Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-11-30
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PUBLIC ANXIETY.

PUBLIC ANXIETY.
Advising Cleveland TO
be Caresuf Of Himself for HIS youn-
try's sake.
Washington, Nov. H-Ihe Evening
Star, in .itB news column, says that seye-
raj prominent democrats hare advised
tfie president against his proposed visit
to Indianapolis, to attend the funeral oil
Hendricks, and ia it's editorial column
publishes the following: "lhe inten-
ton expressed by the president to go 10
Indianapolis Tor the purpose % attend
ing the funeral Of Vice President Hen
bricks next Tuesday, is III the highest
degree creditabie to him as a man and o
cit, zen; but it is nevertheless greatly to
be regretted. He is not able to see that
his higher duty to the republic entirely
absolves him from any supposed per-
sonai or official obligation to be present
on that occasion. The present ju%ncture
III public affairs is such as to make the
seat of government the true place for
the president for some time, and it is to
be hoped that such counsels may yet
prevail as will persuades him to forego
his purpose and place himself as little as
possible in the way of adverse fortune
at this inclemsnt season of special risk
to health and liability to accident in
traveifby land or water. The country
will need no outward show to prove tho
depth and sincerity of the presidents
grief at the loss which is equally felt by
it with himself.
The National Republican (republican)
will say editorially: "Although the
president will be quite as safe as the
other officials who intend to go to In
dianapoiis Il attend the funeral of the
vice president, he will incur risks of ac-
cidents and exposure to- cold. Consid-
ering the importance of his life at this
time it would be iminently proper for
him to reverse his present determination
and remain at the executive mansion"
The Post (democratic) will say: "Let
Cleveland go to Indianapolis by all
means. What arrant nonsense to init
mate even that the American president
Ia safer in Washington than in any other
city 81 the repnblic."
Indianapolis, Nov. 27-In connection
with the announced intention OF the
president to attend the ~obsequies on
Tuesday next, the journal of tomorrow
will say: while the citizens of India
napolis and the state OF Indiana would
be both proud and pleased to meet the
president of the United States, for whom
q plurality of them cast their votes a
ysar ago, while with such
honor aud respect as the prophecies
of the sad events Of the funeral of
the late vice president would permit.
and while the friends ana neighbors OF
Thomas A. Hendricks fully appreciate
the honor that would be done to his
memory by tie presence OF the chief
magistrate here on Tuesday next, the
Journal feels constrained .ssay ii be-
lieves Cleveland should not leave the
white honse at this junc.ure to make the
journey. The perils incident to the
necessarily rapid movement of q special
railway train should not be hazardsd by
the president, whose life and active SER
vices are now peculiarly valuable to the
whole psspls. There are too many RISKS
attending the trip. AS was remarked
when the honorable vice president was
80 suddenly taken away, sit is the unex.
pected that happens" and against the
unexpected, and we trnst and believe
the improbable, 1t is Oleveland's impera-
tive duty to take all proper precantion.
The country has gone through success
July many psriis during the last quar-
ter of a century, but the line has on
more thsn n occasion been drawn to
its highest tension. There should not
be AsSpossibllity OF another strain, il
human prudence can prevent 1t. Every
honorable citizen of the country, regard
less of party faith, prays for the life and
health of the president, who
stands alone now as the embodiment OF
constitutional power and authority, and
from the moment he should leave the
capital until he reached it again in safe
ty, the country would be in patriotic
unrest and uneasy. The Journal feels
free'gto make this suggestion-to make
this statement as g republican newspa-
per-and published at the home Of Hen.
bricks, and as one against whom the
charge cannot be made that it would do
or say anything against the largest pos
sible measure OF honor to the distin-
guished dead. But Cleveland is not
his own. He is not his party's, He
cannot follow merely the dictates of his
personal OF political friendship. He ia
The nations head-the only life between
the government and lnterregnum. In
view of this we would not haze him take
the risks incidental to the rapid transit
which would mark his Journey from the
national capital to Indianapolis. Let
all the secretaries come who can be
spared from their official duties, but the
president should not leave Washington.
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