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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
Pecksniff Benny on Dudley.


If Mr.. Dudley has any faith in Mr.. Harri-
sons sincerity he must read certain sem
tences in his inaugural address with feel
ings of bitterness and disappointment
In one place Mr.. Harrison says: ''The
man who has come to regard the ballot-box
us juggler's hat has renounced his allegi-
ance;" that means he has become an alien
and an enemy or a rebel. Now, nothing
could better describe Dudley's methods than
Juggling" He 'juggled'' so successfully
in Indiana that, Notwithstanding a popular
majority of 100000 for Cleveland, Mr. Har-
rison is to-day President Of the United
States.
Furthermore, Mr.. Harrison says, a little
sadly, perhaps: "A party success that is
achieved by unfair methods or by practices
that partake of revolution is hurtful and
evanescent even from party standpoint"
Had Mr.. Harrison sent this message to Mr..
Dudley on the first Sunday of November,
Mr.. Cleveland would to-day be President,
and the will of the people would not be
thwarted
But Mr.. Dudley reads over again Judge
Woods second charge and consoles himself
with the reflection that actions speak louder
than words. He has no more confidence in
the demands of the President for a pure
ballot than have the rest of us. Mr. Har-
rison's address reads like an oration by Mr..
Pecksniff, revised, amended andimproved
by Uriah Heep.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
THOUGHTS OF THE HOUR.
Press Comments on the Past and
the New Administrations.
Mr.. Cicvcland's Place I'm History-Harri-
sons Pccissniffian inaugural Ad,iress--
The Indiana Mans Cabinet-Jin-
gOism on Tor
President clevcland's Record.


brooklyn Eagle.1
But Che true merit of his Presidency seems
to us to consist i'm the loftiness of his offi-
tv ideal and the firlnness with which he
adhered to It, He brnved every thing fol
the sake of the standard he had set up
Friendship, the obligations of gratitude, the
desire to help those who had helped him,
the exigencies of his party and the pru-
dence that leaders who expect to win are
imperatively required to observe were sac
rifced to his fetch 1t may have been fatal
statecraft or insane politics, or rasllness
which his political relations converted into
a crime, but it was after all heroic in SUI
prcme devotion and fidelity to a prir-
pose He declared that public office is
public trust and history, in spite
of all the contempt which that dec
laration has provoked will vindicate his
claim, to the honor of having upheld it He
was as honest as he was brave and as reso-
lutte as he was incorruptible, and the public
officer OF whom that can be truly said pos
sesses a mantle which indulgent justice VIII
suffer to cover multitude of minor sins.
There is this also to he observed of his ad-
ministration, TINT it is one the virtues Of
which will stand forth in sharper outlines as
time adjusts the focus of our vision. There
are latent impressions In it which the rays
of calmer Judgment than we can now
command are certain to develop. He has
builded perhaps better than he knew, for in
the seed of every noble example there are
germs that come not to maturity with the
common harvest, but slowly quicken and
bud and flower and shed fragrance for
those who live when the sower has passed
away.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16

The construction OF sufncIent number of
modern war ships and OF their necessary arma-
nent should progress as rapidly as is consistent
with care and perfection in plans and work
manshp The spirit, courage md skill OF our
naval officers and scamcn have many times in
our history given 10 weak ships and inefficient
guns, rating greatly beyond that OF the naval
list. That they will again do SO upon OCCASION
do not doubt but they ought not. by premed-
tation or neglect TO be left 10 the risks ind ex-
gencies OF an unequal combat We should en-
courage the establishment OF American steam
ship lines. Tho exchanges OF commerce de-
mand stated, reliable and rapid means OF com
munication and until these are provided the
development OF our trade with the States
lying south OF us Is impossible. Our pension
laws should give more adequate and discriminat.
ing relief to the Union soldiers and sailors and TO
their widows and orphans. Such occasions as
this shonld remind us that we owe every thing
To thoir vaior and sacrifice.
at is a subject OF congratulation that there
is near prospect OF the admission into the
Union OF the Dakotas and Montana and Wash.
ington Territories. This act OF justice has been
unreasonably delayed In the case OF some OF
them. The people who have settled these tor
ritories are intelligent, enterprising and patrl.
otic, and the accession OF these new States
will add strength 70 the nation, II is due to
the settlers In the territories who have ayailed
themselves OF tho invitations OF our land laws
to make homes upon the public domain, that
their titles should be speedily adjusted and
their honest entries confirmed by patent.
1T is very gratifying to observe the general
interest now being manifested In tho reform OF
suxelectian lava
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
81 AM TOO OLD"
Protest Against the Tendency of People
to Surrender Activity.

