The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-18

oil previous CALCULATIONS, INDIANA WAS |
also thrust aside, and distinguished
son of the Republican state of Illinois
was given to Mr.. Cleveland as his as
sociate in that extraordinary cam
paign- 1t is not remarkable that ex-
perienced politicians trembled for the
result, or that wnen the result came
they were amazed and COMPOUNDED.
Not only did New York and Indiana
vote for the ticket which they had re-
pudiated in convention, but Illinois
under her marvellcusly popular can
didate for vice-president, and Wiscon-
sin did the same, while Ohio faltered
and barely failed. In addition, the
vote revealed a popular uneasiness, a
loosening and shifting of the political
elements throughout the mighty west,
which is the promise of things hith-
erto undreamed in the near future.
Here now is Mr.. Cleveland nomi-
mated simply because he ought to have
been nominated, and reelected by a
vote whose character and location
emancipates him and his party from
all the trammels of the recent past
He has only apparently to do right in
the future, as he has done right here
tofore, to be Irresistible. A majority
in the Senate, an, overwhelming ma
jority in the House, came in on the
tide evoked by his peculiar campaign.
For the first time in a generation. all
political branches of the federal gov
eminent are Democratic and in
complete accord Under no obi
cation, he is likewise under no possible
necessity to compromise with wrong
In any quarter. The elements are not
available anywhere for a coalition
strong enough to check or even SER
iously to hinder him. He is subject
to none of the limitations of 1885. He
need consider one state no more than
another unless he sees fit. He is the
president, not of his party only, but
of his country, in a sense and to
degree unknown since Washington.
His strength is not in patronage, but
in character and principle and the
general public confidence, and with
the exercise of only reasonable dis
elimination the opportunity of public
service which lies broad and fair be-
fore him is the greatest ever offered
at the moment of induction to any
American president save the first. The
value of the country of this power of
the president in the premises has
been strikingly demonstrated since
the meeting of Congress in extraordi-
nary session. The people looked to
him for deliverance from the temper
airy but ominous ennbarrassments of
the season, and Notwithstanding the
numerous shades of honest difference
within the Democratic party upon dis
turbing questions, there has been no
difference as to the integrity and
weight of the views urged by the adj
ministration, and the consequence will
doubtless be a united Democratic
party and an almost united people in
favor of the proposed measures of
relief. No man, not the most eager
partisan of the unrepealed Republican
legislation which brought on the evils
that appal the country, can specify
the bit of patronage, or the promise
of patronage, which has changed a
single vote in Congress or altered the
tone of a single newspaper. The mani
testify controlling influence of the adj
ministration is due entirely to its high
character and to it's extraordinary
strength within the people, not of one
party only, but of all parties.
President Cleveland's position is
stronger than that of Jefferson or OF
jackson. They headed, it is true, a
victorious and compact party; they
grew in public estimation as their poll
cies developed; they earned the vener-
alton which their countrymen have be-
slowed upon their names. But neither
of them at the outset found himself In
an attitude so commanding as that of
Mr.. Cleveland Jefferson's political
philosophy, like the decalogue or the
sermon on the mount legislated, by
pure force. of its obvious truth, and
Jackson translated the Democratic
precept into heroic action. But for
Jefferson and Jackson Mr.. Cleveland
would not have been a possibility.
There would have been no free gov
eminent today for him to administer,
and no free people to call him to the
trust
Mr. Clevelands inaugural presented
in it's composition some evidences of
the cruel stress and annoyance under
which it was written. 1t has not the
exquisite tone and finish of Mr.. JEFF
ferson's. but every doctrine and prin-
ciple of Jefferson's is conspicuous in
Cleveland's. The rule of strict con-
struction pervades it from the first
word to the last, and this is the rule
of rules 1t comprehends every posi-
BILE reform in the federal government.
Followed rigidly it compels equal taxes
for revenue only, pure administration,
fugality, economy, simplicity. 1t re-
ceives the unqualified appreciation of
our Republican forefathers, and it's
beniffcent operation gives us sixty
years of peace and prosperity under
Democratic management until the
slavery question rended at the same
time, the party and the country
But Mr. Cleveland and his party
have undertaken to apply this princi-
pie under very different conditions
from those which met Mr. jefferson or
Gen. Jackson. The simplicity of the
eral Jackson. The simplicity of the
new republic has been replaced by a
splendor scarcely less than that of i'm
perial Rome. The limited federal
agency established by the constitution
of 1887 has expanded to proportions Of
which the widest Republican oppon-
ents of the new government never
dreamed. Even Patrick Henry's
glowing imagination failed to conceive
a hundredth part of the possibilities
ripened and realized. Although Ham
ilton longed for a government great
and strong, rich and prodigal, he
would have shrunk appalled, from the
vision of such an one as this In
stead of the few paltry millions,
which supported the pure constitu-
tlonal government of Jefferson's time,
struggling under revolutionary debt
and commercial and political en-
barassments abroad, a single Con-
gress now appropriates thousand
millions raised under a system of tax
alton, which transfers another thou
sand millions from the pockets of the
people to a favored class The Nigh
ty shadow of this great central
authority rests upon the whole land
MI Cleveland in his inaugural point
eddy and solemly rebuked the
tendency of the people to look
to it for support and to
surrender to it the power and
duties which belong to themselves in
their own home government. But
everywhere the hands of the people
and of the politician are outstretched
towards Washington. Everywhere,
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