Huntsville gazette., 1894-05-12
CLEVELAND'S BLINDNESS.
q Round of Solid Shot from n Democrats
ic Gun.

ic Gun.
President Cleveland has written a
letter deploring the state Of collapse
to which the democratic party under
his guiding care has come 1t is not
as effective letter as the one in which
he transmitted to congress his august
disapproval of the Bland seigniorage
bill, and it can hardly be expected to
undo the damage which that one did 1t
is unhappily fact that when Mr.. Cleve-
land writes for his party he pens mere
platitudes, but when he takes his pen
in hand to serve his masters in the
New York clearing house his words
count.
There is nothing in the presidents
letter to the association of democratic
clubs which will awaken enthusiasm.
There is not thought which is not
commonplace. In the midst OF such a
condition of popular turbulence as has
not existed in this country since the
civil war Mr. Cleveland confines him
self to vague CONGRATULATIONS and a
word or two about tariff reform. He
does not often speak TO the nation ex-
cept through his official state papers
When he breaks silence and makes
public address to great association of
democrats it might be expected that
his words would ring like trumpet
blast instead of having the cold and
impassionate phrasirg of a diplomatic
document
Grover Cleveland is secure in the
,l~.t l. T. l. L. VIC
profits of his official station have put
him beyond the possibility of personal
poverty. But it is not too much to ex-
pect that a millionaire president should
take some note of the bitter cry of a
distressed people. The country re-
sounds with the tramp of unemployed
men marching upon Washington, there
to explain their grievances. Every
where there is trouble between mas
ters and men. Strikes disturb the
course of trade, paralyze industry and
breed poverty and distress Farmers
are bowed under the ever-increasiDg
load of indebtedness, fostered by the
falling prices Of grain. Merchants suf-
fer because customers have no money.
There is more active discussion of radi-
cal cures for social and commercial ills
than there has ever been before on this
side of the Atlantic. Upon all this the
president is wholly silent Concerning
the currency question, which more than
anything else is exciting the people, he
has no word to say. His one word Of
counsel, expressed with true Cleveland
esque ponderoslty, is:
"All who are charged on behalf of the demo
cratic party with the redemption of these
pledges should now be impressively reminded
that we wpr our way TO victory under the
banner Of tariff reform, 50 our insistence upon
that principle is the condition of our retention
Of the peoples trust and that fealty TO party
organization demands the subordInation of in
dividual advantages and wishes and the put
ting aside of petty and ignoble jealousies and
chickering's when party principles and party in
tegrity and psrty exis stence are OF stake"
How is it to be wondered at that in
the face Of such fatuousness, in the
presence Of such inane insistence upon
single dogma and blind ignoring of
the peoples more strenuous demands
voters are fursaking Grover Cleveland
y armies? Tariff reform is great is
sue, but il is not the sole issue upon
which the campaign Of this fall will be
fought The question Of silver Is an
equally vital one. and for that the
president has not passing word OF
friendliness.
The effect of Cleveland's letter upon
the national association Of democratic
clubs will be something very like that
Of fire in the rear. Chicago Times
4