The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1888-06-07
IxaALLs oN cLErELANp.

The following extracts are taken
from Senator Ingalls, article on
Cleveland, in the North Asleriean
Reriew:
The alleged election Of Grover
Cleveland 10 the presidency i'm 1884
was the most astonishing phenOm-
enOn IN American politics, and il IL
doubtful II its parallel can be found
Ia the history Of any nation. Oh
scure men, ignorant men, degraded
men, have been elevated 10 power,
but Il has never before occurred that
= man possessing every acknoWl-
edged disqualification has been Sc
lected because Of them, and elevated
from the lowest 70 the highest estate
without ever having expressed n re-
corded opinion upon any public
question. It il not known that he
ever made n political speech, tried
an important cause, was q member
of any legislative body, wrote a re-
membered paragraph, or expressed
an intelligent idea, aud after three
years Of administration his political
views, II he has any, are \ matter Of
surmise even to his partisans. II
whether his predelectiOns In the war
for the union were with the north
or the south, aud except that he
furnished q substitute when con
scFipted whom he subsequently per-
mitted to die in the poor house, e is
certain that he sustained no person
al relation, either In sentiment or
deed, To the most mOmentOus con
trOversy Of modern times. He has
no perceptible connections with the
category Of accidents to which his
elevation is due. He had neither
personal following, popularity, ad-
miratiOn or respect, because he had
exhibited none Of the traits aud at
tachments that inspire regard. He
WAS not eloquent or learned, nor
cultivated, nor agreeable, nor enter
tanning, nor attractive IN mind,
manner or person. His enjoyments
were those which are found m the
unrestrained indulgence of the ap-
petities and passions, and his chosen
associates were the companions nf
his orgies.
From this inert aud vacant mass
the transcendentalists and PhATisees
Of our politics have made unto them
selves \ craven image, TO which they
bow down aud worship with ignOm-
iniOus idOlatry and self abasement.
They declare that he possesses the
courage Of Jackson, though the first
threat OF public evaporation, like
that aroused 10y the battle-fag order,
drives him 90 retTactiOn, aud 10 inn
putatiOn Of unpopular acts tO the in
discretion Of subOrdinates. His ted
iOus platitudes are described a. wis
dom, and his dull self-cOmplancy as
imperturbable pOise aud resolution.
His wearisOme pIOtestatiOns Of puri-
ty, aud Of antagOnism To the corrupt
evidences uf official integrity,
malignant Influences Of his party
associates, are announces n
which justify his assumptions Of SUI
periOr honesty, and warrant him in
Perpetually impugning the motives
Of mankind. He regards ss enemies
all who are unable 10 concur with his
swollen estimate OF his supeTlative
preemincnce, and manifests resent
ment toward ali opponents, whether
in his own party or elsewhere.
Having cheated the ReiOTmersn
and bullled the renegades in the
North, lie truckies to his I0asteT In the
South, acknowledges his hypocrisy,
admits his treacheTy, aud not
by exposure, lie
mand another term in the |
face OF his plain avOwal that |
he would not ask for q denomination. |
Devoid alike Of imagination and Of |
conscience. he appeals neither to the |
sentiment nor To the moral sense Of |
the people. Attention will not be di- |
vided, therefore, from the real issues |
of the campaign by considerations |
personal to Cleveland. He will be
not Rs a leader but as
thing endowed by supeTsti-
tiOn aud ignorance with fictitious at
tributes. There will be no herO-wOr-
ship. II il impossible To excite pop
Ilar enthusiasm for an executive
who cOnfessedly reaches the climax
Of his great powers in refusing to APP
prove an appropriation for a public
building Ia country town, and We
tOing with ghOulish glee a twO-dol-
lar pension bill for a mutilated aud
disabled Union veteran.
A schOol Of nolitipai niUu,ips whom