Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-09-12
DICTATOR GROVER.
No othor President Has Presumed to
Govern the Great American People.

Govern the Great American People.
Mr.. Thomas F. Bayard has borne the
character of brainy man and has been
ranked among democratic statesmen.
The people will learn with regret that
he is rapidly going into an imbecile
dotage. His last illusion is, perhaps,
the widest of his vagaries. He imagines
that this country has changed its form
of government, and that 1t has become
a monarchy with Grover Cleveland as
its ruler. Here is what he recently
said to the English people in reference
to our people and their government:
"The President of the United States
stands in the midst of a self-conadent
and oftentimes violent people and II
takes a man such as Mr.. Cleveland to
govern them"
The most charitable view that we can
take Of this utterance Of Mr.. Bayard s
is the one we have given above. To
suppose that he is still possessed OF a
vigorous, healthy mind is to believe
him a traitor to his people and to the
principles he has always protested.
The only strength Of any true man as
a President Of these United States Is a
strength to obey the laws and faithfully
carry out the behests Of the majority OF
the people. The strength Of President
Of this government lies in his ability
to serve the masses. A President OF the
United States is in no sense a ruler.
Were It otherwise men Of such COM
mon origin and training as Grover
Cleveland would never reach the Presi-
Dental chair. 1t is because the Presi-
dent is not ruler that often such men
as Cleveland are selected from the
masses and carried by wave OF popu-
lar enthusiasm to the Office Of Chief
Executive. Were it otherwise the peo-
pie Of this government would select
men of birth, Of ancestral lineage, men
who were accustomed to command.
Who would think Of selecting the err
rand boy, who had been the lacquey
and the flag Of all employed in some
village store or shop as ruler OF a
great nation? A president Of a demo-
cratic country is selected from the peo-
ple because Of his nearness to them,
because of his practical knowledge OF
the service the people endure and a
manifestation Of his ability to faith
fully serve and sympathize with the
people. He is selected because he Is In
sympathy with and has a disposition
to encourage and uphold the self-con-
fidence and self-reliance Of the people,
That Mr.. Cleveland has disappointed
the hopes and expectations Of the peo-
ple we confess. That he has proven
himself a hypocrite the masses Of the
people know. That he has usurped
authority and violated the constitu-
tional rights Of the states is admitted.
That he has become the tool Of the
bankers and bondholders and sacrificed
the prosperity Of the. people to this
class is to his everlasting shame. But
that he governs the people save as
usurper and perjured official Is not true.
He hypocritically proclaimed the be-
lief that the public Office was a public
trust, and in the face Of this proclama-
ton has used public property for
private use as no previous President
has ever presumed to do. This man Of
plebeian antecedents has presumed to
usurp powers and to dictate to his
official family as no President with a
military training or newness from as
ISOLATION with kingly government
which surrounded our first Presidents
ever thought Of arrogating to them
selves. The sovereign people are the
governors of this country, whether they
perform that function as mild-man-