A Protest Against the Tendency of People
to Surrender Activity.
In every human being we have the
successive phases of growth, maturity
and decadence of the powers of the
body. Older writers divided the differ
ent ages of man after the following
manner: Infancy, including the first
five years Of age; youth, from five to
twenty-five; adult age. extending from
twenty-five to thirty-five; middle life to
fifty; old age to the sixtieth year, after
which the individual entered upon ex-
treme old age. From this physiologi-
cal division of life into its various eras
has arisen a tendency to an arbitrary
regulation of the affairs of life, which
tends to lessen the sum total OF work
accomplished and results in detriment
to the individual.
1t is within the memory of not few
of us when public opinion put u cap and
spectacles on a woman and knitting in
her hands and retired her to a corner
by the fireside as soon as she had won
the honorable title of grandmother. {"
Mothers who have been kept from
intellectual enjoyments because Of the
care of large families should, when the
young birds have flown from the nest
and left them with lonely leisure,
turn their thought to the acquaintance
OF languages, the study OF art, history,
science or literature. 1t will seem
strange to those who have not kept up
the habit OF study after leaving school
to begin again, but after a little perse-
verance there will come greater in
terest and delight than that experienced
in the careless school days, when study
was only accomplished because every
body else studied, and it was a matter
OF routine. The life of the mind is not
to be measured by years. Time is a
false standard OF measure for it.
A grief which comes upon one in a
moment will contain the crushing ago
ny of centuries. One week for one per-
son is crowded with experiences which
would not come TO another were he TO
live cycles OF centuries. Ask the soul
its record OF events, find out its gamut OF
feeling, and you will know whether its
possessor is in youth, adult life. middle
aged or old and decrepit 1t is within
the power of every one to keep the
mind young and active; the law of evo-
luton is applicable to it, but the law OF
dissolution will not 80 surely hold sway
unless you continually say "too old. too
DID," and consent that
THE soul shall have her earthly freight
And custom lie upon II with weight
Heavy as frost, and doep almost as lifel'
Home Maker.
-
A man NAV faof "a hill ,uifh0alf kialx
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
Entitled to the Peoples Gratitude.

tAlDany IN. ~ Arpus.I
The calm Judgment of the American peo-
pie and the verdict of history, when re-
corded, will be that Grover Cleveland
brought the country back to an under
standing of and affection for the simple
principles of our government, upon which
the fathers designed it should be admins
tered How far passions and wrong pur-
poses, which disturbed the country for
years before they broke out in civil
war. and for years fingered after the
clash of arms itself was stilled, had
obscured in the popular mind those
elementary principles OF our Govern
ment, every thoughtful man must realize.
Their presence yet is felt, and strong
ly felt in the currents of public and
political life. But by an administration,
capable and honest in every branch, the
people have been shown that government
by the people and for the people is better
than government by part of the people for
part of the people, be the division on lines
of geography, of class or of party. That
lesson has been taught and has been learned
and, In spite of contradiction at the polls,
it will not be forgotten.
President Cleveland may retire from Of
flee cherishing the hope which Washington
cherished, that his counsels and his admin
istration have made their impress upon the
people; that they will recur to mind to spur
men to better cndeavor and to more loyal
devotion to free government, and with the
assurance that u mighty people is grateful
to him for his services to 1t.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16

