The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-03-02
Random Shots.

With the exception of Andrew
Johnson,n no president has ever been
subjected to sur repeated and per-
sistent snubs as the present incum-
bent. 1t has been, from the be-
ginnlng, an administration of dis
aster and failure. These snubs, as
in the former case, have all come
from his own party. He started
out with the expectation of dictat-
ing the course of legislation. AL
though be had many subservlent
cuckcos who whistled at his heels
his dictation has only been followed
IN one respect-the repeal of the
Sherman silver purchase act. In
stead of having congress on his
hands, as he so often asserted, il
turns out to be the other way.
Congress has the white elephant on
it's hands and, what is more, does
not know what to do with him. 1t
has come to such a pass that what
ever recommendation Mr.. Cleve.
laud makes to the legislative body,
has precisely the same effect as
rubbing cat the wrong way.
M
"Grover, Grover, four more
years of Grover" Amid the shouts
of thousands upon thousands, wav-
ing banners and noisy bands Of
music, Mr.. Cleveland was inducted
I'M to Office the second time. His
inaugural sounded brave and gener.
Gus. The world took off its hat
and waited breathlessly for the
promised millennium.
The first act of the new Presi-
dent was peculiar one Elected
to guide the destines of the fore
most republic of the world, he for
got those principles which should
actuate every freeborn American.
He attempted to place faller
monarchy upon its feet, and throt
tie young republic that was striv
ing to carry out those principles O
liberty which Mr.. Cleveland is sup
posed to have been taught upon hi
mothers knee. The attempt wa
crowned with failure. Senate
Morgan Of Alabama, chairman O
the committee on Foreign Affair
with an ability which Socrate
might have envied, read the admin
istration lecture which will neve
be forgotten.
After the Sherman silver pur
chase act had been repealed, a
Mr.. Clevelands behest, the tarii
was taken up. Flushed with tn
success attending the special ses
sion, the administration drafted
revenue bill. gave it to Mr.. Wilson
to present, and peremptorily or
dered congress 20 pass it. Th
bill was blow aimed at American
industries. It began to dawn up
on the minds of some of the mem
bers of congress that every dolla
sent to pay for foreign goods, whic
could be produced here, was dol
lar taken from our own workmen
The bill passed the house and wen
to the senate. There it met wit
determined opposition from mem
bers of MIR. Clevelands own party
1t was cut and slashed, patche
and repatched, until it was like tn
knife which first had a new blad
and then a new handle. 1t wa
then flung back to the house wit
the contemptuous direction to tax
that or nothing,
The house passed it and it wen
to the President for his signature
1t was toboggan slide for admir-
istrative arrogance. President;
) vanity could gathec itself togethe
and roll down the declivity. A
, his hopes of tariff reform or, MOI
properly, tariff destruction, ha
, been embodied in the Wilson bill
Boiling with Indignation an
slnarting with humiliation, he r.
) fused to sign the bill. Like Achi
, les, sulking in his tent, he brande
) his party with perfdy and dishono
t and, with Pontius PLATE, washe
his hands of the whole business.
The business men of the world,
whatever shade of religion or pol
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