men who fully and sincerely believed
| that the election of Mr. Cleveland meant the
bankruptcy of the federal treasury by the
payment Of rebel Claims the loss of all
the fruits of the war; a general political,
financial and moral upheaval which would
set the Nation back twenty years. Popular
government is a failure If party which COM
prises a majority OF the people cannot be
trusted to govern the whole people. Six
months ago a considerable percentage of the
public held this most discoulaging view of the
result of century's trial of the American
experiment. To-day the man who should
begin ranting about the countrys going to
ruin because the Democrats We're in power
would be simply laughed at, even by the Re-
publicarN whom he formerly duped most
| badly"
The Post is dsingenuous enough to base
its argument on false premises. The Repub-
lican party knows that it has taught the
American people certain things in politics and
in war that even the Democratic party cannot
forget nor ignore The Republic is safe
to-day from disintegration under Democratic
rule because the Republican party made it
safe, made it solid, made it dangerous to try to
national schoolmaster for quarter of CEN
fury, and the rules laid down were so whole
some that they cannot be readily nor lightly
set aside. The Republicans, who, "only a
few months ago." believed that the election of
Cleveland ''meant the bankruptcy of the
treasury" did not believe any such thing in
the sense that the Democratic Secretary would
rush in and fling out the gold and treasury
notes like so much rubbish, or so much plum
der ready for the eager hand of the spoiler
and no Republican said any such thing. Re-
publicans had reason to believe that Demo-
cratic policy was opposed to the best material
interests of the country. They believe so
still. The Nation is not yet out of the Dem
ocratic woods. If the President has moved
slowly in the matter of making appointments
it is not because the party approves such a
policy, but more, perhaps, because there is an
important election pending in New York and
Ohio. 1t wouldn't do for Mr.. Cleveland to be
knocked OUT in the first round So, to avoid
that danger, he takes the alternative of going
against his party to attract the support of
some who voted for him last November. 1t
is significant fact that more postmasters
have been removed in Indiana than in either