Middletown transcript., 1894-04-07
WEARY, vEXED, EVEN ANGRY
N, Y. Sun fDem, J,

| N. I. sun (Dem.
A Mugwu mp, or "An Independent,' .
as he signs himself, discusses, in the
last number of the Forum magazine,
the question whether Mr.. Cleveland
has made failure during the first year
of his second Administration; and he
answers it in the affirmative. "If a
national election were to be held to.
morrow" he says, ''no shrewd observer
doubts that the Democrats would be
defeated in every Northern State, and
perhaps in more than one Southern
State"
Under such circumstances, Mr..
Cleveland, according to his Mugwump
friend, is ''weary and vexed," weary,
vexed even angry" His disappointment
and irritation are SO great that it seems
he has lately ''said to several of his
friends that he made a mistake in be-
coming President again."
What did Mr.. Cleveland mean by
svch a remark? He did not become
President, He was made President by
the will of the people. The triumph in
the election was the triumph Of the
Democratic party, not his personal VIC
tory; and if a mistake was made, it was
made by the people either in putting
the Democratic party in control at
Washington or in their selection of Mr..
Cleveland as the representative of Dem
ocratic principles in the White House.
He may have made mistake in accept
ing the nomination, so far as concerns
his personal comfort and his individual
reputation; but shall President elected
as Democrat say that the people made
mistake in voting against Republican
policy and in favor of Democratic pol
icy?
AS this Mugwump friend OF Mr..
Cleveland's says, when he was elected
mo 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 before
had the policy and rrin ciples of party
been laid down more squarely than
were those of the Democratic party in
the Chicago platform. The way was
smooth for a President elected on a
platform so lucid and SO PRECISE. His
course was laid out for him unmistaka.
bly,.
Therefore, if mistake was made. it
was not made in Mr.. Cleveland's s.be-
coming President again." but by the
people in choosing the wrong pilot to
the Democratic ship. 1t was made by
him In refusing to obey the sailing d.
rectlons under which he received his
commission from the Democratic party.
1t is his own fault, then, that Mr..
Cleveland is "weary, vexed, even an
yry," so that his old Mugwump admir-
ers are questioning whether his Admin
stration is not a failure. If it be true 4,
hat the people are now ready to repu-
late the Democratic party, only so
hort a time after intrusting it with {
he Federal Government by majority
10 emphatic, it is because the President, ,
elected as Democrat, has conducted
lis Administration on policy hich
gnores and defes the Democla ic prin-
'iples for which the people voted. He {
las pursued a policy Of his own max |
ng which is at total variance with the
lefinititely formulated pledge and pol
cy of the Democratic party. He is in i
rouble because he has insist ed on repre-
enting only himself, and this is not
ountry which can be successfully goy- t
rned by one man, The people do the I
uling here, through political party; {
nd if a President does not obey their i
will, they repudiate the party which t
las made itself responsible for him. '