The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-07
MIR oLnvELAND's RETURN.

MT. Cleveland is returning from Buzz
yards bay 10 Washington. Ordinarily !
the announcement of such an event
would create some interest; IN the pres
emit instance it creates none at all.
Mr.. Cleveland returns to Washington
to round out a really remarkable career,
a career that opened brilliantly but that
will not 50 close. But when IT IS
closed the American people will heaye
a sigh Of relief. He returns to WASH
ingson, the chief executive, solitsIy and
alone, politically speaking. Never liked
by those who were his, political op-
ponents, he has come to be positively
disliked by those who were once his
strongest supporters. Twice elected TO
the highest Office Ia the gift OF the peo-
pie by the votes of the Democratic
party, he now stands alienated from
his party and almost execrated by it.
And Why Because he has sought 10
place himself above party and suDsti-
tute his win for principle. He has sue
oeeded in dominating by his will all
his cabinets, making of the heads Of
the great departments nothing but
chief clerks. Mr.. Cleveland has been
Mr.. Clevelands administration
I 1t is said that Mr. Cleveland has re-
manned rue to the principles of Democ-
nacy but that the Democratic party has
1 departed from its time-honored prin-
/ ciples. Examining the statement with
cut prejudice and with every desire to
/ be Just before all things, is it reason
/ able to say that a whole party. num-
/ bering many millions, should abandon
/ all of those fundamental principles
upon which 1T is based while the man
whom they have elevated to the high
est position in the government alone
has remained steadfast and true to
them? Is it so likely that one-half of
a great people should have apostatized
from their inherited political principles
as that one man should? 1t certainly
1 is not And when people and he
who was their leader part, it is absurd
to say that they are all wrong and thai
he alone is right. And yet that is what
Mr.. Cleveland's admirers would have
the American people believe.
But five months Of Mr.. Cleveland :
term remain. His power to influence
or direct national legislation is gone
In all likelihood whatever he may favor
will be opposed in both house and SEN
ate, while what he may oppose will be
favored. If any useful and needed leg
islation shall be passed at the ensuing
session of congress, it wiz be mir
acIe. The session will be a fruities:
one and the whole country viii be glat
when it is over.
Self-reliant and self-willed as he is
Mr.. Cleveland, upon his return to Wash
ington, cannot but feel that loss o
party support, the want of that bon,
of sympathy which. usually exists be
tween a leader and his fellow part.
men. He may think that history vii
Justify his course, but that means, tn
justification will come, if ever, when h
is in the cold and silent grave. Me-
went the approval of their contempt
raries more than the praise OF poster
ity. The one Mr.. Cleveland has no
got, the other he may never have. H
knows that this is his last return /
Washington and that the people viii
rejoice when he. quits the White HOUSE
The thought cannot but be sad ALI
depressing one to him.