Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-29
why Cleveland Should Not be Elected oR IcI f,,rraIzr.

why Cleveland Should Not be Elected. 1 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: Four years ago, by the aid of Mugwump ! votes and the Burchard accidency, Cleveland was elestsd upon the cry of civil service re- form, an economical administration and up- on the one term principle.
 Upon all of these he has turned his back forfeited the confidence of the people-snd is no longer entitled to confidence or respect above what would be accorded to a ward politician.
 As to civil service reform his political ax has lapped of the heads Of ninety-nine out of every enc hundred Republican office hold ers trained to honest, efficient service in the government, against whom there was no al- legged fault except that they were Republi- cans, in some instances removed to make room for jail birds and states prison conviets who have stepped from prison walls and prison fare into fat government offices and government pap under the seal and patron | age of the President.
 Ex-soldiers of the Union army have been removed to make places for those of the Con fedsrate army and the work has gone on till ! almost an entire change has been made in the personnel of appointments. The present administration has appointed more rebel chiefs and soldiers to office than Union sol diers, many of them as vile and unwashed of reasonable sentiments as they were when carrying the musket to destroy the Union believe that those who perilled their lives to restore the government from hands raised for it's destruction are entitled to preserve it and to share in its benefits and it's patrimony even to the exclusion of those who tried to destroy it.
 And now, having surrounded his throne IvwfxI ,Ee 1,1I ,ke h1lI ing official positions to do his bidding; with the aid of ten thousaid dollars contributed from his own purse and political assess. ments collected from his appointees in office, he is now in open market to purchase his reelection and a further lease of power. Was ever political infamy in President so complete, so gigantic, so overwhelming in aadacity as this Cleveland dynasty.
 Having taken into his confidence rebel chiefs as his political advisers and allowed them to dominate the policy of his admins tration, with his political axe dripping with when there is nothing further for it to act upon, he turns his back upon civil service reform and all his fair promises before elec- tion and has now gone over to tariff reform, Q mere cat-under -the-meal phrase for free trade under the Mills bill.
 This Mills bill is political transparency revealing John Bulls hand at every angle. It was conceived in the hot-bed of the south ern confederacy, and the President has adopted the hydra-headed monster as the child of his administration. All England is holding out the font for it's baptism on the 9th of November, and it will be christened a child of the republic unless we awake to duty and vigorously protest by our votes against the eonsummation of the act.
 Cleveland represents in his election the free trade issue, and all the free traders in the land are harnessed in with confederate generals to secure his election. Let us meet the question as we met the enemy on the field of battle-face to face, force to force and ballet for ballot, and victory will be ours.
 L. E. MUNsoN.