The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-29
N'etO I'orr Adrrsiser.

will, and let them attempt, IN the lace
OF the following facts, TO prove that
Grover Cleveland is m honest Ameri.
can in feeling; that he is not arm.in-
arm with English customs and English
interests; that he has the interests OF
the United States and her citizens ut
heart, or that he is not thoroughly UNI
American, not alone in his ideas, but in
his very acts.
The simple acts OF a mans everyday
life, when taken in tho aggregate, tend
to show his true character and general
makeup. 1t was the act OF Grover
Cleveland to turn his back upon Amert-
can merchants, men who had given him
their suffrages, and openly patronize
an English concern, the very portals OF
which is symbolic of everything Eng
lish. Cleveland made himself addition
ally famous by remarkiug during the
progress OF the campaign when he was
asked to make pledges that he'd "be
damned if he do it." Possibly, in an
swer 10 the present ~arraignment, he
will reply:
I'm a good Free Trader. that's lust what ! am,
An for this land OF Freedom l do not give a
damn.
I'm glad l inbbed the Tarif, we've got 'em on
the run.
The story starts with the London
Agency" an importing harness and
saddlery house, the proprietors OF
which. Martin & Martin, are born Eng.
lishmen. Neither is 4 citizen OF the
United States.
The London Agency" is located at
No. 255 Fifth avenue. Having waited
until u few days alter the election, and
realizing that it was time to make n
show, Mr.. Cleveland, accompanied by
his wife, visited the London Agency"
passing q dozen American concerns on
the way, among them being Isaac l.
Stillings', Andrew Halladay's and John
A. b. Stillings'. English harness was
what the President.elect wanted to buy,
and he took as good care as Mrs.
Cleveland to see that nj American ma
terial entered into its manufacture. A
double set Of harness, to cost $500,
beautifully silver-mounted, and war
ranted to be English in style, cut, fit
and workmanship, was ordered.
1t was like rubbing it in on the clti-
zens who voted for him, however, when
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland discussed a
crest and c~oat-of.arms to adorn their
purchase. This proceeded so far that a
sketch was ordered. The Cleveland
coat-of.arms was intended to BIO made
OF silver and to be ulaced also on the
doors OF the new coach made by Flan-
drau, but the order was rescinded for
some reason or other, and a crest or
monogram adopted instead.
Probably the warning of the Cleve-
land motto, nee tsmere; nee tinlide, mean
ing neither rashly nor timidly," struck
di~scordantly on the q oil the man Of
the peoples choice. May be the fact
that his snobbery would hold him up
to the ridicule OF the world dawned
upon Mr.. Cleveland's intellect, and
caused him to think again. Perhaps
his friends interfered and saved the
country the disgrace OF seeing its presi-
dent sporting a coat-of-arms and driving
behind a team grandly caparisoned in
English-made harness. Whatever the
cause, the fact remains that the coat.of-
arms was used.
Cleveland need not have confined his
choice to one selection, tor Cleveland
heraldry is replete with crests and coats
of.arms which no doubt would cause
the eyes OF the President-elecE to dance
with Joy were he to see them.
He was entitled to adopt that
thoroughly formidable coat-of.arms,
used for centuries in the families OF the
Duke and Marquis Cleveland, Earl
Cleveland, OF Darlington, and Viscount
and Baron Barnard Cleveland. Their
coat-of-arms is a dexter gauntlet, bossed
and ringed and brandishing a sword.
The sword in tho act Of descending will
serve TO illustrate the nature Of the
work in which Mr.. Cleveland will be
engaged in the next four years. A lion,
which could very appropriately be
changed to a Tammany tiger, gorged
with a collar and crowned with a fine
leaved ducal coronet, completes the
crest.
A second royal Cleveland crest, and
one which no doubt would be especially
| pleasing, is a "demi.old man." vested in
dexter and carrying a spear on the point
OF which is impaled a head. A line
passes behind tho figure, and is coiled
up in sinister hand. The sinister
hand" might we'll apply to the hidden
hand OF "Dick" Croker.
There is also n Cleveland crest in the
shape OF q bishops Nitro.
These symbols OF nobility arc adorned
with gritins, serpents and roindeers,
and are truly beautiful specimens OF
Cleveland heraldry, any one OF which
Mr.. Cleveland could be justly proud OF.
The fact that Mr.. Cleveland had is-
norod American houses entirely has
been n subject OF comment in tho har-
moss trade for weeks. He could have
bought better goods for the same price
from an American. "In leaving his or
der for the $500 SGT OF harness with the
English firm" said an uptown harness
manufacturer yesterday, Cleveland not
only placed himself in an %unenviable
position, but he paid for q harness tho
workmanship Of which is infinitely in
ferior to that of American workmen;
he paid at least 500 more than he
would have paid had ne patronized an
American house, and that, too, for n
gaudy sot Of horse trappings that an
American workman would be ashamedt to
turn out OF his shop. Then again, he
assisted in tho evasion OF proper and
adequate custom duties, for it is a fact
that English harness is imported piece
meal into this country in order to
avoid the payment OF tho higher rate OF
duty imposed on harness imported
complete. In so doing he also struck a
blow at the American workman and
his product, and led the way for others
to follow. II is n fact that Cleveland in
tended to have u coat-of.arms, but he
realized the ridiculous position it would
rlnrn him In md hn n,innlu