Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-10-30
A SCORCHTNG INDICTMENT.
Some OF the Reasons Why Cleveland
Should be Defeated,
Hartford Conn POST

Should be Defeated,
Hartford Conn Post
Grover Cleveland ought to be beaten ON
his record.
He emphatically declared in 1884
against the eligibility of President for a
second term, on account of the 'danoers,,
attendant upon such eligibility. No mar
who ever sat in the White House has So
assiduously worked" his Office for re-
nomination as he, and he accented II in
a speech in which he used the personal
pronoun forty-fiye times. He ought to he
beaten for this
He wrote letter to George William
Curtis making the largest possible prom
ises to carry out the spirit and letter of
civil service reform. He has broken those
promises and made more unfit appoint-
meuts to the public service than all his
| predecessors, since Buchanan, combined.
| He ought to be beaten for this.
He vetoed the dependent pension bill,
| and during the same session of Congress
| signed the Mexican war veteran pension
| bill, thereby discriminating in favor of
men from the South who fought in Mexico
and in the Confederate army, and against
the dependent widows and orphans of
Union soldiers. He ought to be beaten for
this.
He has used the veto power in 2 more
autocratic manner and greater number
of times than all the Presidents before
him put together. He has not only We
toed private pension bills, but he has
sneered at those whom both houses of
Congress Judge to be fairly entitled to
Government aid. He ought to be beaten
for this.
He has appointed at al the important
diplomatic and consular ports, men who
lifted not finger to save the old fac when
it was in danger, and men who publicly
insist in foreign courts and foreign capi-
tails that the war for the Union was wrong.
and condemn the very Government they
represent, because it had the temerity to
exist as q whole, undivided Union. He
ought to be beaten for this
He appointed and still maintains in his
Cabinet, an Attorney General who is
smirched through and through with the
Pan-Electric scandal, and has permitted
the Government officials to aid in uphold
ing private case of private corporation.
in order that Mr.. Garland might be set
Alright in matter in which he was criui-
nally wrong. He ought to be beaten for
this.
He negotiated without authority or sug-
gestion from Congress, by conference with
Cheat Britain and Canada, treaty which
distinctively gave away the rights of hos
pitality American fishermen enjoy in any
ports of the world except those of Canada
without the asking. He ought to be beaten
for this.
He issued a retaliatory proclamation in
regard to Canadian commerce whea the
Senate refused to ratify the fishery treaty,
which would, if it had been taken in earn
est by Great Britain, Canada or this coun-
try: have brought about commercial ruin
along our northern border, and probably
war. He ought to be beaten for this.
He sent to Congress message of alarm
upon the state of the country in December
last in regard to the surplus, made posi-
bic only by neglect to pay the debts Of the
Government and to buy its bonds, in which
he boldly declared for a reduction of Gus
toms revenue in the line of free trade,
and asserted that no one complained of in
ternal revenue taxes. He thus, for the
first time in the history of the country,
presented the spectacle of President
| asking continuance Of power by " bear"
movement upon its prosperity. He ought
to be beaten for this.
He has conducted the Government, or
has allowed it to be conducted, in such an
extravagaut manner that its expenditure
for his term will be $95,OOO,00O more than
| for the term of President Arthur He
| ought to be beaten for this.
He has gone back" on all his profess
sions of whatever nature or intent, and
has become the greatest political spoils-
man who ever sat in the White House. He
ought to be beaten for this.
And for all these things and a great
many more that there is room to state
in this column he ought to be, and we sin
cerely believe he will be, beaten, and
beaten badly.