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The Party's Scape Goat

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
December
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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The lower House of the South Carolina legislature was the scène of a lively roast on Grover Cleveland on the 18th inst. A resolution was introduced recitiiiK the fact that Mr. Cleveland liad prostituted the high office of president of the United States, by betraying the democratie party and repudiating democratie principies, and ended by asserting that "we record ourselves as opposed to the resolution passed by this house, doing honor to the greatest party wrecker in the history of American politics." The resolution was laid on the table, but shows what the feeling is toward Mr. Cleveland. Two years ago he was worshipped as a god, because he led his party to victory. To-day he is spit upou and despised because his party has been defeated. He is not to blame. It is the carrying out of the principies that he represents that has brought the country to the condition it is in. It is the attempt to force the southern doctrine of free tradejand cheap labor upon the industrious north that has stranded the business of the nation. The south itself, with its soüd democratie front, is more to blame than Grover Cleveland. But when disaster comes there must be some one upon wliose shoulders to la}' the blame, and just now it is fashionable to blame the president for all the party's ills. It is the belief of the Courier, however, that history will be more just to Mr. Cleveland than is his party to-day.

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Ann Arbor Courier