The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
a GREAT PRETENoER.
Cleveland. the Idol of the Calamity-cre
ating Cuckoos.


One of the most extraordinary mani
festations of the time is the cool as
sumption of the advocates of the ma
tional administration that no matter
what injury the public service has suf-
fereG since March 4, 1898, Mr.. Cleye-
land is to be held blameless. He al
ways has been right. If his advice had
been followed the country would have
prospered and the democracy to-day
would be stronger than ever. This is
what his friends say to-day.
There is plenty of evidence that this
contention is the result of clear I'M
Outstanding having been reached by
the presidents friends. This was indi-
Gated by the unanimity of the senti-
ment expressed by the few newspapers
that continue to stand by the admins
tration in their views of the work of
the Fifty-third congress. They all
agreed that the failure of the congress
came from men who were resolved to
Illustrate the wonderful reforms con-
ceived in Mr.. Cleveland's great mind.
In accordance with this policy, Mr..
Eckles, the comptroller of the cur
rency, contributes an article to the
Forum Magazine on THE Business
World VS.. the Politicians" in which
the following occurs: THE great
service which President Cleveland has
just done the country has not been in
pointing out the evils which affiict our
financial body and suggesting the rem
edies necessary to rid us of them, but
in his directing and fixing the atten-
ton of the business interests of the
country upon the fact that a COM
mercial and industrial revival cannot
be expected, or continuing loss to
every citizen prevented, or national
and individual financial credit and in
tegrity maintained. or ultimate dis
nster averted, until the legislative
branch of the government repeats
laws which are now working harm
and enacts others which will prove of
public benefit. However any citizen
may differ with the president upon
political questions, the great majority
of the American people must, when the
doubt which now envelops the cOun-
try's financial integrity and its ability
to maintain the worlds commercial
monetary standard is dispelled, credit
him with n courage strong enough to
have led him to do the right thing be-
cause it was right, despite strenuous
opposition or but half-hearted support
within his own party and antagonism
from the other party. 1t is safe to say
that when partisan zeal and rancor
have yielded to a Judgment based
upon truth and justice, those that are
now his bitterest enemies will concede
that he displayed craftsmanship in a
great crisis, and proved equal to the
emergency"
The time has passed for intelligent
Judgment to concede to Mr.. Cleveland
the possession of statesmanlike power.
1t is conceded that Mr.. Cleveland is an
honest man. lie desires public improve
ment, but his methods are so crude; his
ignorance is so varied and amazing; his
egotism is so colossal, that he has sue
ceeded in a comparatively short time in
sinking the country from a condition of
unexampled prosperity to one of wide
spread distress and poverty.
the blame of what has been done is
more than presumptuous. He must
shoulder his responsibilities. For in
dOrsing his heresies, and for being will
ing to follow him in his aimless wan
behring's, the democratic party must ac-
cept its share of the blame.
No effort of Mr. Cleveland's friends
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Il mammoth and hopeless failure. He is
the greatest preteuder who ever
achieved high office in the United
States, and the fact that he was twice
able to impose on the American people
is not particularly creditable to their
intelligence.
It is Just as foolish and Idle to en-
deavor to try and absolve the democ-
racy. The New York Times seems to
be disposed to make the effort. In an
article published recently, it says:
"Strictly speaking, the Fifty-third con-
gress was not democratic-at least, not
in its concluding session. 1t was large
ly populist, largely republican, largely
democratic. The republicans had a
plurality. The democrats had certain
ly no majority"
This is cuckooism run mad. What
did the New York Times claim
the morning after the election of
the Fifty-third congress? Did it
then. or at any time anterior to the
reputation of Mr.. Cleveland by his
party, deny that the congress was DEM
ocratic by heavy majority-that there
were in the senate 43 democrats, 80 re-
publicans and 6 populists, and in the
house 222 democrats, 124 republicans
and populists?
The effort to relieve the president
and his party for responsibility in these
circumstances IS too grotesque for Sc
rious consideration. Cuekooism at last
has run mad--Albany Journal.