The Irish standard., 1908-05-09

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votes to all the people who wanted to
put down the rebellion and restore the
authority of the nation over all the ma
tonal territory. Thus when the death
Of Lincoln sent johnson to the presi-
dency he remained 4 Dennocrat still,
although at first lie was inclined to
take much harsher measures to the
leaders of the fallen confederacy than
some of the Republican chieftains ia
vored. a conflict, however, quickly
arose between him and the Republican
Congress. and during the greater part
of his service he had the most tenn
pestuous career that was ever led by
any occupant of the White House. In
that respect his administration ex~
ceeded that of Tyler for passion blaz-
ed more lercely iii the civil war and
reconstruction days than it ever did
before or since in the United States.
There was at the outset something
of the same sort Of doubt as to Grants
politics as that which had been held
about the politics of Taylor twenty
years earlier. AS soldiers neither maid
much attention to politics. Taylor
never voted until the campaign Of 1s4s.
in which he was elected. Weed and
the other asute leaders, however,
sounded him before his nomination
and discovered that he was with them
on the larger issues of the time, and
they made no mistake when they
christened him Whig and elected him
as such. In fact, he would have gone
much farther had he lived against
the compromises which were put up
to placate the South than his Northern
Whig associate, Fillmore, did when
death sent Fillmore to the presidency.
The Republican leaders of 1868 were
equally fortunate when they appropri-
ated Grant. They discovered that in
the fight between Johnson and the Re-
publican Congress- Grants -sympathies
were on the side}of Congress. During
his entire eight years in the presi-
dency he stood out for stalwart Repub-
lican policies. Previous to the. civil
war Grant had meyer voted in the pres
idential canvass except once, and then
he voted for the Democratic nominee
Nobody ever had any doubt, however,
as to his party status after he entered
Office on March L. 1869. He remained
Republican to the, day Of his death.
Every president Of the past third of
century can easily be placed in a
partisan sense. Hayes, Garfield, Ar
thur, Cleveland, Harrison, Mckinley
and Roosevelt carried the party desig-
| nations so obviously that nobody ever
made any mistake as to the political
sect to which they belonged. Many
| thousands of Republicans voted for
Cleveland during his three presidential
| canvasses. The mugwump revolt Of
| 1884 was one Of the causes of the de-
feat of Blaine and Of the breaking of
the spell of imagined Republican in
vincibility. Cleveland recognized that,
in considerabl. degree, he was in
debted for his election in 1884 to Re-
publican votes, and he showed some
favors to Republicans during his ad-
ministration. Fewer Republicans sup
ported him in 1888 than in 1884, but he
IN fEo fnx ,,Fc
ton Of the Republicans to the end of
his career. Many of them voted for
him in 1892 and aided in defeating
Harrison. Cleveland will All a large
place in history, At the present time
he is by far the most distinguished
American in private life. AS man
who has served two terms in the pres
idency he stands apart from the aver
age roll of great statesmen. Only
Washington, Jefferson. Madison, Mon
roe. Jackson and Cleveland filed out
| eight years in the presidency, and
Cleveland has the distinction of being
the only man who has served two
terms that were separated from each
other. Among Cleveland's admirers
today there are as many Republicans
as Democrats. But nobody makes the
mistake, or ever did make the mistake,
Of calling him a Republican. He was
a Democrat during all his days, and
though, like Mr.. Roosevelt, some Of his
measures received hearty Republican
support. they were Democratic mea-
sures, and their success added to the
distinction of q Democratic admins
tration. In a government by parties
presidents must inevitably belong to
one or the other Of the great political
sects, az all of them have done.
How to Be Neishboriy.
At no time is the friendly neighbor
more nonular or more annreciated tha n