The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-11-25
FOR PRESIDENT CLEVELAND,
A View of His Part in Recent
Political History.
The Attempt to Blame Him for the
Recent Party Waterloo.
This Democratic Majority and the Sill
yer and Tariff Measurss-An
Rxpressfou of Personal
Opinion.
"Ths little dogs and al.

The alleged Dem ocrstic editors and
politicians have commenced the work OF
loading upon the ample shoulders OF
| President Cleveland the bls me for our
i party's late Waterloo. Those who feel
that they failed OF receiving their share
OF federal patronage, those who have not
yet learned the definition of Democracy,
and think that it means anything to
win," and those who are weighted
down with supsrsbundanoe of unmar-
ketable political wisdom, are all barking
in the same chorus.
Aspscimsn yawp made ITSELF heard in
the editorial page of the San Francisco
Examiner. 1t is an open question ii
the Elk sminer did not feel pleased at the
general result, because OF the opportun-
ity afforded for expressing it's long
standing, unreasonable, unjust. but
easily explained antagonism to thechiei
Democrat of the land.
The chief counts in the editorial in :
dictment we refer to are: That the
Democratic party sent him to w ashine-
ton two years ago backed by Demo-
cratic majority in both house and sen
ate that ne compelled tariff reform to
wait while he peddled out offices among
his admirers. lit is evident that the
Examiner was so unfortunate as not to
be one OF the latter; that he failed to
take the action necessary to avert the
late panic, and that when the house did
attempt to carry out the pledges of the
ssh ali hn NJ Z N
administration to be used to thwart it
on the most vital point" asserting that
it was the interference OF Secretary Car.
Isle that enablsd the sugar trust to
carry its point in tie senate.
1t is the erroneous assumption OF the
initial count that enables both the sin.
cere aud insincere opponents OF Mr..
Cleveland to lay upon him the cause OF
imperfect redemption OF Democratic
promises and the resultant party demon.
alization. The president did not 60 to
Washington backed by real Demo-
cratic majority in the senate; nominaliy
it was Democratic. practically it was
not. What is the use OF being deluded
by names? OF what avail is the parti'
san tag tied to man who is not
Democratic when the time for being go
arrives? 1t is in an analysis of the sit
uation in the senate of this present con.
gress that the explanation OF the appar-
emit failure o. the Democracy is to be
found, and the reasons developed why
the Democratic plans of q Democratic
| administration were frustrated.
There can be no fairer test of the pur-
| ity OF q mans partisan convictions than
his vote upon legislative propositions
that involve political theories. Two
measures OF this class, and OF vital i'm
| portance to the people, absorbed for
many months the attention OF the
present senate. Both were of true
Democratic inspiration both were in
accord with the latest official utter
ances of the Democratic party; both
bore the stamp OF the administrations
approval. Their speedy passage by
the Democratic majority in the house
evidenced unmistakably the endorse
ment OF the immediate representatives
of the Democratic masses. One was for
the repeal of the purchasing clause OF
the Sherman act, the OF her the Wilson
tariff bill. Did either measure find.
waiting upon the threshold Of the SEN
ate, a Democratic majority, ready and
anxious to bid it Godspeed on its errand
to the White House? Not bit OF it.
In each instance it was discovered that
the boosted Democratic majority had
dwindled into fearful, fearful minor
ity. engaged in devising ways and means
of wringing concession and consent from
an obdurate majority When the repeal
bill came to the senate that body con.
tanned forty-four men who wore the
badge OF Democracy. and who consti-
tuted q number sufficient to control.
These men, if grounded in the political
faith they professed, must have known
that the Sherman law purchase clause
was undemocratic in principle, unsound
in policy and disastrous in operatio n
That it was an unjust diversion
of public funds into private Golfers
That it was az distinctly tribute to the
silver kings of the west, as protection or
the mineral products of Ohio and Penn
eylvania is to the coal and iron bsroni
of the east. That it was q part OF the
protective mosaic. That it was q bounty
paid out OF the common treasury, by tht
politicians of the Republican party t
hold the silver states in the Republican
column. That the platform upon which
the present Democratic administration
rode into power denounced it and de
manded its repeal. That Independent
of the question of the free coinage of sill
YER, it was intrinsically wrong, and j
they failed to promptly obliterate /
when summoned to do so they would Of
recreant to their psrty's principles, faith
less to it's pledges and betrayers OF it!
administration. And yet, for nearly
three months, while the financial credit
OF the country hung by the thread o
doubt and distrust, half OF these Damo
cratic badge wearers fought tenaclousy
with the enemies of Democracy sgains
the iulfllment of the party's covenants
Nineteen Democratic senators voted fol
the repeal bill. Such was the Demo
cratic majority" that backed" Presi'
dent Cleveland when he opened tht
battle for reform.
When the Wilson tariff bill entered
the precincts of senatorial dignity and
courtesy it found, lined up with the ad-
versaries of tariff reduction, not les
than seven of this alleged Democratic
majority. These men, if possessed Of al
intelligent conception of the doctrines
they claimed allegiance to, knew tina
protection meant the delegation OF spe-
cal privileges to a class; that 1t was th'
taxation of the many for the few; tina
it was an outrageous and absurd inter
ference with the natural right OF the in
dividuai to utilize the products OF hi
labor to the utmost advantage, by buy
ing and selling where and with whom h'
pleases. unimpsired by governmental
restrictions. In a word, they knew tina
protection was un-Democratlc. The,
were aware of the radical character o
ba porto rlodUoa in fha laak patiOu a