The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-06
HIS PICTURE By DEMOCRATIC
ARTISTS.

When cleveland became president in |
1885 out Of seven members of his cabinet
he selected FIVE who had never before held
national position and were absolutely
without nstional reputation His cabinet
did not include a single recognized repre-
sentative of the Northern Democracy; he
neither sought nor accepted advice or
warnings of the tried and experienced
statesmen OF his party, like Thur
man ard Hendricks. who might
have saved him from the conse-
quences Of his obvious ignorance and
inexperience; he regarded his cabinet off,
GERS merely as clerks to record his will; he
declined to select for the office of collector
OF customs OF New York city conspicuous
Democrat of the metropolis. and nomi-
mated to that great Office an obscure lawyer
nom the little city of 0gdensburg; he re-
tanned as postmaster of New York city a
Republican favorite of the Mugwumps;
and selected another Republican for the
third federal Office in New York city; he
appointed to the New York custom-house
a man who represented the most corrupt
municipal administration since Tweed.
This il part of the Indictment of Presi-
dent Cleveland which the New York
World DENY printed in January, 1885,
This Indictment of Cleveland by the New
York World three years ago closes by
describing Cleveland as responsible for his
own defeat in 1888, and sites the fact that
"neither Tilden nor Hendricks, nor Nc
Cleilan nor Thurman, nor any leader of
his party were taken into his counsel,
either before or after his inauguration
that he chose as minister to England, the
appointment next in importance to seat
| in the cabinet, an unknown and doubtful
Democrat from hopelessly Republican YER
mont, and at the instance of the Republican
| senator from that state-that his scheme
ofparties without partisanship and politics
without politicians was ostensibiy en-
forced in one state to be conspicuously
| violated in another to the shame and de-
moraiization of the party-that he aban-
doned the pretense of civil service adj
| ministration as the time for the renomina-
ton of his successor approached, and
sought to cover up his retreat by injecting
into the presidential contest another. and,
at just that time. an unfortunate issue
that he made the cause of civil service re-.
form by-word and a mockery by his fla-
grant gift OF $40, 600 to campaign fund for
his ownre-election."
Joseph O'Connor, q leading Democrat OF
Rochester n. Y, describes Cleveland as q
man of ordinary capacity, defective train
ing, selfish disposition and coarse nature,
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his head; who had an instinct toward in
tegrity, but failed to follow it; who was
constrained by circumstances TO PROBES.
many things he did not believe and some
he did not understand: who put off sim
plicity and its freedom and put on hypoc
rlsy and Its obligations: who met with op
portunity before he was ready to use i
and is eager for another encounter; whe
lives without an ideal and true to the sim
pie plan of getting for himself all tn
money. honor, power and qualification on
OF life that he can"
Mr.. oConnor divides Cleveland's nd
mirers into renegade Republicans ant
Democratic politicians who know tha
''thelr own fortunes are bound up in hi
success, and magnify him to exait them
selves. Some of these men are member
of the learned professions and others ar
snobs in society and cads in club houses
who regard themselves as the classes an
think that Mr.. Cleveland represents the
L cause against that of the masses"
OF those who admire Cleveland and al
4 untouched by either selfishness or conce
in their homage Mr.. O'Connor says:
! Seeing from actual observation and person
knowledge OF the process how easily q fall
a ideal arises and is pulled out with bombast
heroic proportions, no longer wonder over NJ
manned, or Joe smith, or Napoleon the Littl
t or General Boulange-. or the Tiehborne claman