Norwich bulletin., 1912-09-25
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
How About Those Cleveland Daysa

MT. Editor: feel like the revivalist does when he sings Tell Me the Old. Old Story, and 1 feel that the old, old story of Wilson German tariff days cannot be told too often. There was no cry of high cost of living in those days, for there was nothing connected with the administration of Grover Cleveland from March 4, 1893. to 1897, that had tendency to cause necessi- ties of life to be high. Oh. no, There were no great strikes in our mill cities, towns and villages during those Wilson-Gorman times-no. not one. People whose wages were down to the lowest notch ever known, and who were not employed half the time, had no desire to strike, Those were beau tiful, never to be forgotten days, The man who kicks at a $20 suit now could get most any kind of a suit for s8 or S10, but where, oh where, were the dollars?
 President Cleveland himself said those never dying words, ''perfidy and destruction" in speaking of the Cor mandized Wilson tariff bill, but didn't have the moral courage to veto it, He did call congress together in extIe session to repeal the purchasing clause of the sherman silver law w AtTe were HIS QetAoCfdllC' CeASI eSS- men then? They were fighting him at every turn. Our own Charlie Russell was with him. our republican senators, Hawley and Platt. and many other old republican warhorses like John Sher- man of Ohio, Hale and Frye of Maine. Morrel of Vermont, Hoar or Massa chusetts and many more were with the president in his honest attempt to relieve the financial situation. After weeks of bitter fighting in which Cockerell and Vest of Missouri, Dan iels of Virginia, Bates, Berry, Black burn, Teller, Stewart, Jones of Arkan- sas and Jones of Nevada, Dubois, the late manager of Ch,mp Clark's cam paign, and many mure democrats, or men who afterward became democrats, were doing all in their power to op- pose Cleveland. His measure was suc- cessful by republican votes.
 There never has been a vital ques- tion before congress when a democrat | ic president occupied the chair that l was for the interest of the whole country that received the solid sup | port of both houses.
 There never was a measure passed l by congress since the republican party l good of the entire-entire, mind you | southern democrats.
 Even Andrew Jackson, one of the 1 democratic saints, had to threaten to hang John C. Calhoun to the highest
 tree in his own Carolina to bring him to his senses.
 What, then. are we to gain by re- turn to Wilson laws, Wilson bills and more business destroying legislation? Hon. William A. King has beer
 nominate for congress by the repub-
 licans. He Is a clean, bright, capable | man, and if we elect him he will no
 be found voting for free trade or neal
 free trade, 1 wish a progressive lik,
 G. Warren Davis had been the eandi'
 date decided upon to oppose the dem
 ocIat chosen Monday, l wish th'
 farmers Who are sn hot al Taft for hii
 Canadian reciprocity scheme WeulI
 just stop and leek over the reeor,
 vote at Hartford and see h6w Ray
 mend J. Jodein of Baltic and Bfyai
 F. Mahan of New London voted Whei | the matter of Canadian reciPfecit!
 was up there. These two able den1e crats were both in the legislature
 How did they vote?
 Net eAly that. but ha4f- did the bil