The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-10-07

| imitation by our political opponents. See its
| record IL paid out sl25.OoO0OO In 1881. and
called I'm that amount in bonds I'm 1882 IL called
| in sta. 5000 OF Government bonds and paid
them of in 1885, So, 0oO,0 in 1884 over So.
100000. We averaged in the last four years OF
Republican administration more than Sl25 Co.,
600 wear Your administration has paid out
but 4. 0O0,0O0 In sixteen months, and the bal
ance IL keeps in the Treasury has exceeded
that OF any year OF Republican control. II the
Democratic administration has been derelict OF
duty in this regard we can not help It. We did
not help make it. We did not want IL: We
lett IL not only the example but a fair surplus
| TO begin ON, with the authority TO do It's whole
duty. Those OF you who contributed 70 Grover
Cleveland's success have only to blame your
| selves. You elected him to administer the Gov
eminent and its financial affairs. He Is answer
able TO the people, and IL is their considerate
Judgment We ask next November Democrats
| as well as Republicans.
| Whoever Is sincerely I'm favor of using the sur
plus To extingush the bonded debt, can not DO
in favor OF the policy OF the present admintstra-
tion. Both the President and Secretary OF the
| Treasury have made open pronouncement OF
| their views through their public acts. The vote
of the Democrats in the House upon the sur
plus resolution was a vote of want OF conn
dence, a vote of condemnation OF their admins
tration. And even after the conference COM
| mittee OF the House and the Senate had so
amended the House resolution as To keep sacred
| one hundred millions for resumption purposes,
providing twenty millions for a working balance
and giving the Secretary OF the Treasury the
discretion to suspend the operation OF the reso-
| luton lin case OF an extraordinary emergency,
| when the public interest requires it, the Presi-
| dent declined to give il his approval.
The resolution finally agreed upon was in
effect and substance. what the Republicans in
the House had unsuocessfully sought 70 make
| IL, unexceptional in every respect carefully
| guarded, and acquiesced in by both political
parties in the two branches of Congress with
substantial unanimity and yet the PRESIDENT
| withheld from il mis- approval, and gave his rea-
| sons for so doing in memorandum he attached
TO the bill and filed with the Secretary OF STATE
as follows:
| nd IA ~
such serious Importance, that do not deem IT
best To discuss IL ut this time. 1t IL not APP
proved because believe it to be unnecessary,
and because am by no means convinced that
its mere passage and approval ut this time may
not endanger and embarrass the successful ana
useful operations OF the Treasury Department,
and impair the confidence which tho people
should have in the management OF the finances
| OF the Government"
1t may be true that the resolution as finally
| adopted will "endanger and embarrass the sue
cessful and useful operations OF the Treasury
Department and impair the confidence OF the
people in the management OF the finances OF the
| Government" but / can not believe IL. The
practice OF the Republican Secretaries OF the
| Treasury was to keep less OF surplus or balance
in the Treasury than was contemplated by the
resolution, and the management OF the Treas
ury was Mother embarrassed nor endangered,
and the public confidence was never shaken for
an instant of time. IL would appear from the
conduct OF the administration in boarding
the revenues and holding the surplus, and the
refusal Cf the President to approve the
resolutions to pay out, that he feels a larger
balance Is required to maintain public conf
dence under Democratic than Republican
administration. This il probably true, and
may after all. DO the secret of his financial pol
ICY for il must be conceded that a party which
was once driven from power in financial dis
honor and again resumes control, Is viewed
with greater susI icion. and must BIO intrenched
with larger reserve than the party whose hon
or has never been tainted and whose financial
management has mover disturbed public conf
dence.
If the Republican policy of paying out the
surplus revenues upon tho public debt had
been pursued, nearly il not all of the three
per-cents" would have been called in and paid
before this time, and that money would now be
circulating through the avenues of business, in
the hands Of the people The orators OF the
Democratic party, among them some Of its
most trusted leaders, who declared from one
end of this country to the othor that the Repub-
i,ans were boarding large surplus which
their party would at once pay out, now stand
convicted before their felow-citizens OF either
Ignorance or falsehood, or both, and still the
Ohio Democracy cordially indorses the admin
istration of President Cleveland
What is there, / submit in all seriousness,
connected with the Democratic administration,
either in the House the part of the Ex-
ecutivo, to command public approval or justify
its continuance in power? have been close
observer of its course in the House, ana have
not been inattentve TO the official acts of the
President but 1 have failed TO discover any
policy on the part OF either marked by lofty pa
trotism, high purpose or broad stltesmanship
The less Of II Democrat the President has been
the more public condemnation he has received
The more OF n Democrat he has been the less
has been his public and the more his party
approval
Being more Democrat than patriot his chief
distinction consisted of vetoes of pension bills
passed by both houses OF Congress for the bene-
ut Of the rank and file q the army. do no;
question the constitutional right of the Presi
dent & approve or veto the resolves OF Congress
but his Wholesale voto of this class of bills, the
most deserving upon tn Gallon lar of Congress
is such an innovation of the unbroken prece-
dents of his illustrious predecessors, as to pro
woke the thought and inquiry OF the country
And whether he exercises that right wisely and
for thc public good, | and you and all the PEG
pie conycrinnt with thu facts of each case can
Judge and must Judge ard record our judgment
ut the polls. What have other Presidents done
1t is interesting To note that Washington IN
eight years vetoed bat two bills Jefferson, who
knew the Constitution and the Presidential pre-
rogative, in eight years v3toed not a single bill
tn elder aud the younger Adams none; Madi-
fol only six in his eight years of service, and
Jackson, whose courage was never doubted, IN
his two full forms but eleven Van Buren, none
Taylor and Fillmore none Buchanan four
Lincoln one Gariel1 and Arthur four.
! They held the power contided % them by the
Constitution to override the will OF both branch
es of Congress sacred that il was only TO be
invoked upon extraordinary occasions. From
Washington down 20 Cleveland period OF
nearly one hundred years, the total number OF
all yetoes OF all the Presidents was but 109
while Cleveland in eighteen months issued l03
This eXcels any record yet made in ancient OF
modern times.
The unfriendly spirit OF the President toward
the deserving soldiers quickly caught NJ
by tho Democratic House, and resulted in the
proposal OF rule which received the approval
OF the Speaker OF the House. Mr. Randall OF
Pennsylvania, and Mr. Morrison of Illinois
and Il united Democratic maiority-requirine
on all general p nson bills that provision be
made by taxation for the payment of the ap-
preparation which they involved. moro covert
assault, more masked attack, was never con
coiyed against the soldiers of the republic who
lost health and limbs and life in defense OF the
country. Every general pension bill must
carry with il tax bill, suggestion never
thought Of much less made, concerning any
other bill or proposition requiring the payment
of money and this with unused balance In
tho Treasury, more than ample for al
the demands of tho Government and the
public service Every other appropriation
comes out of the general revenues; but
the pensioners If not the most deserving, GER
tainly equally meritoriols with the most favored
| OF all OF the Government creditors, are required
as n condition precedent To any legislation IN
their behalf 70 provide the money in advance
by special taxation, for its payment. No more
unholy proposition was submitted to AN
American Congress it was intended 20 prevent
all pension legislation, aud that would have
been its effect II il had become n part OF the
rules of the House. It was not adopted because
of the united action Of the Republican party,
which resortod To every obstructive movement
justified by parliamentary laws To prevent IT,
! This rule is now pending for consideration; IL
was not defeated, only postponed by the Use oil
extraordinary means, and will come up next
December. Tho people should express their
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