The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-07-22

nosis Of Dir, ClOVsland'a Ailment'
Mo- York sun (Deal,
Our ettepmOd contemporary, the
Council Bluffs EonparlOI. aHkS tho por'
tontious question, "Is Cleveland u De-
genorasa" and aaswoFs II thus:
THAT a man would aspire to tho
presidency after the utter reputation
OF himself by his party and alter the
complete failure OF hia administration
on all the alleged policies It possessed,
can only mean ono thing, and that his
reason has taken iHRy0 Of him.. tndSed,
this Is not unlikely, for no has shown
many signs OF physical and mental de-
genatinn Of late. We do not know
whether DR.. Norduu would classify him
as a mattoid or rs a %paranoINc, but wa
are sure that no would say that no was
one OF the two"
We behave and hope that Mr.. Glove.
land has not displayed any physical de-
generation. 0nr Iowa contemporary 10
mistaken in believing that his desire for
4 third torn Is an indication OF any
new mental condition or want OF cond!'
/ ton. He Is what he has been ever since
hia first emergsnce from Erie county,
nor can his state be properly regarded
us progreslyc. II would no inexact
| and u%nscIenliilc to classify him as d
mattoid or q p%aranolac, lie Is, TECH
nicRlly, ap automaniaci that Is, tho de-
lusion under which he lnbors Is Infinite:
" more acute aud severe than that OF
tho true m~Ogalomaniac. MeGalomahia
is common in all conditions Of men, and
| even among women 1t is not
absolutely unknown. There are
occasional, habItua and incura.
bio megalomaniacS. Specimens OF
each kind are common among tho
New York rolormers and among re-
formers In general. Indeed, megalo-
mania from It's miidest to It's graYer
forms ranges through q wide variety OF
subjects and degrees, The village youth
who Tolls upon tho common OF a Sunday
afternoon directing at tho village maid
ens g%lancss in which shynoSs is already
pierced with triumph, has In him the
| germs OF a harmless megalomanla; and
the Rev. DR.. Charles Henry P~arkhurst,
%journeying joyoualy TO switzerland alter
witnessing tho victory OF reform over
New York, aud seriously expecting that
tho MattsrhOrn will como to climb him,
is only u ~megalomaniac OF larger growth
and moro extensive advertising.
Tho mogOlomaniuc takes an enlarged
Wow Of himself or his poWors or his
surroundings. His sense Of hnmor has
been bfunted and his sense OF proper
ton aud personal perspective lost. lie
iS like q goose going in by tue barn
door. Ha ducks his head lest he hurt
tho GtarL Other things look too small
to him ho looks too large to himself.
lilo may be a good neighbor, kind TO the
poor, correct In all the moral relations
OF life, and ovon able to play q willy old
hand at whist; and yet no has o SCrow
loose and an unturnished TO lot in his
brain. MeGalOmaniu oven in lie c
i've manifestations 10 distressing neither
to the patient nor to those who know
him. To them lac is lHdicEoHs; TO him.
self supremcly important, on one point
at least and serious rs hate. II is all a
question Of tho ~coRvoxiIy or %concRvity
Of tho lenIoL.
The case Of Mr.. Cleveland adds to
these indications others ahIolutely
unique. Some superficial observers
have diagnosed II as acute megaloma-
mia; it is something allied. perhaps, in
incipiCnCc aud dssipicncs with that, but
different from it or any other form OF
montal popularity. Mr.. Cleveland is i
megalomaniac in so far as he takes al
enlarged Wow Of himself, but not a
megalomauiaC in that he 10 incapable Of
taking an enlarged view Of anything
else. As MalebranChc saw nothing in
the world but God, so Mr., Cleveland Is
unable TO SEQ anything in tho world but
himself. All are but parts Of ono stu.
pendous whole, and he is the whole.
History is what happened from tho time
no became sheriff Of Erie county. Poll.
tics Ia political practice and events since
TIC was elected mayor OF Buffalo.
Finance is his ideas, OF ulternncos,
rather, upon silver aimee 1885. Political
economy consists oil extracts from his
letters, speeches and messages about
tho tariff since no discovered in 1887
that there was QUO. Tho Democratic
party 10 a flock Of iree.wool shDpp ban.
ing to Grover Cleveland to come aud
shepherd them. A firm aud succassful
foreign policy Ia Grover Cleveland dis.
playing against cnCroachfug foreign
powers that constituencies to tho dan.
gers Of war which he showed as a pri.
yatc citizen from 1851 to 1865, Tho
United States are n collection Of waits
looking 10 hun for help aud unable TO
live without him. In short, tho auto
maniac believes rciigiofsIv Ia tho con-
sccratcd aud perpetual indiSpOnsibility,
inallibil!ty, iuO~vitablenosI, aud candi'
dncy oflhc Hon. Grover Cleveland.
This is not degeneration tits conse'
Grafton. Prof. Bockwasaor, Of Bonn, a
disciple Of Nordau, sugnostO tho namO
CieV8laHdia4is or automania Glove.
landiana; but the popular naino Is tho
derived souso c%onnotatos Mr.. CleVo'
lands ldiosync,asy.
The Expedition Relative.