If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered. - Grover Cleveland

Federal aid in such cases encourages an expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character.

Neither the discontent of party friends, nor the allurements constantly offered of confirmations of appointees conditions upon the avowal that suspensions have been made on party grounds alone, nor the threat proposed in the resolutions now before the Senate that no confirmations will be made unless the demands of that body are complied with, are sufficient to discourage or deter me from following in the way which I am convinced leads to better government for the people.

Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.