Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-28

be reuomlnated. We had gotten over a slump
OF about five years which nearly DESTROYED
every fortune in the land. Commodore Wander
bilt lay down. to the Wall street term.
That great business head, / know from
family information, surrendered after the fail
ure OF jay Cooke. But the very lapse of
political exctsbilitv following the electoral tri-
bunal. the making of personal issue there,
instead Of advancing public heresies. set the
people to work. They were really chastened
by hard times and forgot their frirolities and
prosgacies. Europe was plunging into such
enterprises as the Panama canal and had short
crops for years. John Sherman found specie
payments not hard to be restored. The coun-
try stepped out of the civil war at last and I'M
til this silver issue has been raised. as a post
humous chapter of imitation, We have had no
recriminating subjects.
HAYES AND HIS ASSOCIATES.
Some persons think that the weakness Of
Hayes administration was permitting the
members of his cabinet to openly lay plans to
be Hayes successor. Probably we can trace to
Sherman's pre-empting the administration the
hostility Of Blaine. Conkling, Logan, Edmunds
and others. The fight on the New York custom
house. which finally led to Arthurs becoming
President instead of Conkling, but through the
murder OF Hayes successor, as due to Conk-
ling idea that Sherman would put man in
the custom honse who would bring him the
New York delegation in 1880. We all know that
Gail Hamilton opened her letters against civil
service reform in the New York Tribune about
the same time. and she was not very far from
Blaines household. Those unfortunate letters
were the main cause of Blaines desertion by
the civil service reformers, led by George
William Curtis, six years later. HAYES might
have neutralized hostility if no had extended
his own abnegation to all his cabinet. You can
see how little real hostility there was to Hayes
because he had drawn the white bean in the
/ electoral tribunal from what Gov. Pattisou Of
Pennsylvania said to me last spring. Hayes
had wonderful cabinet. said he.
On the other hand Mr.. Hayes no doubt felt
and shared the aspirations of those around him
to be President. What right had he TO step ont
and say, The other man shall have this thing"
and leave his wife. his children and those who
had backed his campaign to curse him to the
end OF their days. Besides. he would have had
no legal recognition if he had done So | take
| it for granted that he was like other men.
quite good enough to be our President
but not good enough to refuse the earth
when it was to become subject of arbitra-
ton Society would simply have dispersed and
the champion fool of the age would have been
born, If in the midst of all that excitement Mr..
HAYES had said in effect to the friends of Mr..
Tilden: Go yonder and take that capitol by
storm" lie would have been a Henry Waiter
son without drink Henry did call for one
hundred thousand men and then went 10 sleep.
MIR. Tilden was not completely deserted by
those literary men he had sposen to me about.
WattersOn, who had once accomplished the
feat of getting into Tiidens wine cellar re-
NAMED faithful to the last. and the flavor of
that Johannisberg was on the cry of Assemble
a hundred thousand men and send me the
bills
wrote to Gen. Comfy, an old friend, who
lived at Columbus and owned the state organ
of Mr.. Hayes, that the republicanssit seemed
to me. did not want to make a contest over one
vote when Mr. Hayes lacked three states. Comfy
replied, long and some hat Indignantly. hold
ing that Mr.. Hayes had been elected. and that
rampant fraud in the south TO blame. The
man who mixes in these conflicts as a peace
maker gets what the stranger received from
the Irishmans wife whom he undertook to pro-
tect from a marital licking. The wife and hus-
band gave him ballyhoo
THE MAN FOR THE TIME.
l think it more important to the genius of
that time and the picturesqueness of our his
tory that President Hayes had just the compo-
sition he possessed. Anervous man would have
wanted toplacate somebody. He was courageous
enough and probably had conscience lust
enough to hold his mouth and his countenance
too. why. what evil hath he done?' expressed f.
the minority first and the majority afterward, |
until by the time he died great convic- |
ton hid come over the minds of most of the |
American people, namely, that the beneficiary |
in cruel titiga ion such as family /
secret is the hero to be pitied. He who did !
not reach the presidency. but could live sump- |
thing to ambition. had no cares aud might have |
lodged in the popular heart feeling akin to |
pathos. Mr.. Tiden threw that pathos away /
and his friends seeking to press Mr. Hayes F.,
hard gave at last the pathos to Mr.. Hayes. so
that at the second accession of the democracy
to power, in the person of the same man. it ia .
not the President of the United States who |
goes to Fremont to bury HAYES. but the Pres
ident-elect, whom Mr. 1iden requested to be |
his heir-at-law.
CLEVELAND.
1t is singular fact, as | have understood. |
hat Cleveland would not 60 to see Mr. Tilden !
and receive his blessing after being in the cam
paign of 1884. Manning thought that Tideus
influence was paramount i'll the party. Cleye-
land did not believe that the presidency was
worth having If Iildenism must prevail in it,
He had probably heard from some of his asso-
ciates, who hsd been in the fidea interest pre-
viousy. that there were tricky things done on
Tildens side Mr.. Manning never seems 20
have been completely in Mr.. Cleveland conf /
dence, though he became Secretary of the
Treasury ale was forced upon me- he is
reported to have said one day when congratu-
lated upon Mr.. Mannings appointment. This
little incident of Cleveland gong to Hayes
funeral has acted rs stimulation to moderate
thought all over the land.
What kind of man is this who could take
such step!'
No answer being returned the Irish echo
answers itself, "He must be bold man any
how"
The fact has been that Cleveland is perhaps
the first President since Washington to look
among the people for their greater if secondary
moral conviction.
Because he not in favor OF knocking the
tariff all to pieces when he came to Washington
his admonition on that point was all the
stronger when he had made up his mind. He
tried Randall first and Carlisle afterward.
Cleveland impresses like Sir Robert Peel
or Gladstone or some man who. having been for
wears on one side of idea-. is finally made by
the powerful currents which slowly move
through large composition, the agent to work
out those things he once cared nothing about
How much Christianity there might be in the
world without Saint Paul. who had to be
knocked off his horse who can say. As Geve-
land has been the opponent of piratical system
OF office grabbing in this government, he is COM
ing to the next great idea. perhaps that those
people who try to be right ought to be sepa-
rated from those who are merely predatory in
their ideas. We have long been wanting
man who could reform the methods of making
party lines in this country. The civil war long
had its influence to make men act on their
prejudices rather than their thoughts Cleve-
land has probably himself followed the repub-
lican party SINCE the war a par. of the way into
their ideas and conclusions and he is. therefore,
the man perhaps to redistribute the public
forces. He surely is the only President we
have had in our time who owes as little to the
democratic as to the republican marty and