St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-24
CLEvELAND's WISE COUNSEL

CLEVELAND'S WISE COUNSEL.
When President Cleveland makes up
his mind to give publication to his views
on matters political the occasion chosen
is always timely, and his words selected
with due care and uttered with force
and aptness. He has been peculiarly
fortunate-or SagaciOuS, as the case
may be-heretofore in his choice of OPP
portunities to enforce his views upon
the public, and has succeeded remark
ably we'll in bringing about results that
have been of substantial benefit to the
country and to the Democratic party.
His letter to Gov. Mortimer at the time
when the silver repeal bill was pending
in the senate had potent influence IN
determining the fate of that measure.
1t came when several of the honest
money senators were hesitaiing as to
the best policy to pursue, aud might
have been easily swerved FROM the wise
and patriotic course which had been
outlined by the president in his mes
sage. and it had the effect of nerving
them to perform a necessary, even
though disagreeabie, duty.
Of similar character is President
Cleveland's letter to Hon. Chauncey f.
Black, president of the National Asso-
diaIion OF Democratic Clubs, published
yesterday. The Democratic party, he
asserts, "iS best organized and powerful
when it strikes for principles instead of
spells, and quickly responds to the
stimulus supplied by an enlistment in
the peoples cause" All Democratic
organizations, he declares with empha-
sis, "shouid labor increasingly and
earnestly to save our party in this its
time of power and responsibility from
the degradation and disgrace of a fail
ure to redeem the pledges upon which
our fellow countrymen entrusted US
with the control Of their government"
These are words of truth and sober
ness, to which the people may well pay
heed. But they are intended for appli-
cation by others who are not directly
addressed. 1t does not take shrewd
man to discern that they were written
with a view to their effect upon the
members of the United States senate
who are hating between the alternatives
| of duty and eXpediency. The degrade
ton and disgrace that these men seem to
he DESTROYS of fastening upon the coun-
try will be lneffable, and generations
vet unborn will feel their banefuI eff
| tects.
The American people can never for
get or forgive a violation of the pledges
of political party. They may overlook
serious deviations from strict con-
| struction of the laws, but pad faith is
the one objectionable sin which friend
and foe of the party in power can never
| overlook. The promises made by the
Democratic party in convention at Chi
cago were in the nature of contract
that was ratified by the people at the
polls. To the repeal of the Mckinley
law, the eliminating atrocity of class
legislation, the party is pledged, but
that pledge is yet far from redemption.
1t is to these promises that Mr.. Clevc-
land directs public attention, and his
insistence that they shall be kept is
timely and lii keeping with that stern
devotion to public duty that has been
characteristic of bis career.
1t is earnestly to be hoped that the
! words of the president will not fall