St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-20
A PLEASING PICTURE.
Cleveland a Safe Man-Mores With Preei-
sion and Core decentralization Con-

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sion and Recommendations Com
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The account written of his interview with
President-elect Cleveland by Colonel Nc
Clure, the veteran editor and publisher Of
the Philadelphia Times, is the most reassur-
ing to the friends of honest government of
all the newspaper light that has been thrown
on what, of course, is known as tine Cleve-
land policy. Colonel Mcclure has had a
large political experience, has been thrown
into intimate relations with majority of the
leading men of the country, is by nature a
close observer, a man of intelligence and
education and therefore an accurate mao to
attempt an estimate Of Clevelaud's capabili-
ties and purposes. From his conversation
with the President-elect the impression he
had previously had Of his soidity of charac-
ter and slngleness of purpose became more
emphatic and more agreeable as well, in
other particulars. He says be found him
frank in the expression of his views, manly
in his bearing and wthal man of uncom-
mon keen perception, traits of character of
as great value in our public men as they are
novel He found him endowed also with
abundant caution, not the caution of man
whose intellect works sluggishly, but the eau
ton Of the man who moves slowly, only to
move with greater precision and correctness.
Col. McClure's pen portrait Of the Presi-
dent-elect places before our eyes safe man
to hold the reins of govern 1t is, as
We have already said, a reassuring picture.
There is none of that flash about his political
individuality TO which we have been forced
70 a l..
mou in our public men that we have nearly
come to regard it as an essential. 1t is not
a wonder, therefore, that the Presiden t-elect
is sort OF a public curiosity. The truth of IL
Is, our politicians don't know what 10 make
Of him. They hesitate to prophecy about
things they supposed they knew all about
they hasten On to Albany with the single pur-
pose of giving him the benefit of their great
political wisdom, but when they get there and
find themselves in his presence somehow
or other they change their plans and con-
tent themselves with simply Offering their re-
spects on the salver of their own astonish-
ment. When they come away the most they
can say about their visit is that the President
elect made a satisfactory impression on them,
emitting very shrewdly all reference to the
change his very presence wrought in their
carefully laid plans.
All that the public has learned OF him
since his election bears out the impressions
of Colonel Mcclure. He has been elected
President OF the United States by the people,
and SPY CAD, sahp' as John T. Raymond as
Major BOB would say, he means TO be the
President. 1t is not wonder, therefore,
that the country has accepted the verdict OF
the ballOt-box so graciously All feel that he
viii make an admirable executive and that
the good of the country viii transcend the
good of individuals. Colonel Mcclure saws:
ale is a natural business executive. He
loves business fidelity, be believes In bust
ness methods and he will faithfully fulfill his
publicly repeated pledge 10 conduct the adj
minstration OF the government on thorough
business principles. he does not merely
look TO business administration as the limit
Of his dutyin enforcing honest government.
He carries his business statesmanshlp to the
extent Of business legislation to promote
healthy and enduring business prosperity,
and madcap theorists who would revolution
ize and destroy will be resolutely halted by
President Cleveland, as will the jobbers aud
proligates who have so deeply stained every
department Of ationsl authority" Colonel
Mcclure has given us very accurate and
truthful picture Of the man whose election to
the Presidency will some day be quoted as
one OF Americas lucky strokes of fortune.