The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-06-22
CLEVELAND II CALIFORNIA.

IF, as now seems probable. Grover Cleve-
land is nominated at Chicago. deep disap-
pointment will fall upon class of Demo-
cratic politicians. and nowhere more heav-
ily than in this State. The members Of the
Alameda regency and the followers Of Boss
Buckley have never forgiven Cleveland for
his rejection Of their applications for Office.
When he was elected in 1884 they were con-
fident that they were going to divide the
Federal Offices among themselves and their
friends, as The old Federal ring used to do
In the fifties. Absolute CONSERVATION over
Whelmed them when they discovered that
they we're not even to be suffered to pick up
the crumbs which fell from the Presidential
table. Not only did Cleveland reject their
nominees and choose other Democrats 10
represent the administration in this State,
but he would not see or tBlk TO members Of
the State Central Committee or the County
Committee 1t was said at the time that II
was Judge Field who had set him against
the survivors Of the Stockton convention.
But a more recent and soundeT view ac-
counts for their discontinue on the ground
that Cleveland saw through them, Teck0ned
them at their true value as trading poiti-
clans without honor or principle, and would
not have had any dealings with them in any
event
When they assembled at Fresno last
month they believed that the hour Of their
vengeance had come. The leaders of the
convention undoubtedly intended TO indorse
Hill. With that view they captured the
organization, and placed an excellent and
popular but even-mnded Democrat in the
chair. Ostrom, who was in touch with the
people and having no disappOintments to
ayenge was for Cleveland, they set aside.
They packed the committee on resolutions
with their own set They felt that the time
had come TO feed their grudge. But their
purpose had 10 sooner revealed Itself than
a mutlny broke out, which knocked all their
plans skyWaTd The rank and file Of the
Democracy proclaimed lis implacable hos
tllity to machine politics and to tricky ways
so stent0riously that the conspirators did
not dare 10 carry out their plot. The con-
vention adjourned without saying a word
about uil, ana the very men who had gone
to Fresno to knife Cleveland came back
claiming that they had been for him all the
time.
These pieayune politicians, who had
crawled at Buckeyes feet when he was in
power, and who carried knife in their boot
for Cleveland because he would not let them
stIibute the Federal patronage, viii now
be placed in a peculiar pTedieament. They
will have to join the procession and pretend
that they have always enjoyed crow as an
article of diet. But their feigned loyalty to
the ticket VIII deceive no one. They know
that If Cleveland is elected they will have
no influence with the administration. CleYe-
land knows them-his friends know them.
The Fresno performance is no secret any
where They viii have to shout for a man
they dislike, and pretend to try and help a
ticket whose success Will not be Of The least
use TO them. Their attitude Will present DO
TedeemiDg feature, for, TO men Of their
caiiOer, political principle is nothing and
Office is everything. They viii not even
have the poor consolation Of playing Bene-
dict Arnold as an understudy to Iamnany,
Tor their influence is too paltry to count.
These leaders Of the Democracy have
cherished a wild idea that they could atone
for a decade Of corruption Icy throwing tue
brigand chief overheard. They have CON-
forted each other with the remark that, now
that Buckley is gone, they would loom up
in the public eye pure, uudefiled, immacu-
such fools as these fellows take them for.
Buckley did not by any means. monopOlze
all tie wickedness in the party, nor did he
carry it away with him when he went. He
was only one Of several, not perhaps a
Yiler though possibly a smarter rogue
than many Of bis aCcOmplices lie is gone,
but they remain. One Of his closest friends,
it seems, is to preside over the State Cen
famous farewell supper at Marchand's, are
now speaking for California at Chicago. Ii
the generals Of tie Democracy imagine that
people viii not notice these things. they are
huggng delusiOn-a delusiOn which may
lead them 10 regret that when their old-time
leader went into exile they did not have the
good sense and the good taste to abdicate
politics for the tranquil delights of private