The sun., 1894-02-16
1 DISMALCRY OF "ICHABOD!"
,ppREssED TO CLEVEBkND BY A
WRtTER Nv HAMPERS WEEKLY

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In Rir7cr's Weekly this week there is a COM
nunication entitled An Antl-Snappers
ylsw." ana II is signed Democrat" The
communication was copied In tho Ererino Post
last night. The Importance OF An Anti
snanper's View" Ia that II was printed In
Harpe,'s Weekiv. which was almost the first
publication to advocate Mr.. Cleveland for the
Presidency in 1884.
II deserted the Republican party at that time
for Mr.. Cleveland and has since been his stead-
fast friend. The hospitality it exhibits to An
Apti-Snapper's View, and the eaGerness OF the
E.cnino Post to be equally hospitable are taken
to Indicate that there Is a strain at present on
relations heretofore tender
The first paragraph in the communication.
which purports to be called forth by an article
on The Failure Of the Democratic Party"
published ia HdrpeJ's Ueek'y on Feb. 3. says:
"Itis true that the party has accomplished
next to nothing during the twenty years in
which Il has been returning TO power. and
that its promises and the purposes OF those
whose alliance has given 1t its victories have
been brought to naught by reason OF the
ascendancy OF men whose courage and virtue
baye been destroyed by long efforts to beat
the Republicans at their own games. by the
corruption OF politics and politicians In New
York. and by various other causes"
Other extracts are as follows:
The old machine is rusty and creaking. It's
crank is in the hands Of fantastic folly and de.
grading corruption. IL cannot be reformed: it
tho name Democrat. Even under the ballot
law OF New York that designation can be taken
from II. The best Democrats are for reTenuo
reform. for sound money. for civil service re-
form for local self government, for the main
tenance Of the liberty and independence oil the
'nI do not write this letter to ron. however.
surtence in what, YOU hayo already published.
iwrite to say that the task OF making the lead
principles, and its allies might now be nearer
accomplishment IL Grover Cleveland had un:
SssstSOd his aS' besaass Mr.
declined to regard h. imself as the leader OF
Z, Tnss ssS9 Z, essn vo Rs
that the Democratic party is to-day in so de.
Mr. Cleveland was nominated at Chicago by
The snti-snapper moyemen, Before % Mr fair-
izatlon there was no possibility OF Mr.. Cleve-
'"Ni William c. Whitney claims the honor of
nominating Mr.. Cleveland. He is entitled to
no credit whnteyer. His work was done for
tended ut first to countenance but from whom
hc ran away when 1t was thought, to use the
Hill would xiii Of one another. leaving be-
hind a sneerinG fing to be printed in the
s New oft m.n
who had m ade Cleveland's nomination possi-
Bic, remained silent. They took hardly any
pHif olevoiand dia nothing to bring them into
the campaign. He RIumbled because his
81 sd he S.
lisent men OF the Democrats party In this
sni 1ifi his friends have no % cause % Of co@pisint
against him Tor that.
party Those who fought for his nomination
and won. confidently believe that II he had he
his party, and made It truly representative Of
~ promises ana OF the principles which mad
ths soS lie told MURPHY and d. Groksr d that
the selection Of the former WITHOUT consulting
% hs sT msn be
made the anti.spapper movement a Ss success
S to MAKE
ssns no. II r his own tS behalf but m for his
out his so h Il is to
him to say that at t he nepsa tRsa
maIign Influence OF Whitney, came In
SS!s might insSSs. nS. been deisGiSd: Mr; cieys:
snapPers preferred Murphy. the man who
mask: the man, who fought in the open. to
the man who drove the knife hetween his
elined the honor and the labor; although
am told. on authority whose right to speak
with the, declination on his lips @ he intimStsd to
Croker that he would like to be the candidate
hn nSg msde q hs Mp9 Mnen on M
positlon TOM to Murphy Il was tSG late h and Whit
must sometimes he right.
The Murphy Incident passed. Mr., Cleveland
Dna mali nt Ia moi
consult with his friends. He seemed to regard
their advice with suspicion; He intimated on
presuming on the sacrifices they had made for
him. and was blunIly told by one Of them in
but Tor The cause which they had supposed that
he represented, When he made M his Cabinet
he fsciined line ' to make MP. Coudest Am % nbSsssdor %
tp France the men who had sacrificed their po-
SSanst the iis nachine. realized that they had
Arcomplishsd nothing but the election Of Gro
s The S.s Sy had e.
the reorganization OF the party in such way
,nat u might represent economic and admlnls-
UatlNe reiorn-had not Yet won It's victory nor
found lts leader
rIr9m the tims, that Mr. Cleveland went to
Washington until now he has been engaged in
breHG; hening the machine in the state. Tam
many and the State Committee are the only
Nj Dayton postmaster because he Is Tam
many man. lie has appointed anti i-snappers
anti.snappcr leaders. lie has tried to con-
eiliate ths machine on Tho ostenslble theory
that he needed llills aud Murphy's aid to re-
peal the sherman act, as II any New York
senator would dare to do otherwise. His tone
bward tha men who made his numina-
Hon possible has been peeyish and insolent.
MS old friends did not ask him to use his pat
Innage to build up Il machine. but to show his
Jnpathy with what was best In the party. and
10 make It clear that he believed that his
principles and not his personality had won.
that the PRINCIPLES he represented were en-
during that they were for the welfare Of the
tsIublle and Of humanity, and that he wanted
tRs usurping bandits driven from the high
places IN the party, because the impure ad-
tmlnlstraton OF the party affairs was ineOnsis-
tent with rs high purposes and professions.
nroyer Cleveland failed to understand the
greatness Of his opportunity. He has placed
himself IN the control Of weak and insincers
men lie has turned his back upon The men
Ehose work for reform made him possible. lie
hts deliberately sat down with those who
nave made the Democratic party a byWord
thd reproach. and who remain his enemies.
u i had not been for Grover Cleyeland's
Weakness. Maynard would not have been
nominated Murphy would not be Senator
am the supreme Court would not be the sport
olthe New YORK machine. In my opinion 1t Is
uro'rr Cleveland who has made possible at