Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1892 — Mr. Cleveland's Letters. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Cleveland's Letters.

The true animus of the flippant and derogatory allusions to Mr. Cleveland's letters in the Republican press is quite apparent. Under the thin guise of ridicule the-e is a feeling of disquietude, for which there is abundant cause. In the first place, every, letter that Mr. Cleveland writes helps his party. They are all strong and pointed, and none of them are too brief to contain some salient thought, or to convey some valuable and helpful suggestion. They show uniformly the earnest solicitude of their author for the welfaie of the people, and Ihus they strengthen his claim to popular favor.

The fact that Mr. Cleveland is called upon to answer so many letters proves how close he is to the people. The freedom and frequency with which he is addressed by all persons in all walks of life, from the lowliest to the most exalted stations, is indicative of the profound sympathy existing between him and the American masses. Very few demands of this sort are made on the time of the Presidential incumbent. Nobody, apparently, cares to write to Mr. Harrison. He does not invite an approach even by the medium of literary communications. The humble citizen, even though he might be moved to address the President, would be deterred by the doubt of securing recognition, and there is something so perfunctory in the communications of Mr. Harrison that they possess comparatively little value to those who receive them. It is a 6ignificent evidence, differentiating the natures of Mr. Harrison and Mr. Cleveland, that the letters of the latter have become a source of annoyance to the Republicans and have called forth their animadversions. As reflecting the remarkable popularity of the ex-President, and as denoting the value which the common people attach to his opinions, they are the logical objects of criticism at the hands of the Harrison organs, whose comments touching all that Mr. Cleveland says and does are strongly flavored with jealousy.—Kansas City Star. Tho Difference Between Them. After nearly four years of Cleveland’s administration he was made, without the intervention of a solitary officeholder, the unanimous choice of the Democratic party.for a second term. The Democratic National Convention met at St. Louis merely to certify and record the popular choice. After nearly four years of Harrison’s administration ho was obliged to encounter an opposition of unexampled bitterness within the Republican party, and his nomination was secured only by the shameful prostitution of every department of the Government to the purpose of getting him delegates by hook or by crook. . Harrison Uhlbr; Taffy. Ben Harrison has evidently been looking over Ohio, an I is alarmed at the unsatisfactory condition of the party machinery and the lack of harmony among those who should be his party friends. In a conversation with Hon. W. H. Enochs on the situation in Ohio, he said he “recognized Gov. Foraker as a brilliant, able man, for whom he entertained only feelings of respect and the warmest regard. He made similar remarks in regard to others who had actively opposed his nomination.” This would seem to indicate a change of heart on the part of the President.— Columbus Post.