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Show MR. CLEVELAND AJND DEMOCRACY. The Herald, on Monday, juet lit ( erally.Iimbed,skinned and jay-hawked the president of the United States. Only a ehort time since the Herald could see no fault in Mr. Cleveland and no particular reason why silver should be remonetized; at least it remained re-mained as silent as the mammies in Esypt upon these things. Now it is different. It is handing the hot end of the poker to the president in a way that seems perfectly surprising, cruel and savage. This conversion is sudden, sud-den, nearly as much so as was that cf St. Paul, but if it sticks as well as Paul's did no one can, or will, or ought to complain. We may say with perfect truth that in nothing save silver is the democracy of Mr. Cleveland at fault. But he was at fault equally throughout his first ad- ministration, during his forced retire ment, as thus far in his second term, yet the Herald has only now discovered discov-ered this melancholy situation. How much better would it have been had not only the Herald but all leading democratic influences in the nation, recognized the truth soon enough to have prevented his second nomination. A species of hallucination took hold of the party at Chicago, when it nominated nomin-ated him upon an equivocal plank on silver. He has done no more against silver since '92 than he said he would do in '84. Then why was he nomin a ted? And wry was he not hauled up by the party authorities Booner? Sim-ply Sim-ply and only that too many democrats like the Herald did not have the I nerve to discharge their plain duty in this way, and Mr. Cleveland became the eader of democracy by default. Our contention is, that no man, be he president of the United States or a drayman, has the right to mislead the party. If It is attempted by any one, that one must be hauled up before the bar of the party opinion. This was not done simply because the democrats of the Herald stamp had not the nerve to discharge a plain duty and there were too many of them, even here at borne in the silver wast. In consequence of this lack of nerve or party devotion devo-tion the party has been brought to the very verge of defeat, nay, destruction, de-struction, and the country has had fom years more of financial misery than it needed to have suffered. No man and no paper lacking knowledge know-ledge of fundamental democracy or the nerve to cry out aloud when it is as-Bailed as-Bailed or violated, is fit for party leadership. lead-ership. Whether it is popular in the east or not, free silver is as much a part of the fundamental laws of democracy demo-cracy h is low tariff or tariff for revenue only. Mr. Cleveland violated this democratic law in '85, yet the Herald raised no voice against the violation vio-lation until now. We can never win and perpetuate victory in this way. We must insist upon it that no man receive a democratic nomination saye only a whole-hearted democrat, and when he is elected, if he does not carry out the laws of the party, he must be hauled up, at least he must not be again nominated and elected. If this rule had been observed we would have had no preBent trouble and Mr. Harrison Harri-son would never have been president for four years to the perpetuation of this same rule of the gold bugs. Let us deal honestly with the people no matter mat-ter if we lose the fight. It is better for democrats to suffer defeat upon y correct principles than win victory by departing from the principles of the party and the deathless traditions of its arly and itB later history. The Herald now should seek rather to restore the party to the old time democracy than to battle against Cleveland. He mat-ters mat-ters not now. He is no more after this term is over ;than any other man. But the injury to the party that has been accomplished by electing a gold bug to the two terms of the presidency is yery grave and that ia what we must wipe out by electing a free coinage man next year. This is the duty of democrats of both high and low degree and all other democratic influences. Now let the Herald let up on Cleveland, Cleve-land, and go with all of its force for the free coinage man of next year as well as for everything which is linely to strengthen the battle for him. |