The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-02-15

while American public life has been prolific OF
other brands of scandal, never but on one oc-
cason did anything of this sort ever cause the
blush of shame to mantle the check of the
truly good of this favored land. The unique
incident referred to occurred at Philadelphia
picnic several administrations ago, when dis
tinguished lady yielded to the tempter and
swallowed glass of beer. The whole nation, 1t
will be recalled shuddered as If that beer con-
tanned an excess of resin and was stale besides;
and the famous Lucy Hayes temperance society
disbanded in despair.
A great deal OF surprise seems to have been
caused by the discovery the past week that Mr..
CLEVELAND had not changed his views on the
silver question since he retired from the White
House. This is very surprising. Mr.. CLEvE-
LAND is of that serious and substantial build of
man who does not take views secondhand nor
arrive at them by his own exertions, especially
on an important question, except after long and
painstaking study, and, once having formulated
his views by this process, Mr.. CLEVELAND nat
urally, not being of a frivolous or emotional
temperament, does not put them aside lightly,
and certainly not for the reason that one or
many thousand other men, who never took the
trouble to obtain any particular views OF their
own anyway, see Ut 10 CuduSe SUCH VIEWS
as they may have found it convenient or neces-
sary to adopt temporarily as a mere matter of
expediency. This unfortunate lack of pliancy
and agility on Mr.. CLEvELAND's part has caused
him to be severely criticised by many of his
party associates, who, although they accepted
him unanimously in 1888, knowing full well on
which side of the silver fence he stood, are now
disposed to give him the cold shake because he
hast 1ol fo a. u,l -,
the other side This, to say the least, is incon-
siderate. 1t might even be called unkind. In
deed, excuse could be found for going so far as
| to characterize it as silly. But Mr. CLEvE-
LAND is believed to be able to put up with it.
He is good, if not an agile or lovely man,
and he weighs something over two hundred
pounds or did at the latest returns. While he
isn't much of topper himself he in part atones
for it by his ability to make other people flop,
and by other qualities which render him an
exceptionally useful man to have around the
political household. So it is just within the
bounds of possibility that after mature refec
tion at least safe two-thrds of the Democrats
of the country may conclude that with all Mr.
CLEyELAND's faults they love him still enough
to make him their candidate again in 1892
Stranger things have happened. Get out your
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1t begins to look as if the reports of Jewisl
prosecutions in Russia were being colored by
the correspondents of English newspapers witt
the special object of embttering English feel
ing against the Russians. 1t seems beyond
question that the unhappy Hebrews in the Czar
domInions are being barbarousy treated, but 1t il
hardly likely that the Gear and his minions ar,
such savages as to redouble their persecution
in insolent defiance OF English pleas for mercy, a
was alleged the other day by the St. Petersburg
correspondent of the London Telegraph. Accord
ing to this writer the attitude of the Russian
officials toward the Hebrews is about that of
madman with homicidal tendency toward hi
intended victim Their malignant hatre,
finds expression In every conceivabl
way which will render life burde
and torture to their victims. The description
of the treatment of sickly Jewish recruits show
an inhumanity almost inconcevable even in
Tartar. If half what this correspondent say
is true, all civilized countries should unite in
protest to the Gar, which even that haught
5 and irresponsible autocrat will not care to dis
regard. Even after making large allowance
for the strong anti-Russian feeling which ev
IDENTIFY inspired the writer, there is enough i
his letter to make the humane shudder at tn
lot of the Hebrews in the Czar's dominion
these days.
t According to the London Times Brazilia
e correspondent the officials of the new republ
d are unanimously and enthusiastically of th
e opinion that public Office is a private snaI
b They are ''standlng by their friends'' and rel
: tions with prodigal loyalty that would NOV
n to tears the average North American spoilsmaI
fEaf fof Tn1x
d special means to make the offices fatter an
d fatter all the time. They even go further tina
Il this, and sell them the choicest government lane
5 at greatly reduced prices, and in every 9th
"a way use their places for all that can be got ol
c of them. Here is chance for our anti-ciy
s. service reform patriots Let them lead
.r exodus of disgruntled spoils-loving patriots
,e Brazil. There they may be happy yet
N The gentlemen who recently bought the Ne
" York Star and changed its name to the Con
lyfV,Cr xraffr tue