The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-06-14
GROVER CLEVELAND.
louisville Times. !

When James A. Garfield was in !.
augurated President of the United
States and delivered his address to
that vast concourse of American
people assembled to witness his in
vostitu1e with the most exalted po-
litical honor that a human being
can attain, there we're not three
score of those present who lad ever
heard of Grover Cleveland, and GER
family there was net one there else
where who dreamed that four years
later Grover Cleveland would stand
where Garfield stood then and take
the oath of office as Chief Magis-
trate of 6O,OO0,0Oe,0O0 American
freemen. The career Of Grover
Cleveland stamps him as a man of
destiny and imprints the mark as
indeliblysas it was impressed upon
Cromwell,s or Napoleon, or Lincoln.
Grover Cleveland is name SYM
onymous with strength. There is
more genuine Americanism-cou
age without Jingoism ability with :
out magnetism; worth wiihoutpre-
sense; force without effervescence-
in his'little finger than in James G.
Blaine's entire corposity.' Grover
Cleveland is an American, the high
est type of manhood, combining
truth without cant with honesty
without Phariseeism. He is ca
pable, direct, earnest, brave man,
full Of deep convictions which he
has the manhood to ayow and the
courage to enforce. AS President
he has astonished the country, Civ
en- confidence to lis friends and
spread demoraHzation among his
enemies. "
Before he had been at the head of
affairs year the country was start
led by the announcement that GER
tain contractors were no longer run
ming the Navy department, and in
the face of threatening abuse and
abusive threats be whipped the
whole yelping kennel from the pub
lie treasury and gave the Navy into
the keeping of honest men.
Scarcely had the country recov-
cred from its establishment at this
novel proceeding before the still
more startling announcement was
made that the public lands were
held by the Government as homes
for the people. Certain polite cat
tie kings were admonished that they
must move their herds off the peo-
ple's demesne and cease to monop-
Ollie the running water west of the
Mississippi, and the subsidized rail-
road corporations were advised that
they 20 longer owned the General
Land Office and were compelled to
yield to the people 100000 acres
that had been bestowed upon them
by the Republican party. There
was big row, butt was found that
there was man at the helm in
Washington who was not to be tri-
fled with, and SO our public land
policy was changed in a few months
to the discomtit eff every grabber in
the Union.
Soon thereafter Cleveland again
astonished the country by protect
ing the surplus from pension raid
ers, and at one fell sweep ofthe veto
he saved the taxpayers hundreds
Of millions voted to charity by a
reckless Congress.
But the GROWING reform of the
Administration was the last annual
message, which is the seyerest blow
yet dealt to the chiefest iniquity of
all-the tariff, The message con
tains some .old-fashioned Jefferso-
man Democracy denuneIatory OF
system that confiscates the earnings
Of one man to bestow them upon
another-the womb in which is con-
cejved every "trust," and which
threatens every full and change Of
season to bring forth financial dig
aster, tosdestroy every business in
terest in the country and depress
every branch OF labor.
Grover Cleveland is again the
standard bearer of'the Democratic
party in a National contest. If he