Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — Hysterical Statesmanship. [ARTICLE]

Hysterical Statesmanship.

Indianapolis Journal: Mr. Cleveland’s recent exhibitions of hysterical statesmanship afford conclusive evidence that his cast of mind is not such as to make him a safe President-. If he possesses the mental equipment he certainly does not'possess the mental equipoise. He is temperamentally unfit to be at the head of the government. * An article in the Sunday Journal called attention to the lurid rhetoric in which, in his annual message of 1887, he attacked the treasury surplus and urged that no time be lost in making a large reduction in the revenues. Now he is bombarding Congress with special messages, sent in at most inopportune times, begging it to furnish relief against the very conditions which his earlier messages helped to bring about. If he is not known in history as Panic Cleveland he should be called Special Message Cleveland. He has issued more special messages than any President since the civil war, and in every one he has tried to prove himself in the right and tome other branch of the governtnent or th® people in the wrong. In bis message in June, 1893; calling a special session of Congress he said “the present perilous condition is largely the result of a financial policy which the executive branch of the government finds embodied in unwise laws.” When Congress met he fired another speoial message at them, ponderous and pinicky. Since then

i>e has wri't n sever**! special messages and special letters to Congressmen relative to public s-ffiirs, and now. after an untimely .exploitation of tbg Monroe doctrine, almost precipitating a financial panic, he caps the elimaarVith another special mes sage which enlightens nobody—andadds materially toTfuTdiilbu 1 ties of the Situation. The Journal believes Mr. Cleveland is honest and patriotic according to his light, but he is a blunderer and an unsafe President because an urn wise one. He is temperanjentally unfit for the position. His recent performances should settle tbe third-, term qurstion forever. The people do not want a President conspicuous only for panicky messages and hysterical statesmanship.