The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-11-04
DEMOCRACY AND ITS PRESIDENT.

1t lacks but u few days of a year since
the democracy won it's great triumph.
1t lacks but few days OF a year since
the people turned over the executive
and legislative branches OF the govern
ment to that object known as the demo-
cratic party. 1t lacks but few days OF
eight months since that party took full
control OF the government, and behold
the spectacle now presented by our ma
ton. Not one pledge OF its platform has
been fulfilled. Rather, every pledge of
the platform stands violated up to date.
There is not one acre of the republic,
from Maine to Texas, or from Florida to
the EXTREMIST limit OF the Northwest,
where the people are satisfed-where
the producers of the country feel that
they are getting any reward. Great in
.dustries paralyzed, congestion every
where-the products OF the earth not
bringing prices sufficient to pay for their
production. The great industry OF one
third OF the republic is paralyzed. The
fear OF what ia to be in case the one
pledge which the democracy is liable to
fulfill should be carried out paralyz.s
every factory wheel and banks the fires
OF every forge and furnace. Railroads
are going into the hands OF receivers;
banks are practically suspended all over
the country; and although we possess a
land unequaled under the sun-a land
with every variety of coil and climate,
filed with thousand stunt boring re-
sources, equipped for career OF perfect
prosperity-the real condition of things
is but little better than that in Turkey
or Egypt, or in any other debt-enslaved
and hopeless nation. We wonder, il the
election were 10 be called again to-Inor-
row, how many states, north and south,
The democracy would carry west OF the
Allegheny mountains. Certainly, 50
piiiful failure has never before been
recorded in all the annals OF the nations
that have existed since the light OF civ
ilzaton was first kindled in Egypt.
There is no satisfaction in saying that
all this was pointed out BY this paper
before election last year; that with such
ability as it possessed, it called on the
people to reflect that not one word that
Grover Cleveland had ever uttered or
written contained a promise Of good for
his country. His obstinacy was perfect
~ shown; his stolid Indifference to the
suffering OF the masses was perfectly
portrayed. The fact that on no subec.
in the world is he thorough; the fact
that on two OF the most vital questions
which affect the people OF this country
he had never devoted ten hours Of study
was pointed out. And yet, with the
eight or nine hundred thousand repub-
hcan voters that stolidly remained away
from the polls, he was able to pick up
enough votes to be elected president. |
Today he sits in the white house sur
rounded by the solitude OF his own OBJ !
stinacy; uses his high Office to bulldoze |
n coordinate branch Of the government.
he violates laws with irnpunity; refuses
to execute any law that does not suit |
him; and yet there are men who still
cling to the belief that lie is a great
wise and powerful man, though there is
no evidence on earth that will guarantee
that belief. In his private life he il
sullen and coarse. The whispers tina,
come out OF the very sanctuary OF his
home are despicab!e, and that such a
man should be able, by the help Ct the
great, merciless bankers, to sit as a des-
pot over the American people and to
fulc Ccngr. p as though ii were but his