The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-03-22
Grover, Grover, Four years more Of Grover;
 In he goes,
 Out they go,

TOUT years more or GrONCri
 In he goes
 Out they go,
 Then well be in clover.
 Such was anticipation. How differ ent has been experience! Where now are the fat times of prosperity and the happy days of contentment? In what can democracy take pride or the coun- try find pleasure2 How many Amcri- cans arc in the clover fields and how great multitude find nothing better than thistles?
 The most tremendous facts of the first year of Growers four clover seasons are painfully familiar. The largest is a panic unprecedented in severity Be- hind that great disaster follow its evil brood of business failures, more numcr- ous and extensive than were ever be- fore known, loss of employment for hundreds of thousands of honest toil- CTS, widespread misery and privation. the sacrifice of great property inter- ests, the foreclosures of mortgages on homes, and unnumbcred evils of like nature. The first sale of United States bonds made within the last third of U century to obtain money for the current expenses of the government is one feature of the democratic clover crop. Falling and inadequate revenues have grown in Growers meadows.
 Discomfort has spread and deepened since the day when happier times were ponderously prophesied. Social unrest has been widened and intensified. The proposal of au income tax has cngen- dered class strife. Prolonged struggles over the imitation of the currency have arrayed section against section. The democratic tariff has set the whole world of industry in turmoil. Busi- ness stagnatcs, while Bourbons fight in the halls of congress which were to have been the presidents forcing beds of prosperity. The Hawaiian fasco has deepened the disgust engendered by blunders and crimes that are worse than blundcrs at home.
 If democrats narrow their view of the first years record of their party since it attained full control of the gov ernmcnt, and look merely to political results, the retrospect is not whit more cheering. Defeat and disscnslon have reigned supreme. Republican majorities have swollen to enormous proportions in republican states. Dem ocratic strongholds have been lost. Quincy led a spoilsman's carnival in the state department but all his prostitu- tion of consular patronage went for nothing when the votes were counted. Hoke Smith and Lochrcn made war upon republican pensioners and coddled democratic veterans, but the result was only more tremendous republican majorities. Democratic senators have humiliated the democratic president, and the democratic president has bull lied democratic senators and represen- tatives. The party ip power is .mired in wrangling and confusion of counsel It founders in the quicksands of selfish schemes, insincerity and cowardice, and in its helplessness it rages to no purpose and curses its own leaders
 Such, in the briefest possible space, is the great change wrought in one brief year Where there were coni- dence and hope despair and fear reigns to-day. Power has proved the bane of the party which seized upon it so eagerly. Its pledges are unfulRlled, and its hopes of inauguration day are q mockery of memory now. The travail of unfruitful labor and aimless war fare fills the present with bitterness and blackens the future with the shad- ows of more terrible defeats than have yet been experienced by the mis- guided and luckless democracy. There is no joy in remembering, no comfort | in reflection, no promise iu looking | ahead. And three years more of | Grover arc to follow the one that has | worn wearily way.-Cleveland Leader.
 
 eB"The president has not shown | himself wise during the last year. Headstrong as vain men are apt to be, aclking sympathy for the sufferings of the people or the anxieties of business men, absorbed in q desire to impress his own ideas upon the history of the | country, Mir. Cleveland has alienated a great portion of his political friends At the same time his want of American feeling, his hostility to an Amercan in- dustrial policy, and his incapacity even to comprehend patriotism in the Hawaiian matter, have tisrned against him multitudes who are not partisans and have brought upon the country disgrace and disaster.-N. |. Tribune.
 cY Secretary Hoke Smith says he is a better Cleveland man to-day than he ever was. Has tho administration at last been forced to get out testimonials as to its ''beforc and after taking" ef- fects?-Philadelphia Press.
 CB Mir. Cleveland probably picked out n nice place in the Dismal swamp for the democratic party's sojourn after March 4, 1897. Toledo Blade. J