The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-21
CLEVELAND's LETTER.


On Wednesday the obituary organ in
this city had an editorial entitled "a
Leader Needed" in which the writer
bewailed the condition of the country
and the improbability of change be-
cause of the lack of a leader For the
thousandth time it repeated Napoleon's
doubtful aphorism: There is nothing
in men; there is everything in man"
1t was preliminary to a spasmodic at
tempt to boom Don Cameron as the
man to fill the bill for the Republicans
of the West.
In the course of its jeremiad and ex-
pressions of hunger after a leader it
SAIL:
1.-The great want seems to be some
chieftain, some man who can point out
a way for others to follow. There is
no inspiration in the White House.
There has been none there for the past
twelve years. The old days of great
men as presidents and cabinet officers
seem to have passed away. The ster-
ling patriotism, unfinching courage and
incisiveness, even when wrong, of Jack
son, is no longer known
On reading that, the thought present.
ed itself: If President Cleveland should
do anything or say anything in the ma
ture Of leadership, or even make a sug-
gestion of the proper course for the
nation or his party to pursue, the writer
of that call for inspiration from the
White House and a leader for others
to follow, would be the first to find
fault and to denounce such action as
hulldozing. When reading the Presi-
dents letter to Congressman Wilson,
we fully expected to see, in the morn
ing obituary, a vile attack upon Cleve-
land for presuming to say anything on
the subject of the tariff bill. We were
not disappointed.
Only two days after crying out for
inspiration from the White House, for
the boldness, incisiveness and courage
of Jackson, even if it was wrong, the
same voice yells out anathemas against
Cleveland and charges him with seek
ing to bully Congress" and with think
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of clerks who have no higher duty
to perform than to do his will"
The letter of Grover Cleveland to Mr..
Wilson is one that any American had
perfect right to pen, and the senti
ments such as the President might
with perfect propriety, but in a more
formal manner have addressed TO the
Congress of the United States. There
will be differences of opinion as to his
position on the questions treated of.
That is a subject for fair criticism. But
there is not a breath of bulldozing in
the whole document and it conveys no
hint of an order or whisper of a COM
mand
The carping Of our contemporary
after its shifting wall for leadership and
its affected sorrow that there is none
in the White House, is the sort of turn
about tactics that it has been pursuing
for some time. One never knows where
to find it on any grave public question
1t is this today and its opposite tomor-
row. The most amusing tumble of in
consistencies imaginable would be
scrap-book with clippings from our &C
robatic contemporary on the same sub
jects at different dates.
CleveIand's encouragement to Wilson
to stand by the House bill as far as
possible will be endorsed by the i'm
mense majority of the Democratic par
ty. 1t is in line with the platform of
1892, and dead against those mutila-
tons and changes of the bill which
have been made in the Senate to placate
the corporations and satisfy sectional
demands He has spoken out boldly"
and pointed out a way for others to
follow" and our obituary neighbor
should have been the last, though it
has been the first, to find fault for that
plain-spoken and vigorous advice