The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-21
A MAMMOTH FAILURE.
Cleveland, tho 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 na- tional administration that no matter what injury the public service has suf- fered since March 4, 1893, MT. Cleve- laud 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 un- derstanding having been reached by the presidents friends. This was indi- cated by the unanimity of the senti- ment expressed by the few newspapers that continue to stand by the adminis- tratiop 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 frustrate the wonderful reforms con ceived in Mir. Cleveland's great mind.
 In accordance with this policy, MT. Eckles, the comptroller of the cur rency, contributes an article to the Forum Magazine on 1.-The Business World vs. the Politicians" in which the following occurs: 1.-The great service which President Cleveland has just done the country has not been in pointing out the evils which afflict our financial body and suggesting the rem edies necessary to rid us of them, but in his directing and fixing the atten- tion 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 aster averted, until the legislative branch of the government repeals 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 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. It is safe to say that when partisan zeal and rancor have yielded to judgment based upon truth and justice, those that are now his bitterest enemies will concede that he displayed statesmanship in . great crisis, and proved equal to the emergency"
 The time has passed for intelligent judgment to concede to Mr. Cleveland It is conceded that Mir. Cleveland is an honest man. He desires public improve ment, but his methods are so crude; his ignorance is so varied and amazing; his cgotism 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 SpTcdu ulSITeSS anu poverty.
 To undertake to eXonerate him from 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 derings, the democratic party must ac- ccpt it's share of the blame.
 No effort of Mr. Clcveland's friends to save his reputation will avail. He is a mammoth and hopeless failure. He is the greatest prcteuder 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. It 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 congressP Did it then, or at any time anterior to the repudiation of MT. Cleveland by his party, deny that the congress was dem- ocratic by a heavy majority-that there were in the senate 43 democrats, 39 re- publicans and 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 se- rious consideration. Cuckooism at last has run mad.-Albany Journal.
 OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.