The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-03-09
AN REVOIR, MR.. CLEVELAND, ONLY
AN REV0IR!

Well, Grover Cleveland is simply q
citizen and Benjamin Harrison is
president OF the United States.
The change has come and gone.
The course of nature still goes on as
before undisturbed, the brook babbles
and the winds blow, the rains fall and
the sun shines, the birds will mate and
the grass will grow, but nevertheless
there has come over the country a
great change. The people cannot be
Justly blamed for 1t; they were with
Mr.. Cleveland in sentiment. Despite
all Establishments and allurements a
majority of them voted for him over
his opponent. Free and unbribed,
subject to no temptation of money or
intimidation of employers, a million
majority of their votes would have
been recorded for the brave, equable,
patriotic leader who is as superior to
the one who succeeds him as one man
can be to another who is a fairly good
| citizen and not a bad meaning person.
Mr.. Cleveland's administration was
one in behalf of the mass of the people.
Mr.. Harrison's will be in behalf of
aggregated wealth, of monopoly, of
the rich. The pretense of protection
to the poor will be the protection for
which the rich will ever stand ready
to pay, to pay very large sums, indeed,
il It shall become necessary. If the
poor believe that that is a protection i'll
their interests the more fool they. MIR.
Harrison will antagonize no sy%ndicates,
no companies, no corporations. He is
their man; he is in sympathy with
them, and of them. MI. Cleveland
angered the cattle barons when he
ordered them off the reservations and
the lands of the Indians; be angered
the rich thieves, who till he came in
were stealing with as much IMMUNITY
as though they had owned it the timber
out west which belonged to the gov
ernment; he embittered the Unioi
Pacific railroad company against bin
by insisting that it should pay Its due
, to the nation. Mr.. Harrison's obliga
lions to Thurston and Estee ant
!, Stanford and the whole lot of then
will never cause him to antagoniz
those gentlemen cormorants. MIR
, Cleveland forced the Pacific roads t
give up their unearned lands. Ths
was another reason why they hate
him.
( To cap the climax of his offendin
. against organized wealth he had th
. temerity to tell the truth about th
robber tariff, and the way in which
yearly flches millions out of tn
pockets OF the poor in order to swe
the Golfers of the already inordinatel
rich. And all these millions Of dollar
' which were affected fought him. Ii
knew they would; he Is no foo
y this Grover Cleveland; but he is
Occur de Lion, a lion hearted mar
who thinks the word duty the mo
d sacred in the language. He didn
trim or hesitate; he knew what pow'
there was In all the wealth that b
antagonized. and drawer acts WEI
y never done, on flood OIL field, than we
. those honest acts and words of a co
% scientious executive.
When the contest came the enemi,
r. he had made in the interest of Il
lie people made up bags of money he
IN and there, and bought the election
er q man more to their taste. They ha'
as him now. He knows who elect,
him; he knows the influence that W
used he could not if he would oppo
them, and he would not II he coul
He has elevated to the chief place
bis cabinet a. man whose tattoo
political record has made him the We
type of the brilliant and corrupt
public life, and to the treasury a stoC
es jobber in Wall street. Grover Clev
ed land retires to private lite with a Gle
r. record; with nothing to hide" W.
Oh nothing to regret, and with everythi
ed to be proud of. He has the respect
every intelligent citizen. Mr.. Harrist
with his personally weak charact
=" and with Blaine and Window to car
will do much better than is expected
he comes out OF the ordeal half
ret -