Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-07-01
A REPUBLICAN RUSE.

A morning contemporary, to be in line
with the Republican "hullabaloo" against
President Cleveland's use of the veto on
the recent grist of private pension bills
brought to him, makes a comparison be-
tween the number OF vetoes made by all
preceding Presidents and those now
on record as the work OF Pres
ident Cleveland. Such petty subter-
fuge deceives no man who is in any way
conversant with national legislation, but
is calculated to deceive the people OF the
rural districts, who can be made to be-
lieve that the merit or otherwise
OF the Presidents action, lies in
the small number of bis We
toes, when the fact is directly
contrary. Most of the measures vetoed
originated in the Senate, which Is Re-
publican by n large majority, and the
members OF which look upon the Presi-
dent as man to be ordered around by
them and made to cater to their per-
sonal vanity at every beck and nod they
make in the shape OF a request for infor.
nation. President Clevel land put n quiz
etus on few of these would-be grandees
by entirely ignoring their impudent
claims, and now the press of the Repub.
lican party take up his action on the ve-
toed bills in order to get even. 1t is said
"Hell hath no fury ike woman scorned, u
and it might truthfully be added, 'or n
Republican either" The latter is proven
in their haste to take the President
to task for what they know
was II manly discharge OF duty, without
regard to whose coat tail was trodden on,
but which, in the abs ence of better ma
terial, must be whooped up as the reck
less action OF an usurping government
bent on running the country, and dancing
Jig on the national grave, etc. Any
good, level-headed citizen knows that
with each succeeding year of our history
new men and new. methods crop out, and
measures which could not obtain hear
ing ten years ago, are now easily rui
through congressional committee, ant
sent to the President. the sponsor Kidding
himself of all further trouble from his
constituents, and feeling in his hear
that the President will kill the
bill. The case is very lame
one when the number OF bills vetoed
is made the criterion and not their con
tents Again, the point is made that the
passage over the Presidents veto OF the
Des Moines Land Grant bill is but NJ
earnest OF what the Senate will do witt
the others. This bill was passed ovel
the veto by an almost strictly partisan
vote, the work OF the very men who fel
the sting OF the President scorn, and t.
whom additional opposition acts as wild
fire. The other bills cannot so be passed
as they are wanting in all essential points
OF right and equity, and are such palpa
BILE attempts at fraud that even Repub
lican Senate dare not touch them
The question is pertinent just now
whether it is polite in journal tha
claims to conserve the public interests
and welfare, to use such guestionabl,
means in the attempt to place an oppo
sition Senate in conflict with the Execu
tive and thus clog all legislation, in or
der to gain party capital at the expens,
of the general good? The DEMOCRAT be
lieves it is not, and further, that the ris
ing generation OF young voters will Sc,
through the evident trickery in such ac
ton, and hold it in merited contempt
placing their brand OF condemnation oil
it by refusing to train with men who cal
30 prostitute their influence for private o
nartu nnda