The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-09-24

The Democratic Administration.
In his speech at Hamilton on the
evening of the 5th inst. Gov. HOadly
thus alluded TO the administration of
Grover Cleveland
No doubt there are dissatisfied DEM
ocrats. Yes, and fortunately there are
satisfied Republicans. How much
better would either have felt had
Blain and Logan triumphed? In jan
uary, 1868, Mr.. Lincoln said to my
friend, M. D. Conway, Most of Us
here present have been nearly all our
lives working in minorities. and may
have got into habit of being dissat-
isfed,"
in this city last November, L pleaded
for generous confidence in our newly
elected president, and that every Dem
Ocrat, educated though he might have
been for twenty-fOur years in OppOsi-
ton, should treat him with sympathy
and guard against carping criticism.
Leave that to sherman and Foraker.
Now, I ask for more. L solicit ap-
proval, not fOrbearance. Mr.. Cleve-
land has held office six months. Con-
gress has not been in session, yet much
has been accomplished. The spirit of
reform and economy has entered all
the departments, Useless offices and
expenses have been done away, while
the performance of duty, civil and
military, has been enforced. The gov
ernment is not solicitOus to provide
soft places for pets, but to save money
for the people, and to keep the faith
pledged in the platform
If the navy, which the Republican
party destroyed, be restored, it is now
certain that it will be honestly done.
Under this administration there will
| be no loose contracting, no jobs let at
prices nominally low to be made high
by extras or by scamping the work.
The remnant of the national domain
which Democratic presidents, Jeffer-
son and Monroe and Polk, added to
our territory, the residue which Re
publican extravagance has not wasted
on corporations and favOrites, is saved
from cattle kings and other plunderers
| for the benefit of the people.
No more assessments will be levied
on the departments to carry elections
no more clerks will be dismissed be-
cause they refuse to bulldOZe the peo-
| ple at congressional elections in the
guise of deputy marshals the pension
| bureau will never again be emptied OF
| it's officers to defeat wounded Demo-
cratic soldier fer congress; there will
be no more star route frauds; 10 more
| whisky rings; in short, breath. a
strong breeze of economy and honesty
is blowing through all branches of the
public service.
No more wool win he pulled over
| the ewes of Ohio farmers by q tariff
nominally high, but ingeniously level
| ed down at the custom houses by fraud
ulent invoicing.
| Mr.. Sherman had recently bOasted
that he had converted Senator Morrill,
of Vermont to the support of the wool
| tariff of 1857. But is Mr.. Sherman sure
of himself on this question Is he GER
tain that he will not again attempt its
reduction, as he did in 1872? Is he sure
that in his anxiety to secure other tariff
reductions he will never again give
the casting vote in favor of reducing
the wool tariff, rather than lose the
4 opportunity to cut down duties or
other articles as he did in 1888? Is h'
sure that if ever elected president, h'
will not, as President Arthur did il
1882. recommend "a substantial re
duction" in the duty " on woOl?"
The three great Republican scare
crows have been taken in for good ant
relegated to the ragbag and the dus
heap. There will be no payment o
the rebel debt, no pensions to rebe
} soldiers, no freedmen reduced to sla
very. The results of the war, which
Hancock and Ward, Warner ant
Morgan, Ewing and Rice aud thou
sands of other Ohio Democrats Tough
to secure, will be preserved intact.
Here in Butler county you have
memorable instance of the beauties
Republican professions. Except for
, short time under Andrew johnson
there was not q moment since the clos
of the war when Ferdinand Wander
veer, the hero of two wars, could b.
permitted to enter the civil service o
his country. He was welcomed t.
fight in Mexico, was welcomed to figh
the rebellion, honOred. promoted mad
q brigadier general. He was invited
to shed his Democratic blood for hi
twice imperiled country. Against for
eign foes and domestic traitors he free
ly exposed his life. but under Re
publican president he has not beel
good enough to be even a whisk J
gauger. Thank God Grover CLEVELAND
has destroyed all this. Democrats
who for twenty years have only beer
considered fit to be enlisted as private
soldiers at Sl3 month, are now, a
least occasionally, promoted from hare
tack and sowbelly to the oysters anC
champagne Of official position.