New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-01

The o1iniCns of the outgoing Freetuen" "iio
will he a private citizen next TUESDAY are OIL
consequence because he is the Official head anu
tbe nracticsl leader of party which cast nearly
half the votes at the recent election. DIT
(y,ave,nnd's power over that party has been
oraas. He has forced it into more poAtlVe
Attitude than il had ventured 20 take under any
other Leadership since 1860. The only Demo
cratic President for twenty eight years en-
deayors to anticipate the inaugural OF MS VIZ
torious competitor, and in an insrVle" pup
iished by "The Herald" gives his impressions
- tLe recent defeat and the future pfoSpec~
- his party. AS the final manifesto OF IN
Administering, crsntcd nv accident in 1851
and defeated by delibeld.n dsuss'on IN 1880
the Presidents statement merits cc"sldM a|on'
What IL does not contain is noteworthy. III
t1vo columns this interview has not word
about Civil Service Reform, not WORD aoou1
the foreign relations of the country, ana nov
word about the management of the treasury
The reasons are obvious. The President Nun
self has abandoned the Civil Service issue MS
most important measures of foreign pohcy nave
failed because they did not command the sup
port even of his own party, and his conuucS
of the finances has pleased Democratic spec
ulators rather than Democratic voters. 1hese
ara matters ,,non which the Presidents silence
is substantially an admission OF lu-succeSS' IL
would be much the reverse OF complimentary
TO the President, at all events, to suppose tha1
he does not realize the important aid given 20
his adyersaries by his failure to keep promises
in regard to the Civil Service, and by the I'M
popularity of his treaties and negotiations with
foreign Powers. OF the financial sdministra-
ton il may be said that it has been satisfactory
to those who, in their anxiety for change OF
tariff, were willing to see policy otherwise
unjust and dangerous steadfastly maintained
because it was expected to promote that change
Mr. Cleveland speaks Of the tariff question
as one who is sure that the farmers of the West,
and great body Of workingmen at the East.
are alike ignorant and mistaken; that he Is
wiser than they, and has more faithfully sought
their welfare, and that they must in the end
come to his opinion. Thus he says:
Tho action OF the farmers Of the country presents
the strangest condition Of affairs which tho canvass
developed. They do not seem 10 realize yet how I'M
portant the question OF paying immense additions for
all they use upon their farms and all they wear upon
their backs Is their prosperity, II not TO their vory e.
istenoe.
The peopIe cannot DO deceived by false logic In the
long -rn however. Tho workingmen socm already to
understa pretty well the questions submitted 10
them OF the last election.
Enough Of the workingmen to ingure Mr..
Cleyelands defeat understood the question
pretty WELL" though not as MIR. Cleveland
| understands il. Ignorance Of the election re-
turns, and nothing else, can account for his
apparent impression that more Of the wage
Gamers already side with him and his party
| In the Northern States the saloons OF few
cities and their haunts Of vice and crime gave
| thesPresident's party its only chance Of sue
ceas. lie was beaten in tho Northern States
BY plurality of more than half million votes.
The number cast for General Harrison ex-
ceeded by per cent the number cast for MIR.
| Cleveland. In the manufacturing States OF the
East where a great proportion of the voters
| are wage-earners, the plurality for General
| Harrison was more than 0 per cent, and over
1T 900. 1t is mere ignorance to suppose
that differences So large could have occurred
had the working people given Mr. Cleveland
q majority Of their votes
| The farmers do not realize that President
Cleveland is right in his notions about their
burdens and their interests. To put it more
frankly, large majority Of them believe that
he is entirely and absurdly wrong, and that
the very policy which ne has assailed has been
the basis Of their prosperity in the past, and
| is the foundation Of their best hope for the
| future. To them it is clear that a worljngman
in England or Germany, earning English or
German wages, must consume less Of the prod
ucts of American farms than worlingmsn In
this country. II tho farmers buy from Europe
L md A Iffa
break down the market for theit own products
So it came to pass that the farming States Of
the Northwest gave 266, 600 plurality for Mr.
Harrison. But that would not have sufficed
II the mining States had not also given 80, 900
plurality for him, and if the manufacturing
States Of the East had not given III 900 plu-
rality to the same candidate and policy.
These figures omit the South. That section
gave Mr.. Cleveland 100000 plurality Of the
votes returned, and it Is demonstrable that
more than 500, 900 'r~ed men were deprived
of their suffrage beca sc they were opposed
to the President, while the number of votes
fraudulently gained by the Presidents party
through forged aid false returns has not been
ascertained. Yet he Observes
| He has by no means lost confidence in tho fair
minded average public opinion Of the South 70 do Tbs
best which the circumstances allow. They know the
situation in all It's bearings, and to distrust the
sbty to deal with Is to dstrus their sincerity snt
| fairness.
The public has not the confidence which the
President expresses 1t does not consider thai
the assassination of a worthy citizen, in orde,
to conceal the stealing of ballot-box in Ar
kansas, Is doing the best which the circum-
stances allow" II 50, Northern voters are Of
the opinion that new laws ought without delay
to create new circumstances.
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