The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-14
CLEvELAND's HLUNDERs.
Disgraccfui Record of tho Democratic
 Prosident.

we nave nad two years or Grover Cleveland. We are to have two more before all is done and the record of one mans blundering incompetency and perilous conceit shall have been closed. What will those two years bring forth? To what new dangers shall we be exposed, to what fresh hu- initiation subjected? Is there any limit to the calamity within reach of dull, self-centered autocrat, surrounded by servile sycophants? If so, let us pray Heaven that it may have been reached. If not, let us pray for strength and courage and wise patience, for surely we shall need them all.
 The salient feature of MT. Cleve- lands character Is his limitless con fidence in himself and his immeIsur- able contempt for every other fuctor in the problem of the country's destiny. Wonderful as has been this mans rise out of social and political obscurity to the lofty pinnacle he now cumbers and degrades, 1t is infinitely less amazing than his stolid insensibility to every law, custom or tradition that conflicts with his scheme of absolute and des- potic rule. He regards congress in the light of futile and impertinent obstacle. He treats his cabinet officers as though they were mere clerks If he thinks of the people at all, he thinks of them as having ex- hausted their sovereign prerogatives in calling him to the presidency His rayiYDn frnyo ha o@M to the present moment, has been one of unmitigated selfishness. He began on the 9th of that month by commis- sioning his man Blount to go to Homo lulu and make case against the American people. He has maintained that standard ever since. His secret machinations against the champions of human liberty in Hawaii his con- nivance at sedition by the followers of the barbarous and corrupt queen; his scarcely yelled invitation to riot and anarchy in a neighboring republic, then petitioning for adoption and for brotherhood; his insolent refusal to submit the question to congress until he had exhausted every means of establishing his policy of restora- tion-these and other acts of sinister deliberation reveal the temper of the man in colors that can never fade. As to Samoa, also, he has disclosed the same impatience of the limitations of his office, the same contempt for the obligations of which he is the solemuly declared trustee. In Samoa he found the United States bound by treaty to compact of protection and advan- tage. Of the important considerations involved in that compact it is not nec- essary to speak. Mir. Cleveland was not the judge of them, in any event. The treaty had been sanctioned by the power authorized in the constitution to make treaties, and Mir. Cleveland was neither asked nor commissioned to interfere. His man Gresham made the suggestion, officially, that the United States should withdraw from tho tri- partite agreement with Germany and England. Then Mir. Cleveland, in his message to congress, earnestly recom- mended the adoption of Gresham's sug- gestion. Finally, seeing that congress studiously ignored the schcme-sceing that he had not an advocate, not even the humblest cuckoo chirp-he set about the accomplishment by impudent and arbitrary indircction of that to which, as he well enough knew, congress was unalterably opposed. He ordered his man Gresham to omit the estimate for Samoa in his financial budget and thus defeat the country, defy congress ard dishonor our national obligations for the qualification of his reckless and ar. rogant caprice.
 Through this amazing tumble of fur tive conspiracy, studious deceit, brutal insolence and defiant usurpa- tion has Grover Cleveland brought us to the halfway point of his ndminis- tion. His policy In Hawaii has just been emphasized by bloody insurrec- tion, led by Bloupt's witnesses and CO., adjutors in the insurrection plot and inspired directly by his own outspoken sympathy with the degraded and licen- tious queen. For all the blood that has been shed, for every peril to which civilization has been subjected, for the shame and sorrow which this country has been made to feel, and for any evil consequence that may follow this last outbreak, Mir Cleveland ia di- rectly responsible and will be so held by enlightened public opinion every where. He closes the first half of his term with disgraceful and abhorrent tragedy of his own making-appropri- ate continuation of two long years of stupid ignoring of the coordinate branches of the government, of de- liberate usurpation of authority not conferred upon him by law, and of con- temptuous defiance of the people, who, to their own undoing, have made him what ne is.
 How will he close the second half, and with what miracles of infamy will he consign the chapter to hideous i'm mortality?---N. Y. Tribune.
 Done by the Democracy.
 Loans were made and bonds for them were issued more than thirty years ago to save the country-in war. That war was the outcome of the demOcratio