Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-01-25
REPUDlATING CLEVELAND.

crat and that there has never been
anything in common between him
and the masses of the party's
voters. The New York World re-
pudiates Grover Cleveland, and
concludes by saying that IN his
Administration the Democratic
party has not had a fair trlal. The
failures and shortcomings of his
Administration are attributed to
Cleveland personally. The World
says -
at was not a fair trial;
"Because the Democratic party
neither controlled nor lays claim to
having con trolled the Administra.
ton of President Cleveland there
fore it cannot be held responsible
for the results of that Administra-
tion-neither for the injury his
vacillating course has done to the
cause of Civil Service Reform, nor
for doing 'the right thing at the
wrong time IN precipltating the
Tariff issue on the perilous edge OF
Presidential campaign, nor for
the other multiplied mistakes Of
the President, nor for his ObnOx.
ious personal acts or characters.
tics.
"This is a Constitutional Govern
ment, aud, therefore, Govern
ment by party. The President is
chosen to represent the principles
and purposes of a majority of the
people. When he ignores their
wishes, seeks no counsel of their
leaders and erects personal ad-
mlnistratiOn of his own, he alone Is
responsible. The Democratic party,
as is now well established, really
carried the States which Will cast a
majority of the electoral votes for
General Harrison. and so the can
dldate, and not the party, was
defeated in the recent election
Does any one doubt that Mr..
Cleveland would have been de-
feated in 1884 if the party had then
suspected what would be his course
as President? Suppose, for in
stance, it had been known that out
of the seven members of his Cabi-
net he would actually select five
who had never before held a
national position, and who were
absolutely without national repu-
tatiOn? That there would not be in
his Cabinet a single recognized
representative Of the Northern
Democracy That, in or out of
Washington, he would neither seek
nor accept the advice or warnings
OF the. tried and experienced chiefs
of his party, attempting to bulwark
his own obvious ignorance and
inexperience Suppose it had been
known that, such as was his Cabi-
net, he would neither ask nor ac-
cept the counsel of its members,
but would regard them from the
beginning to the end of his term
merely az clerks to record his Will
"SuppOse it had been known
that in the metropolis of New
York, the city which gave him the
votes making him President, he
would not select for one of the
great Federal Offices a Democrat
recognized for party loyalty or
services in the continued contest
to make and keep the city Demo.
cratic That he would nominate as
Collector of the Port an up.cOuntry
lawyer from near the Canadian
frontier, with no more moral claim
TO an appointment here than to a
Canadian Custom House, That
he would retain as Postmaster
I (Mugwump PearsOn) an official III
herited from three or four previous
Republican administrations That
for the third other great executive
officer in the metropolis he would
select still another Inheritance
from Republican patty rule (Mug
wump McMullen). who has now
been removed for ineiliciency or
worse That his only party ap.
pointment made in the New York
Custom House wOuld be man who
represented the most corrupt phase
of our municipal administration
since Tweed
Mf knowing, then, all this-if it
had known even the day before
the election of 1884 what his Cabi-
net would be, that neither Tllden
nor Hendricks nor Mcclellan nor
Thurman nor any leader of his
party would be taken into his
counsel either befOr or after his
inauguration--that he would choose
as Minister to England, the ap.
pOlntment next III importance to a
seat in the Cabinet, an unknown
and doubtful Democrat from hope.
lessly Republican VermOnt-that
his scheme of parties without
partIsanship and politics without
politicians would be Ostenslbly en-
forced in our State to be cOnsplcu.
ously violated in another, to the
shame and decentralization Of the
party-.that he would abandon the
pretense of a clvilseryice admins
tratiOn as the time for the renOmi-
nation OF his successor approached,
and would seek to cover up his re.
treat by injecting into the Presl-
dental contest another, and at just
that time an unfortunate issue
that lie would make the cause OF
civil service reform a bywOrd and
a mockery by his fragrant gift Of
$4,000 to a campaign fund for his
own election if it had known
all this before election day Of 1881,
then Grover Cleveland would
certainly have been repudlated by
his party aud would not have
been elected President, and the
Democracy OF the United States
cannot be held responsible tor
what he has done aud left undone
in an Office thus gained and thus
administered.
alt was not, therefore, fair
trial"
An Alleged Nineteenth Century
Miracle.
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