OF the leading persons to the great event were
calm and self'possessed. After the lapse
OF few moments they were escorted into the
Senate chamber whore vacant seats had been
reserved immediately IN front OF President In
gals desk In quick order the oath OF ofice
was administered 10 the YicoPres ident by Mr.
Ingalls,. and the organization OF the Senate
having been thus effected, the inaugural pro.
cession was formed and headed for the ro.
tunda to the platform on this Senatorial portion
OF the east front II was headed by the mar
shas OF the Supreme Court and the district
President Cleveland and Mr.. Ingalls,, the mem
bors OF the Supreme Court, and then the Presl-
dent and Vice-Presidenteieot, the members OF
Congress, diplomates, etc. bringing up the
rear. The platform reached, the President
looked firmly but without trace either OF per-
turbation or smile upon the vast concourse
In front Then the oath OF ofice was adminis-
tered by Chief Justice Fuller, the President
elect repeating IT in firm tone. The oath
taken, the new President facing tho throng. de-
liyered his inaugural address in q clear, loud
VOICE Its conclusion was greeted with pro-
ionged cheering and booming OF cannon. Then
returning through the Senate wing, the new
President and Ex-Presdent Cleveland, ac-
companied by the committee OF arrange.
uaatA were driven a III hesa ei the prooes
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
Bait for the Monopolists.


But these considerations aside it is inter-
esting to note that the new President has
precious little to say about the dear work
ing-men. However, they may find ccmpen-
sation for this apparent neglect in his
warnings to the trusts and combines to
keep within the law. Further consolation
may be gained from his implied promise
that the surplus shall be spent in subsidies
to American ships and in the building of a
great navy. The evil of surplus is recog-
nized, yet it does not alarm him, and he
would avoid it, not by cutting off taxes but
by increasing expenditures. No violent
hand shall be laid on the protective system
That must and shall be preserved, whatever
else may befall Its beneficence is to be
carried to the gate of the cotton plantation,
where the factory shall shadow the gin and
the compress and furnish precious home
market for the products of the honest plant
er 1t is the old, golden promise repeated
in pretty phrase, and it is uttered by GEN
eral Harrison with apparent sincerity. He
couples it with illusions to the suppressed
vote of the negroes and artfully suggests
that if those who want to enjoy tariff
bounties will pool their issues with the col
ored voters the hopes of all may be realized.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
A Cabinet of Nobodios.
lSt. Paul Globe.

Mr Blaine is well enough known, and his
smartness is questioned by no one, yet he is
not always looked upon as safe man. Mr.
Window is essentially the representative Of
Wall street interests, and as such was So
lected for Cabinet place The New York
member, Judge Tracy, is an eminent cor
poration lawyer, but wholly Inexperienced
In public affairs He Is the fr end OF Levi
p. Morton, and that accounts for his being
in tho Cabinet. Ex-Governors Rusk, OF
Wisconsin, and Proctor, Of Vermont, are
politicians of local reputation, yet neither
one Is recognized us man of any particular
ability. SO far as the pub ic knows, Mr. Wanna
makers qualifications for Postmaster-G Gen
eral arc that he is the proprietor OF big
department store In Philadelphia, is the
supcrintendent OF Sunday school, u dea-
con In the same church that General Har-
rison belongs to, and had the fat fried out
OF him to furnish money for the Republican
campaign last fall. OF the other two mem
bers OF the Cabinet nothing Is known be-
y md the fact that Mr.. Noble was district
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16

The masses q our people are better fed,
clothed and housed than their fathers wero.
The facilities for popular education have beon
vastly enlarged and diffused. The virtues oi
courage and patriotism have given recent pfooi
of their continued presence and increasing
power in the hearts and over the lives OF our
people, The influences OF religion have been
multiplied and strengthened. Tho sweet Of
fees OF charity have greatly increased. Tho vir-
tue OF temperance is held 10 higher estimation.
We have not attained an id,al condition. Not
oil OF our people are happy aad prosperous; not
oil OF them are virtuous and lsw-abiding But
on the whole the opportunities offered to
the individual to secure the COMFORTS OF life are
better than arc found elsewhere and largely
better than they were here one hundred years
ago.
1.-THE surrender OF n large measure OF sovor-
eighty to tho general government, Effected by
the adoption of the constitution, was not &C
complished until the suggestion of reason was
strongly reinforced by the moro imperative
voice OF exp erienoe. The divergent interests
of peace speedily demanded more perfect
union The merchant, the shipmaster and
the manufacturer, discovered and disclosed to
our statesmen and our people that commercial
emancipation must be added TO tho political
freedom which has been so bravely won. The
commercial policy of the mother country had
not relaxed any of its hard and oppressive fea-
lures. To hold in check the development OF
our merchant marine, to prevent or retard
the growth OF manufactures in the States, and
so to secure the American market for their
shops, and the carrying trade for their ships,
was the policy OF European statesmen, and was
pursued with the most selfish vigor. Petitions
poured in upon Congress urging the imposition
OF discriminating duties that should encour-
age the production of needed things ut home.
The patriotism of the people, which no longer
found fold of exercise in war, was energcticnl
ly directed to the duty of equipping the young
Republic for the defense OF its independcnce
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
A Screed OF Parrot-Lilse Echoes.
indianapolis Sentinel.l

