The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-05

the people unselhsh service, he has given
him his due, But thus to picture him
is not to Coucedc that he has genius
for statesmanShip. II may attest that
he is well meaning and the poasessor OF
the sterling qualities which, while they
make a man a strong character, do not
necessarily produce man of high
achievement. We believe that history
will decide that Mr.. Cleveland was what
Rufus Choetc would have called "A first
rate, second rate man
Troy Times: "rhc vital defect of the
retiring president is that by nature and
experience he is an autocrat. His mental
processes are not I'm sympathy with re-
publican Institutions. lie is out of place
at the head of q democratic government.
The president and congress have been
at open war much Of the time. This is
because the president does not compre-
hend the constitutional relation between
the executive ana legislative departments
of the American government. His be-
ltttling of the peoples representatives in
congress and refusal to be dcfcrential to
them or to meet them half way has
hampered his own plans and defeated
some of his most cherished purposes"
Philadelphia Inquirer: "Grover Ceve-
land came into office -four years ego.
hauling down the American flag In Ha-
Null. ne TelllbS WIN ltlt NIDtiItbl llit
trampled in the dust Of the streets of
Havana, and with the ink yet wet upon
the pen which denied by the veto of the
immigration bill that protection TO the
United States SO much needed from the
invasion of hordes of cheap and ignorant
laborers. He returns to private life with
his party shattered and demoralized, and
so thoroughly out of harmony is he with
the Democratic leaders that they have
refused to permit the ratification of the
peace treaty the negotiation of which
was perhaps the crowning glory OF his
administration
Philadelphia Times: Grover Cleve-
lands retirement will be enthusiastically
and even boisterously welcomed by all
who hate honest government, honest
money, honest politics and honest fidelity
| to public trust. Grover Cleveland
has crystallized into the history of the
| republic the record of the strongest and
most heroic official personality of any
| president, with the single exception of
| Jackson, whom Cleveland fully equaed
and possibly surpassed. That Mr..
| Cleveland has committed errors in the
administration of his high trust will be
| freely admitted by himself. He would be
| more than human If, in the delicate and
| often complicated duties of his office he
| could always be entirely right; but that
| he has been unfaltering in his fidelity to
| his duties as dictated by the most care
| full and conscientious study of them. will
| not be disputed by any whose Intelligence
| and fairness make them just judges of
| the records of our public men. He appre-
| ci9teS the freedom of this republic as the
| liberty conserved by law, and he has held
with scrupulous consistency to the ma
| iesty of the law and obeyed 1t as he un-
derstood it, regardless of popular preju-
| dice or favor. No impartial pen will ever
write any other record of the administra-
tion of Grover Cleveland as president of
| the United States"