The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31
CLEVELAND AND GRESHAM.
MT. Dickinson Hints of Treachory on the
 Part of the President.

Part of the President. It will be remembered that not many
 months before Secretary Gresham broke down, not to recover, Don M. DiclSin.
 son, member of the presidents cabinet during his first administration, and al.
 ways rcputed to be his closest personal friend in politics, delivered speech in which, in effect, he savagcly attacked the foreign policy of the state depart ment. His call for q more vigorous conduct of international questions was so loud, so well fortified and so wide in its scope that it compelled general atten tion. By some it was accepted as an indication that a large section of the presidents party were weary of the bungling at Hawaii and of failure on the part of tho administration to up- hold, morally and physically, the fair name and real strength of this country.
 Once more MT. Dickinson has ap. peared as the apparent critic of the ad- ministration. He wants a more direct and effectual course in relation to Cuba.
 What gives the Cuban ideas of Mr. Dickinson gravity is Mir. Diclsinson's explanation of the real motive of his assault on the state department while Secretary Gresham was at its head. MT. Dickinson, according to William E. Curtis, delivered thrt speech with the presidents knowledge and approval. That is to say, Grover Cleveland, presi- dent of the United States, entered into an intrigue with man of his own party but not in his cabinet to assail in public a man who was in his cabinet, his own subordinate. Walter Q. Gresham.
 It is scarcely possible that MT. Dick inson realizes the baseness of the posi- tion in which his assertion places Presi- dent Cleveland. It was in his power at any time to ask for Mir. Gresham's res iguation. Was he afraid to do SO? In personal and political cowardice did he condescend to conspire against the peace and honor of one of his own of ficial family? If Secretary Gresham knew of the intrigue against him, with the president, his chief, as its inspirer, it is not strange that, married by con gress, moclied for the miserable blun- dering at Honolulu, surrounded by as- sociates all political, and many of them personal strangers to him, he sickened and died. Official mortality of Mir. Cleveland's cabinets has been painfully striking. Mir. Dickinson himself hay ing had one term of intimate official connection with the strong personality in the white house, could not be per suaded to have a second.
 Since, according to Mir. Dickinson, the assault on Greshnm's management of the state department was with the presidents knowledge and approval, Secretary Olney may well be psrdoned for raising his eyebrows when he reads Mir. Diclllnson's opinions about the duty of the United States to Cuba. It is suggestive coincidence that, just when MT. Dickinsons voice calls for help for Cuba, it is given out that Mir. Cleveland and Secretary Olney are about to take some step in recognition of universal American opinion on the subject.
 For President Cleveland's sake, it may well be hoped that Mir. Dickinson will modify his apparent accusation of treachery by MT. Cleveland to Walter Q. Gresham, who sacrificed all his ann bition for Mir. Cleveland's benefit.-Chi- cagO Times Herald.