Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-27
EASTERN EVENTS.
Don Dickinson's Eulosium
Upon Cleveland,
THE MANNER OF MAN HE Is.
Democracy's Grand Opening at De.
troit-Doings in Congress.
Eastern Echoes.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD. |

associated Press Dispatches to the HERALpl |
DETROIT, September 26.-The cam.
paign in this city was opened tonight by
the Democracy with big demonstration
in honor Of the visit OF Postmaster Gen.
eral Dickinson, General John G. Black,
ex-senator Joseph Z. Mcdonald and
other distinguished guests. At O'Clock
q parade, composed of numerous ward
clubs. first voters, visiting delegations,
etc., was reviewed from the balcony of
The Russell House, and then the guests
were driven to Larned-street rink where
they were greeted by an audience that
fifilled every inch Of available space. Post
master General Dickinson was the first
speaker. In the course of his speech he
spoke of the President as follows: Il
have been asked to tell you something of
the President. / can say but very little
OF what is in my mind On the subject. In
| the tirst place he has been since March
4th, 1887, President of the United States.
| No usurpation of Executive functions; !;
no trenching upon Executive privileges !;
no pruning of the power OF the peoples
Chief Magistrate; no encroachments
upon the official rights OF the chosen
60 900 900 freemen have been tolerated
or permitted. Several early attempts of
| the kind were resented with power and
vital force still respectfully borne in mind
by the Upper House OF Congress. His
rugged, masterful personality, his robust
patriotism, has sent the vital current of
health-giving honesty pulsing through
all the arteries of the public service. "a
public Office is public trust" has not
been merely a smooth phrase or catch
word of stump and canvass. Consis-
tently squaring his official action by the
spirit of the maxim and by its COM
mandment, he has made it a rule OF con-
duct, practical for every dav use in all
public business in every department and
in the highways and byways OF executive
and administrative action.
In the political atmosphere of the
Capital the President was for long time
a puzzle and an enigma to those ac
customed to the old conditions. The
| politicians OF the country, accustomed to
perverted craftsmanship and perverted
methods and perverted policies, did not
at first make out this President of Ours.
AS he started on his way the Senate at
tempted to crowd him. The chariot of
the American House of Lords drove
against him and was ditched. Tie
Senators then said: This man treats us
as if We were the Common Council OF
Buffalo, and he is an insignificant,
though stubborn man, only fit to be the
mayor of a small town. Later on they
said: He has ability of certain kind
and sort of low cunning and
he is bold, bad man. Later
on he rose in the vocabulary of
epithets of the dignity OF usurper.
Some Republican politicians praised him
for while, looking at his acts through
the fared and cracked glass of their own
notions, because they thought he was
about to betray his party. A few Demo-
Gratis who learned politics in Republican
schools, irritated at the changed policy
and changed 1cethods, believing in the
doctrine that because his predecessors
did all things for favor he should exer-
| else full license to do the like for favor,
said he was Tyler and would ruin his
party. Theories continued to multiply
about him, his character and his pur-
poses.
In the midst OF the confusion the
strong common sense of people came to
the place OF interpreter. 1t is very
simple case, gentlemen, said common
sense. you were all looking beyond, be-
low, around, anywhere but at the simple
nature OF things. This curiosity at
Washington, this President who seems
to YOU to be insGrutable in his ways, so
rare in this life Of yours, is simply an
honest man-an honest man with
great brain, intrepid heart and tire
less vigor; an honest man of indomit-
able perseverance, resolute fearlessness
and conscious power. An honest man who
stands up for the right with the firmness
and serenity of the Rock of Ages itself;
and appreciated of all men, he is hated
and reviled with the bitterness of partisan
malignity by the hosts of error, and he is
still loved for the enemies he has made
and is making. In private life he is a
plain American citizen, of simple man
ners and of singular gentleness and kind
ness of heart in his consideration for
those about him. Standing out against the
history of ages, one of the noblest figures
in the life Of the Republic, will be that of
Grover Cleveland.