Wichita eagle., 1888-10-21


had eight years of administration distin
| guished by troublesome periods and b
events of great moment, and yet he neve
| found occasion even once for using til
veto, so great was his respect for the Wi
Of the people as manifested through thei
representatives in congress- [Cheers.] Fo
the long period from Washington's inaugu
ration TO the close Of Arthur's adIninistra
ton the veto was used seventy-fiv
times in all. Mr.. Cleveland's tern
rounds out the first century o
the federal government, and thu
far in his administration he ha
usek the veto 80 times, more than fou
times as frequently as it was used by al
Of his predecessors in the long period o
n.nety-six years. 1t seems to me that thu
presidential conception of the veto power
is that whenever he would vote mo-" i
he were member of the senate or house
he would veto measure of the senate OF
house, which is an entirely new interpre
tation of the constitution, unknown to the
founders of the government and disap
proved by all his predecessors. There is
| something extraordinary in the space
which Mr.. Cleveland vetoes will fill in
the archives of the government. His vetoes
| Of private pension bills Will occupy more
space in our political history than all the
| regular annual messages of Washington,
Adams and jefferson for the first twenty
years of the federal government, and if all
his vetoes On all subjects be combined,
the space they viii fill will be
| greater than all the annual mes
sages of all the presidents from
| the formation of the constitution to the
present time. I submit that the trainers
of the constitution never intended to make
| the president a third legislative power
with vote that could override both the
| others. Such use of the veto power has
been condemned by all the great states
men of both parties. Such abuse of power
| would dethrOne any constitutional mon
archy in Europe 1t was such use Of the
veto power that gave to that French king
who brought on the revolution the name
of Monsieur Veto," and President Cleve
| land will be fortunate if in his history he
escapes the same descriptive sobrlquet.
| LApplausel.
Fourth-The Republicans arraign the
administration for having unjustly, with
out precedent and for partisan reasons,
disfranchised seven hundred thousand
American citizens in the territory of
Dakota. 1t has been the established
practice of the federal government to
admit territory to the privileges of
state when it had a sufficient population
to entitle it to one representative in con-
gress, a habit that was naturally and
readily deduced from clause in the fed
eral constitution. There has been no vari
which occurred prior to 1850 by the efforts
of the slave power to keep an equality IN
the senate and to force slave state into
the union whenever a free state was ready
to enter Thus Mississippi and Indiana,
Alabama and Illinois, Missouri and
Maine, Arkansas and Michigan, Florida
and Iowa, came in practically in pairs in
the order [ have named. But after this
equality was broken by the admission Of
California in 1850, wicked attempt was
made to re-establish it by the fraudulent
admission of Kansas as slave state. Since
the failure of that conspiracy, however,
long succession of states has been admitted
with prompt acknowledgement of their
rights when each was able to send a repre-
sentative to congress, but now, when the
electoral college is so closely balanced that
the power of the solid south and two or
three northern states to seize the preSl-
dency may be disturbed if 100000 citizens
of Dakota are admitted to their rightful
Inheritance, the Democratic party and the
national administration make comblna-
ton to diSfranchise that large body of
men. 1t is worth while, fellow citizens, to
contrast the condition of Dakota with that
of other states that have been admitted to
the union, or with all other states that
have been admitted to the union. The
old thirteen first formed national gov
eminent. Dakota is SO thoroughly state
III iii Her equipments, III dii uSE pO"cI,
that this year she produces and sends to
market a larger wheat crop than any
one of the thirty eight states
of the union. She has within her borders
a larger mileage of railroad than any of
the sixteen southern states except Missouri
and Texas; a larger mileage than any one
of the New England states and nearly as
many as all New England together, and,
more striking than all else the population
of Dakota is larger than that of any one of
the states now in the union (at the time
they were admitted) as shown b. the last
federal census.
Fifth-The Republicans arraign Presi-
dent Cleveland's administration for break
ing down the useful policy of paying off
the national debt as rapidly as the surplus
in the treasury will allow. They per
mitted bonds of the United States payable
at par to remain on interest, while the in
come of the government was devoted
to the creation of a surplus which
might be used to prejudice the
financial and industrial system that had
stead Up oluced condition of prosperity
III the country. men the surplus was
thus designed they enlarged the treasury
department for the first time used since
General Jackson broke down the old
United States bank for the purpose OF
loans, under the name of deposits"
without interest 20 banking Institutions
When Mr.. Manning retired from Mr..
Cleveland's cabinet and Mr.. Jordan re-
signed from the office of treasurer, the two
gentlemen established bank in the city
of New York and the administration of
Mr. Cleveland loaned them of government
funds, without interest, about $4,000 and
deposited 5000 600 of the peoples money
In the days of Louis Napoleon's absolute
power If he had given 100000
francs out OF the public purse to
f,.snt DC old - 10,
enterprise in banking, the barricades
would have been across the streets of Paris
and revolution inaugurated against the |
government that could indulge in a favor |
itlsm so ruinous. Cheers. If Queen |
Victoria should request of the English |
treasury that the same amount, 9220, o00, !
should be issued TO two of her personal |
friends as an aid to a speculative venture |
in banking, the ministry would have made /
an inquiry into the soundnesS of her maj |
eSty mind upon a proposition so eXtraor- /
binary; and yet Mr.. Fairchild, acting for |
the president, ordered 81 100000 of the !
peoples money to be placed in the bank of /
Manning q Jordan and authorized the |
bank to hold that sum as a fixed bal |
lance Iquote this as exact language, 1t |
has been there now for more than |
Il year and will probably |
there for many years more if the |
Democratic party should retain the power /
TO abuse their trusts and use the peoples |
money for private purposes.
l will give another instance of the adj |
of the treasury department |
equally offensive and equally aggravated |
Mir. Speaker Carlisle at his last election |
escaped defeat, il in fact he es-
capped at all, but he was seated on the cleo
ton certificate and held the place. His |
pending election is one of great interest to /
the Democratic party and is sharply con- |
tested by the Republican and Labor par
Ties As an aid 10 NJ Carlisla in his er-