Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1893-11-17
Gle veland, the Greatest Of His Day and
Generation.
[ElIIor InIenoI Ioa.nlI.

calm nrONer OitNeIanu, president OF tne
United States, statesman and lawyer,
stands to-day before the people who
elected him TO office; man of principle
above craftsmanship and wisdom above
popularity. Ii is the custom now and
long has been, to write one thing aud
think another, but what write shall be
facts in simple attire II dressed at all.
The financial distress from which, like a
ship submerged by angry waves, We are
now emerging, that has covered the
whole country, has not been viewed cor
rectly, except as TO it's painful conse'
quences; It's cause misunderstood and
misrepresented. SO 1t is apparent in
the result of recent elections. and the
men and the party that made possible
such calamity by depicting the treas
ury-in opening the vaults TO rapacious
hordes OF soldiers. ex-suttlers, ex'
teamsters, ex-bounty Jumpers, ex-camp-
followers and unreiormed pillagers, are
the elected and applauded heroes OF the
hour.
The condition OF the treasury on the
return OF the democratic party to Office,
80 different from its condition when that
party was retired, made possible the
enactment OF the financial troubles that
threw the whole country into convul
sions; made 1t possible for men OF great
wealth, who controlled more money
than this great government could com
mand, TO bring on panic. Deadly cpl
denies, poisonous contagious are not 80
infectious, not 80 panic stirring, not 30
fright CONFUSING as a money panic. The
entire army OF ghosts that buried TO all
the world, except the treasury, turned
loose to scamper daily and nightly over
the land, would never create the dread
alarm that paralyzes the hand OF the
monied mau that grips his dollars when
he hears the distan, cry Of hard times"
SO, but to cry wolf is all that is need
ed to bar the doors OF the fold.
Cleveland, unyieiding. uncompromis-
ing, above the temptation 10 pander or
cater TO demands that would bring popu-
larlty aud party agrandizsment, requir
ed that right should prevail; that his adj
ministration should 20 down in history
clean, pure and patriotic. Is he endors
ed by his party? No, Did he toresee
the result. as he did the wisdom OF his
course? zee; and bent oil his genius to
the issue 10 prevent the people in their
blindness from self destruction. Then
what q painful sadness must he endure
to-day when he contemplates the shall.
lowness, except for evil, that sways his
enlightened(G) people. above whom he
stands so high intellectually that the va
pors hanging between him and the mass
es obscure his bearings from their com.
prehension. Washington, whose mem
ory is thrice more dear 10 Americans
than that of all other soldiers and
statesmen, Was not without eensure.
During the last year OF his administra-
ton the question OF impeaching him was
seriously considered aud Congress went
so far as to decline to accord him an es-
tablished courtesy and honor, because
he would no: be urged into an avoidable
war when the States were in no condi.
ton to meet il. And 10 day his patriot
ism meets universal applause. SO il
will he with Cleveland; his statesman
ship may have been equalled in one. HE
wisdom in another, his fidelity and
patriotism in another. but in whom, in
what man OF greatness, OF genius, have
all these been blended 10 make the great
Moses Of the time? The pure patriot
whose official acts speak all around the
globe, stands alone in bis greatness, say.
fng, Party is but anisorganization TO
effect means, not to enrich and elevate
mon and corporations, and principles
are above measures and men and parties,
the latter may fail and fall, ...but princi-
Piles live and they shall not he sacrificed
for men or party during my administra-
ton" Scorel.him with sepithet, pour
out all your yials of lodium upon him;
charge the evils OF the preceding admin.
istration to him in the present-seeing
only the consequence and blind to the
cause, but be will go down in history the
greatest man OF his day and time.
see a man OF 90 years shake his head
in contradiction, ''as though 90 years OF
stupidity inherits wisdom" A hale,
2OO.pound pensioner says HARRISON" a
l5.yearling boy, whose vicious reading
and cigarettes have destroyed his ca
pacity for mind, says Buffalo Bill.
Each of these has an influence in the
government OF this country-even the
bow has, and all help to shape it's histo
ry-deplorable q IL. Nj. LAsLEY.