The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-21

/ LOOT was uOb W any hiOoh0 49, Aa~@'
astounding phenomenon in American
politics." 1t is entirely and most graft
fyingly applicable.
Mr. Ingalls, inability TO understand
why the people Of the United States
should choose such man as Mr.. Cleve-
land to the Presidency roots in his non
| comprehension OF what the people
want in their Chief Executive.
Mr.. Ingalls, seems to fancy that they
are honing for a man who has "made
a political speech" or tried an inn
portant case" or "has been a member
of legislative body" or has written "a
remembered paragraph" or has sex
pressed an intelligent idea He fancies
they want as their Chief Executive
man who is eloquent, learned, culti-
waited, agreeable, entertaining, attract
| i've in mind, manner or person"
That is Mr.. Ingalls, "most astound.
ing" mistake.
The people of the United States want
in their Chief Executive man who
executes. That is why they elected
Mr.. Cleveland, and there is nothing
astounding about it.
In 1881 Buffalo, N. Y, was overrun
by band of political outlaws, and the
usual crowd of good people were heav-
ing signs from the bottom of their
weak stomachs and saying that you
can't enforce the laws in Buffalo"
Mr.. Cleveland, forty-four-year-old
lawyer there, who had been sheriff
ten years before and knew what he was
talking about, told the Democrat.
party nj Buffalo and the timid people
of the city Elect me mayor and |
will enforce the laws.
1t took peoples breath away, this
sublime impudence of this lawyer, pro-
posing actually that if made the city's
executive he would execute. But they
retained presence of mind enough to
vote for him.
Buffalo went Republican on the State
ticket that fall over 1000, but this
Democratic reform lawyer, who pro-
posed to be mayor if elected mayor,
was elected by $3.50 majority, the big
gest any Buffalo mayor ever got.
That was wonderful, but it does not
compare with what occurred after his
| introduction into the mayoral office. He
became known right away as 1.-The veto
mayor" In the first six months OF
| his administration he saved the city
nearly 81 ,000,0 600 by vetOing eXtrava-
CANT appropriations More than that
and far greater than that, he executed
! the laws of New York and the ordi-
nances of Buffalo.
/ That, Brother Ingalls,, twas the most
astounding phenomenon in American
politics"
1t struck tho State OF New York
dumb with establishment to see the
chief executive of Buffalo give himself
not to the spouting OF "a political
/ speech" nor to the inditing of "a re-
membered paragraph" but actually to
the execution of the laws.
They recovered from their astonish
ment, however, enough to nominate
him the next summer for Governor of
New York and to elect him that fall
by about 200, 900 majority. They were
tickled as they could be to get a man
| for Chief Executive of the State who
would execute the laws and not merely
be a clerk and an orator.
They fairly Rugged themselves for
joy,
During Grover Cleveland's term as
| Governor of New York that State had
three departments Legislative, judi
cial and executive, as provided by the
constitution of that State
The people of the United States
looked on in wonder and approval To
them it mat,<rcd not that "he was not
| eloquent, nor learned, nor cultivated,
nor agreeable, nor entertaining, nor
attractive in mind. manner or person."
He was an Executive who executed and
that was what called forth their spe-
cial admiration.
This is the man, said they, whom we
want to execute the laws of the United
States, and they insisted on having
him, even though they had to turn out
a twenty-year-old political party to do
it.
Now the only astounding" thing in
all that is not that the people should
choose such man for Presid mt, but
that man could be found for mayor
of Buffalo who, after election, would
actually refuse to go into co-partner-
ship with the lawdefying elements
and to the happy stupefaction of timid
despairing folk, actually execute the
laws.
1t was the execution that Grover
Cleveland wrought as mayor that made
him Governor. 1t was the execution
he wrought as Governor that made him
President. 1t is the execution he has
wrought as President that caused his
denomination at st. Louis.
| 1t is one of the most astounding
phenomena in American politics."
Brother Ingalls,, that man of your
political disccrnment can not see that.
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