Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-01-08
GROVER CLEVELAND.
PAPER FROM PROFESSOR b. PUR.
YEAR.

grover cleveland rs unpopular.
perhaps the most unpopular of all
the great men that have attracted
public attention, but among the
people he is indisputably Ike most
popular man in the United States.
Why there should he so great -
of opinion between the
people and their politically accrcd-
tied representatives, is not difficult
to explain.
MIR. Cleveland is man of he
role mould-hcroic in physique, he
roIc in mind, and, above all, heroic
i'll his moral attributes. He has
strong convictions-not opinions,
so called, assumed to suit q pur-
pose--but sturdy convictions form.
ell after careful obScrl alton bv an
unusually positive man, and after
a profound study of our system of
government, particularly as that
system has been formulated and
eXpoundcd by the fathers and
founders of the Democratic party.
He is poor politician-indcrd he
Is no politician at all. He is some.
thing more and something better.
He is, in the highest and trmcst
sense Of the term, that rara avis in
our day, IL statesman. once heard
a distinguished politician-now a
United States Senator-Say, in
reproachi'ul way, that Mr.. Cleve-
land had never learned that poli.
tics was business. Truly, he has
never learned that lesson, and lie
never will. He is too high minded
and OF too honest Il mould to treat
politics as a vulgar trade. With
him public Office is II publict trust
to be administered in the interest
OF the people and in obedience to
the mandates of the constitution.
Mr.. Cleveland is self re!ia,.t. His
MIND Is pre-cminently strong
ragged, If you plcase-well bal
anccd, and in all his official posi-.
tons he has been a tirelcss worker,
seeking to know all the facts relat
ing to his duty. His opinions,
when firmcd, are matnrely form.
ed, and his action is clearly consc
quent upon his intelligent convic-
ton of duty. Under d supreme
conviction Of his public RESPONSE
bility, of his loyalty TO truth, honor.
and justice, he is deaf to the sug
gesticns OF selfish cxpedicncy.-I
From his determined course the
politician cannot turn him, for bet
ter than the politician he knows
the matter at issue i'll all its de-
tails, and is governed by consider
ations which appeal with but little
force, if at all, to the mere politi-
clan,
The politicians know-for expc-
riGnce has taught thcm-that Gro
VET Cleveland cannot be used as
thsir tool; that he does his own
thbnking, reaches his own conclu-
slbns, and bears upon his own
SHOULDERS the full weight of official
Responsibility. Whatever schemes
Of sclt-interest or OF self.aggran
flizement tile politicians NAV cher
fsh, they know they cannot accom-
rlish them by the help or comfy
ance of Grover Cleveland. In their
dark and devious ways they are
afraid to encounter his inhexiblc
honesty, his broad catholic patri-
otism.
But the people, those who have
no aspirations for Office and who
only want good government, glove
him for the enemies he has madc.o
III the brave maintenance of their
interests, in his heroic efforts to
protect them from unnecessary and
hence unjust taxation, he has en-
countered the malignity of politi
cal tricksters and self-seekers and
has thwarted their schemes. The
people know that when he was
President Of the United States he
was indeed President, protecting
the interests of all by doing sim.
pie Justice to all, and this is the
proper conception of good goucrn- |