The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-25

Aud the Sort OF "C,mpalgn Of Education"
lilo Is Making.
Nee York Tribune.
On tho 18th Of May, 1901, tho Clevc.
land Democracy Club, Of Buffalo, opened
q new club house, and the Hon. Grover
Cleveland, its patron saint, mado what
our ncighbor, tho Sun, would doubtless
call tho "consccration' speech on tho
occasion. 1t was ono Of those charac.
t~eristic speeches OF his OH Democracy
with which the public is somcwbut FL.
miliar, in which he starts out with tho
Impressive statement that true DeInoc-
rncy means tho greatcst good Of the
greatest number, and proceeds to ham.
NOR 1t out ind spread it thin and Gin.
broidcr it with phrases and use IN his
vocabulary on It,, until Mt tho
end OF half IN hour the Devil.
dered nearer has reached tbe
conclusion that tho greatest number
is Number One, and that tho dutyoi
tho Democratic purity is 10 make his
greatest good its constant aim. lie
told his hearers hat they had already
done valiant service in the campaign
OF education" and we're Surrounded
by the trophies Of victory" aud in clos.
ing said: Let Us, then, as We push on
our campaign OF education, especially
impress upon our countrymon the les
SON which teaches that public exerav-
agance is q deadly, dangerous thing;
that lrugality and economy are honor.
able; that the virtue and watchfulness
OF tho people arc the surest safeguards
against abuses in their government, and
that those who profess to serve their
iellow-citizens in public places must be
faithful to theis trust"
These remarks arc not particularly
striking or original. They are supposed
to relate to the circumstance that the
appropriations made by the Republican
Congress which it was the chief merit
Of Mr.. Clevclands administration to
bring into power were denounced by
Democrats rs excessive. The final
clause is in the nature Of reiteration OF
what he considers the first principle of
OF genuine Democracy, that no one but
Grover Cleveland ever did or ever can
administer public office rs a public trust.
The entire speech is reproduced by the
New York Times rs pertinent to the crit
icisms which have beea passed upon
the present Democratic Congress by
Democratic newspapers and public men
because oil appropriations more extra.
VACANT than its predecessor. Our COLI
temporary commends it to tho attention
OF Democratic members OF Congress us q
strong appeal for economy at a time
when their action shows that they are
in danger OF falling into the wasteiul
and ~eXtravagant ways OF their IN
ponents. And no doubt it is thought
that the republication OF the
speech just now, when so many
Democrats arc criticising Con
gress for ~extravagant a%ppropria.
tions, will be n help to Mr.. Cleveland as
q candidate ut Chicago. The idea is
that the campaign OF education is still
on, and that Mr.. Cleveland il. still the
leading pedagoguc.:~ year ago he was
holding up what he called the "Billion-
Dollar Congress" rs a solemn warning
against 50 deadly. dangerous thing,
The Campaign Of education" had been
carried on against it, and the Congress
now in session was one OF the trophies
OF victory" The educators are puzzline
over its appropriations just at this mo.
ment, wondering where the education
comes in.
Now, there is certainly n campaign oil
education going on all the time. But i,
is not Mr.. Cleveland's kind of. educa,
ton. That gentleman:makea consid-
cradle mistake wheri2he puts on school.
master airs and IL Undertakes with a few
trite phrases to educate the American
people up 10 something he thinks he
has found out. He is q mushroom
statesman. with a great many things to
learn himself, and shouldn't take him.
self for a suntiower or a banyan tree.
His notion appears,to BIO that he some.
how stands for a date; for tho begin.
ming Of a period; tor q new departure, Q
new dawn, or something or other in the
calender, and that the country must be
educated up TO him. Lots OF things
have been learned blythe people while
the campaign of education has been 60.
ing n
They have learned that all tho pro.
LESSONS OF the Democratic party are
empty and false, that il. has no convic.
tions on the tariff or@silver, that it has
but n governing p%rinciple-ro stea'
whatever it can lay hands on-that with
all its infusion OF Mugwumpery and
worship Of Stuffed Prophets it is the
same old concern, without honesty Oh
capacity, an organized appetite" held
together by tho cohesive power OF pub
lie plumber, And right here in Now
York they have learned tina! a governor
and legislature advocated by Grove,
Cleveland on the stump and enthusi.
astically supported by the Mugwump
press, are about US bad a lot of dis.
honest politicians as could be got to.
gether. There is whore tho paicr