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Show i m :inl nl manner of mtig'.cuinp.rv and practice the Jaefcaoalaa virtu-- of kicking tkc rascals out and keeping 'cm out Ka,ias City star find dem.) Mr. Cleveland again remind the country that tlir irreul light for tariff reform must be carried to the end, that tn turn luck or to filter In the face of the victories of the past two year!" would lie little ahort of ignominy. In nearly every case where tariff oppression ha- been the isne the democracy has triumphed, tri-umphed, and he is a poor adviser or a dMsgeron ally who would counsel against u desertion of a winning or a right principle His words are not only uddif-ed to congress, now in he-sion aud listening, it is feared, to had advice, ad-vice, but to the reform spirit everywhere w hich may show signs of weakening. It i impossible to estimate the exact result of Mr, Cleveland's address, hut that its bravery and its honest; will curry conviction and produce a marked if not u sensational effect cannot be denied. It was just the speech for the time and the emergency, and just the sort of speech that one could expect from a man of Grorer Cleveland's fearlessness, clearsightedness and loyalty to principle, a HtUbarg Oossaasrdaj oai'ttp ircp ). Mr. Clereland has dlsUngfuiasiad liimsolf nnct' tuor.' as llir 1 xpotit iit iif true and un-terrined un-terrined democracy. Hi.-. .Incksun cluli nra-tinn nra-tinn is licin must cordially indorfed tiy nearly all the parly papers. Tho laudations lauda-tions of the "courageous leader'' are entirely too stroni; in some quar. ters, unless they were Intended as a rebuke to those charlatans and time, servers in the party w ho are trying to turn Mr Cleveland down and setup in his place a leader of the capueity, sincerity and honesty of a Mill or a (iortnan. Indeed, Mr. Cleveland must have had democrats in his mind when he spoke of '-timidity" and "faintheartedness" in squarely mcctlnjr the issues pressing for solution. Hi- must have referred to the new plan outlined by Crisp, Springer and company when he said: "The Ii:ist retreat bodes disaster: cowardice is often called conservatism, and an army scattered scat-tered into sections invites defeat." 'Tarty honesty is party duty and party ' otirage i. party expedient . " -aid this modern n lmircr of 'old Hickory." For whose beni-lil were these wise maxims intended? in-tended? He was talking to democrats, and he had the attitude of his party on tlie tariff and all other live questions directly in mind, it is true, with all his vauut. il courage, ho did not have the pluck to tackle the silver question, except by indirection, lie knows that more than three-fourths of the drmocraiy of the country are de. manding free coinage, and yet he utterly failed to invoke the ".iacksoniau spirit" in dealing with that question. Why ? Was It because he is not in harmony with his party on this issue that he manifested "timidity and faintheartedness" in passing it by in -ilence V Or was it bc. 'iuse Mr. Springer, the new democratic leader in the house, had made public declaration of the policy of the party to treat the silver question as a bridge which could not be crossed till reached? Road between the lines, Mr. (love, land's .Iacksoniau speech is a severe condemnation tof the timidity, cowardice coward-ice and downright dishonesty of the leaders of his Vvn party, and 'there Is in it abundant negative evidence that he is not ha'f as courageous on some points 11. he would have his parly believe hi in to be. GKEA1 MINDS IJIKKER. Chirago Post find dein.i lu 11 tine .Iacksoniau frenzy, superinduced by tbe terrapin and champagne of the New York business men's banquet, Mr. Cleveland delivered Ibis notable utterance: 'We, who arc proud to eall ourselves Jacksouian deuioi rals have boldly and ne gr.ssinly attaikcd a poltUcal heresy op. posod to the best interests of the pooplfl and defended by an arrogant and 1111-. rupulous party. The flght Is still on. Who bus the hardihood to say that we ,1111 lay claim to the least Jaeksonlau spirit if in tne struggle we turn our hacks to Ihe enemy or lower in the least our colors V" Herein, as not Infrequently before, we find Mr. Cleveland embarrassed mid his Meaning obscured h the exub. ranee of his own rhetoric. Did not the ox president mean to -ny that If lie should be elected again this year he Would abauduu ph.iriscc- |