The herald., 1894-07-25
UNDER WHICH KING. BszoNIAN

many fantastical and unwa.ranted pc
liticsl departures of late years that n,
giddy antics Of man swollen with {
little brief authority need surprise any
one. Grover Cleveland, of happy mem.
ory, has probably committed more gro
tesoue crimes against propriety apt
against the constitution and ussges o
this country than any man who has oc.
cupied exalted public station in whs
ought to be the premier republic of tn.
world.
Why this obese public functionary
should be imbued with such a smug es-
innate OF his own selfimportance is one
OF those things which were grouped by
Lord Dundreary as recondite matters
fellow cswn't find out, you know
Tho only excuse for himself or any body
else accepting Grover Cleveland as any
thing out Of the common is that which
justifies the naked black man of Africa
in devotion to his fetish. In some way,
whose modus operondi is not fully under.
stood by himself. the economically clad
niger" has made up his mind as to
toad or lizard, either of which he is will.
ing to worship 90 God. 81 know that
you are ugly, but believe that your are
great"
That Grover Cleveland is ugly no dis
passionate person who ever looked upon
him would venture to do:bt. But not
even fool niger. with all the perspira-
tory ducts and pigments of darkest
Africa exuding rank essential oils,
through pores that are somewhat over
four times as large "a those of a white
man, would dream Of looking upon him
as great.
But great or little, no man OF sense can
doubt the fact that the present occupant
OF the White House has gsll. and OF an
undsfecated, dephlegmated character
gall that would far and then far AWAY
again surpass the vigor which renpet
has in turning milk sour. To write the
Wilson letter the president must have
been encased in suit OF egotism at
least seventeen inches thick.
Where, in the name of all the gods at
once, did this sometime Buffalo sheriff
get the supreme cheek, outside OF for
NAL message addressed to both houses,
to tell the congress of the United States
what they should do? Jackson was a
gentleman of q robust temperament, but
he would never have dreamed OF assum-
ing one.tenth part of the wig that this
most preposterous of presidents has as.
sumed with such splomb.
Senator German, in holding up this
marplot and tool Of English fnanciers
to the reprobation he deserves, has done
an immense service to his countrymen.
There was something indescribably in
sulting to the senate of the United
States in thia be-puffed and concsited
public functionsry undertaking to tell
its members what they should do. In
addition, Ssnat or German showed be.
yond persdvsnture that the president
of the United States had not only de-
scended to playing an insincere and
'collogriging" game with the leaders
of his party. but tina. he had been un-
truthful and treacherous in his inter.
couree with them.
If Mr. Cleveland had been a square
man. and il his enormous eeotism had not
blinded him to the great debt OF graft.
tude be owed his party. which had re-
warded him so far beyond his deserts,
ne would not have committed the awful
blunder he made in the fall of 1887. If he
had the consulted the natural leaders OF
the Democracy, that party would prob
ably have had a secure lease Of the con-
troll of the government OF the United
States for at least quarter of century
to come. As it was, consulting nothing
but his own Mugwump and iat-witted
brain, or some very limited source of
inspiration, he threw his party out OF
power almost before they had settled
into tho saddle.
When the HERALD declared itself an
independent paper it knew very we'll
that its greatest reward would be the
ability to speak the truth without fear
or favor. What an awful overshadow-
ing penumbrs Of hypocrisy and insin-
cerity is involved in the ascendancy of
this man Cleveland? It is enough to
make equare-toed white man want to
die at any hour of the day or night to
have this pompous Pumblechook i'm
posed upon him az q subject for per-
petual alteration. The most reverential
worshiper Of trusts and corporations that
ever lived, this oonsummate political
hypocrite is even proposed to the poor
man as an object OF admiration. Fortu-
nately we Lave now in this country
reached the parting OF the ways, and
plain common sense will hereafter gov
ern the judgments of men, and of mice,
even, let US hope.
We heartily pity our Democratic
friends at the shattering of their idol.
1t may console them. however, to recall
line of Shakespeare. from whose opera
ton not even . pseudo Democratic
statesman is free, and which runs: Sand
every man had his deserts, who should
'scape whipping?" Surely not Grover!
As between Democratic president
and whole array Of Democratic sena.
tors-the latter the best and ablest of
their party in the land-the people of
the United States will not be long in
making up their minds on the question
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