Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-11-17
CLEVELAND.
The Defeated President and HIS
Party.

We do not believe that ever before
4 great party has been defeated with
20 little regret as is felt by the
masses OF the Democratic party this
wear. They were forced into a wrong
position by their President and his
immediate friends, and forced TO in
dorse what they believed was not cal
culated to be to the very best interests
Of the country If carried out, and il
was only with half-hearted enthusi-
asm that they worked for success.
Whatever the general qualifications Of
the President may be, he lacks that
faculty which draws the hearts Of men
TO him, and 80 men have worked for
him as duty, not as a delight. The
event has established that the Presi-
dent is woefully lacking in prescience.
A year ago to-day, on a fair vote, he
would have defeated any..man in the
nation. Had he but clung TO the civil
service programme that he marked
out at first and lived up to it substan-
tally for a couple Of years; then had
he in his message, in few paragraphs
called the attention Of Congress 10 the
need Of a reasonable reduction in the
tariff in accordance with the needs Of
the country and the pledges Of the
platforms OF both the great national
parties, he would have entered the
present campaign invincible against
any opponent that could have been
named against him. But he was not
content with that. He had been sue
cessful 50 long that he began to be-
live in his luck, and with the false in
stinct that he was going 10 succeed
he lost the steady judgment
necessary 10 success. He dictated
policy and virtually forced the men OF
his party in Congress to pursue it; in
the same way he dictated the platform
on which he should stand he snubbed
the independent vote which had been
30 strong a factor in his favor four
years ago; at the same time he did
more than one un-Presidential act TO
lraw TO him all the low-grado politi-
,ians of his party, and in the face OF
his previous declarations, he winked
It the methods which he had pledged
he country should no longer prevail.
History will descend TO details and re-
veal how much his judgment failed
him when he held victory in his grasp
md needed only TO pursue quiet,
iignifed, manly and conservative
,ourse. His party will not seriously
yrieve on his account TO see him re-
tired, and il he escapes hearing from
his partisans the declaration that
when they were established in a way
that. with ordinary judgment in the
OF public affairs, would
have secured them lease OF power
Tor generation to come; and that
through his imprudence, want OF sa-
gacity and an inherent infrrnity in his
moral nature, which led him to de-
pend upon the baser methods OF the
politician, rather than appeals TO the
higher patriotism OF the nation, all
the ground that had been gained was
lost, he will be most fortunate. There
will be infinitely more sympathy for
the "Old Roman" and for the fair
woman i'm the White House, than for
him; moro for the party than for him,
and it will be right, for when he for
got what energies had built up the
North, and ignoring the counsels OF
such men OF his own party as Ran
dali, and forgetting that where the
fight for him must be made was where
the looms were humming and forges
rearing, he established that he either
lacked in judgment Of the effects that
follow causes, or that he could not
follow, logically, the probable reason
ing and conclusions OF a great intelh-
gent people like those who control
public opinion in the United States
Salt Lake Tribune.