Show CLEVELANDS LETTER On Wednesday the obituary organ in this city had an editorial entitled A Leader Needed In which the writer bewailed the condition of the country and the improbability of a change because be-cause of the lack of a leader For the thousandth time it repeated Napoleons doubtful aphorism There is nothing in men there is everything in a man It was prelimnary to a spasmodic attempt at-tempt to boom Don Cameron as the man to fill the bill for the Republicans of the West In the course of its jeremiad and expressions ex-pressions of hunger after a leader it sail The great want seems to be some chieftain some man who can point out a way for others to follow There is no inspiration in the White House There has been none there for the past twelve years The old days of great men as presidents and cabinet officers seem to have passed away The sterling ster-ling patriotism unflinching courage and incisiveness even when wrong of Jackson Jack-son is no longer known IOn I-On reading that the thought presented present-ed itself If President Cleveland should do anything or say anything in the nature na-ture of leadership or even make a suggestion sug-gestion of the proper course for the nation or his party to pursue the writer of that call for inspiration from the White House and a leader for others to follow would be the first to find fault and to denounce such action as bulldozing When reading the Presidents Presi-dents letter to Congressman Wilson we fully expected to see in the morning morn-ing obituary a vile attack upon Cleveland Cleve-land for presuming to say anything on the subject of the tariff bill We were not disappointed Only two days after crying out for inspiration from the White House for the boldness incisiveness and courage of Jackson even if it was wrong the same voice yells out anathemas against Cleveland and charges him with seeking seek-ing to bully Congress and with think Xusduioo TJ JO pasoduioo si m rjrcin Sui of clerks who have no higher duty to perform than to do his will The letter of Grover Cleveland to Mr Wilson is one that any American had a perfect right to pen and the sentiments senti-ments such as the President might with perfect propriety but in a more formal manner have addressed to the Congress of the United States There will be differences of opinion as to his position on the questions treated of That is a subject for fair criticism But there is not a breath of bulldozing in the whole document and it conveys no hint of an order or whisper of a command com-mand The carping of our contemporary after its sniffling wail forleadership and its affected sorrow that there is none in the White House is the sort of turnabout turn-about tactics that it has been pursuing for some time One never knows whereto where-to find it on any grave public question It is this today and its opposite tomorrow tomor-row The most amusing jumble of inconsistencies in-consistencies imaginable would be a scrapbook with clippings from our acrobatic ac-robatic contemporary on the same subjects sub-jects different dates Clevelands encouragement to Wilson to stand by the House bill as far as possible will be endorsed by the immense im-mense majority of the Democratic party par-ty It is in line with the platform pf 1S92 and dead against those mutilations mutila-tions and changes of the bill which have been made in the Senate to placate the corporations and satisfy sectional demands He has spoken out boldly and pointed out a way for others to follow and our obituary neighbor should have been the last though it has been the first to find fault for that plainspoken and vigorous advice |