New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-08
ONE DE CLETELAND'S PETS.

While Mr.. Cleveland "rakes the meadows
sweet with hay" at Gray Gables, and In the In
terva,s Of bucolic dallIance permits great
Thoughts to escape him for the mystfcation or
Tammany and the eternal honor Of Jack Bunsby,
ono If his oficeholding pets, away down In
Florida. furnishes vivid illustration OF the
thouchts that do not escape the COnsecrafed Ohe'
n least not with his consent but are reserved
Tor strictly personal purposes OF amusement
Mr. Cleveland lectures Tammany by reminding
tho pcmbers of that organization that they mus
consider their responsibilities as legates OF TIE
Patriot Fathers. and he keeps In ONCE az Ney
West q Collector OF the Port who has violated
every rule of official proprlety and private recn-
tudc He Is great man, and he weighs AT least
three hundred pounds.
This Key West Collector-hls name Is put at
Jefferson b. Browne-seems to be what the
,houphtless and the youthful call Cracker
lack An open letter which was sent 10 III.
natron saint. Grover Cleveland, on the 29th OF
April last, recites that he was appointed Dy tue
President against the formal protest OF every
clergyman I'm town save one, against the equahy
formal protest OF majority OF the white voters
in the place, and in contempt or an estaDiisheu
reputation that would have disquallhed MIN lor
the position Of Dog Catcher In any RepuDhcah
village of the North. The Florida Delegation iii
Congress. however. Endorsed him. and the proc
esscs OF Conservation were set In motion Win
the usual result: reverberatng platltudes Tor the
public and machine ward politics on the bui1aio
plan for the boys. But this Is not all BEFORE
Browne got fairly warm in his seat-and ne APP
pears 10 have generated caloric very rapidly
Secretary Carlisle received another letter from
a responsible citizen of Key West saying that
while he held place az Inspector or CUSTOMS
under Browne he latter had assessed him on
two different occasions to the tune OF $lo
month for election expenses-in the glorious
Cleveland year OF 1894, we ass'ime-and tna''
after the election, for two consecutive moh'hs
no had TO pay $40 additional. with " extra TOT
politIcal kilograms The writer one Rlcharu
curry. asked for the restitution OF the So2 thus
illegally extorted from him by Browne. Then
came an affidavit by one James Il. Roberts charg-
ING Browne with bribery for votes. And hnally
| I, was shown that Browne required his subordi-
Mates to play game called Poker with him,
| M which game he almost always won from thein'
| ami that he frugally deducted from their pay at
| the end Of each month the amounts representing
| his scientific thrift.
| AMI provnn s,il holds tho office ~ which hc
was appointed IN conirmptiio'is disregard OF Tue
upnon " those who knew him beet appointed
H., tho onl, President " The United States who
| has over made sprchi, ~ weeping over tlr
iniu,l,irs NJ hls fellow creatures 6id leei'itihs
,brm IA seaaun and oui " aenaon IN their any
IA The generation Mr. Cleveland nnmnatlly 70
w,,rd rrufeHaor Harrington, the uhiof ~ thu
Wenlher l,nrrnu Al Washington, u gentleman
A scholar nnl nn honeal man, bccn'lAe The secfe
,ery NJ Agriculture wanted The patronage Ut the
office for ispti lIc HummnrIly removed Charles
n Morton, Auditor for The Navy department
uot because hr wna incompetent, but because
IN n private letter that worthy lnd yent,r~l
to refer TO Mr. cleveland In terms moi
wholly rcvercni. I,ut l'rownc - who was
denounced ~ unnt ~ ihc nrat place h,
a minority NJ The respectable people of hl'
| ,own, end who hns since hoioriously violated
Tho prnpricilcs and drconceH of oiIice Browne
n perndtod 10 hold on lie hna not questioned
Grover Ccvclnnds Snncly liz hnH moi com
uit,cd The unpnrlonnblo sin And there he II
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