Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-10-27
GATH ON GLEyELASe.
His Wonderful Force Of Char.r,,t
GracefullH AcknaAIedr.A


Gracefully Aeknsviedx,d.
President Cleveland has become tbs
strong figure Of tn country. Tha. a.
has enemies and critics ouly areues his
promInsncs. had to admit. when !
Republican from Duff lo said 70 me
last week, q. the two state conveutions
AZ Saratoga, that Cleveland Was man
OF more force Of character and ability
than the RepGsiic2ns had been inform
Cd, that be spoke the truth. For a good
while ne have been lacking ia moral
courage IN this country. Politics with
n promotes good nature and eompli-
aLce- The people, however, GOV and
then, require to be faced BY the iudi.
vidual. and brought to their senses.
there Is tendency to stampede
thought in all society. bat eventuaily
The bulk Of the prosecutors see the ms
tlce OF the better opinion, and that :
WY ve are perpetuslly abusing our
livs men. and panthsonizine our dead
ones Justice lies between the cop,spo-
porary oelIttliag and the posthumous
gush.
The present Executive, in the recess
OF Congress. has pat a decided person
Atty IN ihe White House. In the Cabi
net there are at less, two men from his
own state who may be considered staff
neers. At less. three other members
OF the cabinet owe TO tse Pre@ideut's
selection any present Importance they
nave. The chief man IN the Cabinet
seems to have become impressed With
Mr.. Cleveland, and to be merely his
pupil. A man who car thus bring his
own little staff TO Washington and have
ais way throughout all his executive
household. and intimIdate both parties
into lip service at leasI. IL no fal,erine
individual. He falls back upon no DR.
vate record that he is absolutely invul-
nerable. DE relies entirely upon what
ne Is nov doing, and what he has done
10 the past of = successful nature he
makes no reference to. Self respect be
undoubtedly has. or that good substi-
tate Tor 1t, righteous indignation; bat
the literary vanity doss not appear in
his works and ways. He brings TO every
TASK the incentive of that instant. His
inaugural address vas so superior TO
any OF bis papers that We had seen te-
fore, that some thoaght be I'D obt ain
ed assistance to write 1t. A few reason
ed that perhaps this man had never be-
fore got place up to his size.
Ia the last campaign portion of both
political parties supported Mr.. Clsve
land outside OF party reasons. he got.
OF course, but little benefit ffon Re-
publican criticism. Toe average Re
publican still believes that the solidar-
ity OF his party is Indispensable. aud
that when you break great organiza-
ton TO pieces becsaAe Won cannot in-
mediately use IL for some parti Il task
you Kill the goose which laid the gold
en- eggs. The fiexibility of the Rspub-
iicsn party. however, is such that il
receives Impressions from within, even
when they break cut of the window,
and ] rather think that the civil service
reform idea is spreading among the
Republican politicians.
My Baffalo friend remarked of Cieve
land that he had always been distin-
guished for getting some reform idea
on his mind and clustering at il till be-
had suceseded lie reforming it. He had
taken the city government of Buffalo,
which was in the hands of bis own par
ty, and made il a responsible govern
ment. His administration of the State
OF New York WAS, 10 spite of the politl-
class and with but little support from
them, and with no support at all frsm
the Oldest organizations in the party
like Tammany Hall. The mere picture
of the solitary President OF the Nation,
with his back against the White House, |
antaRonizing both parties without any |
peculiar job OF his own to indulge, is |
calculated to make mea stop and listen |
to what be has to say. His letter to |
Dormau b. Eaton q few days ago is, |
perhaps, his most characteristic docu- |
ment, and shows more of the timber |
that is in him than his inaugural mes |
sage, which seemed a little Pecksniffian |
in its demand that we should all forth |
with dedicate ourselves to nothing but |
the Government, as il We bad no wives |
aud babies, and notes in the bank. But |
when, with good discrimination, he |
draws the picture OF his own political |
party deprived of the federal power for |
twenty five years, and overanxious for |
the commissions of the government,
being reasonably dissatisfied with civil |
service reform at their expense, he ex- |
hiblts the philosopher and the substan-
tial partisan, az well as ths reform, r.
The President falls short If the
normsl standard of prudence |
and affability in the White Houss. He
Is not polished man, though net
rude one. He is off hand, mer.
camille, with office manners rather
than those of the court. Sometimes /
il would appear that he had a rather
riotous self-esteem. Yet. on the whole,
be has made in a few months strong,
deep mark, IL not in the public sup
port, in the public curiosity, which Is
The next thing to it.