The Wilmingtonian., 1888-01-14
AJackson or A Lincoln?

The celebration of st. Jackson's Day IN
this city, in New York and elsewhere seems
to have been the occasion for pouring over
the person of the President OF the United
States mellihuou sstream Of oratorical hon.
age. The Democratic orators who were
present at the feasts which keep up the
Hero of New Orleans for odficatiou OF
a generation Of Democrats which knows as
little about him as it does of julius Caesar
seems to have been anxious to show the
country what remarkable resemblance OK
lists in the character OF Grover Cleveland to
that of Andrew jackson. For instance, Mr.
John q, Built, who ia Democrat because
he was born in Kentucky and cannot, there
fore, help being one, and Mr.. John Cadwal
ader, who presides at St. Jackson dinners,
because his father, who was close friend OF
old Hickory, was in the habit of doing SO
fifty years ago, told thor hearers with great
zsst that the fat man in the White House
was a true lineal descendant morally and
politically. of the hot-hesded, narrow mind
cd, but brave old partisan who ruled that
establishment with rod OF iron in the good
old days.
II may be worth while to observe that 1t
has taken three years for most Democrats to
discover this extraordinary resemblance. In
deed, very few of them seom to have found
any traces of it at all till Mr.. Cleveland began
ia throw the Federal offices out in the direc-
tion Of the Democratic party exclusively.
Indeed, this is the only feature OF his career
which besrs any resemblance to thas of the
great saint who stands canonized In the
Democratic calender. 1t is the same feature
that made Polk and Piece and Buchanan
latter.day Jacksons in the eyes of the Demo-
cratic party SO long as they had any patron
ACE tn bestoy, But with what contempt
and derision would the old original race OF
Jacksonian Democrats in Philadelphia, like
| Joal p Sutherland and John X. Kane and
Edward King aud Jans' Page and assoc
iates who loved jackson with all his errors
and follies, look down the Democrat who
has been chosen as his successor In the iole
of Democratic giants. In what respect
could they find in Grover Cleveland the quail
itics which as partisany they admire in old
Hickory? Certainly not in his frame OF iron
nerve. uor in his stout heart that knew ne
fear, nor in his stubborn, even If misguided
American patriotism. Who can think o
Jackson writing Free Trade message, or o
sending substitute to war when his ooun
try was 10 danger. 'or in permitting EngHsl
statesmen to trifie with or encrosch upol
the rights Of American fishermen, or 10 afil
lating with MuguumpsP If there was an
one thing that jackson did despise in polite
moro then another it was the persons VIII
, figured in politics without an allegiance t.
any party, and whom We now classify und
the head of Mugwumps.
But while sncb Democrats as Mr.. Built
, and Collector Cadwa'ader endeavor to sho
:. MS the likeness of the President to Old Hicl
ory, we observe that an other set OF admi
, ers of the President fancy that they see
him a resemblance to man who was unlil
|, either jackson or Cleveland and much grea
It ar than both-Abrsham Lincoln. Mr.. jam
~ Russell Lowell, who although ciasiitit
/ among the mugwrmps is to all purposes
% Democrat, has recently said that the Pres
d dent is the representative of higher type
's Americanism since Lincoln was snatch
= from US, and Secretary at the Jacksonii
IN dinner on Saturday quoted this opinion wi
ID much zest and warm approval. This mu
or have beer extreme ly interesting to tho
10 Democrats at the table who were much
danger about twenty-five years ago of bel
II. strung up to the lamp posts of Philadelpl
he as Copper-heads and as vilaers of Abrahi
us Lincoln. But it must have been more p'
zlesome to those orators who were strain
-, their intellectual ingenuity to show that
pct Cleveland is another great and good Jacks
III weighing 200 pounds 1t is probable, he
'id ever, that there are some Democrats
oie that sternest R1ma1 of them all, Rch
No Vaux, for Instance, who, with their con
ety tency and their common sense, cannot
bio look with profound disgust upon these
lily tempts to make out that Cleveland is eli
'ne an Andrew jackson or an Abraham Line
"a 1t is not much to believe, however, thlt
iu fore the year 1888 is out, the ofice-hold
in in their frantic eudeavors to re-elect b
not will be persuadiug the country that be
ails George Washington as welI.-[ Ex.
Tho EnSt of GtriIre4