The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1908-07-02
at the hands Of a people whose fu.

she had made possible.
Within the past few months the
present Administration has had
heaped upon it vituperation almost
limitless in amount and largely
contemplate in kind. It's head
has come IN for the lions share Of
this abuse; and Mr.. Cleveland S
ssman Friday" as it has pleased
some to term Mr.. Carlisle, has
! been reviled as "traitor" second
only to the President in his fallen
Iestate. This torrent of abuse has
come almost altogether from with
in the pale of the Chief Execu-
tive,s own party; for even his po-
litical opponents have always re-
lspected his courage and independ-
ence of conviction and action. SO
! pronounced has been the source of
these vehement structures upon
Mr.. Cleveland as to almost lead
the discriminating mind to believe
they are promptings of resent
ment for his declining to aid in
promoting an issue he considers
wrong.
In January, 1892, Mr.. Cleveland
declared emphatically for the gold
standard. Amid the widest en-
thusiasm he was made the party's
nominee six months afterwards;
and his election was regarded as
an emphatic endorsement of his
personal views as well as triumph
of Democratic principles. The
bimetalic utterances of the plat
form of 1892 were, at the time,
given an Interpretation by large
majority of the party altogether at
variance with the meaning of the
free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer at the ratio of I6 to I. Then,
at the time of the Chicago con-
vention, wherein lay the rreachery
of the President to his party that
speeches in that convention denun-
ciatory of his official course should
have met with its warm approval?
One of Mr.. Cleveland's first acts
upon his induction into the Presi-
Dental chair for the second time
was to delegate Commissioner
Blount to investigate and report
upon the troubles in Hawaii. Was
not the diplomacy of the Depart
met of State in that matter en-
dorsed by the Democratic party7
We aver that it was. Have not
the dispute over the Venezuelan
boundary line, through Minister
Bayard, southern man, and the
trouble with Spain over Cuba,
through Minister Taylor and Con-
sul-General Lee, southern men,
been managed with dignity and |
honor to our nation by the Admin
istration7 no party or faction has
had the temerity to affirm other
wise. Has there been any ques-
ton as to ineficiency in the admin
istration of the affairs of the War
Department? Secretary Lamont
was universally commended for
his curtailment of expenses in that
branch of Governments service,
especially in utilizing army officers
by detailing them as Indian agents.
Has not our navy, first given the
impulse by VIM. c. Whitney, that
made it worthy the name, kept
steadily on in the progress of its
development and equipment, with
southern man at its head? Has the
Interior Department suffered under
the southern man who has been its
chief, or his first assistant, a Mis-
sissippian7 Has VIM. L. Wilson
proven a failure as Postmaster
General or brought discredit upon
his southlandP Has the Attorney
General been derelict to duty7
What wrong has the Commissioner
of Agriculture done, unless to try
to save money to the country by
suspending the free distribution of
seed, thereby bringing upon his
head the wrath of interested con-
gressmen7 Has not reform in the
tariff, as far as Mr.. Cleveland was
able to bring it about, been accom-
plished? Has not the civil service
policy, inaugurated by Cleveland
and from time to time endorsed by
his party, been fostered? Again we
ask, where has been the treachery?