People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — DICTATOR GROVER. [ARTICLE]

DICTATOR GROVER.

No Other Preaident Has Presumed to Govern the Great American People. Mr. Thomas F. Bayard has borne the character of a brainy inan and has been ranked among democratic statesmen. The people will learn with regret that he is rapidly going into an imbecile dotage. His last illusion is. perhaps, the wildest of his vagaries. He imagines that this country lias changed its form of government, and that it has become a monarchy with Grover Cleveland as its ruler. Here is what he recently said to the English people in reference to our people ami their government: “The President of the United States stands in tie' mid-t of a self-confident and oftentimes violent people and it takes a man such as Mr. Cleveland to govern them.” The most charitable view that we can take of this utterance of Mr. Bayard’s is the one we have given above. To suppose that he is still possessed of a vigorous, healthy mind is to believe him a traitor to his people and to the principles he has always professed. The only strength of any true man as a President of these United States is a strength to obey the laws and faithfully carry out the behests of the majority of the people. The strength of a President of this government lies in his ability to serve the masses. A President of the United States is in no sense a ruler. Were it otherwise men of such common origin and training as Grover Cleveland would never reach the Presidential chair. It is because the President is not a ruler that often such men as Cleveland are selected from the masses and carried by a wave of popular enthusiasm to the office of Chief Executive. Were it otherwise the people of this government would select men of 'birth, of ancestral lineage, men who were accustomed to command. Who would think of selecting the errand boy, who had been the lacquey and the fag of all employed in some village store or shop as a ruler of a great nation? A president of a democratic country is selected from the, people because of his nearness to them, because of his practical knowledge of the service the people endure and a manifestation of his ability to faithfully serve and sympathize with the people. He is selected because he is in sympathy with and has a disposition to encourage and uphold the self-con-fidence and self-reliance of the people. That Mr. Cleveland has disappointed the hopes and expectations of the people we confess. That he has proven himself a hypocrite the masses of the people know. That, he has usurped authority and violated the constitutional rights of the states is admitted. That he has become the tool of the bankers and bondholders and sacrificed the prosperity of the people to this class is to his everlasting shame. But that be governs the people save as a usurper and perjured official is not true. He hypocritically proclaimed the belief that the public office was a public trust, and in the face of this proclamation has used public property for private use as no previous President has ever presumed io do. This man of plebeinn antecedents has presumed to usurp powers and to dictate to his official family as no President witli a military training or newness from association with kingly government which surrounded our first Presidents ever thought of arrogating to themselves. The sovereign people are the governors of this country, whether they perform that function as a mild-man-nered or a violent people. The very fact, that ('leveland assumes to govern is proof positive that the people are not violent.