Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-09-14
Surprising.

SuppOSlng that, after the great DEM
ocratic landslide of 1892. the Eastern
division OF the party had accepted the
verdict of the people in good faith.
Surprising that at the inaugural of
Mr.. Cleveland every Democrat who is
as ambitious to serve his country for
fifteen hundred or two thousand dol
lars year, as was Mr.. Cleveland to
serve it for fifty thousand dollars per
year, had received assurances that the
presentation of his claims would be re-
ceivel by the administration as entirely
appropriate and be fairly considered,
instead of hearing it intimated that all
applicants for position on the grounds
of party fealty and party service were
to be quarantined against as being in
fected with s.the mad craze for spoils"
"a disease more horrible to the Mug
wump than Asiatic cholera, and more
destructive to the fitness of things than
were the seven plaques to the people
of ancient Egypt.
Surprising that the President, in
selecting his cabinet, had called into it
Democrats who had the confidence of
their party. and who stood high in it's
councils, and sought to have made a
historic cabinet, as he might easily
have done. instead of-with two ex-
ceptions land one of these a Republi-
can)-calling about him obscure men
who were unknown to his party and
could arouse no enthusiasm in its rank
and file, and whose party service
seems to have been confined to a per-
sonal preference for Mr.. Cleveland and
the exhausing labor of drawing liberal
salaries from the great corporate in
terests of this country.
Surprising thai the President had
stood squarely upon the platform of the
convention that nominated him and &C
cepted its promises in good faith, and
acted upon them.
Surprising. as an evidence of his in
tention to carry out the expressed will
of his party, as its servant-and not its
master-he had called Congress to-
gether not later than the first of May,
and the peoples burden of taxation
had been reduced at least twenty-five
per cent, and the debtor classes of
this country had been assured by the
passage of a free coinage bill that they
would not have their debts arbitrarily
increased one-half.
Surprising Mr.. Cleveland had seen
the truth that in voting for him the
people had voted for change in
government, and that that included a
change of all their servants, great and
small-as we'll the fourth-class post
master as the President, the district
attorney as the attorney-general.
Surprising he hadn't slapped in the
face self-respecting people-who had
tWice made him Chief Executive-by is
suing that foolish order as to "Exes''.
Supposing he had never allowed the
Wizards and Whitneys, and others OF
his Wall Street friends, to Undue him
with the notion that Eastern Toryism
was better than Democratic principle,
and that it was folly to listen to the
supplications of his Western friends.
Surprising, in other words, that the
Executive had devoted his energies to
keeping the party's pledges, instead of
substituting for its platform the man.
dates of the plutocraey of Wall and
Lombard Streets:
Them
Instead of dissension in our ranks,
the Republican element in the party
would have been in its proper place
outside of the breast-works;
The Populists wiped from the face of
the earth; and
The Republican party in hole so
deep that no note from the trumpet of
the resurrection could ever reach it.
The Democratic party will go on in
triumph, despite the shortcomings of
its leaders, but-how light its burden
might have been made!