The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-11-03

Patch published in Democratic paper, receives
assurance OF contributions from more than .
pffoeholders i'll Il single day aud p.oyel before
special commit &c of the Senate. 1t has more
over, been charged in responsible newspaE els
that men of bad character, even convicted and
pardOned criminals have been placed i'll Otrce
under the present administration. and that
thus the civil service has been sub ected to open
shame in de gree hitherto unknown.
y The Republicans arfaIEn the President for
having surrendered the rights Of the country in
the fisheries of the North Am ricau st Ill
manner derogatory to the dignity of the nation
and in utter disrt gard of the rights OF the fish,
ermen- The question of The fl sres has hcoa
subject of dispute ever since the war of ISL
and never before has the country, even in
DAYS Of weakness been willing to surrender 10
Great Britain the rights which now in the day
OF our prestige and power, the present almiuis-
tration H6andons, to 1 saCriti of nat .EHl
honor and the destruction of tie rights of cur
brave tisharm IN The American people
not more surprised at the tame manner in wiitch
our fishery rights We're surrendered than rs
the neGotiators of England themselves wi"a
they found that obstacles hitherto insurmontl--
able by Etltlsh diplomacy mad been removed y
the present administration and the pathw " .
n diplomat C yictory1nade smooth and easy to
the represent atives of England.
3 The Republicans arraign Mr.. Cleveland
Tor his cruel disregard of the rights of poor AHl
needy soldiers who incurred their distress PuI
their poverty i'll the service Of the nation and no
10y the interpositlol OF the President veto T.re
deprived q the pittance voted 10 them by =
publican Senate and Democratic House Not
only has the President vetoed the general n.I
passed for the relief of all needy and dependent
soldier but in more than 200 cases of pecTi.lr
and personal sUnerings he had interposod his
power prevent these creditors Of the nation
receiving their just dues. His yetccs of ,Ee
bills DO Ii general and peTs nal, had . t'sgu-
sands o. soldiers or their daily suJsis UPON
ff3e mum siating ternaJiNcs OF private c'sat es
~ The pGUllc poOrhousa. 40 Jeai of
american honor, no man appreciatinS tho -acri-
nee VIII ca the soldiers male for the CCEHuCN ;
unity, Should ever be willing to sec a man vi NJ
in the RANKS of battle had defended the nj n
of the States declared Il public paCper and left
a.. hoe 80,
cisely tie condl ion III which thousands Of
soldiers VINO took honorable part in the n
try dein- are left Icy the Presidents vctoes.
The J'ei u llcans arriugn the President, net
merely ioc lis veto Of pension bills, but for lI5
general ami dangerous use of the veto power
without precedent III the previous history Of tie
country rni altogether beyond the conceptIol or
imagina ION of those who framed the Cons titu-
ton. Mr.. Jefferson whom the Democrats have
politically deihed as the founder of their party.
had els Il Years OF administration distinguished
by troub s5ome periods and by events of grea
moment IN yet lie never found occasion
once for ng the veto great his respect
for the viii of the people manifested thrOUsh
their representatives in Congress. For the long
period flo'l Washington inauguration to tie
close Arthur admins trati0u the veto was
used bu seventy five times IL all. Mr. CleEe-
lands term rounds out he century of the
federal yernmeut, and thus far in his admin
tstraton re has used the veto $40 times more
than foIr times as frequently as it was used by
all of predecessors in the long period Of ninc-
ty-siX Yeas. 1t seems to the President
conception of the veto power Is that wherever
be womb vote NO if he were a member of SEN
ate or House he would veto measure as Pre-i-
dent, whlsn is entirely new Interpretation of
the Cons: tuition, unknown to the founders of
the Go gsfnment and absolutely repudiated by
every who has occupied the Presid initial
chair before him.
There is something extraordinary in the space
which Ntr. Cleveiands vetoes viii fill III the
archives o. the Government. Ills FetOes CT phi
waite pens on bills viii occupy more space III our
political history than all the regular ann uul
messages of Washington, Adams and Jefferson
Federal lTONFrIL-
ment an if all his yetoes on all subjects DC
combined the space they will fill will be greater
-han the annual messages Of all the Presidents
rom the formation OF the Constitution to tho
close o. the second war with Great Britain
submit that the trainers o; the Constitution
never int nded TO make the resident Il tnIrd
Legislative power with n vote that could override
both tho hers. Such use of the veto power
has been condemned by all the great statesmen
of both parties. Such use of the veto power
would :ctrone any constitutional monarch III
Europe. 1t was such use of the veto power
that gave 10 that French Hing who brought on
the revolution the name Of Monsieur Veto /;
and President Cleveland Will BE- fortunate if in
history lie escapes the same descriptive soubri-
quet.
4 The Republicans srraign the admins
tratiorl FOR having un5ustly, without precedent,
and for partisan reasons, DISTINGUISHED zoo go
American citizens in the Territory of Oak ia.
Ii has been the established practice Of the Fed
eral Government 10 admit Territory to the
privileges of State when 1t has suliciep.
population To entitle it to one Representative in
Congress- habit that naturally and readily
deducHd from a clause IN the Federal Constltu-
tCn. There has been no variation from that eX
cept n si2llt detention which occurred prior TO
1851 hv TIE efforts of the slave power to keep
equality of votes in the Senate ana 10 force a
slave state into the Union whenever free tate
ready TO enter Thus Mississippi and In
diana, Alabama and Illinois, Missouri aud
Maine, Arkansas and Michigan, Florida and
Iowa, came in practically in pairs in the order
have named them. but after this equality was
broken by the admission of California In 1850, a
wicked a emp' WAS made to re establish il by
the fraudulent admission OF Kansas as q slave
State Since the failure of that conspiracy, how
ever, long succession OF States has been adj
mittei, with prompt Acknowledgement of their
right to Statehood, when each WIS able to send
a Representative 10 Congress.
But now, when the Electoral College is so
closely balanced that the power of the Solid
South ana two three Northern States
TO seize tho Presidency may be disturbed
II 10000 citizens OF Dakota are admit
ted 70 their rightful inheritance, the
Democratic patty and the national admin
istraton maze combination to disfranchise
that large body Of men. 1t is worth while
fellowcitiEens, TO contrast the condition Of
Dakota with that OF other States that have been
admitted 10 the Union. with all other States
that have been admitted 10 the Union, since the
old thirteen first formed a national Government.
Dakota l. so thoroughly a State in all her equip
ments, III all her power, that this year she pro-
duces and sends 10 market larger wheat Crop
than any one of the thirty-eight States of the
Union. She has within her borders a larger
mileage of railroad than any one Of the sixteen
Southern States except Missouri and Texas; a
larger mileage than any one Of the New England
states. Alld nearly as many as ali New England
together: and, more striking than all else, the
population of Dakota Is larger than any Of
twelve States now in the Union Us shown by the
last Federal census.
s. The Republican party arraign President
Clevelands administration for breaking down
the useful policy OF paying OF the national debt
as rapidly the surplus in the Treasury VIII al
low. They permitted bonds of the United States
PAYABLE at par 10 remain on interest, while the
income OF the Government was devoted 70 the
creation of a surplus which might be used to
prejudice the financial and industrial system
that had steadily produced g condition Of pros
perity In the country.