The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-03-08
All Really Able Presidents Have
Been Abused.
Grover is President, He is Re
Yiledy Therefore
GREAT Is GROVER.
is Representative Patterson IS
SyllOgistic Saying.

4 D
ocraC and Is known IN the house as an I'M
shaken friend of the administration. He
talks right along without troubling the re-
porter to ask many questions, and although
his opinions are Democratic ST viii be adj
vlsa0le for Republicans to read them, as
they show what the Democrats expect As
the following is condensed from various in
tervIev7s. it is not claimed that Mr. Patter-
sons exact words are given in every case.
As to his ideas there could be no misunder-
standing The question being on the alleg-
ed present unpopularity Of the president,
he said.
s'1Ir. Cleveland has been in Office one
year and has accumulated about as much
criticism and unpopularity as all the real
~ able presidents have done ln the same
time, and certainly no more. 1T may seem
different to the people-yes. it does seem
different, because the present Is vivid in
their minds and the past is forgotten But
if you doubt it examine the papers pub
hshed during the second years Of Madison.
Jackson, Lincoln, Grant, or. for the matter
Of that. any other president But If you
want TO read abuse that is abuse get some
of the old documents that were published
by the opposition about George Washing
ton when his policy toward France was
first announced. After you read them you
viii think by mparison with the papers
of today that MIR. Cleveland is being car
RED to the skies on howery beds of ease.'
Disappointed Once Seekers.
unpopular at the beginning Of his second
year,"
~Oh, the reasons are abundant At the
end Of his first year the president has dis
appointed cit least a quarter of a million
office seekers, every one Of whom has
many friends, and one disappointed man
VIII make moro noise tban 80 who are sat-
isfied- You We're raised On a farm. be-
Eeve. and must have noticed that when the
hogs crowd to the sWiL trough all those
EaT-
shut out does All the squealing Now, if
he had from ten to q hundred friends to
help him squeai it would parallel the situ-
alton Rather rough comparison. I adj
NIT, but let st 60 Perhaps we had better
take Scripture IOr lt- Many old Office seek
ers are shut out, and many old of7cehold-
ers are turned out. Doth the Wild ass bray
when he hath grass. or Ioweth the OK over
his fodder2 Not a bit 81 it.
SAT- the end Of the first year all the meas
ures favored by the president had progress
ed just Jar enough TO create disturbance /
and not far enough to DO amy good The
president is then in the condition of q mas
ter builder who has q house half DONE cum
bered All over with sca1EOlding and disfig-
ured with litter. AT this point along comes I
Sanballat and says: That's pretty how
dy-do for a house That is not the kind OF
a house your Democratic forefathers built
before they went into captivity and So on
Now Ezra and Nehemiah and the rest of
can afford to wait until the house is done
and all the unsightly surroundings cleared /
away and it shows for what it is"
Cause ana Effect.
EFT IS an odd fact in our commercial his I
tory SIR. Patterson. that every severe panic !
has come in the year after presidential /
election How do you account for thabf'
III have NOS accounted for it, 7 ann much /
more interested in the results The panic I
comes as you say, just after new president /
suit OF causes operating long before The 4
first impulse is to blame the new admins /
tration, but the sober second Thought of the /
people always leads them to see the true {
reasons. And here is where our Republican I
friends are laying UP trouble for them 4
selves. They necessarily proclaim that the I
hard times are the result of Democratic +
rule And when the good times come, as
they are absolutely certain to do they viii 4
be bothered TO explain them al long de-
preston is certain to be followed by boom.
Eastern capital is certain to flow westward
and southwark, as I'D did after the disas-
trous period of 1S18-s Then our Repnb-
lean friends win have to make their as
sault on our tariff just at the time when the
country is on g rising tide Of prosperity
shall enjoy seeing them do it'll The prospect
almost reconciles me to their having q ma
joritv in the next house
s'There is another and very weighty rea-
son which the opposition are ashamed t0
which 3Ir Cleveland has achieved. For d
man TO start as county sheriff and become
in rapid succession mayor OF great city,
governor Of the greatest state and presi-
dent of the greatest nation ia the world I
then announce a new and aggressive poll
cy, be defeated, stick TO his principles and
come ia again triumphantly, is indeed pro-
vcking to his enemies. Say what you viii
about the principles involved. the election
of 1892 was an unparalleled personal tri-
umph.
Cleveland 40 Accident
"All this naturally makes those fellows
apprehensive- They realize what he has
done. and they have their suspicious about
what he may do I'm the future They in-
tend to put him down, if possible There
IS large class of people who love to peck
at a successful man They are fond OF say
ing that he is an accident. j cannot look
lt human affairs that way. A man can get
INTO congress perhaps by accident, but to
start at the lowest place and reach the
li gheso q man must have great deal of
.alent Of some kind concealed about him.
SUCH things are not done by accidental
any rate, not IN this country. where we are
Ill supposed 70 be born free and equal
''It was the peculiar fortune OF Mr.. Cleva-
and to come into Office when all prices
we're on the decline. People notice 4 de-
slime in agricultural produce, for instance.
Turing the first year of Cleveland. but have
the greater decline during the
asst year of Harrison It must also be re
empting three reforms at Once-in the tar
f, in the coin basis and in the civil servict
and that the claims Of tine different advc
.ares of these various reforms are at pres
mt hard TO reconcile. Many other things
night be added. b1t have given you