Coming down to modern times, the new
President tackles the tariff. He goes in
strong for monopoly taxation, as was to be
expected He looks hopefully to the con-
tinuance of the protective system" which is
what the tariff rings put him in the White
House for. He processes to believe that IL
we keep up our Chinese wall our manufact-
uring interests will increase, although the
factories already in operation can produce
MS much In eight months us the American
people can consume In twelve, and the
Chinese wall prevents them from disposing
of their surplus to the outside world. But
President Harrison always was muddled
upon this subject. He has no clear convic-
tions regarding 1t, and what he says are
mere y parrot-like echoes of the utterances
of the spoliationists who made the platform
at Chicago, and kindly allowed him to stand
upon it All Harrison knows about the mat
ter is that he is against any reduction of the
monopoly taxes, and that ii anybody pro-
poses to increase them he is bound to say
amen to the proposition.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
How DO Thoy Compare9

How do the Cabinets Of grandfather and
grandson compareY Here they are as far as
the Cabinet officers then existed:
Grandfather Harrison. Grandson Harrison.
SECRETARY OF STATE.
Daniel Webster, Mass. James G. Blaine, Maine.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.
Thomas Ewing Ohio William Window, MINI.
SECRETARY OF WAR.
John Bell. Tenn. Redteld Proctor. VT.
SECRETARY or THE NAVY.
George Il. Badger N. @. benjamin y. Tracy, ~.
PosTMAsTER-GEHERAL.
Francis Granger, N.Y.lJohn Wanamaker, Pa.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
John y.Crittenden, Ky. Nv. II. II. Miller. Ind.
Ii this an advance In Cabinet material or
a retrogression? Compare 1910 with 1889.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
Civil-Service Reform.
lChicago Herald.I


The most interesting feature of the speech
of Inauguration is the reference to Civil
Service reform. 1t is easy to notice that
General Harrison owes nothing to mug
wumps. No man need fear dismissal be-
cause he has sought the interests of the Re-
publican party. Thes zealots of that side of
public affairs are not to turn in terror from
Harrison. They may shake off the alarms
that beset good Democrats in Cleveland's
time. Smooth out General Harrison
smooth sentences as we may, there is sti.
the satisfaction, sweet for Republicans that
the victor is u better man among victors
than is the yanqushed All the President
begs is time. Ii the gentlemen will stand
back they shall all be served.
The bogie OF tax reduction is as frightful
to General Harrison as to any mill-owner
whose money carried Indiana. Yet the Ex-
ecutive does not doubt that the Congress
which he has neglected to call in extra ses-
sion will, year from now, be able to re-
duce the revenues without seriously injur-
ing' any domestic industry now taxed. Let
1t be 80 hoped
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
Greatest Civic and Military
Display of the Century.
President Harrison's Inaugural
Address i'm Full.
The Inauguration Witnessed by Tremen-
dous Throng, the Greatest Seen in the
Capital for Many a Day--.The Pro-
cecdings Conclude With
a Grand Ball.

