Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-19
watterson View OF Cleveland.

The democratic committee is sending Mr..
Watterson about the country to make
speeches for Cleveland. Here is Mr.. Water
sons real opinion as it appeared in the New
York Sun June 8, 1888
This is ian administration which pats its
belly three times day to signify it has had
three square meals and blesses the Lord it
has no views to speak of.
Mr.. Watterson then expressed himself
about Mr.. Cleveland in this way:
ale is the one man in Washington who is
blind to the truth and deaf to counsels
Even the secretary of State who has lived
most of his life in a peachblow vase 5000
miles beyond the moon, is not, | am told,
wholly lost to the real state of the case. But
there seems no help for it. A man as in
capable of receiving impressions as of re-
turning warmth, and sensible of criticism
only to the point of resenting it, the Presi-
dent sits in the White House like a wooden
image made to be worshipped, net to be
loved The weaker members f his
cabinet he has impaired his dull self sutiic-
iency and cold stolidity. The most servile and
sincerest form of tattery is imitation; and the
beggars on horseback whom Mr. Cleveland,
seeking to discover new political planet and
to people it with creatures of his own,
brought into being and III ounted, have caught
the trick of their chief and are equally in
dustrious and successful in neglecting great
for little things and in seeing nothing clearly
exec pt the regula ions of the civil service.
They too, take more JOY in one republican
who has repented and turned mugwump than
in ninety ami nine democrats who have never
gone astray."
Mr. Waterson is an eminent free trader,
but the name of the dish he now eats is
Grow"
The Tammany democrats have already
nominated candidates for Congress in four
districts and threaten to put up their own
men in the others. If they do so there will
be just so much more trading against Cleve-
land When it is remembered that there
are over 500 election districts in New York
city, and that an average change of ten votes
in each district would mean 5000 votes
against Cleveland, the alarm of the National
Committee over the local divisions can be
readily understood.
The Parrot and the Old Man.
The Bowery parrot was enjoying the sun
yesterday, as the cage had been placed on a
three legged stool on the sidewalk in front
of the abode of this remarkable bird. A
man evidently wage Garner of go was pass
ing, and paused as the bird said in his most
insinuating way
The tariff is atax."
"Now that won't do said the man of 60,
''for know better. A few nights ago
heard democratic orator say | was taxed
nearly 100 per cent. on my blankets
Not believing this statement | looked up
some old bills which had among my pa
pers and found that blankets, such as my
son who was recently married, paid; 81 90
and 50 SO for, cost me in 1860 $3.50
aud So. 10 Further inquiry brought ou,
the fact that blankets that sell today for
Sl00 sold in 1850 for 81 The blanket that
sells now for l45 sold in 1860 for $3.50.
The blanket that sells now for Sl.3l DIN
1860 for 50 %. The blanket that sells Now
for 81 So sold for 81 80 in 1860. The blan-
ket that sells for 50 S5 now, sold for $40 in
1860. The blanket that sells now for Sc Sc
sold for Sl3 in 1860. Come old bird, how
do you get over these faclsf.
THE tariff is tax screamed the bird
plucking feather from his head by way OF
emphasizing the wisdom of his conclusion
N j. Press