Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1893 — Meddled With the Wrong Governor. [ARTICLE]

Meddled With the Wrong Governor.

The results of the town elections, last week, were on the whole very favorable to the Republicans,, all over the state. The Republican victories were so general, in fact, as to clearly indicate that the reflex action of the Democratic tidal wave of last fall, has already set in. In our neighboring towns, which are fair samples of the state generally, nearly everything is Republican. And this not only in places which are usually that way, but in others that are about evenly balanced- politcally, and also those that are usually democratic such as Monticello; and even that heretofore Democratic stronghold, Winamac, has elected the the straight Republican ticket, with the exception of a single Democrat, who got in by a majority of one vote. V President Cleveland who lately appointed and clothed with dictatorial power, “My Commissioner’ to the Sandwich Islands, an official whom he had no more right to appoint under the law than he has to appoint a special dictator to run the government of the State of Indiana, has more recently taken it upon himself to “suspend” the operation of the Geary antiChinese law. This, too, was an act without the least legal justification. If he has a right to suspend one law, he has a right to suspend any law, or even to abrogate them entirely. Why not even “suspend” the law requiring a presidential election in 1896 and declare himself “I, My, Grover the Great, Emperor the First?” His collossal self-esteem is pretty nearly equal to such a coarse, if he had courage in proportion to his conceit.A few more such set-backs as that administered by Gov. Pennoyer, of Oregon, to the meddling dictatorial and unpatriotic outfit, is what Cleveland and boot-licking toady, Gresham, need worse than anything else.

On the occasion of Dictator Cleveland’s suspension of the Chinese exclusion act, the followingtelegraphic correspondence passed between Secretary of State Gresham and Gov. Pennoyer, of Oregon. “Washington, May 3— Gov. Sylvester Pennoyer, Salem: Apparently reliable reports indicate danger of violence to Chinese when exclusion act takes effect and the president earnestly hopes you will employ ait lawful means for their protection in Oregon. W. Q. Gresham.” Gov. Pennoyer immediately sent the following reply: “Salem, Ore., May 3—To W. Q. Gresham, Washington, D. C. I will attend to my business. Let the president attend to his. Sylvester Pennoyer, Gov.” Gov. Pennoyer said: “The Gresham telegram is an insult to Oregon. I will enforce the laws of the state and the president should enforce the laws of congress. It comes with poor grace for the president to ask me to enforce the state law while he without warrant suspends the exclusion law.”