Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-23
MIR. CLEVELAND As A PARTY
LEADER.

bers Of Congress looking Tor some one 10
lead them out OF the Carlisle Morrison.
Randall wilderness to the following brief
passage in the message:
The ordinary receipts of the Govern
ment for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1886, we're 1896, 439, 727 06. OF this
amount S192, 905, 023 Al was received from
customs and SIG, sos, 1856 4S from internal
revenue. The total receipts, as here
stated, were S13, 749 ,020 6S greater than
for the previous year, but the increase
from customs was Sl1 ,434. 0S4 10. and
from the internal revenue S4,4O7, 2l0 80,
making q gain in these items for the last
wear of l5,S41, 1875 GA falling off in
other resources reducing the total increase
to the smaller amount mentioned.
The expenses at the different custom
houses of collecting this increased Gus
toms revenue was less than the expense at
tending the collection of such revenue for
the preceding year by $500, COS, and the
increased receipts OF internal revenue
were collected at q cost TO the Internal
Revenue Bureau Of S155, ga SO less than the
expense of such collection for tie previous
year.
The total ordinary expenses OF the Gov
ernment for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1886, were S242, ass, 1873 so, being less by
SIT, 1888, 1917 than such expenditures for the
year preceding. aud leaving q surplus in
the Treasury at the close Of the last fiscal
year of S93, $50 $50 Sc, as against SOB,
1853, I'll ~ at the close of the previous
year. being an increase in such surplus OF
$50. 1872. SIT 30.
To the President, under the Constitu-
ton, the people intrust the adminissra-
tion of their Federal affairs. The Dem
ocratic party elected Mr.. Cleveland to
be President. While a lot OF political
O'Donohues have been finding fault with
him because he did not do just what they
wanted, Mr.. Cleveland has been serv-
ing the country and his party, and how
modest paragraphs of his message relate.
He has looked so carefully after the
collection of the revenue that he has col
lected nearly sixteen millions more than
in the previous year.
He has looked so carefully after the
expenditures that there are seventeen
and three.quarter millionns less than in
the previous year.
He has made the revenue service so
eiEcient-all the while that Colonel Nor
rison 0'Donohue and Colonel Randall
O'Donohue and Colonel Watterson
O'Donohue and Colonel Reagan O'Dono-
hue and a lot more Of the same tribe
have been screaming at him and denounc.
of the Government so much more eff.
cient than it was before that he has col
lected eleven and a half millions more
customs revenue than was got in the
previous year at a cost for collection Of
$500, COS less than il cost to get in the
smaller revenue the year before.
He has collected nearly four and a half
millions of internal revenue more than
was got in the previous year and at a
cost for collection of Sl55, 945 less than
it cost to collect the year before.
Quietly, without fuss, in the teeth of
the bowls of the whole tribe of 0'Dono-
hues, M. Cleveland has created an hon.
est and efficient public service. Pray
what have the Democratic leaders in
Congress been doing during the same
period! What can the Carlisles, Nor
risons and Randalls show as their work
for the country and the party? They
spent eight months in useless faction
quarrels; they appealed to the country
and got their majority in the House cut
down from forty-six to fifteen, and they
are still lighting each other and neglect
ing urgently needed legislation.
If there are in Congress loyal Demo-
Gratis, anxious for their party's future
success, would they not do wisely to set
aside such incapable leaders as they have
too long tolerated and gather about Mr..
Cleveland! He and he alone, it seems
to US, of the Democratic leaders has
shown true sagacity, real capacity, gen.
uine power Of work and leadership. He
J. VIC hCou VI a parry hO haS NV,
however, pressed himself upon the party,
but, with too great modesty, has pre-.
ferred that others should lead. And
these others, as everybody sees, have led
the party into the mire and are keeping
it there.
What the party in Congress needs is
leadership. Suppose, gentlemen, you
try your President. Gather about him;
advise with him; get his help in forming
a plan of business. You are now merely
a mob. Scarcely a day passes that DEM
ocrats do not "antagonize" each other
on the floor. Your present condition
leads to certain and fatal disaster. Try
the President for your leader. You can
not do worse than you are doing now
and have been doing for a year past.
It il reported in the Star and Herald