Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-28
NOTHING TO ATTACK.

NOTHING TO ATTACk.
 The Administration Is Solid and Glove
 land Will Be Reelected.
 Cleveland has changed and upset Wash ington as generally as first class cyclone would change and upset 1t in the same length of time.
 No other president since he was born has had his own way so entirely. He has pulled the partisan fangs out of the op- position senate and taken the reluctant and doubtful house under his arm. The generally turbulent and unruly larger branch of congress never behaved better than 1t is behaving this session. when the presidents influence Is supreme and his connection close.
 His enemies in the party that he has around Tho suggestion of any other name for the head of the Democratic ticket of 1888 is instantly recognized as no less ridiculous than the mention of his own name for the place would have been in the Cincinnati convention ofr 1880. What wonder. is it, then. that Wash ington Is bewilderedf Men are continu- l ally coming from the outside country in search of high information. They see Washington beating about helplessly, under the shadow of the strongest and tAO ROA AVSOAAS VAAAAOo' They see the old stagers here afoot and good deal dazed. To these latter 1t seems l as if the strange man on top had even swallowed the points of the political com l pass.
 So all wait on him while he waits on himself, without confdant and coun- selor as surely as he is without . master. His indifference to the town is uncon- cealed As soon as he got to the White House he discharged the president valet. He has no more use for stenographer l dozen pages with his own fine writing in | addressing a subordinate about some business matter.
 l Although thorough believer in him. self, he has never been guilty of display ing or betraying the least bit of cheap vanity. He is, president without a clique. For the first time in Q long while Washington is without White House set. What other motive can such man ! have except patriotism?
 cannot sec any reason for his taking second term other than that he cannot finish the peoples job in time to go out next March. What personal reason could he possibly have for staying7 He has al- ready got the name of the thing. He will never get any fun out of it. But hero he sits, begging away, and the good fortune that some of the greatest men in history have chased until they died comes rolling up hill to his feet. The chestnut phrase in the newspapers of the day looks some thing like this: ''All the delegates are for Cleveland" The uniqueness of this situation may possibly be appreciated when it is recalled that only thirteen of l MT. Clevelands twenty ono predecessors were ever thought of when the time came to choose their successors. Only eleven presidents ever made their second ap- pearance in the electoral college.
 been running like whiteheads from the high tariff whoopers. A few months ago Cleveland stopped running; the almost breathless party also halted Instantly the pursuers paused. Then the pursuers and the pursued faced each other Next with the battle cry of the presidents message on their lips, the low tariff crowd sprang at their adversaries, who quickly turned tale and ran like so many scared steers. They arc still running.
 The Democratic party cannot be put on the defen. g in this canvass. There is not g single thing to defend and nothing to attack. What has the administration done for which it would be wise to assail t t., before f the people? Although he has aeaIi out .s'sAn...l.A Ram h1icans, the among the Democrats than among their enemies. After living for. twenty five years off the husks of opposition, we may soon come to see that when let into the crib of plenty the party's own best and permanent interests needed just such re- straints as were imposed on 1t and just such lessons in self denial as were taught 1t by the man who opened the door. To MT. Cleveland party is simply the means, and is not the end He has al- ways been Democrat, but he has not let the Republicans bother him much. Whether the situation today is the re- suit of a deliberate and consistent policy of the presidents or not, it is still certain that the Democracy's condition is much better at the outset of this than it was at the outset of the last campaign. The pre- sident's course in the matter has been to treat all the factions to an occasional dose of cold shoulder. This is an entirely new treatment for the trouble, but it may have done some. good. ..s.,.,s,.. /.
 This will be the eighth reelection of a president. Mr. Cleveland will be the first, however, to gain that rare glory by the plain and single works of peace. Every other president who has had second term came out of war. They were all men on horseback. -.y Here's to the man afootl-Morgan's s Washington Letter to Boston Globe.