The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-19
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1885
The Republicans Cooled on.

The cynical tone adopted by the
"EveEing Journal and other Republic
can papers yesterday touching President
Cleveland's Venezuela message was 4
fair exposure of the insincerity of the
patriotic talk in which these same
sheets have been indulging for many
moons. The G. Q. P. editors had sized
up Grover Cleveland as an utter non
belligerent. They had made up their
minds that under no circumstances
could he be goaded into talking fight.
Therefore. they thought it quite safe
to shout and yawp for war. And they
did and yawp. and they ehucked
all kinds of odiu1n upon the President
because he did not shout and yawp TOO.
Now they find Did Grover has more
fighting blood in his body than the
whole crew of them combined. While
they have been bowling he has been MAX
ing sure that he is right. Now that
he is sure. he is quite prepared for
war, if it must be war. They discover
SIMULTANEOUSLY uhal lneS QO nv ""As
war at all. They were only talking
about war. what they really want is
peace and a Republican administra-
fion.
But the fre-eaters of the Republican
press are not alone. It was a sight for
sore eyes. to see that frantic old hum
i Boutelle of Maine. taking water
in the House OF Representatives yester-
day, while some of his fellow jingos
hailed his words with faint applause"
as the press dispatches put it. If ever
there was a convicted hypoerite and Ii
beller and general all-'round no-good,
that man is assuredly Boutelle of Maine.
It is a pleasure TO see him pilloried,
swallowing his own menaces in great
gulps. and explaining his position amid
an atmosphere of cold and cutting
sneers.
Vance and Frye are slim to be heard
from. No doubt they win assume a
conservative position-like Boutelle.
The bright young Editor of the Jour
nal' tried to carry water on both Shout
ders. He hardly made a success of it.
He felt bound to endorse the Presidents
stalwart assertion of the Monroe doc
trine: but he could not sanction the
methods" You know. What an ancient
and t-hreadbare gag. In the name of
common sense. what is there wrong
about the method, if the principle is
correct? 'The position assumed" says
Sir Oracle, sis automatically untenable."
He adds. -"sUndoubtedly a commission
win be appointed" VIII the clear headed
Editor kindly furnish a clue to this re-
markable effort of logic?
But his is not all. He goes con-
The United States should not suffer q
European nation to a%ggrandize Itself ia; at
on the other hand. in assuming its right
to be a final court of appeal. the United
from the time of Alexander Hamilton, It
has always been shy Of assuming. and
which is contrary to rs undevlatlng pei
We do not remember any dietum of
Alexander Hamilton on the subject. Can
the Editor of h 'tJorrnal" cite one?
AS for our traditional policy, I'VE are un-
der the impression tina we were pres
pared to drive France out of Mexico in
1866 by force and arms. if necessary. and
that France only got out because Ma
poleon III. thought it more digniied TO
get out tina be kicked out.
Summed up. the position of the Jour
nal" is that if somebody else had done
what President Cleveland has done. it
would nave been all right, and, in fact.
the thing Itself is all right; but it is all
wrong because he did IT, and his way of
doing it is wrong anyway because it
is his way.