The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-11-23
THE COWARD IN THE FIGHT.

Should Rejoice.
Washington City Special in New York Sun.
The cowardiy course pursued by ex-
President Cleveland during the recent cam
paign in New York has attracted
attention far beyond the boundaries
OF that state. Senator Black
burn, of Kentucky, in conversation
here today with reference to . suggestion
concerning Mr.. Cleveland's presidential as
pirations, said that ii Mr.. Cleveland were
again the Democratic candidate for presi-
dent, and if the election were TO be held
tomorrow, he would certainly be defeated.
His course in the late municipal cleo
tion," continued the senator, tended to
embitter the sdherents of Tammany still
more against him. He did not take any
and nobody knows how he voted, or
whether he voted 1t ell.
gentleman who Is very conspicuous In
New York business circles, and Is also .
good Democrat, said to reporter here this
afternoon:
.sThere is no good or sufficient reason
why Cleveland should congratulate himself
over the great Democratic victory. The re.
suit Of the municipal election in New York
city has knocked the old man out as pres
idential possibility. He made the mistake
of his life by failing to do little something
to help Grant, The ex-president's friends
not only followed his lead, but some of the
most conspicuous did their utmost to assist
the organization that called itself the Peo-
pies Municipal League. Please don't
imagine that the regular straight DEM
ocrats will forget that It il .
fact that Cleveland did not make up his
mind to vote Tor Grant until the evening
before election, when even he could not
help seeing and understanding the hand
writing on the wall. Had Cleveland sym.
pathixed with Grant in his tight, Is he did
with Russell, the Mugwump candidate for
gubernatorial honors in Massachusetts. he
would have been all right. As it is, he was
all wrong. Hills friends are now busy Is
bees. They are calling attention to the
fact that wherever their champion took .
hand in the campaign there was marked
Democratic success"
Editor Dana Excoriates the Stuffed
Prophet-No Right to Rejoice.
New York San.
What part has Mr.. Grover Cleveland, Of
New York, in the general rejoicing after
this cheering Democratic victoryf
For the past month the Democrats of
New York have been engaged in q contest
with the most powerful and embittered
combination that was ever arrayed
against them. They have been fight
ing for the very life of the party
here and for the future of De-
mocracy in the nation. They have tri-
umphed over the united forces of the Re-
publicans, the Mugwumps, and the So
called Cleveland Democrats, with Mr..
Cleveland's secretary OF the treasury al
their head. And where was Mr.. Grover
Cleveland himself during the battle?
Mr.. Cleveland is said to have gone to the
polls on Tuesday and to have deposited q
ballot for municipal officers. Was it the
Democratic ticket or the anti-Democratic
ticket that he voted-who knows?
| II Mr.. Cleveland voted as he PRAYED. he
unquestionably handed in an anti-Demo-
| cratic ballot. All of his friends, all OF his
| personal and political sympathies. were on
| the side of the anti Democracy. His most
| intimate associates were engaged in the
| conspiracy to wreck and ruin Tammany
hall. His secretary of the treasury,
| Charles S. Fairchild. was on the stump for
| Tom Platt and anti Democracy. His lead.
| ing supporters in the New York press. the
! Evening Post the Times and the Commercial
| Advertiser. were dong all in their power 10
didates. So far as the Scott movement was
not Tom Plat Republican movement, il
| was q Grover Cleveland movement.
| But if Mr.. Cleveland followed the inspir-
| alton of selfish and cowardly interest in
| his own supposed political fortune, he went
to the polls after skulking for month be-
hind the trees that surround the battle.
field. and voted as he had not prayed.
Who knows whether the vote that the
| Stuffed Prophet cast on Tuesday was the
vote OF an open enemy or a treacherous
and cowardly egotist? Who can sunnlv
the information that will interest the whole
| country2