New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-05-31
The DECKER Has Begun.

1uO 01ChC1 44OS OOe,u
Washington dispatches to which De-
mocratic papers are giving prominence
and credit describe the policy which the
President is maturing as policy of
compromises. The country is informed
by these friendly opponents Of his plans
anu purposes that Mr.. Cleveland is so
DESTROYS of accomplishing something
that he is ready to tolerate other things.
Just what the something is upon which
his heart is set we are not permitted to
know absolutely, but there is considerable
reason for supposing it to be the repeal
of the Silver Purchase law; while the
repeal of the tax on State bank issues is
positively declared to be one OF the
things in which he is willing to acquiesce,
though they may give him pain. In
word, the President is getting ready to
throw conciliatory bone to The dog,
lest otherwise it should drag him down
and mangle him. But what is the con-
ciliatory bone on which his fingers are
hopefully closing? Why, it. is one OF
the most conspicuous planks in the plat
form upon which he was elected, the
platform which was such a masterpiece
of human virtue and political wisdom as
not to he unworthy of the greatest man
of modern times. And yet here is Mr..
Cleveland STOPPING to pick up out of the
gutter; hating to touch it, no doubt, but
convinced that this is the only way to
keepEthe dog off. How did it get into the
gutter, we should like to know? 1t had
place Of high honor all though the
summer and fall of last year. The auth
ors of it's present degration are excessive
lv audacious and unfeeling.
Why all this talk about compromises,
anyway? 1t isn't mere question OF
taste with the Democrats, but question
of principles and convictions. Will
anybody venture to say that the Demo-
cracy would trife with principle or
conviction? They are in the habit of
trifing with convictions for murder in
the first degree; but that isn't what we
mean, and nobody can make a point by
pretending that it is, and trying to worry
us with a charge OF inadvertence. The
Democratic platform requires certain
things to be done, and the Democratic
party came into power with vociferous
promises to do them. Who has author
lied the President to t1icker with these
promises, using one of them to buy sup
port for another? They are all equally
scared. The Democrats declared as Il
means of getting Office that the tax on
State bank issues ought to be repealed.
They have got Office, now let them re-
peal it. They declared that the Sherman
act of 1890 was ''cowardly makeship."
Let them substitute courageous specl-
fc. They declared that Protection was
Unconstitutional" ''fraud," s'rob-
berry," an s'atrocity." They must extir-
pate it, root and brarch.
These and other special and import
ant things they solemnly promised to do
and were commissioned to do. What
business have theiragents at Washington
to negotiate bargains and compromises?
They were not put in power to coddle
atrocities, to balance robberies, to play
fast and loose with cowardly makeshifts.
But this is what their best friends say
they are doing. What ridiculous con
temptible party it is to submit to such
treatment New York Tribune.