Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1892 — CURRENT COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT.

- A BOURBON'S BLAST. Another Assault on the Union Veteran* by a Democratic Paper. Rockford (Ill.) Republican. The following editorial appeared in the Durhaqi-{N. C.) Globe, recently: . "Between Harrison and Cleveland ‘--first, last and all the time—l am for the brave Buffalo man who slapped the dirty pensioners, who, for the most jart, are beggars, in the face. rascals who <!aroe into this country and’ who abused women; who burned homes; who stole all that was in sight; and to-day, without an honor able scar, are bleeding this country, and lam helping to pay for it. Let the hired Yankees howl. I am of the South and for the South: and until my blood is cold I shall fight for honesty acid for a white man’s doun ti%” This led the Inter Ocean to remark: “If Mr. Cleveland should be elected again he ought to appoint the editor of the Durham Globe us pension commissioner. He would be just the man to do the in the face when pensioners appealed to the Government they imagined they saved." r The clippingand comment caught the eye of Major N. C. Warner, of tfes city, and he penned the following tcrthe editor of the Durham Globe: Sir:Yj'he inclosed newspaper clipp ng is iroiia the Inter Oceau of this date. As an Md soldier who has up to this date voted the Democratic ticket in the belidrf that the victors could as ford to to the van ; quished, fWrite to ask you ifithe report is trtrs that your paper published the article quoted, and if you will do me tne kindness to state the object or purpose you iiad in view in its publication N. C. Warner.” Instead of rWying to this letter the North Carolina imbecile pub lished the personal epistle and made it an excuse for n second editorial more infamous andYenemous, if possible, than the first. \ He first scores the Inter Ocean, l*efe\ring to the editor, Wm. Penn as a “desperate and dirty skunk,’’ nnd concludes with the following choice bon mot of patriotism and elegante of expression: I “But apart from all mis our Rockford friend wants theifvictors to be

magnanimous to the van|buished. We are glad of this; But l«b us suppose the case just one holy minute. Who Were the victors and #ho were the vanquished? When thtfgreat Lee in peace and the great Giant in love met under the famousjtpple tree at Appomattox, then thetl was no rancor and no discord. Lie knew that impoverished homes ans-homes that had been gutted—everfebit of flour and pound of wcon taken from them—hfc knew tnit in a surrender it was merely*tljp reception by Grant of a cultured people submitting to the brutal force of a tlSlois and a voracious North. ” Talk about your magnanimous vanquished, and let the movers go into the olosfets and bring off, the empty £ray unworms—and,.-t,qi tear drops ere. Tlhlk about your vanquished, in all yoi|r ardor, but the picture, of the Northern prison hells where the brave bots in gray perished, rotted, and had ne worms feed upon them, and whatfdoes Nixon and his Northern clan care about that? Magnanimous, indeed. We want the sneakp and lousy beggars at the North whb ravished our women and

burned oi r homes and plundered our I people, t» shut their guat-blowu i mouths a id let the truth be told, | Aud the jfrlobe, which despises this ' burglary/and grand larceny called the penston system, proposes to see to It tba/t Grover Cleveland sits in the saddle the next four years and slaps j face. The pension fraud must go. Go, add it should go to the depths of hell, and Harrison and his hirelings Jshould go with it." A tier the campaign of 1884 had closed, Mr. Blaine prophetically j stated that the settled purpose of i the Democratic party of this country \ was k> maintain a solid South at ail ! hazards and to depend upon New York anlLßrooklyn to do the rest. I If the fortfcoing editorial is a true index of Yl*po sentiment throughout the and there is nothing visible to the faked eye which would lead a casual spectator to conclude otherwise, the issue will be distinctly drawn between a solid South and a solid North. There is no domain for sentiment to work In, when such vile and rancorous expressions as used by thiß North Carolina editor go unrebuked- It. will reouire good witnesses to show that tne young men of the South are any morepatriotic than the moss-grown reptile

