The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-02-05

MR.. CLEVELAND AND DEMOCRACY.

MR.. CLEVELAND AND DEMOCRACY.
The great overtopping party
question today is, if we shall
sacrifice the democratic party
to Mr.. Cleveland, or Mr.. Cleve-
land to the democracy. Democratic
faith and policy has the elements of
Immortality in its bosom. 1t will live
far beyond even the memory Of Mr..
Cleveland or any other single member
of it. 1t can never be DESTROYED as
long as we live under a republican
form Of government, 1t spoke ma
tion into being. II has conducted it
through trials, tribulatlons and over
the protests of civilization to the very
zenith of success. It has demonstrated
the great truth that there is no God
given right that any one man is TO rule
the people-that the people are both
wise and virtuous enough to govern
themselves. Not Mr.. Cleveland nor all
mugwumpeTy can prevail against this
fact. Today the party is within two
years of having won one of the most
glorious victories within the
history of the party or of the
nation and it is divided, hos.
tile and warning. The causes are
plain and widely understood. Mr.
Cleveland has assumed the character
of dictator to the party, and while
sound to the core upon most of the
principles of democracy, yet on two
leading points of party faith he is alto
gether wrong. We will state them
frankly and fully and for no other rea
son nor with any other purpose than the
hope of seeing these two grave faults
corrected in time to prevent further
disintegraLion; as we'll as to enable US
TO again win in '96.
These two faults, serious in our
Judgment as partisan democrat, are
his policy on the silver question and
also upon civil service reform. So
called democracy has no older, better
defined or more binding tenet of faith
than its longtime devotion to silver as
a metal, the full equal of gold at a
fixed ratio. Mr.. Cleveland has elected
to reverse democratic policy on this
point, and favors the single or gold
standard instead. We warn him now
and here that no man, not even Jeffer-
son himself, could be return to earth. is
or ever was strong enough to set the
party to the right about on this sacred
and time-honored democratic precept.
The distresses prevailing now in the
financial world are due only or mainly
to the republican party's utter demon
etization of silver. Mr.. Cleveland's
fault comes in when he called congress
together to repeal the Sherman pur-
chasing act instead of to discuss means
by which the democratic party might
soonest and most perfectly restore sill
yer to its old-time equality ith gold.
Since then he is in fault and he will SO
remain until he sends a ringing free
coinage message to that body demand
ing the return TO specie basis, because
it is all folly to claim that we can have
a specie basis with only one money
metal.
The other fault is scarce less in de-
gree than the above, it is this vain,
nonsensical, unfair and unfaithful
sentimentality regarding tenure of
Office. 1t would be all very well, were
all democrats situated as Mr.. Cleye.
larnI is. But they are not. They have
worked hard through thirty years of
unrelieYed defeat worked steadily for |
the principles which we here speak of |
as eternal and indestructible. They
ale only men after all and they would |
see party interests considered as we'll
as other matters of higher and loftier
import. They seek recognition, re-
ward and encouragement. This can
not be gwen them, nor even the hope
of success next campaign, while the re-
of the nation are all placed in
the hands OF republicans and continue
there. The time may come in the
future when the patronage of the ad-
will not spell in party
matters, but alas, that time seems a
oRg way in the future yet. If he
would serve the party and put it in
trim to win next campaign, he must
''turn the rascals out" at once and
then with a reversal on silver the
democracy will faunt her
banners in the sky again in
'96. If he don't, we are doomed
.galn to humilitating and crushing de
feat.
We cannot afford to give him taffy
low. 1t is the duty of every true liege-
nan of the party, every true democrat
% talk honestly and plainly on this :
ubject. Would that we could say q
hat the president is as sound on these c
wo tenets of party faith as he is on :
be tariff and all else d emocratic, but \
's can't. c.