Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1885 — SOUND AND SAFE. [ARTICLE]

SOUND AND SAFE.

Thr Next President Oowhpicuocs for His Sincerity and Good Hensk. The German proverb says: “Speech is silvern; silence is golden.” Some of Governor Cleveland’s critics affected to regard him as a stupid sort of person during the campaign. Yet he has sense enough to recognize the German proverb. Before his election he preserved a golden silence. He wrote no impolitic letters. He uttered no impolitic words. Slander could not divert him from the course he had determined u non. W 1 en its forked tongue strucK him he met the blow with three simple words: ‘Tell the truth.’

Since his election Governor Cleveland’s speech has been silvern. Everything he has said has been conspicuous for sincerity and good sense. When questioned a day or two ago as to what he contemplated doing after his resigna tion of his-piesent office, the Governor said: ‘On laying aown the duties of Governor I shall listen to whatever mv Democratic friends have to say. I shall divide my time between Albany and Buffalo until the day arrives to go to Washington. I intend to give due consideration to the counsel of our party friends, t may be that when I enter the Presidential office some things may not move as fast as some Democrats wish. Bnt I think it will be better to go slow and be sure We can not hope to avoi 1 mistakes, but if we proceed slowly we will make fewer mistakes than if we go with a rush.’

his is sound, sensible, safe. The peo p 1 e elected Grover Cleveland, not that he might merely seize upon the public oiiices and parcel them out among liis friends, but that he might check the spread of public corruption, restore the Government to Democratic simplicity and purity, reform abuses, and oy wise and honest administration relieve the business of the country from its present depression and the people from unnecessary burdens, It will be his duty to prevent the dangerous growth of greedy monopolies and corporate power which have attempted to control elections and to corrupt the public ser vice by the use of money. '»his is not the work >f a day. It is a task of difficulty requiring time for its accomplishment. ‘cro slow and be sure,’ is a good motto for the Democratic President to adopt. He may not, as he modestly suggests, hope to avoid mistakes altogether but with caution and prudence to back honest intentions he will make none of a serious nature.