Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1887 — Cleveland’s Self-Respecting Way. [ARTICLE]

Cleveland’s Self-Respecting Way.

Mr. Cleveland pursues a method altogether unique in men holding the Chief Magistracy. He pays his way in every particular. When a President of the United States was last in Chicago he came by special trains supplied at their own cost by the railways over which he traveled., His journey to the Northwest was continued in the same way. Mr. Cleveland came at his own cost for transportation. The plan is expensive when a long journey is undertaken, but the maintenance of one’s selfrespect is something, and freedom from obligation to corporations which may bei suppliants for executive favor is due' the people by their Chief Magistrate. The provisions of the interstate commerce law regarding free transportation might easily be avoided in this case, as it has been in many others. But the President's determination to reject' favors of this kind antedates the passage of the law referred to. When he left Albany to be inaugurated at Washington, he came upon a train which he had paid for. When upon a very pleasant personal occasion he went to Deer Park, he had the use of Garrett’s car, but he paid the Baltimore and Ohio Road for it This creditable habit he pursues uniformly, and, though it make a draft npon his purse, it is not without compensations which every one who enjoys independence of action will appreciate.— Chicago Herald.

The Boston Journal says: “The Cincinnati Commercialr-Gazette nominates Secretary Whitney as the Democratic candidate for President Mr. Whitney is a much abler man than Mr. Cleveland.” The anxiety of the Republicans for the nomination of any Demoorat rather than Cleveland is amusing. They are even more afraid of him than pugilistic gentlemen are of Sullivan, and as the former are given a chance 1 at the laurels of the prize-ring by barring the Boston champion, so the Republicans would like a chance at the Presidency by barring Cleveland.— Chicago Times. Governor Foraker is in a heap of trouble because of the superabundant zeal of some of his friends. The famous elec-' tion forgery cases that caused such an excitement in Ohio politics turn out to have been very crooked indeed, for the obliging convicts who confessed the crime had nothing to do with it, and the grand jury is now considering whether or not to indict certain Republican officials for conspiracy. Probably it is true, as the Republican papers assert, that Mr. Cleveland can not be compared with Mr. Blaine as an orator. In suoh a comparison the advantage is greatly on the side of Mr. Blaine. Bnt it is equally true that Mr. Blaine can not be compared with Mr. Cleveland as an honest man. In. snch a comparison the advantage is greatly, on the side of Mr. Cleveland.— Chicago Times. Mrs. Robert Jones of De Leon Springs, Fla., was attacked by two wildcats last week. She hastily securedi a club, beat out the brains of one and : crippled the other so badly that a neighbor, attracted by her cries, was able to finish the beast with his penknife. |