The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-03-09
MIR. CLEVELAND TALKS.
He is "a Democrat With all the Word
Implies''-His Tariff Views.
From an Interview in N. Y. Herald.


President Cleveland said: Il am
a Democrat, with all the word i'm
plies. ! am, moreover, an intense
Democrat, in that l believe that the
true principles of the Democratic
party are essential to the highest
well being of this country"
During the war;" he added, "the
Republican party had supreme and
unquestioned control of public poll
cy. No one will question the service
it rendered at that time, but the rank
and file of the army was composed
largely of Democrats, The generals
who won renown were also many of
them Democrats. While there were
among the Republicans a small mi
nority of hotheads who found fault
with the Lincoln administration. and
among the Democrats an equal num-
Der of fossils whose timidity was a
national misfortune, the great bulk
Of the people from East to West,
without respect to party affiliations,
were solidly patriotic and ready for
any necessary amount of sacrifice
for the preservation of our institu
tions. 1t is folly to claim that the
war was fought by either Republi-
cans or Democrats; it was fought by
the American citizens of the North.
But it is plain" he said with
great seriousness, that under Re-
publican administrations there has
been given a fresh and dangerous
impetus to monopolies, trusts and
combines. Immense fortunes have
been accumulated, unknown in the
days of our fathers. They are pc
culiarity of post-6eltum times, and
the control of which they arbitrarily
exercise over the cost of existence is
direct menace to the welfare of the
workingmen and of our farmers"
THE SOUTHERN PROBLEM
On suggesting the race question
in the South, Mr.. Cleveland natur-
ally hesitated before answering, be-
cause, as he said, it is the most deli
cate subject now before the people.
The Southshas partly recovered
from the effects of the war, and for
20 years and more has been putting
all its energies into the soil and into
manufactures. 1t has risen from
coadition approaching ruin to de-
gree of financial and practical enter
prise which renders it in some indus
tries sharp competitor with the
North. The sudden and marvellous
recovery of the South in industrial
interest is fact in which the whole
nation may well take pride And
this feeling of pride would be uni
versal if the professions so often
made of complete reconciliation and
a desire to join in hearty united
effort to work out Que destiny as
nation are sincere.
"The new relations between the
whites and the negroes at the South
are gradually arranging themselves.
1t must, however, be work of time
and of long time-before an en-
tirely satisfactory result can be
reached"
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