The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-31
The Work of the Democrats
Since March, 1884.
Mr.. CLEVELAND AND HIS PARTY
his Chances for Re eIection-TSe
Coming Elections - Dissatisfied
Democrats - Other Notes.
From our Own Correspondent.

GFOi y SuA4CnI "a ClltlCISAus ny lIlSu'ie
as we'll as foes, has been well nigh ex-
hausted in regard to the policy that has
been pursued by Grover Cleveland since
his Inauguration as President of the
United States-the only Democratic
President elected in this country in q
quarter of century. Great were the
expectations of his party Their enthu-
siasm was unbounded. Everybody Will
remember that he was installed with
the greatest amount of pomp and show.
Never was there such > day in Wash
Cleveland was insugurated. 1t was a
red letter day, in fact. in the history OF
the greatest republic on earth. DIE
cations of representative Democrats
poured in from every part of the coun-
try to help pay honor to the occasion.
Tammany Hall, Irving Hall, and every
other Hall was there. The procession
was grand. There were bands of music
| by the score. The air was filed with
! joyous strains. Pennsylvania Avenue,
from the White House 70 the
! Capitol, was lined with an i'm
mense crowd of jubilant people.
| Bunting f1oated from every window,
from every roof, from every pole in the
city. Every body in that crowd, though,
/ was not rejoicing. They helped to swell
| the throng, but in their hearts they
| had no sympathy, politically speaking,
with the man that was about to be in
stalled President of the United States,
nor with the party that had elected
! him to that Office. Thousands under
stood that it meant loss of position,
which to them amounted almost to the
! breath, bread and beer of their valuable
existence. This was selfish, perhaps,
! but it was natural. On the other hand
there were thousands yelling their
throRts sore who saw, or fancied they
saw, positions for themselves under the
new administration. This was selfish
too, perhaps, but it was natural. The
grand old party had hsd hold of the
reins of government, and the offices be-
longing thereto. for many years. Now
it was time for the G. o. p. to step down
and out. To the victors belonged the
spoils. So everybody seemed out Oh
tear. 1t was no ordinary Occa>io The
inauguration of a Democratic President
did not happen every day, you know.
Such a thing had been the exception,
not the rule, for great manyyyears3
For nearly quarter of century the
Republican party had held the winning
card. In 1875 it was snatched from
their hands, bat by fraud of the most
infamous, bare faced kind it was
snatched back again. Tilden who had
been fairly aud squarely elected,
was robbed of the Office. Hayes was
installed in his place, aud he drew
the salary attached thereto with
great regularity. In fact, he used
to draw it a month in advance until the
Secretary of the Treasury protested
against such a proceeding, there being
neither license nor law to warrant it.
Hayes. however, with a fear that almost
evidenced his non belief in the stability
of the government, managed to draw
Mr.. Tilden's salary two weeks in ad-
vance every month until the expiration ]
of his term of Office. OH be was 9 |
beauty. The Republicans found this
out before they got quit of him. His
temperance dodge on the White House |
was as transparent as gauze. He meant |
to make money out OF his Office. and |
he did. Ultimately, he retired 10 Ohio, |
and the only thing that has been heard |
of him of late years is, that he is de- |
voting himself to the rearing of chick
ems, an occupation for which he may |
be eminently qualified. One thing |
sure, he seems dead as a politician. |
Doubtless his party were glad to get nd |
of him. He was set down as a fraud. !
At the same time the party to which |
he belonged had been accused for years |
of having committed tle most gigantic !
frauds in the handling of the finances
of the country that it is possible TO /
imagine. The accusatIon may. have I
besn true, but it must be confessed |
that up to the pres Mt time no -exposi- |
ton of these frauds has been made |
q When the Republicans were in
power - said a well-known Washington
Correspondent to me one night, 1.-The
Democrats accused them of frauds
of every description. Why don't,
the Democrats, who are now in
power, bring these frauds to
lightY They have been in Office two !.
years. Nothing has been shown up so
the books were found in order and ac-
cepted. Where is this fraud =? Why
don t they trot it out2 As a Republi-
can, I am eager to hear of it. So are
dozens of other correspondents ike my
self. So long as it is news we don't care
the snap of finger" Ny friend who
thus delivered himself is the Wasting
ton correspondent of an influential Bos-i
tod daily. Upon first reflection his ar
gument seems unanswerable, in that it
IS fact that, up to the present time,
the Democrats, who have been in office
for two years, have not publicly been
able to back up the assertion so freely
made that the Republicans while in
power had been guilty of wholesale CDR
ruption. l is perfectly possible, how
hof Ia n ,
mitted by his parry in an indirect way
lin manner that would not appeal in
a deficiency in the cash In the Treasury,
or upon the books of the government.
HJobs" can be perpetrated In various
WAYS, So mach money can be voted
by the party in power in Congress for
4 certain object; but is it a sure thing
that the money thus voted or approDri-
ated will not pass, in a circumIOcutoFy1
inuo the hands OF a few
or It may BE- many, unscruP llouS men |