Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1895-02-15
PRESIDENTS AND PRIVATE SEQ
RBTARIES.
T. Thomas Fortune in tho New York sun

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WASHINGTON, Jan, 29.-In a few
weeks more the Fifty-third Congress
will be dead. With its expiring breath
Mr.. Grover Cleveland will cease to
have a Democratic Congress on his
hands. For the first time in two
years he will be enabled TO go to sleep
with the consciousness that he is boss
Of his party, in Washington, with no.
legislative branch of his own party to
dictate to him or hamper him in doing
just as he pleases. In such a situation
he can pose, as did Leuis XIV, on the
interrogative affirmation: 1.-THE State?
am the Statel' When he wants GER
tain necessary measures enacted into
law, he will have to make conditions
with hostile Congress. He will not
be able to get the smallest sort of nom
ihation confirmed except by the grace
of a Republican Senate. There are
those who will look upon this condi-
tion as a hardship upon Mr.. Cleveland,
an inflicton which he should be
spared; but the consensus of opinion is
that Mr.. Cleveland would infinitely
prefer to have Republican rather
than Democratic Congress.
From 1885 to 1889 Mr.. Cleveland had
to deal with u hostile Senate, and the
record will show that he had more
success, more peace OF mind, more self
satisfaction during that period than
he has had for the two years from
March, 1898, to March, 1865, when
both branches of the Federal legisa-
ture have been composed Of a majority
of Democrats, men Of his own political
faith, according to the common under
standing C. the matter. We shall ex-
plore history in vain for a parallel Of
this state Of affairs. The frozen fact
remains, however, that Mr.. Cleveland
had more success with the Fifty first
Congress, the Senate of which had a
Republican plajority, than he has had
with the Flfty-third, which has a Dem
ocratic majority in both branches.
That the Cleveland Administration
has been one of the cnmpletest fail
ures in the history OF the country is
admitted on all hands. Its foreign
policy, its finnncial policy, and its tar
III policy have all been weighed in the
balance and found to he un-American
and inpracticable. There are no
Mugwumps here. Youare either with
the Administration or ageinst it.
Ordinarily everybody is with the Ad.
minlstration except the opposition in
the Congress. have felt the public
pulse here during the past twenty
years, and don't remember one which
was so generally condemned and de.
spised as this Administration. There
are none even "who love it for the
enemies that ithay made"
Why is this so? Ask the clerk ia
the department, whose opinions are
usually colorless, and he will shake
his head; ask a member of Congress
and he will stare at you and pass on
They either don't know or don't care
to discuss.
Approach the White House grounds
and you feel as il you were entering q
graveyard Enter the White House
and you are confronted by uniformed
guards who bar your passage and de
maDd to know your business. Succeed
in passing these, and the messenger
at the door informs you that il you
want to see the President you must
first see the private secretary, Mr.
Henry Telemachus Thurber, Of Bad
gordon; undertake TO see Mr.. Thurher
and his urbane messenger will inform
you that Mr.. Thurber is very busy
and cannot see any one" 1t is red
tape from the gate in the yard to Mr.
ThurbeT's office, to the left Of the
I Blue Room. Good Republicans, who
only call to pay their respects, laugh
at the situation, and compare the
relgning snobbery and humbug with
the freedom of the White House and
its grounds under every Republican,
from the silent Grant to the Chester
fieldian Arthur. Good Democrats who
want to see the President, or failing
in that, his extraordinary secretary
on business, grind their teeth in rage
and curse in all the languages with
which they are familiar. But it does
not avail anything, except to disgust
Democrats with their President and
make them remain at home, as they
did last November, or boldly vote th'
Republican ticket.
There is no telling upon what sort
OF meat this Thurber feeds, that he il
grown so fat. He has the meat, anC
lplenty of II.
With Mr.. Thurber playing the auto
BucAlen's Arnioa salve.
The best salve in the world for cuts
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt heum, few
er sores, letter, chapped bands, chill
balns, corns and all skin eruptions
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