The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-29

| Cleveland's response to the committee
that notified him of his nomination the
last time and declared there was nothing
! in it TO warrant one to expect that the
leader Of the Democratic party would
ignore the platform and treat with con-
tempt the trusted lieutenants whom the
people had sent to the national capitol to
assist in shaping legislation. The Ian
guage would lead US to expect the very
reverse. How many, he asked, of these
reasonable expectations have we met?
Whose advice has he (the president)
recognized? None but that of the boot
licks and sycophants who have crawled
on their knees for the crumbs of patron
age and betrayed their constituents for
the offices in his gift
"Iu the entire history of this country
the high office of president has never
been so prostituted, and never has the
appointing power been SO abused Claim
ing to be the apostle of civil service re-
form, he has debauched the civil service
by making appointments only of those
whose sponsors would surrender their
manhood, aud, with bated breath, walk
with submissive head in his presence.
With relentless purpose he has ignored
his oath of office, TO uphold and obey the
law, and has paid out gold instead of
coin and issued bonds to buy more gold,
by both actions overriding the law and
giving no heed to the interests of any
but monied friends-I might say his
owners or partners.
Refers to q Brandy COrrOdsd Nose.
"WhiIe to this besotted tyrant coin
has come to mean gold alone; he cannot,
by his mere rpse dixit,' change the law
OF this land and perVert the plain mean
ing of the English language.
Tho repeal of the Sherman law, it
was asserted, which was the first point
of attack of this unholy alliance, was
only accomplished through the aid and
in conjunction with a majority of the Re-
publican senators.
This Democratic president accom-
plished what was not possible for any
Republican executive under the circum-
stances to have brought about. A change
of the party in power had left large
mum ber of offices in his gift with which
to buy votes"
In discussing the "honest meaning" of
parity of gold and silver in the Sherman
law, he said: "The object was to have
them assist each other, to hold silver up
by holding gold down, and an honest
secretary of the treasury, who should
have resigned his office rather than sub
NIT to tho dictation of a besotted chief,
would have paid out silver to protect the
treasury from the gold gamblers and the
bond gamblers, as the law and the oath
of his office required.
mo wonder the senator from Massa-
chusetts feels warranted in twitting us
with tho decay of southern statesman
ship and charging US with dishonesty.
lie charges il, however, in another CON
nection and as aiding and abetting this
Judas from Kentucky, who after bril-
liant career of twenty years and more
as leader and champion
of the silver forces, has
in his old age come to this pitiful pass.
And then to think that the indictment
thus brought against a whole section
should have so much color of truth. and
of fact, to back it up in the apostacy from
their principles of the two other secre-
taries from the south in the cabinet of u
president who has SO disgraced the name
of Democracy.
The South Bows in Shame.
"The south bows its head in shame at
this exhibition of moral cowardice, and
despises the renegades"
The senator contended that if there has
been one idea more persistently and
prominently presented to the Amer
lean psople by President Cleveland
than any other, it has been the
lnl4uities of the tariff and the demand
Tor its revision. In season and
out OF season. with "damnable iteration"
he had sung this siren song in the ears
OF the farmers. In this connection he
quoted from messages of the president
OF 1857, 1888. and said he did it for @the