The representative., 1895-10-23
CLEvELANO'S BIOGRAPHY,
HIS PLACE IN HISTORY.
A Powerful Arraign ment by the
Great Poet of the Pacific,
James G. Clark.

Western New York politician-were in
dulging in a game of chess at the house
Of a mutual friend in the city of Buffalo
Both were experts in the game, and,
until that day, had been strangers. The
commission merchant-who was the
challenged party-soon checkmated his
opponent. The latter was surprised anc
amazed, and briefly remarked: Neither
you nor any man in Buffalo, can do that
again."
Nevertheless, the New Yorker repeated
the act in less time than before. The
Buffalo man was so astonished that he
did not even swear, but mutely raising
his big fist struck the field of his double
defeat blow that split the chess board,
scattered the chess men in all directions,
while the table-a frail "single stand
ard'' cOncern--WaS completely wrecked.
This is the way Cleveland did it then,
and mental forces fail and when he has
"a congress on his hands that can neither
be coaxed or convinced. Then down
comes the fist of patronage The moral
and the logic of President Cleveland's
"Obiect Lesson are constantly becOm-
ing more clearly manifest.
That the lesson was designated as one
of the chief acts in carefully planned
conspiracy against the liberty and pro-
gress of American toilers and in favor
of capitaliStic masters" and EMPLOYERS
through which the former were to be-
come hopelessly dependant upon the lat
ter-can no longer be doubted
The laws of natural selection holds
sway not only in the physical but in the
moral and intellectual world, and is no
less potent and irresistible among rob-
bers than among reformers and public
benefactors. That the American Re-
public should be selected by the enemies
Of social democracy as the final battle
ground for the decisive conflict is most
natural, and that Grover Cleveland
should, over all other Americans, be the
predestinal 'PharoOp" of the new Eman-
cipation drama accords not only with
the plans of the worlds despots and usur-
ers but with the eternal fitness of things.
Mr.. Cleveland has proved himself to be
either the most blind dupe or the
most daring and comprehensive Grim
lesson which, with all it's attendant pov-
erty, torture and ruin, he wilfully and
according to his own bold and open con-
n--understandingly inflicted upon
the people of a great nation that he was
elected to serve, he merits punishment
that would beggar the realms of statut-
ary penalty and physical suffering, and
which can only find adequate expression
in an after life. His crime has vindi-
Gated the logic and necessity of an Or
thodOX hell, for if he were to get only
twelve months Dives experience for each
individual who has been pauperized by
the crisis for which he is chiefly respon-
sible he would, at the lowest estimate,
be compelled to spend million years
wailirg in vain for water and trying
to coax his starved victims to leave Abra-
hams bosom and warn men like Car
Isle, Belmont, Rockefeller, Pullman and
Carnegie of the wrath to come.
1t is we'll known to those familiar with
Cleveland's early history in the city Ct
Buffalo, N. Y, where he commenced
public life as a dominaering, profane, but
successful manipulation of low-down and
corrupt ward politics, that mis- reform
record was not the result Of conscience
and Of moral sentiment-for his most in
crediting him with these qualities-but
rather of peculiar combination of cir
cumstances which, for the time being,
made honesty the best policy" at a
stage in municipal evolution when dis
honesty and official piracy had exhausted
all their resources and could no longer
succeed through false pledges and pre-
lenses 1t was at period such as this
during q fortunate conjunction of pol
itical stars that Cleveland's nebulous
orb Of destiny suddenly solidified on the
verge of the hangers. 1t was at this
particular juncture, when nothing short
of a "campaign of REFORM even on pure
~ business principles could successfully
appeal to the public ear and catch votes,
that Grover Clevaland-the most SUI
prised subject in the entire crowd-"con-
fronted, not by a theory but by a condi-
tiOn'-found himself nominated for sher-
if on a municipal reform ticket. And it
was during his first term Of office-when
every eye was watching him-that was
born his first, faint consciousness Of the
utility of an honest record.
The record was made. And it was, at
that time, such rare and unexpected
event in the city of Buffalo and the
county of Erie, that the people-the long
grateful to Grover, and naturally hailed
him as the coming man. who was to
deliver them from bondage to DOODLE
This mythical faith on the part of the
public was so contagious that Grover
himself caught it and began to tenderly
watch over and to nurse the we'll "re-
FORM wings that had Unexpectedly ma
terialiZed out Of spaces like two dimples
on his political shoulders-spaces that
had previously been innocent of even
germ of pinfeather suggestion of the ar
tificial pinions that subsequently ex-
pounded and lifted their adopted owner
successively from the Office of county
hangman into the chairs of mayor, gov
ernor and president. 1t was through the
law of natural selection that a man whose
official career had first found rest in an
assumed honest bow of the despair of
political corruption should at the close
of his first presidential term, seek out
the denS of business prostitution and
take a four years course of financial tu-
ition and training in the University of
Wall street, under the guiding genius Of
Belmont & Co., where his schooling
yielded him a fortune of no less than
s3,00O,O 900 to $5,000,000. And it was
through the operation of the same law
that Grover Cleveland, with a reform
record that should lead the bewildered
and dazzle the blind" the voter, became
the natural presidential candidate of the
powers that in sour short years had
graduated him. made of him several
times millionaire and trained him for
their personal service in the Office he now
mocks with his stupid platitndes on