Daily Republican., 1885-03-05

- mild Republican insugura', but |
not such . one ss would have fallen
nom the lips of James G. Blaine had |
he stood where he should have stood in
Grover Cleveland's place yesterday. II
hacks the snap and pith OF statesman
and shows that many weary hours !
we're spent In the preparation Of brief |
document. The composition is good, !
and though q great effort has been |
made to crowd q great deal Of senti- |
nent into q small space, the greater
Part OF the speech Is . collection OF |
goneralities and unmeaning sentiments.
The President has evidently purposely
avoided saying anything upon the ques-
6on Of finance TO which any side can
take exception. 1t was predicted that
he would take still stronger ground
against tho coinage of silver dollars
than he took in his letter to certain
congressman before Congress adjourned
bat he has evidently profited by the re-
buke he received upon that occasion and
considered that discretion was the bet
ter part of valor. In relation TO finances
he recommends that our finances
shall be established upon such a sound
safety and confidence of business inter.
ests and make the wages of labor sure
and steady"
That Is good. Who could not have
said the same thing, but who can tell
from that expression where Cleveland
stands upon that question
1t Is rs uncertain as the wind that
blows The advocates Of silver, 70
bring such state OF affairs as Mr..
Cleveland has expressed desire to see,
say that We must keep on coming sill
yer dollars. The opponents of silver
currency say that to bring around that
state OF affairs we must stop
coming any more silver dollars. Which
side is President Cleveland on ? He
does not say which in his inaugural
Before he was President he spoke with
no uncertain sound, but since he is
President his expressions are meaning
less.
Upon the question of revenue, the
one that mostly concerns the people, ne
had but little 10 say and that little was
the reiterasion of the unmeaning SEN
tences of the Chicago platform upon
that su hject. His words of comfort to
the laboring people are that he desires
the wage of labor TO be sure and steady.
Anybody could desire thai, but Presi-
dent Cleseland is careful TO point out
no way by which that can be done. He
does not say a word about how the in
dustrial manufactures of our country
either partially or wholly idle, shall be
put in motion again. OF course he
would desire to see every body employed
and he wants them to have stead y
wages, but he does not say what he
considers good wages or how workmer
are to get good wages without star sinl
up the manufactures.
The President must, however, b,
given credit for being sound on tn,
public land question. He is opposed
TO purloining schemes, but even on thi
question he does not say whether b.
considers the taking up of millions o
acres of public lands by foreign CAPT
talists a purloining of such lands.
1t will be a profound sense of graft
Hcation to all humane persons to know
that upon the Indian question Presi
dent Cleveland Is on the side Of human
fly. Should he fail in every other rt
spect and succeed in suppressing tn
thieves that are robbipg the Indians b
will have done some good. 1t Is ais
gratifying to know that he is oppose
to Mormon polygamy, and that so ia
as Congress permits him all his power
will be used 70 suppress the evil.
Another sop to the workingmen is
his expressed opposition to the imm
grafton of a servile class 70 competewit
American labor.
In his expressions upon civil servit
reform he is impressively conservative
He evidently saw before him hundre
Thousand people, attracted to Washing
ton with the expectation that at L
very distant day a hundred thousan
men would be displaced from officii
positions to make 1om for them.
was time TO be deeply conservative upo
such a question. That vast crowd b
fore him was not drawn together wit
love and admiration for him. He sa
In them the ofaoe seekers of the nation
from the I ileiies OF Maine to the chal
ARA 8 of Texas, and from the snow
covered peaks OF Oregon 20 the eve
glades OF Florida. He said as mu IN
could have been expected for him
say upon such a question and befo
such an assemblage. A Republics
President would hardly have said NOR
he might have said less STILL und
all this fair exterior of words, there
ample room left for the full exercise
the party lash. But how Preside
Cleveland will enforce his views upt
the question of protection TO the free
men it is difficult to see how he ca
avoid bre aking with the Southern viii
of his party unless he means, like mai
Southern men, that full protection vi
be afforded to all freshmen who becoI
Democrats. President Cleveland wou
have shown q more honest purpose h
he not appointed Mr.. Lamar to /
cabinet, who was only elected TO t
Senate from Mississippi by the viole
suppression Of forty thousand Repub
can votes. Instead of protection
freedmen, the appointment of Lamar
a premium Oh fl Aud and violence.
Upon the whole, the address is su
rs will serve az check on the par
that would ride rough sbod over
government TO secure personal ends.
THE Philadelphia Press correspt