The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-12-08
A ser OF sYcmoPHANrs.
Democrats WHO Have Not the Courage t.
Express Themselves Frankly About the

Democrats WHO Have Not the Courage to
Express Themselves Frankly About tho
Presidents Course.
Washington Post tiadl
1t must be cheering and strengthen
ing to the President to read in the
newspapers the so.calod Opinions" OF
Democratic Congressman on his mes
sage. No monarch ever received from
his assembled cour.icrs more OF adula-
ton and less OF criticism. Take the
whole list through, and we find no hint
that the Frosident has done anything
that he should not do or left undone
ANYTHING that he should do. The docu-
ment is perfect il ali its parts, full oil
prelernatural wisdom as to every sub
iect it discusses. Gentlemen who advo-
cate measures which the President con-
demns carefully ignore that aspect oil
the case. Gentlemen opposed to meas
ures which the President approves, gaze
steadiastly at something else while they
strike the Tyre OF praise. Even those
who hungered for information as TO tho
administration Hawaiian policy, and
got instead homily OIL protllgale e&-
penditures in garden seed, hung out the
martyr smile OF Joy and lifted up the
note OF gratitude.
What would MIR. Cleveland give, We
wonder, for just one honest, manly can
did utterance from those who constl-
lute his party in the Congress! lie
cannot possibly be content with TINS
sycophantic, inliscriminate gush over
everything lie says. Ho is no dull and
ia,uous tyrant, resendul OF controversy,
impatient OF remonstrance, and tolef-
ating only servile and unduestionInG
idolatry. He is an American citizen,
serving sovereign people, deeply con-
scious Of his responsibilities and In
capable OF imagining that an accident OF
politics or a caprice Of popular sentl-
nent has transformed him into demi-
god. Neither can he be deceived by the
transparent fiction OF complaisance
here referred to. He knows that
the Hon. Mr.. So-and-so, who now
gives way to ecstacy over the gold
standard declarations OF his message
was, less than three months ago, loading
the air with Imprecations against the
silver repeal ULIL anu anShllHh ~ t"A
the gods that he would die in his seat
rather than connive at Its enactment.
He knows that the Hon. MIR. Ihinga-
bob, who feigus such rapture over the
message, is m ardent advocate oil the
income tax, and is bitterly disappointed
by the omission OF that topic by the
President. He knows, in fact, that all
this unreserved laudation is insincere.
and he must be repealed by it as thor
oughly as the public are disguised.
Whycannot senators and representa-
tives speak their minds? 1t would be
creditable to them, instructive to the
people, aud no doubt welcome to tue
President. They have not been sent to
Congress to play the clacqueur to MIR.
C!eveland's performances; they have
roles Of their own-roles quite as useful
and important as the Presidents. Why
do they not play it, then, and stop max
ing choruses and echoes OF themselves?
II they must datter Mr.. Cleveland, why
not do it artistically? Why not initiate
him by bluntly and courageously ex-
pressing their true opinions at all times
and places without fear or favor?