The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-20
SAM JONES ON CLEVELAND.
A "Rugged, Sturdy, ole,
UnbulldOznbIe Democrat.
From the Atlanta Journal.


Principles never change; politics may.
The man who adheres TO principle is as
changeless as the sun and as immovable
as the fixed stars. You cannot bride him,
nor buy him, nor scare him. He had
rather be right than rich; he had rather
be poor than to be prince; he had rather
be loyal to conviction than wear the digni-
ty of a king. am a democrat by nature
and prejudices. I am prohibftionlst by
the grace of God; and I speak from the
position of prohibitionist when 1 say
believe Grover Cleveland is a thousand
times more loyal democrat to the prin-
ciples of democracy than the bowling mob
at Chicago who smirched his good name
and who trampled his administration in
the dust.
am inclined to think, however, that the
resolutions and the vaporings of a mob
like that have as little effect upon Mr..
Cleveland as the lighting of a gnat upon a
bulls horn. The populace is tickle;
"Hosanna' one day; Cruelty him the
next. The populace has changed, not Mr..
Cleveland. He is the same rugged, sturdy,
unpurchasable, unbulldozable democrat
that ne was when his name was the most
magnetic name on this continent and the
politicians we're pounding him and the
populace was crying "HosannaW from
ocean to ocean. Mr.. Cleveland is the same
man to-day that showed the republicans
under four years ago and downed them SO
they don't know till yet what hit them.
The change has been in the people, not in
him. Mr.. Cleveland and the people are
making history. Mr.. Cleveland will live
in history when Teller and PETER and
Bryan and Boies and Bland shall have
ceased to live in the hearts or minds of
the people.
The republican party at ST. Louis be-
Titled, beniggered, and beriddled them
selves in their effortsfto smirch his ad-
ministration. No thinking man will think
as well of the republican party as he
would If they had left that out of their
platform. Mr.. Cleveland has never done
me a personal favor. am sure l never
asked one of him. His administration from
top to bottom has never done me a per-
sonal favor. / may be fool in what
say, but 1 am not a rascal hired to
say it. Mr. Cleveland has had the hardes,
term of Office any President ever had since
Lincoln. He has borne the insults and ig-
nominy sought to be heaped upon him by
both parties with a heroism and a reti-
cence both wise and commendable. A man
conscious of his own rectitude can sleep
at night though thousand dogs be bark
ing all around. He can attend to his bust
ness by day and with a thousand traduc-
ers at work here and yonder. Mr. CleVe-
land has stood for the stability of our cur
rency for the maintenance of our inteE-
rity, for the dignity of our nation, and az
a conservator of its peace and best inter-
ests with enemies in both parties, cunning
and INSCRIPTIONS, knitting him at all points
and trying TO NlLldlS his luDuence and mis-
represent his motives and acts. This coun-
try, in my candid judgment, has never had
a. truer more conscientious and courage
Gus man as its executive since my knoWl-
edge of public men.
A good sister told me the other day to
keep my mouth out of politics. 1t may
have been good advice. I am sure of this
fact, however; nobody has a mortgage on
my mouth nor a bill of sale to it am
not seeking the applause of men, I am
simply standing up to public man whom
I believe is unpurchasable and unbulldoz-
able wish we had for governors and
mayors and judge and sheriffs and grand
Jurors such stuff as President Cleveland Is
made Of We would then at least know
how they stood and they would make ms
know how we must stand in our relation
to law and order and right. Occasionally
I love to say a good word for him whom
1 believe to be honest and fearless and
true when 1t is popular in the drift of the
gang to bemean and belle and belittle and
besmirch him. A party, nation, or an