Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26
Weary, Vexed, Even Angry


A Mugwump. or IAN Independent, +"
as he signs himself, discusses, in the
last number of the Forum, magazine,
the question whether Mr.. Cleveland
has made a failure during the first
year of his second Administration; and
he answers in the affirmative. eff a
national election were to be held to-
morrow" he says, .'no shrewd observ-
er doubts that the Democrats would be
defeated in every Northern State, and
pei haps in more than one Southern
State"
Under such circumstances, Mr..
Cleveland, according 10 his Mugwump
friend, is .'weary and vexed. "''weary,
vexed, even angry" His disapoint-
ment and irritation are so great that
it seems he has lately "said to several
of his friends that he made a mistake
in becoming President again.
What did Mr.. Cleveland mean by
such a remark? He did not become
President. He was made President by
the will of the people. The triumph
in his election was the triumph of the
Democratic party, not his personal
victory; and if mistake was made, it
was made by the people either in put
ting the Democratic party in control at
Washington or in their selection of
Mr.. Cleveland as the representative of
Democratic principles in the White
House. He may have made mistake
in accepting the nomination, so far as
concerns his personal comfort and his
individual reputation: but shall Pres
ident elected as Democrat say that
the people made mistake in voting
against Republican policy and in favor
of Democratic policy?
AS this mugwump friend of Mr..
Cleveland's says, when he was elected
"no great party in our whole history
had ever had SO great triumph under
circumstances so happy, nor great
task before it so clearly laid out, SO
universally understood" Never be-
fore had the policy and principles of
party been laid down more squarely
than werc those of the Democratic
party in the Chicago platform. The
way was smooth for President elect
ed on a platform so lucid and precise.
His course was laid out for him unmis-
takably.
Therefore, if mistake was made, it
was not made in Mr.. Cleveiand's s.be-
coming President again. but by the
people in choosing the wrong pilot to
steer the Democratic ship. It was
made by him in refusing to obey the
sailing directions under which he re-
celved his commission from the Demo
cratic party.
1t is his own fault, then, that Mr..
Cleveland is "weary, vexed, even an
gry," so that his old Mugwump al
mlrers are questioning whether his
Administration will prove a failure.
If it be true that the people are now
ready to repudiate the Democratic
party, ouly so short time after in
trusting it with the Federal Govern
ment by a majority SO emphatic, it is
because the President, elected as
Democrat, has conducted his Admins
tration on policy which ignores and
defies the Democratic principles for
which the people voted. He has pur-
sued a policy of his own making,
which is at total variance with the def
inately formulated pledges and policy
of the Democratic party. He is in
trouble because he has insisted on rep
resenting only himself, and this is not a
country which can be successfully gov
erned by one man. The people do the
ruling here, through political party;
and if a President does not obey their
will, they repudiate the party which
has made itself responsible for him
Neec York Sun.