The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-06-13
ROT AND RANT.
President Cleveland Grows simpyV n,
 dicuIoua,

President Sieveinno crows Simply Rl
 dicuIous.
 President Cleveland, in his lette- q. the democratic editors of New YorS, state, declared that the democrats. party was the party of the people. and these were the reasons he gave for hi, belief in the truth of that declaration,
 "First-Because 1t is not waited hither ana thither by every wave of public popular er- citement and misconccption.
 "Secohd-Because it insists that oil interas. shall be defended in the administration of ,h. government without special favor or discrimis nation
 "Third-Because 1t resists dangeror, schemes born of discontent, advocated hv ar peals to section or class prejudice, and rein. forced by the insidious aid of private selesh. ness and cupidity
 "Fourth-And above all. because It reco,- nizes the fact that sound and absolutely sass money is the life-blood of our couutrr,s strength and prosperity"
 i've suppose the first article of Mr 4, dsvcland's belief is founded on tba fact that the democratic party went half crazy during the seventies over the greenback craze, which was the most noticeable wave of public popular excitement and misconception of recent years, and upon the other fact that al. most the entire democratic party ia being carried away on the free silver wave of popular excitement and mis- conception.
 His second belief may have been in. spired by the war which the demo- cratic party made for years upon the manufacturing interests of the coun- try-a war the only object of which was to destroy tho prosperity of the United States and bring the people of this country down to the level of the less fortunate people of Europe. How ever, the president said nothing in re- spect to the special privileges accord ed to the sugar and oil trusts by the late and disreputable democratic con- gress.
 Tho resistance which the democratic party has ever shown to schemes born of discontent was illustrated to Mir Cleveland's satisfaction, no doubt, by the attempts of the democrats to de- stroy the protective tariff, for that was the most dangerous scheme ever proposed in this country. It was ad- vocated by appeals to sectional and class prejudices of the most infamous character. It resulted, moreover, in the passage of a law which discrimi- mated against the north and in favor of the south, and sought by an un- constitutional enactment to. lay heavy burden of taxation upon the men of the north because they have been thrifty and euterprising.
 If doing the things which Mir. Cleve- land says the democratic party has done makes that party the party of the people, it is very evident that the democratic party is not for the people, for its record proves that it has done exactly the opposite of what the presi- dent says it has done. As party it has always been waited about by every wind that blew when it believed it could get votes by going with the wind. It has never been a party which be- lieved in defending all interests It has been a sectional party, party op- posed to the great industrial interests of the north and in favor of the polit- ical interests of the south. 1t has ever been ready to take up any scheme, 10 matter how dangerous, which could be used to get votes, and it has advocated those schemes by appealing to every prejudice that could be aroused. Last, but not least, the democratic party has never been ill favor of sound and safe money. For years it has been commit ted to the free coinage of silver through the action of it's representatives in con gress, and it will require all the strength which President Cleveland's administration possesses to prevent the adoption of free silver plank by the democratic national convention next year.
 President ClevelandTs platitudes may look we'll in print, perhaps, but they do not mean anything, and he knows it He is simply ridiculous Leader