The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-09-06
.DR. JHKYILAND MR.. HYDE
Showing Up the Dual Personal
ity of His Ponderosity
PRESIDENT G. CLEVELAND.
Why His Letter OF Acceptance Has
been Dclaycd-IIc is Aptiy Com
pared 10 Famous Character
In Popular Novel.


NEw YoRK, Sept. 5.-The Tribunesays:
The explanation of the extraordinary
delay in Mr.. Cleveland's letter OF accept
ance is easy. Like the rest of mankind
the President is afflicted, us we long ago
made known, with dual personality;
but in his case the ordinary conditions
are reversed. The Jekyll, who favors
reform and is animated by patriotic and
statesmanlike purposes, is feeble and
small of build. The Hyde is large and
powerful and fat. When Mr.. Cleveland
was first nominated he was touched by
this mark of confidence on the part OF
his fellow men. Jekyll came uppermost.
Hesaw, knowingas he did the irrepressi-
ble wickedness OF Hyde, that unless he
were checked ut the outset he would use
every cunning and wicked device to
bring about his reelection. So Jekyll
wrote the passage in the letter OF &c.
ceptanc6 which served notice on Hyde
that he must not dare TO think OF sec.
oud term. But the ink was hardly dry
before that willy and INSCRIPTIONS char.
acter began his evil Vaccinations, and
Hyde, being by far the stronger person.
ulity of the two, invariably gains the
victory in the end. The sending OF that
ten-thousand.dollar check TO the Dem
ocratic National Committee was a crit
iCal point in this tremendous strug.
gle, OF which no hint so far has escaped
to the outsidepubllc. Jekyll knows that
he cannot consistently or with any
prOpriety accept the nomination, aud is
making brave fight for clean record.
But what are consistency and propriety
to Hyde? When, therefore, he sue.
ceeded in sending the ten.thousand.
dollar check it was with a chUcklc OF
ghoulish glee, for he knew then that he
had committed Jekyll, and while the
final acceptance might be long delayed,
it must come sooner or later. 1t is even
said that the check was signed by Ed
ward Hyde, and not by DR.. Jekyll at
all. But the National Committee ac-
ceptcd it without question, because
they know that Mr.. Cleveland has bank
accounts in both names, and draws on
Hyde's much more frequently than on
Jekyll's.
This disclosure must arouse great
popular sympathy with Mr.. Cleveland.
We can easily imagine now what fearful
struggles have been going on in the
White HOUSE, 9t the. dead OF night, when
Jekyll was straining every nerve Ito con-
oucr his familiar demon. Ii Jeky could
have had his way we might have had
model Administration within its intel
lectual limitations), but Hydc's Nncon.
qucrable dGpIayity has kept his wretChed
victim continually in hot water. 1t was
JcIiyll who promised to be Civil Ser
vice reformer, but Hyde made the ap.
pointments, and so it was that about two
hundred persons directly canr
nected with tue criminal classes
got Into Federal office in three years
1t was Jckyll who wrote such beautiful
letters to George William Curtis, but to
what end? Hyde Ind no sooner deGn
inaugUrated than he struck up a violent
friendship with German, and sat up late
nights with him planning political ras-
cality. 1t is Hyde who writes all the
pension vetOes, and sneers at the soldiers
and their widows. 1t was Hyde who
wanted TO return the rebel flags, hut the
outcry frightened even him. 1t was
Hyde, who, after long and frightful
combat, succeeded in getting possession
OF the Presidents pen last December and
wrote the Free-Trade Message, because
it is the one craving OF his nature to
sma0h things. 1t was Hyde who de-
termined that there must be Il bid made
for the Irish vote, aud so wrote the Re-
taliation Message, in spite OF Jekylls
wailing circumstances TINT his entire
policy on this question was being fG-
verSed aud made ridiculous. 1t was
Hyde, too, who dictated the new Anti.
Chinese bill.
For ninety.one long days, now, this
contest has lasted, and it cannot con-
tinue much longer. The sending OF ,he
tcn-thousand.lOIlGr check was sign
that Jekyll is fast losing mis- sstrength and
must soon succumb. 1t will not be
many days, now, before We shall have n
letter in which nothing will be said con-
cerning "thc allurements OF pOwer,V
and the temptation 10 retain public
places once gained" but in which the
nomination Ior second term will be
eagerly, even greedily, accepted. The
letter will be signed by Jckyll, but we
shall all recognize between the lines the
cunning and unserupQlaus hand OF Ed
ward Hyde.