St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-01
Mr.. Cleveland Discusses the
Present and Future Of
the Country.
Tariff Reform a Living Prin-
eiple--Seetional Hatred
Dying Out.
The Cabinet Slate Made Up,
With Only the Navy Un-
provided For.
Wisconsin and Dakota LegiS-
latures--Republican Club
Convention.

New YORK, Feb. 29.-In compliance
with a request of James Gordon Ben
nett, President Cleveland, yesterday,
gave long interview to correspond
ent of the Herald. AS result of the
interview, the correspondent telegraphS
the following to the Herald: ~ have
had long, and indeed very interest
ing talk, with President Cleveland this
morning. 1t was really talk, for Mr..
Cleveland objects to formal interview.
He preferred to chat in familiar and
friendly way about the various topics
which Involve the national welfare,
and then give me free pen with which
to describe both what l saw and
what heard. Mr.. Cleveland referred
to the last four years., and then
declared his hope that the Republican
party on its accession to power would
pursue no course that could in any way
rehabilitate the sectional animOsities
which have been dying out. was anX-
future prospects of the republic. |
therefore led the conversation to SUBJ
jects bearing upon this question. He
spoke with the utmost frankneSs. He
said: Il am Democrat, with all the
word implies. l am. moreover, an in
tense Democrat. in that l believe that
the true principles of the Democratic
party are essential to the highest we'll
being of this country. During the war;
he added, the Republican party had
supreme and unquestiOned control of
public policy. No one will qnes-
ton the service it rendered
at that time, but the rank and
file of the army was com
In Of to
generals who won renown were also
many of them Democrats. While there
were among the Republicans small
minority of hotheadS who found fault
with the Lincoln administration, and
among the Democrats an equal number
of fossils, whose tiInidity was national
misfortune, the great bulk of the peo-
pie from East to West. without respect
to party affiliations, were not only pa
triotic but ready for any amount of sac
rifce for the preservation of the con-
stitutien. 1t is folly to claim that the
war was fought by either Republicans
or Democrats. 1t was fought by
THE AMERICAN CITIZENS OF THE
NORTH.
But it is plain, he said, with great Sc
riousness, that under Republican adj
miniStration there has been given
fresh and dangerous impetus to monOp-
olies and trusts and combines. Inl-
mense fortunes have been accumulated,
unknown in the days of our fathers.
They are peculiarly of poSt-bel
INN times, and the control which
they arbitrarily exercise over the cost
of existence is direct menace to the
welfare of the WOrkingmen and of our
farmers. "On my suggesting the race
question in the. South, Mr.. Cleveland
naturally hesitated before answering,
because, as he said, it is the most deli
cate subject now before the people.
"The South has partly recovered from
the effects of the war;" said he, ''and
for twenty years and more has been
putting all its energies into the soil and
into manufactures. 1t has risen from a
condition approaching ruin to degree
of financial and practical enterprise
which renders it, in some Industries, a
sharp competitor with the North. The
sudden and marvellous recovery of the
South in industrial interests is fact
in which the whole nation may well
take pride. And the feeling of pride
would be universal if the professions so
often made of complete reconciliation
and desire to join in hearty united
effort to work out our destiny as
nation are sincere. The new relations
between the whites and the negroes at
the South are gradually arranging them
selves. 1t must, however, be work of
time, and of long time, before. an en-
tlrely satisfactory result can be
reached While Mr.. Cleveland be-
lieves that manifest wrongs
EITHER TO WHITES OR BLACKS,
should not be tolerated. he has by no
means lost confidence in the fair-minded
average public opinion of the South to
do the best which the circum stances
allow. They know the situation in all
its bearings, ,and to diStrust their ability
to deal with it is to distruSt their SINGER
some question as to the difference be-
tween the incoming and the outgoing
administrations. Mr.. Cleveland was
quick with an answer. Evidently he is
In no wise disturbed by the fortunes of
political warfare, which have befalIen
him. He is downright gOod-natured
over his defeat. 'The people, alone" he
said, ehave right to rule the country
and their will is law. There is no ap-
peal from their decision, and there
should be none. What they desire, tn ey
Will have and ought to have" While
the president firmly believes that the
tariff reform measures which the DEM
Ocratic party stands for are for the beS
interests Of the whole people, and while
he neither sees nor desires to see the
least disposition OH the part of the DEM
ocratic party to recede from the position
which it has taken, he accepts the
result of the election with the pIacidity
of the philosopher and the calmness
which the minority should always
possess. The people cannot be de-
ceived by false logic in the long run,
however. The workingmen seem al
ready to understand pretty well the
question submitted to them at the last
election. Mr.. Cleveland has no fear
that the Democratic policy Of an adjust
ment of the tariff to the wants and cir
cumStanceS of those of our people who
work for their living, with due regard
to all other legitimate interests and en-
terprises. will not ultimately commend
itself to the American people. What
will help the people and make their bur-
dens lighter is what they will have in
the end; and there need be no fear that
they will not discover the way to this
end or that they will fail to attach
themselves to the party which consist
emily and honestly offers them relief.
There were other matters on (which
| should have been glad to hear Mr..
Cleveland's opinion, but he had already
given me more time than could well be
spared, and l took my leave.
HERE Is THE SLATE.
The Probable Cabinet, With the