Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-06
INGALLS, ON CLEVELAND.

Had the American people no Other
cause for universal joy, this alore e
would suffice. He went into power
with much opposition. He goes out
with none. The nation shares the re-
lief with which he processes to antici-
pate liberation from the cares and bur
dens of State. If he has q hearty,
cordial, sincere friend, advocate and
hampton in either House of Congress,
such a one turks privily in ambush
and makes no announcement.
Intrusted with plenary power by the
people in 1898, the failure of his ad-
miuistralion in every department
stands confessed. His policy at home
has been destructive, and abroad hu-
initiating and ignominious. The de-
Graded coalition by which he was
elected made no promise that he has
not violated, and gave no pledges that
he has not betrayed. His tariff reform
has afforded neither revenue for the
treasury, protection for capital, nor
wages for labor. His financial meas
ures have restored neither conf
dence nor prosperity. Upon the pre-
.ext of replenishing the gold reserve,
the national debt has been increased
aad bonds sold to favored syndicates to
meet deficiencies in the ordinary eX-
penses of the government. His di.
plomacy has been apulogetic and va
ciiating to the verge of dishonor, saved
only from infamy by its grotesque al d
divert G imbeclity.
The Hawaiian episo5e would be in
credible in the prospectus of comic
opera. There has been no day in the
past four years that has not witnessed
some new triumph in Clevelandism-
some bank closed; some railroad in the
hands of receiver; some merchant
broken; some furnace eXtinguished; ;
some MANNED and disabled veteran
stgmatized and branded with dishonor,
driven to the asylum or the grave.
Boosting of his robust and incorruptble
integrity, he retires with vast fortune
accumulated during the most disastrous
period Of his country's history, in which
millions have been reduced from slllu
ence TO want, and from poverty to beg
gary.
History will record its incredulity
that such an impostor could SO long es
cape detection He is the central f,-
ure of one epoch TO which no lover of
mis- country will ever revert without the
blush of indignant shame at the de
struction Of is resources and the deg
radiation OF its dignity and honor;
period that has no parallel except in
the time of Walpole, described by M
caulay as "the era of dwar6sh talents
and gigantic vices; the paradise of cold
hearts and narrow minds; the golden
age of the coward, the bigot and the
slave" He bequeaths TO his successor
falling revenues, disordered finances
Frustrated industries and social discon-
tent, which has already obliterated po-
litcal frontiers and will compel the re-
adjustn ent of parties to meet the cou-
ditions OF the revolution upon which
we have entered. With q belligerent
and mutinous Senate, becoming con-
stantly more jealous OF its prerogatives,
the new chief magistrate will be COM
PEELED to tread the paths of his feet
with with circumspection. He must
take heed how he stand lest he fall.
The people are fatigued with ad-
versity. They are tired of hard
times. They anticipate some mi
raculous and supernatural return
OF prosperity. Popular fancy de-
picts Mckinley standing like Moses at
Horeb, to whom Hamilton was likened
by Webster in his magnificent apos
trcphe He smote the rock of the ms