The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-02-08


and in doubt. OF the SIX in
doubt three are Republicans and
three Democrats. Mr.. Cleveland
who was for long time opposed to
this tax has now assumed a non
committal position towards it.
Portrait BY a Democratic Artist.
Washington Despatch to Chicago Times.
If there is case of political itch
on earth it is the New York Democ-
racy. If there is a dose of castor
oil in the pharmacy of politics it is
the New York Democracy. If there
is a yellow dog of party, to snarl
and bite at the heels of political de-
cency, 1t is the New York Demoo-
racy. If there is a party hog to
grunt and squeal and, having
gorged the swill, to then attempt
to go to sleep in the trough, it is
the New York Democracy. If
there is polecat in politics it is the
New York Democracy. For thirty
wears the New York Democracy has
furnished the party candidate for
the Presidency. For thirty years
the party has been regularly beaten
except i'll two cases Of President
Cleveland. Cleveland was made
President; is President. And De-
mocracy would have been better off
if milestone had been fastened
about her neck and she had been
cast into the middle of the sea to
soak for forty years,
Cleveland is the double distilled
extract of disaster. New York in
the White House is more of party
curse, a greater Democratic dis
grace, than New York in the House
Of Representatives. Cleveland by
nature is incapable of the Presi-
dency or of anything broad tor
party or for public. In altitude he
doesn't stand two feet above the
level of the political sea. A great
party honored him with its nomi-
nation and great people elected
him to their Chief Magistracy. In
less than nine months he has sold
the people to the Shylocks. dis
graced and all but broken the
party, and brought the name of
America into derisiou and disrepute
in every quarter of the world.
What is he engaged about right
now? He is attempting to use the
Supreme Bench, the highest tribu-
nal of justice ever erected, to aid
him in contest with Hill-a con-
test which neither in conduct nor
cause comes to the dignity of a
canine chance medley. Cleveland
picks up Peckham and hurls him
at the Supreme Court to injure
Hill. He casts rotten egg at the
ermine of the judiciary with the
purpose of having it fight his bat
ties in volley of vile smells in the
political nostrlls of personal
enemy. Such is Cleveland. If the
Democracy could come and be
neIghbor to this President of ours
for half year the world and the
party would be no longer troubled
with him. Never week is allowed
to flutter from its perch in the fu-
ture to its perch in the past without
furnishing some evidence of the
meager soul within him.
But Cleveland is as fine and fa5
an expression of New York in poll
ties, as good sample apple from
that very bad, bad barrel of political
pipplns, as one might wish to see.
When he is out of Office mark him.
Mark him as he stands with bare
mead and cap outstretched for the
aims of politics-the most sedulous
and insistent beggar of them all.
He has begged, and begged. and
begged for office all his life. With
an appetite coarse and without
delicacy, he would gulp anytime.
Jail or White House, hangman or
President, all was fish which came
to the Cleveland net. And humbly
ard on bended knee he would crave
these places. Mark how two years
ago he was writing letters. throwing
them off at the rate of q flock a day.
Posting them hither and yon to
Democrats, Republicans, men,
school children, and old maids.
One has witnessed the parallel of
this letter-writing zeal when one
noted some pig, not otherwise en-
gagged, going about in anxious
collection Of every chance blow wisp
Of hay and straw, and grunting
after in the comfort OF his bed at
his fortune.