Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1888 — THE PRESIDENT’S WAY. [ARTICLE]

THE PRESIDENT’S WAY.

He Never Neglects the Appeals of the Poor and Friendless. [Wash. Cor. N. Y. Herald.] Here is an incident which shows, the President’sh..hit of work: One evening last winter M*. Cleveland sent for your correspondent at II o’clock to speak, about a matter of public interest. The conversation lasted three quarters of an hour, and as the president had had a hard and long day of public receptions and pri - vate consultations, I said to him on going away: “I hope you are going to bed at once; you must be very tired?” He replied: “I am tired, but I shall hardly get to bed before 2:30. I must go through some papers here,” pointing to a large mass. “Why not leave them until tomorrow?” “I cannot do that. You see what it concerns. A man is to be hanged, and there is an application for his pardon.” “But what do you keep an attorney general for?” I asked. “The attorney general has gone over the case carefully,” rep’ied the president. “Here is his re - port. He thinks the man ought to hang.” “Very well, hang him,” I rather hastily said, for I saw in the president’s face that he was very weary.

“No,” said Mr. Cleveland, “that will not do. This poor man has a wife and children who plead to me for his life. 1 must look into this matter myself. I cannot take any body’s word or judgment in a matter like this. Suppose he was hung and that hereafter some neglected or overlooked or improperly weighed piece of evidence should turn up to show that he ought not to have been hanged, what reproaches would not these poor people have a r ight to make me ? No, you are wrong; this is a matter I must go to the bottom of my pelf if it takes all night ” That is Mr. Cleveland’s way.— He is, they say, often rough and peremptory to powerful politicians but he does not neglect the appeals of the poor and friendless.

Tried and Found Faithful.Mr. Cleveland’s ability to adjninister with fitting dignity the great office of president of the United States has been tested. The record of his administration is open to the pi-xiple. It has been scrutiniz.d uy friends and by foes alike wiHi a minute attention which h;r left no defects unconcealed, and has made known many virtues which even his adversaries have applauded d It is faint praise of him to say that he has been senipulously faithful to the laws of the land, but he has been much more than this. He has been vigilant in the performance of his duties to protect the individual from the oppression of ill-regulrtted|power, corporate or otherwise, and to shield the people from an injudicious or waste! ul exercise of the legislative function. —New York Times.

HOW THE THING WORKS. Every yard of steel rails laid down in the United States imposes a tax of §l7, that the government does not need, and that the government does not get, but which goes directly into the pockets of the steel rail trust and out of the pockets of railroad patrons. Meanwhile the labor employed in making the rails is kept in subjection to its masters, the steel rail trust, by that organized band of murderers, known as the Pinkerton detective force. This is what is culled “protection to American labor.’— , Evansville. Courier.

Three girls flogged a Portland, Oregon, hackinan, a few evenings since. They concluded that his designs were dishonorable. A certain style of shoe button is called “old maid’s wedding” because it never comes off.