The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.
He Is q Little, BigoSed, Pig-Headed Man,
Who May Learn Something Soon.

Who May Learn Something Soon.
Washington Special.
There must be an art in government, and the
President has not discovered it. He does not
attract the hearts of men toward him. He is
not wise in his selections. He is absolutely CON
fdent that he knows it all. and he takes a GER
tain brutal JOY in seeing that he can intimidate
by his manner people who are near him. Coun-
sci he spurns. If he is antagonized in his i'm
mediate governing circle. or by his household,
he resents a difference of opinion. There is the
making in him, if of anything, of a heavy aud
about half interesting tyrant. Matters of the
past which will continue to be history notwith-
standing his success, lie there unexplained,
while the great accident is writing letters to
scene painters upon the unreliability Of the art
of painting. When he went off to the country
last summer, he stated to Mr.. Nordhoff.
/ think it was. or whoever dis
patched to the New York Herald, his
thanks to the public press for keeping him up to
his work, making him ~vigilant, etc. what an
assisting hand it is, he said, in effect The next
thing. when his stomach was a little of, the col
or Of the press was changed to black; now they
are all liars. A man as uncertain as that can
the governing place. With the spirit of public
mingling and informing, and no other spirit, I
have expressed what l find to be the increasing
sentiment at the Capital City. Parasites and
timid folks may wonder. but have seen the Falls
of Niagara, Edwin Forrest and a good many big
things, and / experience no terror at all at the
young President and all his following.
1t is men in power who are required to be
frugal and discreet in what they say and do.
People out of power have no such weighty re-
sponsibility. When Jefferson was in Office he
was as mild as a sucking dove, but when he re.
tired from the presidency he revised his works,
and made his personal attacks. These people
who have constituted themselves the
advisory board of Cleveland have no response
bility at all. Their business is to roar aud
scarify; when you get to see them they are sell
dom possessed of either personal address or COM
mon daily nerve. The fact is that we are hav-
ing the experience at the head of our govern
menr for the first time possibly in our history of
full grown conceit. The sheriff hectored him
self as mayor into a little notice, and was
elected by the Republicans Governor SO that
his majority barely swept him into the
have told a different tale, and about 194, 600 votes
place of Governor of this State, and though he
was Governor nearly his full term it will be hard
to trace his Term out in the archives of the State;
while he was Governor no unusual event hap
pened calling for the exercise of any large or
prominent powers. He carried the State through
the factions in the Republican party and the
timidity of the gambling class. With some good
off-hand qualities he has been spoiled in part,
and would be spoiled in all but for the truths he
is hearing and will continue to hear, like greater
men who have gone before him. He will find
the supporting hand of the press in all of his in
firmities. But it becomes more and more ap-
parent that he cannot sustain a great admins
tration on the slight wire of nothing but partial
civil-service reform. and the greater part of that
hypocrisy.