who publishes the Globe and caters to a sentiment in the community which will support such a paper. There is no doubt but what the Democratic soldiery ,of New York State couldjnatl the lid on the political coffin of the South and bury the remains beyond any hope of resur reotion, add probably will if the North Carolina editorial reptile voices the donsensus of public sentiment, as ift appears that he does, not answering a courteous letter except by repeating his original libel and following it up with new matter more infamous if possible than the rot that went before. DEMOORATIO PRBCBDENT. Labor /Commissioner Peck has a good Democratic precedent for refusing to disclose the private correspodeace on which he hosed his report. / That precedent was made by no loss Democratic authority than Grover J Cleveland while President. When He suspended George M. Duskln, District Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, and appointee John D. Burnett to the vacancy, President Cleveland refused to lay/the papers in the case before the United States Senate. In preference to these papers he said: J "I consider them in no proper Kcnsd as upon the files of ths oepartmenf, but aa deposited there for my convenience, remaining atill oomfrlMVrt*, 1 j 9 custody I might do so with entire

propriety, and If I saw, fit to destroy them no one could complain.” _ Mr. Peck was appointed Labor tJommissfoner of New-Yorfc by. Gov. Cleveland, *ffd he has been a painstaking follower of Cleveland, even to the extent of following his example in refusing id make public thg papers on which he based his report. The Democrats who are blind followers of Cleveland should read his reply to the United States Senate before they push the case too far against Commissioner Peck. —p---’ ' : ■ d A GREAT ADMINISTRATION. In his characteristic interview, published in the Inter Ocean yesterday, ex-G'overnor Oglesby was asked what he thought of President Harrison’s letter of acceptance. Not content with praising its plainness, which is in sharp contrast with the evasive Cleveland letter, nor vet with praising his uniform felicity with tongue or pen, he goes on to speak of hisad ministration as a whole. “He has never, ” said Uncle Dick, “made a mistake, has never blundered once, aud for months he had the State Department on his shoulders as well as the Presidency. Nd man ever made a better record than has GeueiaP Harrison. He is honest, courageous, says what he means so that people understand him perfectly, and he has made no mistakes. *?

The necessary prominence given to the principles of protection is liable to obscure somewhat the splendor and magnitude of the record made by President Harrison and his Cabinet. Had there been no McKinley bill fdr him td sigh, tiphold and execute, the record of his administration outsido of tariff legislation would have been sufficient inspiration for a successful contest. It has been thoroughly and emphatically American. Grover Cleveland may have suited Sackville West better than Harrison, and no wonder. The foreign policy of Mr. Bayard was weak and cringing. The faintest growl from the British lion sent the cold shivers through him, and no foreign natioii was poor enough to do us honor. The flag of our country was insulted with impunity, treaties discreditable to our diplomacy and in abandonment of our established rights were negotiated. Gen. Harrison changed all that. He placed at, the head of the State Department the great statesman, Jas. G. Blaiue, and when the burden became tbo heavy for the Secretary to bear the President took it upon his own shoulders; as Governor Oglesby suggests, and the country suffered no loss. That was one of the most remarkable feats of statesmanship. O-ir foreign affairs were in a very critical condition, and to carry forward the Work so able a man as Mr. Blaine bad in hand, and still keep control of the general affairs of the whole government, was indeed a most astonishing achievement. American influence, so seriously impaired under Cleveland, has been restored,and more than that. Never unless it be when Decatur was on the Mediterranean and Perry on Lake Erie, has American prestige abroad been so high as it is now. Our victory in the Samoan case; the vindication of American rights in Behring Sea, the settlement of the Chilian imbroglio, including the attack on the crew of the Baltimore, with its final outcome, showed the spirit of Andrew, Jackson and the sagacity of a Talleyrand. Then came reciprocity, with its long fist of benefits. Nine-tenths of the imported sugar supply of the United States and from three-fifths to threefourths of the coffee supply are now regulated by reciprocity engagements, aud as some one has fitly said, “a farmer even while he sweetens and drinks bis coffee helps to sell his wheat in a foreign market.” The list of countries with which .reciprocity .treaties .have been made is a long one, and includes besides nearly -all American countries Germany, France and Aqstria Hungary the most important of these being the one with Germany. The increase of the foreign demand for our farm products is enormous and largely explains the present prosperity of our people. The wonderful improve inent since March, 1889, in our foreign relations would be enough, if standing alone, to demand, for business and patriotic reasons, the reelection of President Harrison, especially when the choice is between him and his immediate predecessor.