The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-01

BE sENsxrIvE DEMOCRATIC COON.
covxespondent Of the Telegraph is
eeply stirred clean up 90 apeT eerms,or"'ss
sis political bowels because sne POST
yKLIIoEscER recentlydescripeu ex-fresi-
knt Cleveland as fnicS-niasd tmls-
ras,tsd thick headedl copper-head. who,
pifinx the civil war, expended his time
bftivAting his biceps.by lifting lager to
u oracular lips in . Buffalo beer joint,
hiie BE- tier men than he on both sides
sre putting up their lives for their idea.
Ma description and the quotation of
lrginia Democrats congressman's defini-
on Of Cleveland Is 20 hindquarter of
<snocratic beef hanging up in the White
ouseu IS denounced by the Telegraph's
Respondent Is 70 disgrace to American
nrnalism and an outrage on the decency
ia fnteIligence Of the American people"
IA the 9steorapk sgrees with this opinion
IA thinks II ID seditorial blackguard-
~.
&c Il historically true that Ex-President
pveland was one of at least million
skthern men who were copperheads dur
= the civil war; that is, men who bit the
nion armies In the back, like wood ticks,
tm April. 1851 to April, 1866; men who
lppled the hands Of President Lincoln,
IA proIoneed the war at least year, with
frightul consequent loss of precious
ood and treasure. To this kissing lump of
nyoluted copperheads belonged US. Sem
~ voorhees, who in his public speeches
ooribed the Union soldiers as "Abe Lin
ln's pups who ought to wear
1lar With the inscription, Il am
- Ljncoln's dog; whose dog are
~ 10 the same class belonged
1moernfc Editor Brick Pomeroy, who,
1en lincoln was sssassinated, wrote that
great President 'went up like rocket
tafae down like the stick; to this
- belonged the New York World, which
ncunced Grant during the war as "a
pnken butcher leading his soldiers to
ohambles" to this class belonged the
- Dsmocratic minister to England,
40, In his speeches in 1854, described
lnooln = "a wooden head; baboon of
= bockWoods," phrase suggested to him
obably by Democratic Judge Lamar's
epunciation Of Lincoln in 1861 as a
leody-ninded buffoon,n and to this
nss belonged Grover Cleveland, who, on
ny y, 1894 when told in Buffalo beer
mt thal General Mcpherson had been
Med he1ors Atlanta, merely looked up
nm his hand of whist and grimly in
1uirsd. What's trumps2"
IN facs n these historical facts it is no
lore blaaguardism to define the political
tituds QGrover Cleveland during our
Rugzle It national life as that of cop
|rerhead IAN 1t is blackguardism to define
Washinebn as patriot, and BENJAMIN
fnnklinsson as tory; Charles the First
tyrsz. and John Milton as a cham
Ion Of popular liberty. tits mere ques-
|ttoE OF hikorical, political fact concerning
TIE publh attitude assumed by a man at a
tjms thet tried mems souls, when
19ery nan who had soul was
dGhting Nth either Lee or Grant. or cast
ne bis He, his fortune and his honor
Epenly uoder either the stars and stripes
- stars ed bars. The men, like Cleve-
Hand. who accepted the shelter of the flag
~ the u4ion while they did their best to
npset II opposing Lincoln's efforts to
rush the rebellion; who. like the blank
teaf between the Old and New Testament.
clonged 10 neither dispensation,-thes
lmen haW no just cause of complaint
hen tneg are reminded that they were the
pries not the patriots, of our most recent
oliticsi evolution.
II Il % blackguardism 10 call President
1leveiand by his right name; to correctly
Ieiire. in as copperhead from 1ssl-65.
fhen BIS eopperhesd friends and sympa-
hirers 'athe past and his present admir-
r are vslcome to make the most of it,
ns to al men Who were for the Union in
l-& 1leveland is described with histori-
acct rafy as thick-skinned copperhead,
sterly sHhout sympathy for the cause of
81 5sn section, and open-mouthed in his
ressloa OF hostility for it to the end of
'reassng disaffection to the government
'lind ths bleeding armies of the Union.
DC hsackguardism to tell this dismal,
hgrae' ~ historic truth about this pres
Den eratic demi-god. then let the be-
cd ~orshippers of this ugly wooden
van hat is the present sign of the
iocfs'ac tobacco shop make the most
fsr x the disgruntled Virginia con-
SINAI = definition of Cleveland as a
Ssarter of Democratic beef
y gsns up in the White House
cor erned, II Is the coinage
IL ssn party, even as is the Demo-
&c Nss York San's definition of Cleve-
IS The Stuffed Prophet" If Mr..
eisn 10 personal quality is of such
Gus dignity that it prompts
'ng Democrats congressman and
iss'is TO speak of it in terms of I'M
stA contempt, what wonder that Re
ai ans aold him in small personal con-
r. zoe rs man of statesmaniike in
on weight of personal character.
4 sn, fatie party Is so stupid today
r. irs with laughter every time
eas ratio politician or press
81 President Harrison as the
81 III his grandfather's hat. or
. over "Baby Mckee" And
IS .me political coon that grows
q Sc and takes sn appeal 10 tie
- AZ ,eople against black uaEdissn .