New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-13
Mr.. CLETELIND md HIS CONJICIION.

Mr.. CLEUELIND md HIS CONVICTION.
Imprisoned in Grover Cleyelands brain llhe
Il fly in a lump Of gclatine is the conviction
that he has been requested TO arDitra'e pe'"'c"
the Provisional Government ana the queen IA
the Hawaiian imbroglio. So far he mas not 'oiu
Us who requested him. 1t may have been
Blount. it may have been Liluokalani, IL hla!
have been the Mugwumps. it may have been
Providence. All that we positively Know Is
that it was not anybody connected with the
Provisional Government or the revolu'lohai!
movement. But whoever it may have beeil' or
even if it were nobody mt all. MI CleVeiahu
has the conviction concealed upon his person
and is stcadfastly and busily exploiting II.
Mr. Clcvchnd's entire public career since
he emerged from the obscurlty OF buHaio
some ten or eleven years ago has been markeo
by this intimacy between himself ana heaven
and by this tendency to conservation upon the
very slightest prctcXt. Whether 1t be the 1ooi-
ish idolatry of those who surround MN OF HIS
own idea Of his relation to mankind that mas
produced it. the fact is only too conspicuous
that Mr. Cleveland regards himself as a person
with Il sacred mission here on earth. lie went
To Washington first half deafcned by the adulo-
ton Of lot Of buSybodics and political monde
scripts who were telling him that he was the
only good thing in the Democratic party. ana
that the one tric road 10 immortality lay over
the PROSTATE forms Of the men who lad elected
him. For four long years he heard nothing put
fulsomc and indiscriminatc praise. For -FOUR
long years the forces of hattcry were ut work
upon n mind slow to receive but slower to dis
gorge. And at the last he found himself con
WINGED Of his commission from on high and fixed
a., ..l,, ,i,.l, Anna
looked to him, and him alone. for their saliva
ton Through the four years of his retirement
he never once wavcrcd in the faith, and when
by another sarcasm of fate he returned To
power again. it was in the full belief that he
did so by a purely celestial arrangement.
1t has probably never occurred To Mr.. Clev"
land that any who disagrccs with him can
possibly be both intelligent and sincere Nor
do we think it has occurred To him that any
policy of his can by any chance be stupid and
mischicvo,Is We do him the justice TO admit |
that i,lolatry has done its fatal work. and that
lic seriously believes. first, that he is infalbc,
and. second. that the whole world with few
ignorant and vicious exceptions knows 1t.
When. therefore, he consccratcd himself To the /
g undoing of the great wrong" in Hawaii II /
was in perfect confidence that heaven and /
body else could by any chance he entitled to
In the premises. And that conf .
lcncc has not for moment been disturbed by |
any subsequent event.
No one connected with the Provisional Cow
nrnmcnt M Honolulu understands what Mr..
Cleveland means by calling upon that Govern
mcnt To abdicate No one In the whole world .
AN imagine where Mr. Cleveland got the I'M
preston that he has been chosen to arbitratc
he controversy. Nobody can explain his tell
ng Congress that he commended the sub
icct 10 them when he must have known that
Ms man Willis was NJ that moment cndcavor
NJ by threats. cajolcry and stratagem To de-
,troy civilization and restore barbarSm in Ila
wall. The whole incident from beginning Ia
nd from Sprcckcs Ia Bount and from Paul
10 Willis. is incomprchcnsiblc except
Ipon the hypothesis we have indicated the
hypothesis that Mr. Cleveland regards himself
IS heavens viccgcrcnt, responsible" to no human
aw nr custom. bound by no carihly obligation.
upcror 10 Congress. the Constitution and the
,enuls