Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-02
EDITOR BREEN'S EYE
Sizes Up the Coming Inaugural Show
and His Facile Pen Records
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
How Fanny Davenport Can Teach Grover
to Tumble Gracefully.
THE MUGWUMP WILL BE SHELVED

TIE NUGWUMP WILL BE SHELVED
And Harrison Will be Seated Amid Blaze Of Be-
publican splendOr. B"
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 1.
Inauguration snow will come
With all its motley din,
And then the whirligig will hum
And turn the rascals in.
Capital Laureate.
In few more days the waves of a new
supremacy will dash up around the Capt.
tol, dethroned Democratic officeholders will
be walking the streets of Washington in
great numbers, and the first Democratic
President which the towheaded boy of this
generation has seen, will lay down the
truncheon of power and will, therefore, be
plain Grover Cleveland, of New York, |"
or perhaps the Tim Campbells of Gotham
will call him "Grove'' for short, as Bissell,
Folsom and the Buffalo boys did when they
clinked glasses together 10 years ago. With
the departure of the Democrats there will
come motley crowd, such as Washington
has never seen before. The Original Har-
rison man" will be here to bank on his
Originality" and to look after consulates
and things The wild and woolly" West
will be represented by new faces-Republi-
can Loehinvars,
With fur on their trousers and fur on their
vests.
And with No. 10 brogans chock full of feet.
IT, Pa,ub1;oap ofroa bo1dare boro
been standing at the outer gate for four
years will be here 10 force an early issue
with the ''hold overs" Military will be
here In imposing numbers to emphasize
their love for soldier President and their
dislike of a Democratic President, and the
big and little statesmen from "Podunk" and
"Wayback" will be here to see how it is all
done. The Inauguration will be a notable
gathering, in which Jeffersonian simplicity
will not figure to any great extent. The
Republican party after period of retire
ment and probation, is "feeling its oats" so
to speak, and pomp and circumstance will
not be wanting to give emphasis to its return
to power. The Democratic chiefs, as they
gaze back four years, and recall the earth
quake voice OF victory which greeted Presi-
dent Cleveland and the Democratic party,
and now look on the Democratic "wreck,"
might we'll exclaim with the most charming
of Yankee poets:
Hans Bixitman had hardy,
We're is dat hardy now?"
DETECTED DEMOCRATS.
Most of these chieftains and great Cabinet
Ministers are now past their prime and un-
popular with their own party, and, in ali
probability, the places that know them now,
will never know them more. Like the
Moors, on leaving the Alhambra, their
happiness will be mostly in retrospection,
while some of them, like Bayard, will be so
professionally and politically stranded,
that they may, like Sidney Smith, have to
cultivate literature on a little oatmeal.
Another party will be missed. The Mug
wump will not be here or take any part in
this transformation scene, but he will meet
in his several assemblies and conventicles,
and appoint March 4 as arday of general
humiliation, fasting and PRAYER throughout
the Dominion of Mugwumpery. He will
not bow the knee to Quay or Baal; he will
wear Grape on his arm, and eat unleavened
bread as a symbol of his consuming grief,
and generally, like Rebecca, he will refuse
to be comforted. Nevertheless, the planet
will revolve on its axis regularly, the sun
will rise and set, Harrison will draw his
salary and govern this great country "bv
and with the advice and consent of NJ. S.
Quay" and despite all these he may even
disappoint the Democratic and Mugwump
augurs.
there is a feeling, not strictly political, of
sympathy for the small fry Democratic
soon to be ex-ofice holders, who are the
victims partly of Brice's educational cam
paign," I" and partly of Quay's skilful dice
throwing in Brooklyn and elsewhere; but
this sympathy-outside the pale of official
patronage, so far as my observation goes.
does not extend in any degree to his out
going excellency, Grover Cleveland.
PLUCK, BUT ALAS! FOR THE JUDGMENT.
The feeling in Republican circles toward
the President is largely that of contempt for
the man-his judgment, his methods, and
what they call his humbuggery, tempered
with a sort of stage admiration for his ex-
hibition of pluck, which has given them
victory. They are quite willing to accede
that in forcing the tariff issue" he is en-
titled to the same verdict as the Irishman
who butted the plenty of
pluck but poor Judgment As was said of
the British charge at Balaklava-Cleve-
lands plant was audacious, it was
splendid, but it was not generalship, and
$50 say we all of us"
Right or wrong, the average Democrat re-
CARDS the President as a party "wrecker,"
and this feeling among the rank and file is
best illustrated by the remark of one Carter
Harrison, of Chicago, that no one could 20
into Democratic gathering in any bar
room in that city and get up row by black
guarding Grover Cleveland, while among
the Democratic leaders like Randall,
Vance, ct al, whom Cleveland endeavored
to cripple and destroy politically, the feel
ing over Growers downfall is almost jubil-
ant People naturally test public men by
their professions and their acts, and here
President suffers. His prospectus was yery
lmposing-his fulfllment very meager.
Harrison, on the other hand, may fail as a
reformer, but he will be judged more len
iently because he is less ostentatious in his
profession of the Spartan virtues, and this
popular test is not altogether an unfair one.
THE GREATEST BLUNDER.
The President is Man of Destiny and
believer in "stars"-and, therefore, unlike
other men-yet it is every way certain that
be is very much like other men in this, that
he is not altogether happy over the circum-
stances attending his exit His great mis-
take-the source, in fact, of all his other
mistakes-was in listening to the advice of
the Democratic sirens who urged him to
stand for second term, after he had osten-
tatiously proclaimed against it. AS man
of sturdy common sense, he must have
known that the Democratic Office holder
who advised him that his policy or per