St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-01
Grover Cleveland Says They
Are Beginning to See the
Light.
Those Whose Interests Have
Been Disregared Cannot
Be Deceived Again.
They Will Demand Justice to
All and Favor to
None.
Democrats Will Control the
Popular Branch Of the Fif-
ty-Second Congress.


will publish tomorrow the following
interview with eX-President Cleveland
on the political situation, sent to it by
Its New York correspondent: 'Of
course, it's needless for me to express
the deep interest | feel in the elections
now pending, though i have sometimes
feared that my repeated and enforced
declinatiOn of invitations to visit differ
ent localities and address political meet
ihgs might be construed as indicating
lack of sympathy with the fortunes of
the excellent candidates in the Demo-
cratic field. | am sure that there never
was public question discussed more
thoroughly and more intelligently than
its Democratic advocates. This may,
perhaps, suggest that, if the
/ Democratic position on this Is
sue is the correct one. there
/ should be immediate and ready acqui-
sescence on the part of the people. But
the Judgment of our countrymen has
been so trammeled and their percep-
tions have been SO cl0uded by preju-
{ dice and appeals to seIf-interest that
their apprehension OF the true province
OF our government has been distorted,
and they have for years been led to be-
heve that the conduct of public affairs
might properly minister to their profit.
not by securing general prOspi rlty
founded on principle, but by giviig a
direct advantage to certain classes.
There can be no advance in tariff reform
where these ideas prevail. 1t is GER
tainiy true that in such selfish opera
ton the Interests of some of the people
must be neglected. Protest on the part
of these has been stified by the most
arrant
Deception and Cajolery.
eat last. however, these neglected ones
are aroused. and i'm spite of the clouds
of misrepresentation and delusion which
sl:rround them.tley begin to see the light.
ttar agricuIturlSts and others WluSe
Interests have been ,tisregarded, while
advantages have been accorded to
favored few, are not to- he much longer
deceived. Tlrry are discovering more
and more clearly that the toll and un-
complaining labor which should have
added to their own comfort and pros
/ perityss have been diverted to the az
grandizemento of Others, while they have
constantly grown poorer. They fail to
see in the accumulation of vast fortunes,
under such conditions, any compensa-
ttoi iOi ldUOT OT IOr
their forced and pinching economy.
I hey will not always be silent. but will
naturally and inevitably demand the
justice to all and favor to
none which our institutions promis :.
| am confident that we shall secure
majority in the next house of repre-
sentatives. Our success may not be SO
sweeping and decisive as many of our
sangulne friends anticipate, but 1t will
be safe and substantial. l cannot for
get how iabOriously reform moves
which must break through selfish ILL
terests strongly intrenched and un-
ScrupulOuSiy asserted, and which must
overcome abuses long suffered and ar
r0gantly maintained. l believe that all
our gains must be the result of hard
struggle against these odds. 1t is not,
however, possible that the complete
triumph of the peoples cause can be
much longer delayed. The effective
incubation of wholesome doctrine which
characteriZes the Democratic press; the
thorough discussion going on in every
part of the country; the undlsguised
schemes of the Republican party to Sc
cure its perpetuatiOn in power through
= Reckless Enactments
which stifie the results of the peoples
suffrage; its brutal methods of legisla-
ti0n, and, above all, the positive dis
tress daily threatening our peoples
homes under the operation of a new
and iniquitOus tariff lava law which
not only enhances the cost of the neces-
saries of life, but fosters the exOrtions
of trusts and c0mbinations-make GER
tain the advent of a freer, better time
and the ascendency of true Democracy.
Whatever the hear result may be, ain
not at all afraid that the zeal of the
party will flag or that discOuragement
will in the least dampen Its ardor or less
Ell Its agresslvene,S. The Democratic
party Is thoroughly united and has
planted itself on Democratic principle.
IL twill not abandon its sacred cause, but
will continue the warfare until it
achieves complete success. The party
that knew nO disbursement in 1883
will not wa YER nor faItpr in IStiAO