New-York tribune., 1886-11-13
THE PRESIDENT AND HIS PARTY.

1HE fhEOiDENI AM HIc dhI1'
President Cleveland is Just the man to rub
salt into Democratic wounds. 1t was not
against his course that the people gave their
verdict last week, he and his friends are now
saying. IT was agains: his opponents within
his party, the Morrisons and Carlises who
went 20 far out of the way to condemn his
Treasury Department, the Warmers who
fought against the silver policy, the men like
Voorhees, and West who condemned his ap-
pointments. These people were personally
beaten, or lost in their respective districts or
States, while the Administration was sustai ne d
In New-York, where the President and two
Cabinet officers reside, sustained in Delaware,
Mississippi and Arkansas, and even gained
something in Massachusetts, while it lost moth
ing to speak of in Wisconsin The Administra-
ton would have been approved by the people,
members of Congress will be told, if that could
have been done without sending back the
incompetents and the quarrelsOme CRU blers
who have been conspiriDg against It,
In answer to these cheerful reflections the
Democrats of the majority will make rem arks
of sulphurous sort. 1t was just the treachery
of this Administration which crippled the
Democratic party In many States and districts,
it will be said. Disgust at It's conduct made
Democrats stay at home hostility to its finan-
cial policy weakened the party throughout the
West and South. 1t succeeded in Delaware.
Mississippi and Arkansas because the Demo-
Gratis could win with yellow dog for candi-
date where the people are not allowed to vote
1t saved New-York only by the devices of an
opposing candidate for the Presidency. But
it lost districts in New-York and NewJersey,
begged success from Republicans even in New
York City, and picked up two additional men,
bers In Massachusetts only because it suited the
Republicans to take the opportunity to settle
personal disputes Of their own. 1t will be said
by the Presidents Democratic opponents that
he is really at odds with his party, which the
Democratic majority in Congress represents,
and that the verdict shows that he is heavier
load than the party can carry.
Mr. Cleveland's message will tell the Demo-
cratic House what il ought to do, after the
schoolmaster fashion. Then Mr.. Morrison, as
leader of the House, will take care to propose
something else and to insist upon that. The
President will be informed that he is no Demo-
crat, but only Mugwump with thick neck,
and that 1S5 Democratic members know better
what the people want than he does. The
session will probably be used up in interest
ing conversation of this kind. Appointment
are likely to grow worse instead of better,
because recommended by back-stairs influence,
and not by responsible representatives of the
people. The President will set pins for re-
nomination, and the maj jority in the House will
lay pipe for his defeat. Mr.. Bayard will
continue to snub Minister Phelps, and Congress
will rap Mr.. Dayard over the knuckIes for
being too previous in the Mexican business,
and getting the country into disgI acefu' posi-
ton and for surrenl lering too much to England
in the e6tradition and fishery matters The
Garland and other scandals will sink deeper
into public thought, because four-fifths OF the
party in power will be in the humor to read
the evidence about them. Meanwhile trouble Is
for the party because it neglects the
public necessities and cannot agree upon any
policy of finance or taxation. BY the end OF
the coming short session of Congress we shall
hear from some star-eyed goddess the remark
that the Administration has thrown away the
only chance of Democratic victory in 1883.