Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-07

President Cleveland RetIres From OMceIn
No Wise Disturbed by the Adverse yer--
dict of the Last Campaign-He Is DEM
ocrat with All the Word Implies, and
Maintains Faith In the Mission and Fu-
ture of His Party.
New York, Feb. 2S.-The Herald's
Washington correspondent telegraphs
that he had long and interesting talk
with President Cleveland. The President,
he says, expressed in
unmistakable terms
&C. his sense of personal
Smf1A \ relief in view of his
4H release from the
~ x63Ss = cares and anxieties
of Office. He is not
ungrateful, by any
means, for the high
NNMSM .w homer which was con-
zxa ferred upon him four
president Cleveland. years ago. and de-
clares that no man could be Indifferent to.
such an expression of confidence on
the par: of American citizens. The
correspondent led the conversation
to subjects bearing upon the ques-
ton of the future prospects or
the Republic, and says that the President,
with the utmost frankness, said: II am
Democrat, with all the word implies. l.
am, moreover, an intense Democrat in
that believe that the true principles OF
the Democratic party are essential to the
we'll being of this country"
During the war;" he added, "the Re-
publican party had supreme and unques-
toned control Of public policy. No one
will question the service it rendered at
that time; but the rank and file of the
army was composed largely of Demo-
Gratis. The Generals who won re-
nown were also many of them
Democrats. While there were among
the Republicans a small majority of hot
heads who found fault with the Lincoln
administration, and among the Demo-
Gratis an equal number of fossils whose
timidity was National misfortune, the
great bulk of the people from east to west,
without respect to party affiliations, were
solidly patriotic and ready for any neces-
sary amount of sacrifice for the preserva-
ton of our institutions. 1t is folly to
claim that the war was fought by either
Republicans or Democrats; it was fought
by the American citizens of the North
''But it is plain" he said with great seri-
BUSINESS, "that under Republican admin
istrations there has been given fresh
and dangerous impetus 90 monepolies,
trusts and combines. Immense fortunes
have been accumulated, unknown in the
days of our fathers. They are a peculiar
ity of post-bellum times, and the control
which they arbitrarily exercise over the
cost of existence is q direct menace to
the welfare of the workingmen and of our
farmers"
The party, the President declares, which
willingly encourages these evil tenden-
cies is not worthy to be called the part
of the people. AS Democrat the Presi-
dent believes strongly in the masses, and
has a very large sympathy for the
working classes. Whatever inter-
feres with their interests interferes
with the great majority of our citizens.
Mr.. Cleveland hesitated before discussing
the race question in the South, because, as
he said, it is the most delicate subject now
before the people. While he believes that
manifest wrongs either to whites or
blacks, should not be tolerated, he has by
no means lost confidence in the fair mind
ed average public opinion of the South to
do the best which the circumstances al
low. They know the situation in all its
bearings, and to distrust their ability to
deal with it is to distrust their sincerity
and fairness.
The correspondent in conclusion says
that the President sis in no wise dis
turbed by the fortunes of political war;
fare which have befallen him. He is
downright good natured ove' his defeat.
He has no fear that the Demo cratic policy
of an adjustment of the tariff to the wants
and circumstances of the people will not
ultimately commend itself to the Amer
lean people. and there need be no fear
that they will fail to attach themselves tC
party which consistently end homes
offers them relief"