The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-03-04
AT BAY.
President Cleveland on the
Defensive.
He Will Send Special Message
to the Senate,
- lll-Temper and Sullen 0bstinacy
Are Becoming Manifest.
In Bad OdOr With All Factions,
In Bad 0dOr With All Factions,
Which Way Can lie TmnY
Probable Wholesale Slaughter ofMany
Tried and True Democrats.
They VIII All Have to Go II No Does Not
Make Up His Mind to Back Down.
His Ono Hope for Salvation 10 In Return
to Democracy and the Democratic
Principles 20 which Ho
owes His Election.
twashnstOu Special to Cincinnati Enquirer Mar iSt.,

lwaShinston Special to Cincinnati Enquirer, Mar iSt)
WASHINGTON, d. @, February 28--
President Cleveland feels called upon TO
defend himself. He has no representa-
tive In the Senate to pose az his cham.
pi0n, 30 he Ia forced 10 be his own at
torney. He has prepared and will send
TO the Senate tomorrow q special
message In which he will endeay0r to
sustain the stand he has taken, that the
Senate can not have official papers II has
called for.
To say that the President Ia not an
n0yed at the position In which he finds
himself IL untrue. He Ia annoyed, and
with II come the c0nc0mitante OF bad
temper and cullen Obstinacy. Hs has
the idea that no In betrayed even by
Democrats, and for this, regards their
advice 40 II OF class OF Greeks bringing
false glfts. He has worked himself up
TO the point that he is m'ghtier than the
Congress, and IL ready 10 throw down
the gage of battles, no matter how dam
aging the con est may leave the prrty
which made him the President.
Tomorrow II Ia expected the debate
In the Senate arising out OF its contro-
versy with the President will begin.
IL IL for this reason that the PresI'
dent, by special message, 10 anx'
i0us 70 make known hia ylews.
II Ia necessary, indeed, he should,
because he has not taken Democratic
leaders into his confidence, aud without
such q cue they would not know how TO
act. They will 20 through the form OF
sustaining him because no happens 70
DO q President elected by Democratic
votes, but there will be no heart In the
work. II IL not concealed that all Of the
leading Democratic lawyers in the Sen
ate secretly admit that the President has
placed himself In a position In which BIO
cannot be sustained, and II no persists
In holding ont the end will DO general
decentralization In the Democratic party,
His continued refusal will subject 10 the
humiliation Of rejection by the Senate
scores Of worthy Democrats, whom he
ought not In all Coincidence TO make
thus liable. The President while fretled
becau'e Of the n tltude ofhla own party,
Ia more than aggravated because the
leading mug Gump press Ia now aban
doniDg him. Any casual student Of
more recent political history knows that
the very troubles which now encompass
the President have been brought on be
cause OF hla desire TO please this milk
and. water class. Hla fusAl 10 turn Re.
publlcans out Of Office solely because
they we're Republicans was b cause OF
tho fear OF antagonizlng the animal mug
wump. In his zeal 70 keep this un Import
ant political faction intact no has
divided his own party, and having gone
10 this extremity, the little c0rporal'e
guard he sought 10 euckle Ia also In re-
bellion. He 10 not now In the position
that he could be happy with either II
t'othor dear charmer were away, because
both are In the dumps, and q battle royal
Ia impending. II may be, 40 the uses OF
adyereiiy are, that good will como out
OF tho threatened evil. A good, square
political fight with tho President may
convince him that "Me and Dan" ale
not infalllble, and that after oil there ls
more reliance 10 be placed upon trained
political lenders than upon Private
Secretary, whose political education Ia
cIrcnmscribed by the bounds OF tho
wards OF an interior New York town.
The sooner the President realizes that
no must rely upon the Dem0crnly for
hia salvati0n and support, tho sooner
will the carea OF the office no holds fall
more lightly on his shoulders. The un
fortunate feature OF the business In that
the Democrats, whose Democracy ie al.
most antediluyiaD, are 10 beslaughtered
TO maintain tho robust element OF oh
stlnacy now uppermoet In the Pre-. idon'
tlal mind while no 10 endoayorlng To
maintain aeo-called principle the flower
of the Democratic fold are to be tho
mariyre. They are TO be turned out Of
Office by rejection because the President
wants TO pose ns one having backbone,
and who IL ready TO transpose Into this
declaration what IL now almost q polit-
ical aphorlem. II would rather be prosi.
dent than right"
Under the caucus agreement tho
Republican Senators will proceed to
reject all appolnteos who have succeeded
Republicans who have been removed for
"cauee.' This action will be felt In
every community. For Instance, every
Ohio appointee holding n Presidential
Office will fail OF confirmation, that Ia
unless tho President backs down. This
Will iuoiuuo hno iVhVWhk P"''""osVs"
In Ohio:
Samuel L. p. Stone, Urbana.
w. ". Tonyille, Celina,
W. II II. McIlyar, Cambridge.
p ]. II. Thorne, Plqua.
8. Q. Hang, Napoleon.
GA. Wilder, Circleville.
Il. n. Dobgon, Bowling Green.
BE- Ellsberry, Ironton.
ID, o. Btearne, Berea.
w. Cleyenger, Wilmington.
w. II, Hammaker. Findley.
LIN Lease, THU,
M. M, Gounce, Xenia.
Other than postmasterg who are no.
eumed 10 have succeeded Republicans
removed for cause are
WIN. I. Bishop. Collector for the First
Ohio Internal Revenue District.