The sun., 1894-10-29
rHE rWo MESSAGES OF 1857.
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the courage Of his convictions, or seeing his duty
clear. he had neither courage nor conception.
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Mr. CIeVelahd precipitation OF n tarih reiorn'
message upon the Democratic party was the re-
suit OF Ignorance and indecision' Let me l .ell
you tne authentic account OF IT, nave he'er
seen the history Of that message in print.
Durino the LAT. fall NJ 1887 Presi,lent CIeye-
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lanu received the reports OF MS Caoihet oincers
mn doing mos, ~ the lahor bimself. a message
that has never vet aeon the light Of dsy. He
recapitulated many Of the departmental recon-
mendations, touched upon the round OF abont a
score of subjects that are usually treated in
Presidents messages, and drafted tariff para
graph that was non-committal and conserva-
tive not at all the tariff dellVerance that ne ei
terward made.
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ldeht cleveland TOOK mis- pen IN nahn anu ao-
inc Of them s,Iohtlv hnt one a, them, written
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ecutive Mansion Stationery, read.
pr,n-. pIe,.o come down. twan, to talk 10
you about tariff Yours, Hg.'' '' GROVER CLESrfasp
To these letters Mr.. Cleveland received two
,s,,cr thst an nio,sa III. eiroodv. nrenorsd nas.
ie'Uel lna' 'eihuiateu nIs areauy-prepaIeu nieo-
sage In length. and, without the writer's knowing
that IL did approved his conservative stand on
the tariff Question.
The four men asked to the white Honse were
H Mcclure % amd Samuel f + Randall dali nrf ali accepteG a.
began the Evening by confessir,g :. what was onite
well known to all four Of his guests that he
had called them. as representntiye Democrats
To help him say the right thing in his message
He said he wanted all factions of the party
either himself nr some atber sbonid be elected
President next year, 1855.
During the White House conference that
OF the party naturally paired of. and they had
Mr.. Cleveland 4 ear by turns
pu,ns one of these turns the Presden. gave
NEWSPAPER a synonsis of his message. or course
MIR. Mcclure accented. and the synopsis that ne
Wssbington paS "ased s,a,ed , te teo h6os oose
private TO the editor that IL was sent by the
Presidents permission, and might be given out
course generally printed: and inay now he seen
in newspaper files by any one, describing a
Presdent's message tia, Il saws takes n con,
seryatiyc stand nm tbe tarify ap5 tnmcbes nnnn
a score OF general topics which in the real mes
sage. were not mentioned Al all But M. Nc.
Clure did not blunder He reoapituiated n real
president's message given him in good faith
or course IL was the one 6rst nrepared NV Mr.
Clsyeland' Ar al,ready referred & to.
shown to Mr. Randall or tn Mr. Ncf'Inre ana
the frst Information they had OF Il was when
The Presidept was onite AZ seo abou, uba, N
say in his famous message Of IssS on Tho tarify
question, and had such a course been possible