Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07
CLEvELeND'S FAREWELL.
The Sickening Record Made by the Mori-
bund Democratic Administration.

The sickening Record Made by the Mors-
bund Democratic Administration.
1t must be acknowledged that Mr..
Cleveland is easily to be satisfied if he
feels perfectly pleased with the re-
suits Of his Administration. Mr.. Bay
ard is admitted by loyal Democrats to
be the most conspicuous failure the
country has ever known in the De-
partment of State. His early appoint
ments to foreign posts, men largely
chosen from the ranks of those who
had voluntarily participated in the
conspiracy TO destroy the National
Government, were singularly unfort-
innate. Every transaction in which, as
an administration, the outgoing one
has been involved with a foreign
power, has come to naught, like the ILL
starred Fisheries Commission, the
West-Salisbury extradition treaty. the
Chinese negotiations and the effort to
adjust the difficulty with Germany in
Samoa The foreign policy of the
Cleveland Administration must be
candidly characterized as an uninter-
rupted series of mishaps. Yet Mr.
Cleveland says that the condition of
his party is improved by his Admin
istration. If failure abroad and in
efficiency at home improve the pros
poets of party he is right
Inefficiency has been the chief pecu-
I;orit,, of tho CIayalopd AdrnipiStra-
ton in domestic affairs. Mr.. Villas
was transferred from the Post-Office
Department as a necessity. He had
succeeded in reducing its usefulness to
a minimum. For the sake OF an ap-
parent balance in favor of the depart
ment he crippled the service through
out the West, the Northwest and the
South. In the Interior Department he
has been no more successful 1t was
found necessary to crowd out an able
Land Commissioner to placate timber
thieves and land spectators. 1t is
claimed now that this timber jobbery
Is only beginning to be understood by
the public. and that it has been under
stood all the time In the department.
Mr.. Whitney, by using the money
placed at his disposal by Congress, has
improved the navy; but he was unable
to induce that body to accept his own
views on any portion OF his depart
ment work, MIR. Garland's weak and
unfortunate career in the Department
of Justice has been an offense to the
more conservative men of his own
party as well as to the country at
large. Mr.. Endicott has managed to
render his administration of the War
Department thoroughly unpopular.
Mr.. Cleveland is of opinion that the
party itself has been brought into
unanimity under his leadership on the
tariff question. This claim, in view of
the record made by the party in Con-
gress, is simply ludicrous, at least in
the eyes of the Randall wing. 1t
would be as impossible to unite it to-
day on a tariff reform measure as it
Vas on Morrison's bill.
He says he is particularly pleased
with the effect of his Administrator
upon the prosperity and happiness of
the Southern people, black and white.
Complacency could 60 no further.
His Administration has resulted in re-
establishing white Bourbon despot-
ism by which race war has become
sporadic in many portions of the
South and chronic in others. The bal
lot which the Nation placed in the
emancipated colored mans hands to
defend in peace the liberty secured for
him by war is as impotent in the cot
ton Southern States for the good of
the colored man as was the ballot cast
in the name Of the slave popula-
ton before the war by the slavehold-
ers. He obtained his seat four years
ago by the suppression of the colored
Republican vote in several Southern
States, and by the same fraudulent
and unconstitutional methods he Sc
cured the electoral vote last fall of four
Republican Southern States. He sneers
in conclusion at 1.-The jobberY and
scheming that permeated every de-
partment of the Government before
his time. This is an audacious and IN
founded calumny. Having had entire
control of every department for four
years his officials have been unable to
discover a solitary instance of fiagitious
sonduct on the part of the Republicans.
The farewell address of Grover
Cleveland is a unique contribution to
political literature. Aside from its
other notable proofs of egotism and
self-sufficiency it is clear bid for a re-
turn to conspicuous place in National
politics. All his pretensions to the
contrary, it indicates in the most dem
agogic manner that Mr.. Cleveland be-
lieves he will be the necessity of his
party in 1S92.-Chicago Tribune.
POLITICAL OUTRAGES.