Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-12-05

THE NEWSPAPER NJ
According to Prominent Politicians the
Document Is Either a Mess of Drivel
or the Reflex of Craftsmanship
The speakershir.

CHICAGO, Dec. 4.-The Herald says:
There is not a passage in this import
ant and significant state paper but im-
presses the country with II sense that
Grover Cleveland, as president, is the
right man in the right place.
The Times tDem.) says: MANY mil
lions OF citizens reading this last state
paper of Clcveland's will find themselves
deeply regretting the failure to r~e-elect
him to the presidency.
The News end. Rep.) says: tsNone
but n hide bound partisan can fail to be
aroused to admiration of the man who,
in the hour OF political defeat, can still
keep his rudder true and absolutely sup
press all personal feeling in his last Off
cial utterance. If a Democrat, he must
be proud of the rugged craftsmanship
and earnest striving for the best interest
OF the country which marks its every
line"
The Tribune says: "The message CON
tains neither thought nor suggestion,
except on the tariff question, where the
president has in the past year made a
prodigious stride from tariff reform TO
naked, absolute free trade. The presi-
dent is bold, nervy, and desires at least
one more round before he will acknowl-
edge himself whipped
The Inter Ocean says: s"The message
contrasts sharply with the policy
adopted q year ago when the president
could think of nothing but the tariff.
That pact of his message might have
been written by Manton Marble, Joseph
Medill, Henry Watterson or nny other
free trader, accustomed to think, pen in
hand. In fact the New York World,
Louisville Courier-JournaI and Chicago
Tribune have said substantially the same
thing as one finds in this message, over
and over again, and they were stale be-
fore they said them the first time.n
BALTIMORE, Dec. 4.-The Sun says:
stMr. Cleveland writes with the authority
and power of a man whose convictions arg
thorough and whose information is full,
and with that mir of confidence which
springs from the consciousness that The
truth, like other great forces, continues
to move on and grow, notwithstanding
the efforts of party politicians to de-
stroy. Altogether, the message is ex-
ceedingly full aud well written. 1t is a
fitting supplement to the able state pa
pers President Cleveland has given the
country, and of nc public servant in this
! generation at least, can 1t be more truly
said than of himself, that he has CON
pheNhNi1 ~ hio "SNii
tions, maintained unsullied his love of
country and with unseltish purpose striy-
en- for the public good.''
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 4. - The
| Journal says: "The solemn and ponder
GUS way in which the president begins
by referring to the dangers that threaten
the government at the beginning of its
second hundred years of national exist
ence, and then lapses in TO chronic plati-
tudes about the tariff and surplus, seems
like a great reach after something states
manlike. 1t only attains to mischievous
d%enagogery, for that is the size OF his
talk about the growth of classes, the
gulf between employers n employees,
the exactions of capital, the wrongs of
labor, etc. In all this jeremiad about
the ~decadence of patriotism, of morals
there is not u sound principle nor healthy
idea. No president has ever before SC
roundly lectured the American people
for their own alleged neglect of duty,
nor SO plainly appealed to class Interests
and prejudices in support of q set pol
icy.o