Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-20

business as he does in Albany. There
he kept up the policy of a mayor of
| Buffalo, having his chamber open for
callers and being at home to anybody at
any hoar. Consequently since his cleo
ton to the presidency these callers have
80 multiplied that he is obliged to take
his work home to the executive resi-
dence to do it. Unquestionably he con-
veys a respectable idea of a chief
magistrate and governor. II you VIII
listen to what he is saying to most OF the
people who come you will find 1T to be
a refusal to grant something, not a harsh
refusal, but a slight waving Of the hand
or movement of the head and the words:
20, no; 1 can't attend to any pardons
this morning. / shall have to put all
the pardon cases off to day. 40 pardons
to-day" Saying this there will be Il
faint smile upon his face and the velvet
paw with the tiger close behind it. An
intimate acquaintance Of Cleveland said
to me afterwards: "He is a very hard
headed man but a good fellow. lie is
kind hearted but has been SO long in
these executive positions that he con
siders it his business to say no for the
first thing, and it is often the last thing"
While Mr.. Cleveland is only 46 years
old he would probably pass for fifty.
He is perhaps the first man we shall
ever have in the presidency with a sort
of derived right there. While looking
at the power and form around him,
both present and impending, somehow
got to thinking Of Henry VIII, II of
the greatest and the harshest king of
England. and his way of saying %"IIa,"
and "Ho," and a sort Of harsh smile
when he meant to a~nnihilate somebody.
The vote getter is almost entirely absent
from Cleveland's style and address. He
seems to make no difference in indivi-
duals who approach him, unless they
may have offended him at some time.
when | think he can be coarse and
resentful. L noticed about Albany that
his political opponents who had straight
for"ardly opposed MIN with all the re
sources in their power, bad not been to
see him since the election. Those per
sons who are looking for a president to
punish somebody, to make the govern
ment terrible, to refuse compromises or
pardons probably will find in Cleveland
| their ideal, though some Of them may
fall under the AXE they have helped to
create. The tiexibiiity which has per
vaded most of our republican admin
istrations will probably be gone there
and there will also faII to be, | should
say, any intellectual or fine play of char
acter about the a But he will be
| found at the spot in person all HE time.
You can find him there as truly as the
| criminal finds the sheriff or the debtor
finds the constable. He was brought up
in that harsh school Of levying on prop
ertv and getting his fees from the same
of appointing constahleS who would see
that nothing escaped, and Of taking
prisoners to the Jail and condemned
people to the gallows, AID going through
all those forms without loss of either
tCilBtl vi NoIiIPilAiNilAF. Atio ~ H''o
lie office was the shrievalty. He has
said, SO | hear it reported, that it was
the only office he ever asked anybody
to vote for him TO get. The mayoraity
came without labor, the g~overnorship
came by accident, and the presidency
came by geography. So there stands
King Stalk the successor 10 King Log
whom you have read about IN the fable.
You may ask me what Cleveland is
going to do about the patronage. | am
pretty sure he has never considered his
cabinet up to this moment. He will
resign his office January 9Th and then
have two months to consider the presi-
dency. i should think from what little
L have observed that he would remem-
Der his friends In the republican Is well
as the democratic party and endeavor
by his administration to be a rebuke TO
what he has discerned in general polit-
les that he does not like, and at the
same time I think he will be in the
main a democrat.