Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18
paITRY CRAFTSMANSHIP.
The Despicabie Policy OF Calamity-Howl
ing ReDubIfcaEs-


The Despicabie Policy OF CalAmity-Howl-
ing Republicans.
One of the most deplorable features
developed by the financial difficulties
which the present administration is
called upon to encounter is the un-
patriotic attitude assumed by those
who are professedly the spokesman of
the republican party. They were not
content with the persistent misrepre-
sentation OF the purpose and the policy
of the administration which led to an
official contradiction from the presi-
dent. They still magnify the dangers
and misrepresent the course which will
be pursued in averting them Nothing
could be more complete or more ex-
plicit than President Cleveland's de-
NAL. He meets all points of assault by
saying that silver redemption has not
at any time 'sbeen determined upon or
contemplated by the secretary of the
treasury or any other member of the
present administrations" and that 1.-The
president and his cabinet are absolute
1y harmonious in the determination to
exercise every power conferred upon
them to maintain the public credit, to
keep the public faith and to preserve
the parity between gold and silver and
between all financial obligations of the
government"
There is not a weak point in this
comprehensive assurance which parti-
sanship can attack, and party mean
ness is thrown upon its inventive re-
sources. Stories of every conceivable
kind are manufactured with no other
purpose than to impair public conf
dence in the administration, and are
made the basis of editorial attacks
aimed at the same unworthy result.
The disgruntled and discredited repub-
Ecan leaders would rather weaken the
hold of the democratic party than to
avert great financial calamity. They
would rather serve their party than to
serve their country. They invoke dis
aster with a hope of leading the people
to believe that it was brought upon
them through the weakness and mis-
management of a democratic admins
tration.
In this policy of desperation there is
the fatal mistake of having underesti-
mated the wisdom, strong common
sense and patriotic spirit of the people.
They are far from being engulfed in
the ignorance which the republican
calamity howlers have assumed as a
basis for their despicable line of action.
The masses clearly understand that the
danger which menaces the business and
the prosperity of the country is the di-
rect result of republican legislation and
administration. They see through the
perplexities involving the present adj
ministration the causes which pro-
duced them. An emptied treasury. an
impaired gold reserve and a silver law
that increases treasury notes with only
silver bullion behind them are all lega-
cies of republican rule. For more than
thirty years the republicans have con-
trolled one or more branches of the adj
ministration, and when not able to
make laws to their own liking have
been in a position to defeat such re-
formatory legislation as was presented
from democratic sources. Republican
rule not only exhausted the treasury.
but it mortgaged the future by obliga-
tions which the government must meet
and left untold evils of legislation
which demand time for correction, tc
say nothing of the burdens which they
have already imposed uron the people.
But against all this the national credit
is proof and President Cleveland has
made no mistake in relying upon the
good sense and patriotism of the people.
Their confidence is not to be disturbed
by those in whom they have SO lately
expressed an utter want of confidence.
Detroit Free Press