Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27
: Waterman, What Of the Niqht7"

tree by its fruit, the government of
the present administration at Wash
ington must be deemed extremely
deficient in all those qualities of
craftsmanship which are requisite
to inspire public confidence and
make the people happy and content.
Yet public discomfort is the melan-
choly character of the sway of Presi-
dents Cleveland's administration.
II he, as the elected leader of the
Democratic party, was positively
devoted to the interests OF the Re-
publican party, he could not take
more effective steps than he has
taken to make the vices of said Re-
publican party forgotten, and to re.
inforce the ranks of that party so
clamorous for a recall to power. The
administration in power only one
short year has terminated prosper
Gus era during which the country
made nnequaled progress in wealth,
industry and prosperity, during
which the wounds of the rebellion
we're closed, new channels of pros
perity opened, and the principles of
true liberty took deep roots, and
habits of thrift and industry were
extensively spread, which can
alone afford security for future hap.
piness and greatness. But President
Cleveland instead has inaugurated
career marked out, not by the
Democratic party by whose suffrages
hewas placed IN power, but stubborn
ly and selfshly ignoring and alien
ating that party from his hearty
support by antagonizing the funda-
mental principles of the party, and
to-day is at war with the law making
power of the government. How do
we find the condition of our country
to-day under this reformer's admin.
istration Z? Industry is paralyzed.
Credit suspended. Prosperity blight
ed. Commercial undertakings cur
tailed. Distrust succeeds confidence,
and despair hope. The victims of
the rebellion have disappeared, and
those who crushed it are destitute of
bread. The 100000 bread winning,
wage-workers are in forced idleness,
pleading for work. Dark indeed is
the picture presented before us. Who
or what party is responsible for all
these calamitieS Is it the Repub-
lican party ? No 4! Can it truthful
~ be charged to the party which
placed Cleveland in the chair OF
State They are not holly respon
sible for the evils existing. 1t IS Mr..
Cleveland's own selfish, stubborn
administration at war with the party
that placed in power, and at war
with the law making power of the
nation, lending no listening ear, save
to the siren song of the Doodle gang
that infest Wall Street. Could the
voice of the Democratic party be
heard today quickly would the
scepter pass from between Judah's
feet, and he be relegated to the
shades of mugwumpian felicity. In
no wise does President Cleveland
represent the principles advocated
by the Democratic party. His Civil
Service reform ideas are not in &C
accord with the views of that party.
His position on the tariff or silver
question are not Democratic. His
arrogance, stubbornness and brus-
queness in the extreme, almost to
rudeness, are not in accord with
Democratic ideas, or yet of Ameri-
can ideas of what constitutes indie
pendence. The people of this nation
cannot and will not forget the names
of those heroes, Grant and McClel-
Ian. Yet when the Nation was in
sackcloth and ashes mourning the
loss of these great men, President
Cleveland, in his message to the
congress of the United States, failed
to recognize the fact that a Nation
mour1ed the loss of two of its great
est military heroes and statesmen.
Yet this omission is in keeping with
the characteristic of the present
Chief Magistrate of the Land.
! am a Democrat of the Jackso-
MAN school-to the victors belong
the spoils. If the Civil Act is ne
cessary to be enforced. let President
Cleveland show his fealty to the
party which placed him in power,
and confine the competition for place
TO those belonging to the Democrat
ic household. "Turn the rascals out"
was the cry of the campaign. awe
want to see the books" said Vice
President Hendricks. And this to-
day is the demand of those consti.
tuting of the Democratic party. Yet
despite this cry, the faithful Presi-
dent lends deaf ear-distributes
whole loaves to the enemy and feeds
the rhildren on the crumbs that fall
from our masters table.
In conclusion l have only to say