WASHINGTON, March AT noon to-day.
amid the huzzas OF hundred thousand Ameri'
can citizens drawn together almost from the
four corners of the Republic, The FIRST Demo.
cratic administration which has ruled the
destinies of the country since, on March 4, 1861,
james Buchanan surrendered the rcins of Gov
ernment TO Abraham Lincoln passed out of ex-
istcnce. Once again, and for the frst time in
many years, Grover Cleveland, sheriff, mayor
Governor, President, becomes private citizen,
and Benjamin Harrison, who was presented to
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16

'-rhoso who have been for gears calling st.
tention to the pressing necessity Of throwing
about the bnllot-box and about the olector fur
ther safeguards In order that our elections
might not only be free and pure, but might
clearly appear to be so, will welcome the acccs
sion OF any who did not no soon discover the
need Of reforms Tho national Congress- has
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
HAnnIsoN's INAuGuRAL Address.

There is no cons s,itutional or legal require
mcnt that the President shall take the oath of
oficc in the presence of the people But there
is so manifest an appropriateness in !he public
induction to oGlce OF the chief executive officer
OF the nation that from the beginning OF H. o
government the people, to whose service the
official oath consecr ties the officer have been
called to witness The solemn ceremonial The
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
what Harrison Does Not Say.

N. 4. WOriu.I
President Harrison, while rejecting al
together the suggestion of special Execu-
tive policy for any section of our country"
nevertheless has hundred pointed words
to say of the alleged denial of the right Of
voting to negroes Mt the South to one word
of feeble reference to the corruption Of the
suffrage Mt the North. Indeed, there ia not
In the address one word of honest denuncia-
tion of the wholesale buying of votes which
is as notorious fact as the disappearance
of the negro maiorities. The address does
indeed say that IAN unlawful expedicnt
can not become n permanent condition of
government" 1t is to be regretted that the
intimate relations of the new President with
Morton, Dudley, Quay, Wonamaker and the
other contributors and users of Doodle pre-
vented him from uttering the truth that the
corruption of the ballot-box is as 'unlaw-
full an expedient" as the suppression of
votes.
President Harrisons utterances upon
Civil-Service reform are little more than an
admonition to the spoils-seekers to be pa
tient. There is nothing in the Presidents
words that can be twisted by even the most
sanguine reformers into an Endorsement of
the fundamental principles of this reform.
Indeed, offce-seeking is commended, and
the intimation is plainly conveyed that
party services constitute o valid claim to
reward.
The Presidents attitude towards the tariff
is, in brief, to keep up the war rate, and to
use its undoubted advantages to its rich BEN
eficiaries as means of capturing some of
the Southern States.
There is not in the address one earnest
word in favor Of stopping the surplus by re-
ducing taxation. "Wastefulness, profligacy
or favoritism in public expenditure" is de-
nounced, but the President plainly inti-
mates his belief that there is no especial
need of cutting down the revenue. Surplus
spending is evidently to be the policy of the
new Administration
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
MIR. Uarrison's inaugural.
lChicago Globe.l


The reader of Mr.. Harrison's inaugural
speech will find that it fulfills the expecta-
tions of the party which elected him to the
Presidency He argues in favor Of the pro-
tective tariff, as is entirely natural for the
protectionists engaged in the effort to elect
him as If 1T were struggle for life. The
necessity for reduction of the surplus is
admitted, but ways of securing that meas
ure of safety are suggested which will not
touch the sacred ark of the tariff. A small
corner of the bloody shirt is unfurled, but
there is no violent call for n crusade under
that crimson banner. More liberal pen
sions and the establishment of subsidized
steamship lines are suggested; Congress-
men are urged to be honest in recommend
ing persons for appointment, while recog-
nizing honorable party service;" and few
words about the Civil-Service law are said
possibly to discourage the expected and
inevitable rush for offices
Both houses of Congress are of Mr. Harri-
sons party, and they will therefore be able
to execute any policy upon which he and
they can agree. During the term of his Ad-
ministration there can be no divided re
sponsibility for the acts of the Government.
In that respect the new President has n de-
cided advantage, which was not enjoyed by
his predecessor. During his entire official
term Mr.. Cleveland was confronted by q
hostile Senate, that cffectually barred the
way to every reform desired or attempted
by the Democratic President and House of
Representatives. Now there is nothing to
obstruct the full realization of all the ex-
pectations and hopes which stimulated Mr..
Harrison and his party i'll the November
contest For good or i'll, they are supreme.