The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-12-18
WAlTERSON FL0PS,
HE SEVERELY ARRAIGNS THE
PRESIDENT.
The brilliant Kentuckian Quits the Role
of Cuckoo, and Creates a Sensation.
What He Says.

Henry Watterson, the brilliant editor
OF the Louisville Courier-J ournal, found
ers pretty much all the time and t1ops,
politically speaking, with the changes OF
the seasons. And when he f1ops he gen.
orally manages to do so in a manner that
creates a sensation. His latest flop is
one of the severest arraignments of Pres
ident Cleveland and his administration
that has yet come from any quarter.
And this, too, so soon after playing tie
role Of cuckoo in the recent Kentucky
election and aiding in delivering that
state to the goldbugs and republicans.
Although Mr.. Watterson has been appar-
emily blinded by the light that has flash
ed frOme the ''thron4" at the white
house, the scales have fallen from his
eyes, and in a recent editorial in his pa
per he unburdened himself as follows:
sit may be that Mr. Cleveland has
been all that the needs of the country
have absolutely required. But he has
been wonderful scOurge to democracy.
In the miror details of administration
he has certainly displayed uncommon
aptitude. He has transacted the busi-
ness of the executive office as if it were
his own private property. His domi-
nancy of character is indsputable. TO
the extent Of his very limited range OF
intellectual vision he sees clearly
and thinks accurately. Ii his knoWi
edge were equal to his intention, which,
though deriving its substance Iand
strength mainly from his own conctp
ton of his own interest, still looks up
ward and not downward, he would at
this moment find himself at the Lead of
victorious army, moving forward upon
lines of thought consistent in themselv
and propelled by a great popular i'm
pulse. Unfortunately Mr.. Cleveland
possesses no original opinions or intor-
mati,n upon any economic suoject'
Getting everything at secondhand
and by absorption, he is as likely to 60
wrong as right as far as his own I'M
warped Judgment is concerned. lie
balflearned his tariff lesson, and as
consequence he has been, ever since his
message of 1887, the most patent OBJ
struction to tariff reform in the United
States. When one recalls how it was he
who sent German and Scott to tie st.
Louis convention in 1883 with cut-and-
dried platform ignoring and repudiating
that message, and none other than he
who sent five members of his cabinet to
the Chicago convention in 1892, headed
bv Villas, to work for his nomination
and to foist upon the party the prOtec-
ton gibberish which the convention
threw out-when one recalls how, after
the miracle of his election, he was en-
treated to allow tariff measure conso>
nant with the platform to be brought In
and that all the shortcomings and mis-
adventures of the Wilson tariff bill were
fully toretold and set forth-and that he
himself forced the fighting on that line
when these things are recalled, what
travesty, not merely upon statesmar>
ship but upon fair dealing, seem his
belated and bOmt astic letters to
Wilson and Catchings and his ostenta-
tious refusal to sign bill for which he,
more than any other human being, was
responsible"