The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-07
THE MARVELLOUS HATH
COME TO PASS.
Editorial From the Jersey City
"Eyening Journal of Thurs
day Evening, March 2, 1898.

ton the course of the cabinet building OF
our Grover Cleveland, we seem to behold
as in glass darkly the snad-
ows of graveyard or grove
of weeping willow and sombra
cypress. All along the course. which
winds meanderingly. as Amelie Rives
would probably say. through this sad
some grove we behold of baffied ambi-
tions and bursted hopes the many graves.
Now that Fairchild and Bayard and Dick
inson and Whitney are as far from the
feastin2 as Isaac Ppsey Gray or Garland
or Endicott, we pause over the memories
of that memorable Chicago convention,
where Whitney presided in the apart
ments of a European hotel. and Fairchild
sacrificed himself in silence for the sake
of giving Tammany the rebuke of his
grief beyond expression, while Bayard
bestowed dignified advice with the de-
corum gathered In four consecutive
generations OF voluminous statesman
ship, and Dickinson promenaded through
the lamp aisles, regardless of the cease
less thunder, the quivering lightning and
the ferocious rain.
Granting that this was all for tae pub
lie good, still the thought must have oc-
casionallY introduced itself:-"If all goes
we'll, and Grover comes to his own again,
we shall be in it." Now, it does not seem
at all certain that any of the old timber
will be worked into the new cabinet,
which Mr.. Cleveland is to build. except
ing Villas. who, of course, must be there
somehow If it had not been for Mr.
Ceveland's old cabinet he never would
have been called to make new one. That
is entirely certain.
Bayard broke the Maryland delegation,
and prevented German from being a can
didate. Whitney was nscromancer,
and had golden wand that was waved
over restive delegations. He pledged
himself regarding the second place to
the Indiana delegation. He, with Dickin-
son, held the convention in the all-night
session that saved Cleveland. Where
are they now? Look you at venerable
Massachusetts. where an unknown mug
wump, who never had his picture taken,
and perhaps does not even know how to
blow out the gus. gets a place in the new
cabinet.
Begin at the headquarters of the Mis-
souri, and follow them to the Gulf, and
in all the empire between the Missouri,
the Mississippi. the Gulf of Mexico and
the Pacific Ocean there is not to be
found man for the cabinet. In New
York there are two of Mr.. Cleveland g
most intimate personal friends. 1t is a
wonderful work that Cleveland has
done-crowned with Mckinley Repub-
lican for Secretary Of State, a Secretary
of the Navy from Alabama, political
philosopher and schoolmaster from Ken
lucky, and Hoke Smith.
But let poet of the times tell the tale
more fittingiy than it can be done by a
cold prose editor.
From the melon-land
And the cotton-and,
From the gOober-land
And the poSSum-land,
Where the weird Witalacoochee
Chimes with cheerful Chattahoochee,
And the alligator
OF the doings of natur',
Cometh our Hoke,
With needles of loblolly pine
And persimlnon seed fine
In his luxuriant hair
With tar on both his heels,
And an exalted stare,
When he feels
That he's got therel
IIoke! Gee whlzzl
We admire thy phil
Thou holdest the odds,
BY all the gods
In the Pantheoni
Light OF the Interior;
Joy of the EXTERIOR
Hoke.
Georgia's
Gorgeous
Joke.
Hail, Oh, Hokel
Holy smoke!l
We know not the author of these i'm
mortal lines. Could we give his name, it
should be printed upon these pages in
regular stud-horse type. But the beauty