The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-20

has known in many days. He is an abe.
bright and strong man The Republican
legislature found out that this winter. f"
Ii is probably not worth while TO talk
in this strain or in any other way. for
that matter. concerning the President.
Mr.. Cleveland, before his election, an
nounced his opposition 70 a second
term. upon the moral ground that the
incumbent OF the office should devote
himself to the service of the people
rather than to schemes for his reslec-
ton. Having comm itted himself so
Enthusiastically he could not depart from
the position he had assumed, even II he
felt disposed 20 do so. But Mr.. Cleve-
land will not be consulted in the mat
ter. His letters and utterances after
his election and before the inauguration
d ieiI m robable that hew5uid ever be
renominated, and during the first three
months that he was in the Office he put
a second nomination entirely out OF the
ques lion. He assumed an attitude
loftier and purer than that of his party.
and apparently lost sight of the fact
that he had been elected to the place by
Democratic votes. He disregarded the
central idea of the republic. that the
majority should rule, whatever may be
the theories or principles of
that majority. When the
votes were counted in November, 1884.
and the computation showed that the
Democrats were in the majority, i.
meant in the minds of the people a
good deal more than the mere fact that
Grover Cleveland had been designated
for the occupancy of the White House;
il was understood TO mean that Demo-
cratic principles and policy would pre-
vail in the Federal Administration, and
that Democratic citizens would occupy
the Offices and perform their duties in
harmony with the voice of the majority |
OF the people, as it had been heard |
through the ballot-boxes. Mr.. Cleve
land not only refused to take counsel /
from his party, but to a great extent
ignored the party, assuming that the
election was personal compliment to
him, instead OF being an assertion of
Democratic ideas and principles. To-
day, after he has been in Office fifteen
more than so per cent. of the
men who are serving under presumably
Democratic administration are rank
enemies to the party and the policy of
h politi cal organization.
Mr.. Cleveland is undoubtedly a good ,
nan. who would ike to have purity in
politics as in office; but his idea that 1
nan can get above his party and be in {
dependent of il is mistaken one in a !
epublic which in theory aud in practice ,
'ontemplates opposing political. parties, 7
whose Jaws declare that the ideas and
entiments of the most numerous party
hall prevail. The fact is, the Demo s
rats who labored so long and hard to r
Jam the ascendency, and who elected s
Mr.. Cleveland, are nowhere please with I
lis course. He has been a sorry disap- ,
ointment to them, in that he has
iven the enemy strength. encourage !
nent and reason to hope. If the :
Democrats had it in their power to s
e-elect him. and they knew it he would
lot be renominated. The Democracy
4 the man taken up next time will be O
nown and unquestioned, and in the II
vent of his his election his inaugnra-
ion viii mean what the installation jof
ir. Cleveland should have:neant-the
urning of the rascals out.
1t is early yet to talk of candidates;
ut it is not too early to say that if Il
Cleveland shall continue 70 il
be end of his term the course that he n
as pursued, the Democratic nomina- y
on will be very apt to amount to moth n
az more than formal compliment to "
ne individual selected for the honor.
he Democratic party has been so sadly a
with the President that if the o.
lection were 70 be held next November Ell
lstead Of two years from then, not b
Ingle northern State could be carried N
y the Democratic candidate, and two "
r three Of the southern States would be v,
pit to be lost by the party. B