Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-11-26
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.


especially the South, owes Mr.. Cleveland.
lie WINS put in power with nominally
Democratic Congress, because the people
were bitterly disappointed in the party
that conducted the government from 1889
to 1893. He and the Congress that was
chosen with him were pledged to two
things above all others: To reform the
tariff toward more equitable lines, and,
second, to reform the currency. For the
carrying of these expectations through
the President was in earnest. He meant
TO obey the platform of 1892 in spirit, and
meet the expectations of the country in
pushing and achieving the reforms the
popular intelligence believed in and the
popular wish demanded.
But he was confronted right at the
threshold of his administration by incip-
lent rebellion In his party In the House,
and by stubborn, reactionary conduct of
contingent of Democrats in the Senate.
The House repealed the Sherman Pur-
chase hill within twenty days of the time
it had fairly gotten to work. The Semitic
dawdled over the matter, in the face of
terrible financial distress in the country,
which the Purchase bill had brought on
and still was a prime cause of maintaining.
The repeal measure fingered in the Senate
sixty days after the House passed u, the
upper body making disgraccful spectacle
of itself by disregarding the earnest APP
peals of the President and of the entire
country for positive action of some kind.
This open and outrageous violation of
the Chicago platform of 1882 factionized
the Democracy in the House and in the
country. BY delaying the repeal it de-
layed recovery from the violent financial
panic of that year. The intrigues of Demo-
cratic Senators put the party in the lower
House in an unmanageable mood, dis
organized it; and this condition soon
spread to the rank and file over the coun-
try From the meeting of Congress in
regular session on the first Monday of De-
cembcr, 1893. to the adjournment of That
body sine die, on March 4, 1895, the Presi-
dents party in the two houses did more
to thwart him, annoy and worry him,
than they did to pass any legislation in
keeping with their hedges TO fine country.
The result was falling income. scandalous
extravaganza in expenditure, which the
President was powerless to check.
Things went from bad TO worse. The
House became as factions. turbulent. and
impractical as the worst element in the
Senate. In full view of a bankrupt Treas-
ury, no ADEQUATE revenue bill was passed
The blind hatred of the free-silyer men
for the President and his fiscal secretary
was match for the saynrery of the
French Assembly of 17SS.9O
Such a condition could bring but one
result. when. in due course. the neonle
had to mass upon it. and we saw that rp-
suit in a Republican victory that swept
the country like a cyclone in 1894 Tho
the storm. and was rcnlaced nv n Ranubl;.
can Honse. with more Than tbree- fourtLs
| majority. MARYLAND West VIRGINIA Ken.
lucky. and Missouri slinned their cables
| from the Domncro tic ,,inr ond d,;ftod int,
| Republican waters. Never since 1874
twenty wears before, had Congress- haen
SO fiercely chastised nv thanonnlor order
We need not further ira 20 th;s IN a t,,,a
| Damocrat hnn;l;o,;no st,a,naf',I h;a.aa.,
| Suffice IL ia say that tho President stood
to his colors He mointoined tbn nuhIio
| credit Inv narrowing gold for tho redemn.
lion of the government miner and whom
he borrowed Observation-Disclosures hec,uso
| Congress made war on The country,
| credit he was IoudIv rav;lod bv C,onoross,
mon who called themselves nonnas,.ats
| The incorripiblp fat money froe.coin,ao
contingent kent nm n nernstual f,,silIaJo
on the White Uouse Of the most yui.,,,
| ard injurious abuse. They were NOT sntis.
| fled with the mischief thew could do in
| Congress, bnt they set obout to c,ntpre
| every State. city. and county Denonr,t;o
| machine. and turned tbe,p into nrnnno,.
anda of the free.coinnpe berosv Dnr.in.
| 1S94-5 they kent this I'm sn nersistnntIv
that the agitation frightened canitol ont
of commerce and industry Ia tba cb,nn,
of n l1peful and strong revivoI ,bot ho
gan in NAV into dnInoso and yIon,,, T.,
November. They killed a be.ltby hrs;
ness boom in eight montbs
Cleveland never n,a,a,od H. h.,
shown not the rcmotest sirn of comnro.
missing with the shirt of renud;,tion an,
general mischief s,irred nm hv no,s,;oi,,,.
of his own marty
Thanks TO him tha Tr,,rrr, 10 ,o,
strong and sure to romain strone, a,,,,;,,
the coming winter T,honLs oh;as,, w." w. -;
sturdy maintenance Of tba ao,,atn,, -,
credit, we have in tbo I.st sovonty d,,,.
drawn ST4. ono 600 goI1 fro,n Enrn,,o ~
moro IL comino "''0
We said nj tbe ortstort &c mi, ,,;.;,
that the south wos o,,,ao;a,,,, 49,, nar''ns
Obligation of rratituaa a. ~ -,
We in This SECTION u,o,,ia ho g., ',''
u"hhaseu ny slump OF the country to
wnru me SILVER basis than would the
riener, pe,'ef organized North and East
aiu 'he IreSileht courage aud patriot
iSln saved up IRON that calamity.
90 nut Nv w slSo owe to Mr' cleveland the
taf.. ~.