River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-10-09
GRoveR,s MIGRATION.
Why the Stuffed Prophet Has Decided to
Evacuate New York.

ENaeudte New FORK.
The Democrats of New York, and
more particularly the mugwumps, are
exercised over the report that Grover
Cleveland has decided to evacuate that
city and set up his Lares and Penates
among his admirers in Massachusetts
The Stuffed Prophet, as the Democratic
Sun irreverently styles him, has been
in the habit OF spending his summers
in the vicinity of Buzzard's Bay. and
his particular friends givesit out that it
is the charm of Massachusetts scenery
and the delectability OF the Massachu-
sets climate that have induced him to
make his residence permanent and seek
to become a favorite son of the Old bay
State. Pat Collins is very hopeful he
will come, the Boston Globe declares
that practically he Is already a citizen
of Massachusetts,. and that as such he
will have its delegation solid in 1892,
and the Democratic party Of the State
is preparing TO welcome him with dis
tinguished honors
There is another side TO this removal,
however. 1t is given ont that x6wing
he would ne'er consent at last he has con-
scented and that for the third time he
will be a candidate for the Presidency
before the ID mocrat National eonven-
ton. But no man, not even a great
moral reformer like Grover Cleveland,
can afford to go before a National con-
vention without a solid delegation from
his own State behind him. Hence IL
would be the height of folly to put in
an appearance from New York and con-
front solid New York delegation
sounding its trumpets and flying its
banners for the whisky Governor, Hill.
Even a moral reformer must have a ma
chine and represent a sovereign State.
As Hill has captured the New York ma
chine and represents that State by
virtue of the sovereignty of whisky and
Tammany, Cleveland's friends now
claim he must go 10 Massachusetts. ac-
climate h mse,f on east wind. Goldfish
and baked beans. and then secure his
solid delegation, leaving the mug
wumps on the other shore to lament
like Lord Ullin.
SO far as securing a solid delegation
is concerned this is sage advice, and it
would be a unique spectacle, that of
Grover Cleveland entering the conven-
ton, followed by Pat Collins and his
crowd of the ruling race, and President
Eliot and the mugwumps of Harvard.
But his friends are short-sighted. What
bigger boom could the whisky Governor
of New York desire than to have Grover
Cleveland turn tail and beat an inglo-
rious re reat BY way of Fall River TO
the classic shades of Boston, seeking
Ibis own State?" What will he gain b.
it? The New York delegation still will
be solid for Hill and will dictate the
nomination, in spite of Majah Jones and
all the mugwump birds. He is not
built on the model of favorite son of
Massachusetts. lie has too much girth
and corporosity for child of the east
wind. lie may think he will obtain a
respite from Dana, but he is only run
ming into Charybdis while avoiding
Scylla, for he must deal with Ben But
Ter, who is worse than Dana, and who
will dispute his claim even as an adopt
ed son. Massachusetts offers no spe-
cial advantage for the exercise of his
peculiar gifts. If advice is needed on
great moral questions he can give it in
New York just as well as in Massachu-
sets. There are more dinners in New
York, consequently more opportunities
for platitudcs. As complete letter
writer he can indite his airy and grace
full epistles just as freely in New York
as in Boston. and the fishing is just as
good at Rockaway or Seabright as it is
round Misery Island or Nantasket. But
worse than all. it is retreat in sight OF
the enemy and confession of cowardice.
Far better woulG it be for him to stay
at home and fight il out with Hill, and
to 60 down with colors flying and the
Land playing. than to run away to Buzz
yards bay, Berkshire or Boston, and
then try to sneak into the convention
as a favorite son of that stanch old
Republican State. Chicago Tribune.