The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-16
Observation-Disclosures
American Citizens Generally Are Not
Happy Unless They Can Find
Fault.
Time Only Can Right the Wrongs
Committed Against Great
Men.

Ocrat and IL known in the house as an up-
shaken friend of the administration. He
talks right along without troubling the re-
porter to ask many questions, and although
his opinions are Democratic it will be ad
visable for Republicans to read them, as
they show what the Democrats expect. AS
the following is condensed from various in
terviews, it is not claimed that Mr.. Patter
sons exact words are given in every case
AS to his ideas there could be no misunderl
standing. The question being on the allegl
ed present unpopularity of the president
he said:
"Mr. Cleveland has been in office one'
year and has accumulated about as much
criticism and unpopularity as all the real
ly able presidents have lone in the same
time, and certainly no more. 1t may seemE
different to the people-yes, it does seems
different, because the present Is vivid ini
their minds, and the past is forgotten. Bud
II you doubt it m the papers pub
lished during the second years of Madison
jackson, Lincoln, Grant, or, for the matterI
OF that, any other president. But IL YOU
want to read abuse that is abuse get someI
of the old documents that were published
by the opposition about George Washing,3
ton when his policy toward France wasj
first announced. After you read them youl
will think by comparison with the papersS
Of today that Mr.. Cleveland is being carl
ried to the skies on fiowery beds of ease" I
Disappointed Office Ike
But why should any president be most,
unpopular at the beginning of his second
year,
"Oh, the reasons are abundant. At tho
end of his first year the president has dis
appointed at least a quarter of a millioN
Office seekers, every one of whom had
many friends, and one disappointed malV
will make more noise than SO who are sat
isfied. You were raised on a farm, I be
lieve, and must have noticed that when theX
hogs crowd to the swill trough all thost
who get there are quiet and the one who ia
shut out does all the squealing. Now, III
he had from ten to a hundred friends tdI
help him squeal it would parallel the situ
alton. Rather a rough comparison, / adj
NIT, but let it go. Perhaps we had bettel
take Scripture for it. Many old office seek
ers are shut out, and many old officeholds
ers are turned out. Doth the wild ass bray
when he hath grass, or loweth the OK oveIi
his fodders' Not a bit of it.. u
"At the end of the first yearall the measH
ures favored by the president had progress
ed just far enough to create disturbance
and not far enough to do any good. Tht
president is then In the condition of a mas
ter builder who has house half done, cumH
bered all over with %scaffolding and disfig Il
ured with litter. At this point along come.H
Sanballat and says: That's a pretty how
dy-do for a house. That is not the kind III
a house your Democratic forefathers built
before they went into captivity and SO on
Now Ezra and Nehemiah and the rest "a
them could afford to wait. and the buildel3
can afford to wait until tho house 10 I'm
and all the unsightly surroundings cleared
away and it shows for what it is"
Cause and Effect.
at is an odd fact in our commercial hisN
tory, Mr.. Patterson, that every severe panilu
has come in the year after a presidents &
election. How do you account for that2" b
II have not accounted for it. l am much3
more interested in the results. The panid+
comes as you say, just after u new presidenta
comes into Office, but Of course it Is the re Il
suit of causes operating long before. ThsA
first impulse is to blame the new admins n
~tration, but the sober second thought of the3
people always leads them to see the trrt
reasons. And here is where our Republican,
friends are laying up trouble for them
selves. They necessarily proc. IN that tho
hard times are the result ofeatVncratid
rule. And when the good tis ID,
they are absolutely certain to d..
be bothered to explain themat\ y
preston is certain to be followed "
Eastern capital is certain to fl, d
and southwark, as il did aftr, UpMX
trous period of lS13-S. Then r. 1IlM
lican friends will have to ma M
sault on our tariff just at the til, CO. JAht
country is on a rising tide of prc rerity. d
shall auiov seeing them 1n IL. The nrosppprM
almost reconciles Inc to their having a ma u
jority in the next house. N
''There is another and very weighty red
son which the opposition are ashamed "a
admit-namely, the stupendous success
which Mr., Cleveland has achieved. For VI
man to start as county sheriff and become Il
in rapid succession mayor Of a great city
governor of the greatest state and presi8
dent of the greatest nation in the worldM
then a new and aggressive polt1
cy. be defeated, stick to his principles an
come In again triumphantly, is indeed proFa
oking to his say what you WIN
about the principles involved, the election
sf 1899 wal an unparalleled personal trim
umph.
Cleveland No Accident.
"All this naturally makes those fellow: 4
a~pprehensive. They realize what he hasN
uohe, anu tney nave tnelr suspicious aDOtUX
what he may do in the future. They in
tend to put him down, il possible. There
is a large class of people who love to peck
at a successful man. They are fond of say
ing that he is an accident. l cannot look
at human affairs that way. A man can ged
into congress perhaps by accident, but I'd
start at the lowest place and reach the
highest a man must have a great deal Of
talent of some kind concealed about HIM
Such things are not lone by accident-a1
any rate, not in this country, where we an
all supposed to be born free and equal.
ut was the peculiar fortune of Mr.. Cleve
land to come into Office when all prices
were on the decline. People notice a de-
cline in agricultural produce, for instance,
during the first year Of Cleveland, but have
forgotten the greater decline during thdi
last year of Harrison. 1t must also be rel
membered that Mr.. Cleveland is really att
tempting three reforms at once-in the tar
i'll, in the coin basis and in the civil ~service1
and that the claims of the different advO1
Gates OF these various reforms are at pres1o
ent hard to reconcile. Many other thingd|
might be added, but l rave given you'd
enough to answer the question, why do