Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-09-07
GROWERS EPISrLES.
MURAT HALSTEAD'S ANALYSIS OF
CLEVELAND, THE CORRESPONDENT.

PeOple-Some Sapient RenectAins.
The accepted Interpretation Of Mr..
Cleveland's many laborious little letters
is that he is an uncommonly anxious
citizen. Forced as he was as a presi-
Dental candidate upon the convention
Of his party by the pertinacity of per-
sonally interested friends, who had
tasted Office along with him and per-
mitted success by the fimsiness of an
opposition that lacked the courage of its
ambition; nominated against the bitterly
serious protest of the unanimous delega-
ton of his own state, his defeat would
be humiliation. The deliberate, signed
declaration Of the New York men in the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in number
was that his nomination would i'm
peril the success Of the party, for it
would expose to defeat the electoral
ticket of the state, and if this judgment
should be indicated the responsibility
would fall upon the candidate, and there
would be less Of him forever after than
of any other man who ever had period
of national conspicuity.
Whether he is to be president for four
years or of considerably less Importance
than David Bennett Hill while they both
live naturally causes him some concern,
and the pangs of uncertainty are the
more acute when he reflects that his only
possibility of success rests with those
who ostentatiously committed them
selves to his failure, doing this before
the Democracy in national convention
assembled by proclamation and GRAFTON.
The chance that those who were vehe-
mently against him will be complacently
for him depends upon the capacity of
those 'who made specially of advocat-
ing his claims to efface themselves, and
leave him to the mercy Of the enemies
he was beloved for making, and whose
antagonism has been the highest testi-
monial of his character.
Mr.. Cleveland is not only confronted
by condition-he is environed by a
situation which is queerly simple, Curl
ously complex and altogether embar,
RAISING Was it an imprudence in Mr..
Cleveland to address one of his letters
to ex-Secretary Fairchild, thanking him
for his services as an antisnapper and
to place upon it the injunction, "Pass ii
around" which was the prohibition of
its publication? One would think Mr..
Cleveland ought not to be forbidden
civility to friend whose devotion was
a distinction, but Tammany has been
touched in a tender spot with the story
of thankfulness rendered by Cleveland
to the May day friends who rallied after
the February frost. There is something
more than the heroic suppression of irri
tation by the fair weather friends.
Mr.. William R. Grace has given voice
to the sorrows of those who find that
their support of nomination that was
made is an offense that the managers OF
the candidate cannot condone. Mr.
Cleveland posing before the SagamoreS
may forget that differences Of opinion
existed, but Tammany as the head and
front of the Democratic party-the reg
ular and the only recognized delegates
at Chicago-has not forgotten the SYRIA
cuse rebellion, and if they thought
Cleveland would dare to reward those
rebels they would make his last presi
Dental defeat as extravagant as his frs
gubernatorial victory. 1t is only by re
nouncing Mugwumpery-by separating
himself from the opponents of Tammany
by dealing Enthusiastically with thu
tiger-by knowing his boss-that there
is shadow of show of possibility tina
the protesting delegation at ChicagC
shall falsify their prophecy in New York
Mr.. Grace is an old enemy of Tam
many and expects nothing. He is in {
position to afford to say what seems goo(
to him. His brief indulgence the othe
day in conversational ability was not a
all accidental. The Syracuse suppress
sion had become intolerable. Something
had to be said. Mr.. Grace owned tina
there was trouble in the meeting house
, 1t was even mentioned in the same con
nection that Whitney was blamed-tha
he was doing too much. He was sub
stantially charged with contracting tt
keep the mouths Of the fair weathe
folks at Syracuse shut for the season
In his treatment of this delicate predica
ment Whitney was up to his mark.
He Hoped around the steep and crooked
corner smartly. Of course he said Their
was dissatisfaction. AS for himself, h
had declined rather than sought honors
But there would be harmony presently
A Democrat would not mind with wha
, other Democrat he touched elbows
This was just all that could be said
The important facts behind it have not
however, been mentioned. They relat
to the extreme trouble Mr.. Cleveland i
at to do the two horse act. He has t.
depend upon the faithfulness of his oil
friends while he makes love to the ney
, ones. The faith of the Mugwumps ha
I been sorely strained. The smugness o
, the civil service reformers is battere,
out of view. The alleged Independent
who saw in Cleveland a parsonage bet
ter than Democrats man rising abov
his party-are discarded and derided
! Tammany is exclusive. Cleveland ha
t been initiated. The reformers are un
accustomed to submissiveness. They cal
, hardly be sure they are alive if they ar
: not making noise.
+ The Mugwump journals have bee,
warned to keep off the grass. They ar
' expressly enjoined to be quiet about Sen
ator Hill. 1t is understood that fey
words in the journals that fought Cleve
lands battles for him during the year
< nis presidency and retirement re