The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1888-11-03


imagination of those who framed the
Constitution. Mt. jefferson, whom the
Democrats have politically deihed as the
founder Of their party, had eight years
OF administration, distinguished by
troublesome periods, and by events Of
local moment, and yet he never found
occasion even once for using the veto, SO
great was his respect, for the will Of the
people as manifested through their rep.
resentatives in Congress. (Cheers.) For
the long period from Washington's in
auguration to the close OF Arthur's
Administration the veto was used but
seventy five TIMES id all Mf. Cleyeland's
term rounds out the first century Of
Federal government, and thus far in his
Administration he has used the veto
three hundred and ten times-more than
four times as frequent as IL was used
by all his predecessors in the long period
OF ninety-six yeafs. 1t seems to me the
Presidents conception of the veto power
is, that wherever he would vote 'tNo,"
II he were member OF Senate or House,
he would veto measure as President,
which is an entirely new Interpretation
| Of the Constitution, unknown to the
founders of the Government and abso-
lutely repudisted by every otie who has
occupied the Presidential chair before
him.
There is something extraordinary in
the space which Mr.. Cleveland's vetoes
will fill in the archives of the Govern
ment. His vetoes Of private pension bills
will occupy more space in our political
history than all the regular ANNUAL mes
sages of Washington, Adams and JeiTer-
son for the first twenty years of the Fed
eral Government; and if all his vetoes
on all subjects be combined, the space
they will fill will be greater than all the
annual messages of all the Presidents
from the formation of the Constitution to
the close of the second war with Great
Britain. l submit that the trainers of the
stonstitution never intended to make
the President third legislative power,
with q vote that could override both the
others. Such use of the veto power
has been condemned by all the great
statesmen Of both parties Such use of
the veto power would dethrone any con-
stitutional monarchy in Europe. 1t was
such use of the veto power that
gave to that French King who brought
on the revolution the name of "Monsieur
Veto;o and President Cleveland will be
fortunate if in history he escapes the
same descriptive sobriquet. (Applause.)
THE DIsFRANoHisED MEN OF DAKOTA.
Fourth. The Republicans arraign the
Administration for having unjustly,
without precedent and for partisan
reasons, disfranchized 700, 900 American
citizens in the Territory of Dakota. It
has been the established practice of the
Federal Government to admit Terri
\ tory to the privileges Of State when it
Aad sufficient population to send
Representative to Congress. There has
been no variation from that except a
slight detention which occurred prior
to, 1850, by = efforts Of the slave
} sacpiers II yIlxeep- S llequsli.x. II aptna1ip-
th9 Akte, aud to force a slave St9fe
into the Union whenever free State
was ready to enter. Thus Mississippi
and Indiana, Alabama and Illinois, Mis-
souri, and Maine, Arkansas and Michi-
gan, Florida and Iowa came in practi-
cally in parts In the order have named
them. But after this equality was
broken by the admission of Califonia in
1850, a wicked attempt was made to es-
tabish it by the fraudulent admission of
Kansas as slave State. Since the fail
ure of that conspiracy, however, long
succession of States has been admitted
with prompt acknowledgment of their
right to Statehood when each was able
to send Representative to Congress.
But now when the electoral college is so
closely balanced that the power OF the
Solid South aud two or three Northern
10 aas1a hn DrnesIAnoyr ha
disturbed if ZOO, 900 citizens Of Dakota
are admitted to their rightful inheri-
tance, the Democratic party and the Ma
tional Administration make combina-
tion to disfranchise that large body of
men. 1t is worth while, fellow citizens,
to contrast the condition Of Dakota with
that of other States that have been ad-
mitted to the Union since the old thir-
teen first formed a National Government.
Dakota is so thoroughly State in equip
ments, in all her power, that this year
she produces and sends to market
larger wheat crop than any one of the
thirty eight States of the Union. She
has within her borders larger mileage
of railroads than any one of the seven
teen Southern States except Missouri
and Texas; larger mileage than any
one of the New England States, and
nearly as much as all those States to-
gether; and, more striking than all else,
the population of Dakota is larger than
any one of twelve States now in the
Union, as shown by the last Federul
census.
THE soANDALoUs LOANS TO BANKS.
Fifth-The Republicans arraign Pres
nlat,alnn1io ;aHr So
breaking down the useful policy of pay
ing off the National debt as rapidly as
tie surplus in the Treasury will allow.
Tho permitted bonds of the United
States, payable at par, to remain on in
terest while the income of the Govern
ment was devoted to the creation of a
surplus which might be used to prejudice
the financial and industrial system that
had steadily produced condition of
prosperity in the country. When the
surplus was thus designedly enlarged the
Treasury Department used it for the first
time since General jackson broke down
the old United States Bank for the pur-
pose of loans under the name of ''de-
posits" without interest to banking insti-
tutions. When Mr.. Manning retired
from Mr.. Cleveland's abinet and Mr..
Jordan resigned from the office of Treas
urer, the two gentlemen established
bank in the City of New York, and the
Administration of Mr.. Cleveland loaned
them of Government funds without in
terest, as a fixed snd permanent deposit,
81, ,000,0 of the peoples money. In
the days of Louis Napoleon's most alb.
solute power. if he had given five and
one-half million francs out of the public
purse to two friends as an aid to private
enterprise in banking, the barricades
would have been across the streets OF
Paris, and revolution iuaugurated
against the Government that could in
dulge in favoritism so ruinous. (Cheers.) }
If Queen Victoria should request of the
English Treasury that the same amount
should be issued to two of her personal
friends, as an aid to aspeculative venture
in banking, the Ministry would have
made an inquiry into the sounduess of
Her Majesty's mind upon a proposition
SO extraordinary. And yet Mr.. Fair