Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-08-26
The Veto Power.

L
ed'toriaD trying to make it appear crec
liable to Cleveland that he had by hi
yetoes interfered with the legislativ
branch of the government more than a
the other Presidents from Washineto
down. The simultaneousness and ex
/ act identity of all these editorials ind
J cate that Cleveland has a bureau 70
: the purpose OF furnishing country edi
tors with editorials supposed to be jus
the thing for country consumption.
But this literary bureau, though in
strious, does not to seem to be stron.
literary way. 1t begins: 9Th,
rne..a., virtue of the veto power is tina
!, o;rss Az, President authority to checl
- ia. tvised legislation Ii
fact. it has eiegf,, shown all thinking
people that the peso !. over may give
bull-headed and inexpe> 'enceu rresl
dent an opportunity to &slhss any ieg
Islation,, however just and wel,-s oi''''''
ered Our revolutionary forefS,hA
abolished many of the useless. barbaS-
Gus and undemocratic forms with which
English government had been saddled
by Saxon bafsarians and Norman ty-
rants, but there were SO many of those
forms that it is NOT surprising that some
of them were overlooked. especially
when we consider chat cur constitution
is to great extent patchwork of
compromises between two or more vic
lently opposed parties at the end of the
Revolution.
1t is evident that the trainers of our
government foresaw no such bunder-
ing accident as the presidential chair
occupied by II pig headed ex-sheriff,
who, withoutany experience III public
life, thinks he knows more than three
hundred of the chosen representatives
OF more than fifty million people, and
does not hesitate to override those rep
resentatives more times in single year
than all the other Presidents didl in
almost u century, though they included
such wise and experienced statesmen as
Washington, Jefferson. the Adamses
and Lincoln, such shrewd politicians as
Van Buren and Buchanan, such strong
willed header and popular idol as Jack
son, and so obstinate an egotist and
persistent "a fighter of Congress as An
drew johnson, All this is causing pru-
dent and patriotic teople 60 ask If the
veto power is not dangerous one,
which ought to be abolished @heR it is
liable To fall into the hands Of au ephe-
neral accident like Cleveland.
The bureau editorial before mentioned
says Cleveland wishes every person
who is eHtltled to a pension to have IL"
but the tone Of bis yotoes shows no such
thing, but thai his igDoranre of the con-
dilions and effects OF soldier life is sur
passed only by the long-liugering spite
which the Copperhead conscript, the
draft-dodger andsHbslitnte- sender, Gro
yer Cleveland, whonS an accident MS
comcal rs it is outrageous has made
Commander-in-Chlef of the Army Of the
United States, feels toward the men
who, of their owe free will and choice,
shouldered their muskets and went to
| The front 10 save the country.
This much-multiplcd editorial says:
The Democratic doctrine is that there
should be no surplus in the treasury,
| that taxes should be reduced so that
| only enough money be taken from the
| pockets OF the people for an cconomi-
cal administration of the government. :"
But not one of Cleveland'S vetoes was
that of bill to increase the taxation.
1t also says: If buildings are con-
structed in all places like GAINESVILLE and
Dayton the money required to- keep
them in order will make high tax levies
necessary in all future time Cleve-
land has been prompt to- veto bills
for public buildings in states which he
cannot hope 10 carry, but as prompt to
sign them in states which are doubtful
or sulidly Dem ocratic 1t also SAYS:
President Cleveland is Democrat,
and regulates the Republican doctrine
that high taxes make the people pros
porous, aud the larger the appropria-
| Ia. Ia FIR hn
! although he vetoed nearly hundred
bills 70 give hundred dollars year
OF 80 to brighten the humble homes Of
| crippled veterans and war widows, this
| palriotic Democratic draft -dodger did
not repudiatc the bill to appropriate
| $4,000 for incidental expenses in
his own yelling, while he gets a salary
OF $50, 1000 Il year That appropriation
| of S29, 900 and the other of $50, 600 for
himself were not to-, large for ''the good
of the country. ClcyolanGl's edituri Il
factory would better br employed on
some more pr 1mising subject than his
vetoes.
From expressions dropped by friends
Of Secretary Bayard it is evident that he
feels deep chagrin, not only on account
OF some of his absurd utteranccs, as re-
ported by his Baltimore organ, but also
because Of his hasty and, it now appears,
uninstiiiablc demand for the release of
Cutting 1t is also pretty plain that
Secretary Bayard now means TO try to
escape from the consequences of his own
rashness by making scapegoat of Con-
sui Brigham But Brigham is not greatly
to blame for the dilemma in which Mr..
| BaNard finds himself. Thn sfnte dcnart-