The Life and Public Services of Grover Cleveland ...

malevolent misrepresentations of his political opponents.

He has done more to settle the vexed Indian question-and to settle it in accordance with the principles of justice and the humanity of the age---than all his predecessors in office. His broad and statesmanlike view of our Indian relations, when fully carried out, will greatly advance the prosperity and welfare of these hitherto oppressed "wards of the nation."

Other great reforms might be enumerated, but attention is called to the valuable service he has rendered in the most important question that the country has been called to consider during his administration-that of the Revenue reform.

As this formed the most prominent plank in the Democratic platform on which he was elected, and because it affected most seriously all our financial and industrial interests, he did not shrink to demand of the people and his party that tariff reduction, and the abolition of all unnecessary taxation, should be made the chief issue of the coming election. Confident of the soundness of his views here, he had the courage of his convictions and was willing to stand or fall in the judgment of the Democracy, and to stand or fall in that of the people on the result of the issue.

His successful advocacy of fiscal reform has made the party now substantially unanimous in the matter, although there was at one time some difference of opinion therein, so that the convention which re-nominated him fully adopted and endorsed his views.

The contest is no longer a question of view, but of principle. It is whether the taxes required by the necessities. of war are to be continued in a time of peace-whereby more than a hundred millions of dollars beyond what is required for the needs of Government are to be annually

wrung from the people so that a surplus shall accumulate to endanger the business interests of the country and invite schemes of jobbery and theft.

In this issue the Democracy appeals to the good sense, honesty and patriotism of the people. The platform of St. Louis has no uncertain sound. It contains no ambiguities. He that runs may read and understand it. Although our opponents may misrepresents and denounce it, their partisan and sophistical interpretations will deceive no one outside the Republican party. Abuse is not arguNo ingenuity can long "make the worst appear the better reason." The people are not to be fooled or cajoled. Convinced that the cause of Democracy is right, and every Republican allegation that its rule would imperil the Government is false, that its financial policy is sound and its tariff principles beneficial, they will endorse Grover Cleveland-in November and he will be President for another term.

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His official future can be readily predicted. He will take no backward steps. He will continue to exhibit the same firmness in the discharge of duty, the same appeciation of the sacred nature of a trust. He will show the same sagacity in understanding the true interests of the country and the same patriotic desire to adopt apropriate measures for their promotion, so that when his official term expires and he returns to private life, his monument will be found when we look around and behold the beneficent achievements of his administration.

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