Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-04-03

nary qualities of the President 0
the United States. The Presiden
was the sphinx of American politics
1t was said that he was fatalist
and that he regarded himself as th,
child of destiny that he placed de
won't and implicit reliance upon thu
guiding influence Of his star. Ger
tainly, whether Grover CLEVELAND
was a very great or very small
man, he was a very extraordinary
man. His career forbade any Other
conclusion. The Democratic party
was not wanting when the conven
ton was held at Chicago in many
great and illustrious names. mer
who had led the forlorn hope in Its
darkest days; men for whose char
acter, achievements and history
that organization had the pro
foundest admiration and respect.
There was Thurman and Bayard,
Hendricks and Tilden, and others
perhaps not less worthy, but less il
lustrious, upon whom the mantle OF
that great distinction might proper
~ have fallen.
BUT GROVER CLEVELAND,
the man who, at the mature age
of thirty-five, abandoned liberal
and honored profession that he
might become sheriff of an interior
county, was selected for that posi-
ton. And when, little more than
a year ago, he entered the Senate
chamber, and subsequently took the
oath of Office on this platform, he
encountered an audience not one.
twentieth part of whom had ever
seen him, and the greater part of
whom, two years before, did not know
him even by name, and who was,
even at that moment, practically I'M
acquainted with the leaders of bis
own party in the Senate. The rise
of Napoleon was sudden, startling,
dazzling. Many other soldiers of
fortune had sprung from obscurity
to fame, but no Illustration of an ell
ovation from an obscurity so pro-
found to height so brilliant and
dazzling was recorded in his story as
the selection of Grover Cleveland to
be the chief magistrate of sixty mil
lions OF people.
Mr.. ingalls, then proceeded to say
that if the President had admins
tered his Office on a party basis, and
had made removals for political rea-
sons, and had been candid about it,
all would have been well. What he
was the suspension of
Republicans in such way to make
them rest under suspicion.
Mr.. ingalls, alluded to the "cele-
brated circular" issued by the Post
master General, which he character
lied as the most thoroughly de-
graded, defled, execrable and de-
testable public utterance" ever made
by any official. 1t was an invitation
he said, to every libeller, every
slanderer and scurrillous
defamer to pour sewerage into the
Postoffice Department.. The Post
master Generals reply to a resolu.
ton of the Senate introduced by
him (Mr. Ingalls) showed that $685.
fourth class postmasters had been
removed in the past year by an ad-
pledged to remove men
for cause. This was thirty eight re-
movals for every day in the year,
and, counting seven hours to a days
work, it was.
FOUR REMOVALS AN HOUR,
one for every fifteen minutes every
working day for twelve months.
Laughter That was partisan
civil service reform.
Mr.. ingalls, then read and CON-
mented on list of names Of persons
appointed by the present admins
tration,who, according to the publish
ed statements, were convicted felons,
having served various terms in the
penitentiaries Of different states.-
The statements he read, Mr.. ingalls,
said, were all from Democratic news
papers. One of the appointees, Mr..
ingalls, said, had been in the peni.
tentiaries of three states. aHe was
a variegated and diversified patriot.
No pentup Utica contracts his pow
ers.'u
PTERODACTYL IN POLITICS.
After referring to Mr.. Wilson's ap-
plication of the word "protoplasmic"
to the Democratic party and Mr..
Voorhees, criticism on it, Mr.. In
gall said: "Geologists have found
in the rocks illustrations of a being
that occurred in the transition from
the fish to the bird. There is an ex-
tinct creature called by biologists
the 'pterodactyl,' or winged reptile,
which is a lizard with feathers on its
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