The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-05-17


a TrSnass - Cssvs1AnA.
In an grea. struggles the shisf want Of
the people ia MANI n
In Cleveland wshaveN foanA vhat -
need in the prssstf stfxlse man asd
leader of msn-ss liant = 4sdrs~
JAckson-his eqasl = ! pes<st tsFhsps
his superior ~ . staGssnAA
Jackson was the hero Of war-Peace
hath her vicsories-no less renowned
and Cleveland 10 the hero Of peace, Of .
reform amounting TO peaceful and bsneh-
cent revolution.
CIeveland's message required - much
nerve ~ the battle Of New Orleans.
jackson and Cleveland both had the
nerve-Old Hickory and Young.
The same game which Jackson sent TO
cover in 1852 has come round again TO
the old spot-the devouring wolf Of mo-
nopolv. The same old wolf has come
again by its circuit and Young Hickory
is on its track. The game 10 up and the
people too are after it, confident In their
cause and in their leader.
Jackson pointed out the public enemy :
"The various interests which have com.
bined together to impose heavy tarif
and to produce an overlooking treasury
are too strong and have too much at stake
to surrender the contest"
These same combinations are stronger
now and have much more at stake.
Cleveland does not say with jackson,
By the eternal Z" but all the same, like
Jackson, he does "take the responsible
ity."
Says a contemporary cit is the man.
illness, the honest, rugged, manhood OF
the Presidents conduct all the way
through his official life that has carried
him 90 s>fetg through tho snAres that
environed him and that has 30 impressed
the people with confidence in him. BE
is the strongest President with the whole
people, without regard to sections, cl rs.
ses or parties, that we have had since
Washington's day."
He has the confidence of all and the
respect of those who oppose him.
Mr.. Cleveland has three great points
of q leader-sense, character, patriotism.
A strong, good sense which goes to the
heart of a practical question, quick, Wig.
orous, unerriug
1t was thought his want of federal ex.
perience would be in his way. Yet be
controls an able Cabinet, who respect as
we'll as are respected by him-Bayard,
Lamar, Villas, Manning, Fairchild, etc.
A character which makes him his own
master, and which reaches to heroism--
full of resource, selfreliant, capable OF
dealing wisely and firmly with the great
est issues.
A patriotism which ever prefers coun
try to self. His message exhibits all
three of his great qualities in a splendid
setting, and stamps him Patriot! States
man Hero
Like Old Hickory, he makes plain, bold
issues. He plants himself upon q princi
pie. The message timidity would have
dictated he scorned. He casts himself
upon the people-in their best and high
est interests. He gives to Blaine and
Sherman and to monopolists some
thing to fight, and to the people some
thing to fight for. His reliance is not on
the office-holders, fighting simply as par
tisans. He has disbanded that army and
called upon the whole body of the people
TO sustain him-the militia, so to speak
not the regulars.
They are just beginning fairly to realize
his immense services and his value. His
manly message will accomplish in one
year the work Of twenty in the hands of a
timid and time-serving President.
The victory will be more important
one than that of New Orleans.
The two Hickories are twin heroes
each in his time and plase-the old and
the young.
The monopolists are more to be
dreaded than the British. They wage a
sort of Indian fight; but in this, too, our
gallant and wise leader will rout them.
He has hedged them in to a single issue
and very plain one, and he will capture
or conquer.
Cleveland has cast the die and run the
risk for the people vs. the monopolists.
He prefers q splendid victory, full of
fruits, to cheap and barren walk-over.
1t were despicable, thus trusted, to de-
sert him. But the people will not desert
him. "They know a man when they see
him." They like that sort of stuff. The
question, too, as he puts it, will carry it.
self 1t and he both grow upon you.
Entitled not only to their confidence,
but to their enthusiastic support, he will
get it, and sweep everything before him,
and in his second term will confirm and
consolidate the republic in the great work
of reform and base the government on
sound principles of justice and equality,
administered not in the interest of . f.
vored few, but Of the whole body of the
people.
After his second term of Office, we can
but look forward to even greater services
to humanity from this representative
American, 30 remarkable for practical
success by honest Observation-Disclosures
to some international field of usefulness,
perhaps, in the interest of universal peace.
Mankind will continne to need him, and
he will find his proper work and fulfill it
we'll and bravely.-Sdm,el Barnett, in
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.
1t is amusing to contrast the decla-