Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-12
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AWFUL MISERY CAUSED BY THE
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ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoaD-UMos.l
HIS POLITICAL DEATH.

Cleveland Goes Down Unwept, Unhon-
ored and Unsung"
WASHINGTON, November 11th.-Senator
Quay, of Pennsylvania, and General B. F.
Butler, of Massachusetts, arrived here on a
late train from New York last night. The
Senator came to Washington TO close the
business of the Republican National Com
mittee, which will have its temporary
headquarters at the clubhouse of the Re-
publican League. General Buffers pres
ence here is required in the trial of cases
before the Supreme Court in which he is
the election, General Butler said:
Il have never known a national contest
the result of which appeared to give so
much satisfaction to both parties as this
1t is a matter of comment how few express
sioDs of personal sympathy for Cleveland
in his defeat are uttered. There are many
Democrats who will say that the President
has given safe and business like admins
tration, but it is seldom that any one can
be heard to utter word of pity for the
man in his hour of humiliation. For Mrs
Cleveland, however, an abundance of re-
gret can be heard on every hand"
A prominent officer of the Administra-
ton, who has been a frequent caller at the
White House during the Presidents term,
said to-day: cleveland was unpopular
with pretty nearly every officer of the Gov
ernment with whom he had to do business,
including the members of his Cabinet.
One cause of this was a real or apparent
distrust of everybody, with the possible
exception OF Lamont, with whom the Ex-
ecut1ve was brought in daily contact
Early i'll his administration he appointed
several unfit men to office on the recon-
mendations of Senators and Representa-
tives, and from that time on he looked
upon their advice with seeming suspicion,
and was chary to q degree in accepting sug-
gestlons from men whose Endorsements
should be regarded paramount to those of
outsiders. These gentlemen naturally had
no personal love for President Cleveland,
who saw that he was so much stronger-by
virtue of his position and the circum-
stance OF his electlon-that the Democratic
National Convention should be compelled
to nominate him. He considered that his
position placed him above the necessity of
cultivating the friendship of the leaders in
his own party. He had no apparent re-
gard for the feelings of scores of veteran
Democrats who, but for the existence
of this child of destiny" would have
been candidates before the Convention.
He did not act after consultation with his
friends in the Senate and House. He acted
first and the others were at liberty TO con-
suit afterwards, if they chose The advice
of such men as William L. Scott, William
Singerly and Wilson Bissel was preferred
to such Democrats as Samuel j. Randall
Arthur P. German and John r. McPher-
son. The Southern contingent in Congress
applauded their Northern free trade allies
and the President rewarded the South with
offices. In the departments it has been
much the same thing" continued this gen.
tleman. when Daniel Manning retired
from the Cabinet, Mr.. Cleveland disposed
of the only man who refused to be dictated
to in an arbitrary fashion by the President
Mr.. Fairchild has been Mr.. Cleyeland's clerk
simply, and the President has dictated the
management of affairs in the Treasury De.
partment, as though the law did not repose
in the Secretary powers entirely distinct
from those conferred upon the Executive
In the case of the State Department the
exhibition has been still more fitful. To see
Bayard-a United States Senator long be-
fore Cleveland aspired to the office OF
Sheriff of his county-taking and obeying
arbitrary orders respecting matters that
affect our relations with foreign friendly
powers, was sight ridiculous, if it did not
excite compassion. Endicott, the descend
ant of that Governor of Massachusetts
whose ancestors tore from the British flag
the cross symbolical of religious tyranny
returning the battle trophies of the nation
to those who were in rebellion against
its existence quarter of century ago
one and all, the President had every mem
Der of his Cabinet under his thumb, and be
ruled them with rod of iron Bayard is
poor. He had to borrow money to pay his
campaign assessments, and the loss of Office
to him meant privaGon. Other Cabinet
officers could have earned livelihoods in
private life but they seemed to have pre-.
ferred the dignity of office to the preserva-
ton of their self-respect"
The gentleman who expressed himselfin
this vigorous manner may have been guilty
of some exaggeration, but as to the status
of the Cabinet he is not misinformed
Cleveland has undertaken to dominate the
executive and legislative departments o
the Government and if he finds no friends
in his time of trouble it is because the re-
sponsibility for this trouble is laid entirely
upon his broad shoulders.