Nevada County picayune., 1890-04-23
flicted on the Chief Magistracy of

] the nation.
 "As Republican by conviction, ardently desiring the success of the party so long as it deserves success, let me request you, Mir, President, to take calm survey of the situa- tion and render to yourself an ac- count of your stewardship. Thirteen months ago you entered upon the duties of the highest office which the world has to bestow; your party was supreme in the control of both Houses of Congress and of the Ex- ecutive; everything promised a prosperous and useful administra- tion, in which you, by simply ad- herring to the pledges under which you were elected, might earn anoth- CT term from the confidence and gratitude of the people. The only cloud upon the political horizon was your acceptance of Postmaster General at MT. Quay's dictation, os- tensibly as reward for certain ser vices performed during the canvass. That cloud, then no larger than a mans hand, has grown until it cov- CTS the Armament.
 "Look back now and reflect upon your work. You have sedulously de- voted yourself to the distribution of patronage; you have turned out nearly 40,000 Democratic oiilce-hold- CTS, and in this ignoble business you have filled vacancies thus made by giving recognition to the worst ele- ment of the party. You have thus degraded it to the lowest level, till it no longer deserves or enjoys the pub lie confidence, and its interest, as we'll as that of the Nation, demands it's purification by defeat. You have earned for it the denunciation of the Hebrew prophet: The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the proph- cts thereof divine for money yet will they lean upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord among us! none evil can come among us. Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed as field, and Jerusalem shall be- come heaps Bnt it needs no prophet to foretell the result.
 "The elections of last November were warning that the people would not tolerate your methods. You have refused to heed the lesson, and the election of next November will emphasize it. The narrow Re- publican majority in the Lower House will be swept away, and your path for the latter half of your Ad- ministration will be path of thorns. You have rewarded the magnificent majority of SO, ,000 given to you by Pennsylvania by riveting upon her the chains of Quayism. You need not wonder that disaffecton is spreading rapidly throughout her borders in a manner that may render her allegiance doubtful. The out look for 1892 is even darker. Were the Presidential election to take place tomorrow, there could scarce be doubt of Democratic success. Let me chunsel you, Mir. President, as a friend, to reflect that this has been your work in one short year.
 "If this retrospection should bring with it repentance and amendment, you still have before you three years winch may be fruitful for good. Bear in mind that faithful are the wounds of friend, but the kisses of an ene- my are deceitful.' Discard the ad- visers who are turing you to your downfall. Recognize that the truest political expediency lies in the appli- cation of conscience to public affairs, and that you can serve your party best by stimulating the nobler aspir- ations of the nation, rather than by pandering to the baser capacities of spoilsmen.
 "Cease to expect to gather figs of thistles or to touch pitch without de- filement. Apply to your public du- ties the high standard of morality to which you adhere in your private life. Remember that evil can give birth only to evil, and that you, as Chef Magistrate of 65,000,000 of freemen, have on your soul charge for which you must reckon to poster ity and to God.
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