The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-10-31

ratch published in Democratic paper receives
assurance of contributions from more than -
ot.ceholders in II single day and proved before
a special commit Of the senate 1t has. more
over been charged in responsible newspal ers
that men of bad character, even convicted and
pHrdoned criminals have been placed in Office
under the present administration, and that
thus the civil service has been subjected to open
shame in n de sree hitherto unknown.
=. The Republicans arraign the President fOr
lnving surrendered the rights of the country in
the histories OF the North Am ricun co ist in
manner derogatory to the dignity of the nation
ana in utter disregard OF the rights OF the fish
ermen. The question of the fisheries has been
a subject of dispute ever since the of ISL,
and never before has the country, even in ia
days Of weakness, been willing To surrender 10
Great Bri. ain the rights which now, In the day
of our restige aud power, the present aiminis-
tration abandOns, to L sacrhce OF national
honor and the destruction of the rights OF our
brave fishermen The American people
not more surprised at the tame manner in which
our fishery rights were surrendered than were
the negotiators of England themselves when
they found that obstacles hitherto insurmount-
able by British diplomacy had been removed by
the present administration and the pa, hway to
a diplomat c victory made smooth and easy to
the represen. atives OF England.
3. The Republicans arraign Mr.. Cleveland
for his cruel disregard OF the rights of poor and
needy soldiers who incurred their distress and
their poverty in the service of the nation and who
by the intcrposition of the President veto were
deprived of the pttance voted 20 them by n Re
publican Senate and a Democratic House. Not
only has the President vetoed the general bill
passed for the relief OF all needy and dependent
soldier but in more than 200 cases of peculiar
and personal suherings he had interposed his
power TO prevent these creditors of the nation
receiving their just dues. His vetoes of the
bills, both general and personal had thrust thou
sunds of soldiers for their daily Subsistence upon
the humiliating alternatives of private charities
or the pubic poorhouse No mOn jealous of
American honor, no man approaching the sacri-
fee which the soldiers made for the country s
unity should ever be willing TO see u man who
in the ranks of battle had defended the Union
OF the States declared public pauper and left
To die in the nlmshouse. And yet that Is pre-
cisely the condi ion in which thousands of
soldiers who took honorable part in the coun-
try's defense srs left by the Presidents vetoes.
The Reputlicans arraign the President, not
merely for his veto Of pension bills, but for his
general and dangerous use of the veto power.
without precedent in the previous history of the
country and altogether beyond the conception or
imagination of those who framed the Constitu-
ton Mr.. 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 great
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 representatives in Congress. For the long
period from Washington Inauguration To tho
close Of Ar lhur administration the veto
used but seventy-fve times in all. Mr.. Cleye-
lands term rounds out he century OF the
Federal Government, and thus far in his admin
istration he has used the veto so times-more
than four times as frequently as it was used by
all OF his predecessors in the long period of nine
ty-six years. 1t seems TO me the Presidents
conception of the veto power is that wherever
he would vote NO if he were a member OF SEN
ate or House he would veto a measure Presi-
dent, which Is an entirely new Interpretation OF
the Constitution, unknown to the founders OF
the Government and absolutely repudiatcd by
every one who has occupied the Presid- initial
chair before him
There is something extraordinary in the space
which Mr. Cleveands vetoes will fill in tho
archives OF the Government. His Vetoes Of pri-
vate pension bills will occupy more space In our
political history than all the regular ann ual
messages of Washington, Adams and Jefferson
for the first twenty years of the Federal Govern
ment; an IL all his vetoes on all subjects be
combined the space they will fiji will be greater
than the annual messages OF all the Presidents
from the formation OF the Constitution TO the
close OF the second war with Great Britain. i
submit that the trainers OF the Constitution
never intended 10 make the President third
legislative power with n vote that could override
both the others Such n use of the veto power
has been condemned by all the great statesmen
of both parties. Such use Of the veto power
would detrone any constitutional monarch in
Europe. 1t such use OF the veto power
that gave to that French King who brought on
the revolution the name OF Monsieur Veto"
and President Cleveland will be fortunate il in
history he escapes the same descriptive soubri-
4. The Republicans arraign the admins
tration for having unjustly, without precedent,
and for partisan reasons dsfranchised zoo 900
American citizens in the Territory OF Dakota.
1t has been the established practice OF the Fed
eral Government TO admit n Territory TO the
privileges of a State when II has a sufficient
POPULATION 70 entitle IL to one Representative in
Congreas-a habit that was naturally and readily
deduced from clause In the Federal Constitu-
tion. There has been no variation from that OK
cent slight detention which occurred prior to
1850 by the efforts of the slave power 20 keep an
equality Of votes I'm the Senate and 10 force a
slave State into the Union whenever Tree state
was ready 20 enter. Thus, Mississippi and In
diana, Alabama and Illinois, Missouri and