Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-06-27
ABUSE OF THE PRESIDENT.
A Policy That Can Not win-How 1t
Worked In Jackson,s Time.

A Policy That Can Not win-How 1t
Worked I'm Jaclxson's Time.
Never since the days of Andrew Jackson
has there been a President more meanly
vilified or more grossly abused by his pollt-
ical opponents than President Cleveland.
They disparage his ability, belittle his ca
pacity and get into white heat of rage at
mention Of his name. They descend to the
level of blackguards, and by the mere din of
vltuperation hope to make the people be-
lieve them.
Observant citizens hear this din and noise,
this abuse and villification, and are some
what at q loss to account for it. They look
at the White House, and there see gentle
man, courteous and self-contained, dis
charging his duties with immense painstalz-
ing and care, doing the thing he thinks
right and just with the utmost fearlessness,
and particularly in all matters pertaining
to the peoples interests, standing immova-
BILE as the everlasting hills against monop-
oily and extravaganza. He currys no favor
at any hand, is not a time-server, nor does
he seek by demagogic arts to gain follow
ing. He appears TO be in pre-eminent de-
gree, says the Chicago Herald, man of the
strictest business integrity, of the levelest
kind of common sense, which he applies to
the adjustment of every question that
comes before him. Taking for the rule Of
his conduct the maxim that ''public Office is
public trust" he has so administered his
great Office as to elevate its character and
restore it TO the dignity which it had under
the fathers.
The President of the United States is no
longer the tool of politicians, the mere
almoner of paltry offices, but a potential
ruler, having duty to the public to per-
form. The oberver can further see that,
oil 1f
and the harrassing cares that have beset
him, Mr. Cleveland has been uniformly
kind, patient and considerate, that he has
never returned railing for railing nor can
can harsh word or ungenerous sentiment
be quoted as coming from him against his
political assailants.
Seeing all this, one can come to no other
conclusion than that it is because he does
his duty so faithfully and so straightfor-
wardly that those Republican editors are so
enraged at HIM. He has disappointed all
their sinister prophecies. The Union is not
dissolved, the Confederate States have not
been acknowledged, the rebel debt has not
been paid, and the whole country is in a
condition of substantial prosperity equal to
any in its history
And moro than this. So clearly has he
administered the peoples trust that there is
almost universal demand that he remain in
Office four years longer
Such an utter unfulfllment of all their dire
predictions has brought these foolish
prophets into disrepute and has sunk them
INTO inslgnicance. Hence their foolish and
impotent wrath against the object of their
hatred and their resort to the weapons of
the-animal whose name is the synonym of
meaness and vileness.
If these false prophets and vilifiers could
know that personal detraction never wins.
No President was ever so sbockingly abused
as Andrew Jackson when he ran a second
time. But the people only responded by
stamping his opponents into the earth and
re-electing him by more triumphant vote
than he got the first time. So it will be
with Cleveland.