New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-10
4 BOSOM FRIENDS MALADROITyESS

Mr.. DOrsheimer has Just been making q
speech in Philadelphia euIogizing Mr.. Cleve-
land. Mr.. Dorshcimcr is Mr.. Clevelands
bosom friend the title page of Dorshcimers
I.ife Of Cleveland bears witness to that fact.
But it sometimes happens that bosom friends
are unwiso friends, friends whose friendship
Injuries the object upon which it is bestowed.
And we are afraid that when Mr.. Cleveland
comes To read the marked copy of Mr.. Dor
sheimers eulogy which the latter will mail to
him. he will sigh and remark, " If had many
bosom friends as maladroit as William, L d be
laid out colder than the North Pole
We are led to form this opinion of Mr.. Clcyc-
lands opinion of the Dorsheimer eulogy by
coming upon this sentence in the eulogy itself:
am able to say that during the twenty four years
since the party went ont OF power. under
circumstances very singular In history. Grover Glove
land has always in thorough sympathy with that
party and through every ISSUE even that OF slavery has
been an absolute. consistent and constant everyday
Democrat ia the face OF every dscouragemcnt.
Now VIC submit that the more of this sort of
praise Mr.. Cleveland gets, the worse for hun.
Mr.. Dorsheimcr desires to produce the i'm
prcssion that the President elect is dyed-in-
thc-wool Democrat. But Schurz. Curtis and
II
for votes for Cleveland all through the canvass
on the distinct ground that he was by no
meaus a dyed in thc-wo Democrat, but rather
n better than his-party Democrat. If Mr.. Dor
sheimcr be coTrect-and who should know lt
not "a bosom friend these independents
seriously msrepresented their candidate for the
Presidency in salient particular Cleveland
bettcr.than his party Democrat Cleveland
reform Democrat, or any other sort OF new
tangled Democrat "Stun and nonsense says
Mr. Dorshemer. am his bosom friend, and
tell the American people that for quarter OF
"a century Mr. Cleveland has been IN absolute,
consistent and constant everyday Democrat,
through every issue, even that OF slavery !.
Growers one of us ; he doesn't put on any
exclusive airs he doesn't pretend to be any
political John the Baptist, crying critical and
embarrassing things in the Democratic wilder
"ncss Not he. lilo is one of the old stock,
Grover is He has stood with the old set ever
since 1861. He has been in thorough sympathy
with the Democracy all along. He backed uD
his party when it opposed emancipation, called
. the war a failure fought the National banks,
favored reputation, resisted resumption.
That's the kind of Democrat Cleveland is.
Bourbon from way back
Well, as Mr. Lincoln would have said. for
those that like that sort of culogy that is the
sort of culogy they probably would like. But
we doubt if Dir. Cleveland will take kindly to
it. lie may very well argue that his bosom
friend ought to have let his political record
alone, or at least ought not to have insisted
upon it so emphatically rs to run the risk OF
giving the Independents a bad chill. Mr..
Dorsheimer is understood to be Il candidate for
the Berlin mission. His eulogy of Cleveland
NAV spoil his chances. No Administration likes
to be represented abroad by a dipomatist so
uudiplomatic as not to know what not to say.