The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-29

Cleveland has seldom prepared a public
| address, longer than he could commit 70
| memory.
II he came to Washington with any hieh
IDEAS of other public men, especially in his
| own party. he seems to have soon dispens
! ed with them. He told Doishemer In his
iirst term that both Carlisle and Morrison
mad come to see him and only talked Of
| fees
cleveland was as severe in general ipcen-
tive as he was unphilosophical in receiving
| IT, His diet and habits were not always
| the same. and his exercise to work off OF.
| nee phlegam was spasmodic.
! lie was not for several years conserva-
1--WE III his expressions, as he has of late
| become in his views. He appealed to the
| pre1udices of the voters against the wealthy
and the employing, but the means of his
| objurgatons has been didactic. like old
| style preaching.
| Mr. William Singerly of Philadelphia
| says he had a too meddlesome mind with
| local and State politics
"A very hard headed man" then said
| Jimmy Oliver of New York
He was not personally grateful for par
| allel or even personal assistance in poll
| tics, and did not consider that his appre-
| ciators had erned his favors. He went far
| beneath him occasionally to lash some Pc
| titioner for pardon while pardoning in the
| Barabbas class.
| | have sometimes, without meaning to
detract from Cleveland. compared him to
| Henry VIII of England in the savagery OF
his onset and the nervous fretfulness of
| them who make great flesh. 1.-The most
extraordinary reign in English annals" said
Bacon
Henry married his brothers widow,
Cleveland his partners daughter and lis
own ward. Henry was intended for the
church and Cleveland was preachers sen.
Olney has been a briefer Wolsey. Henry
became most unpopular when he raised his
amicable loan, a suggestion of the Nor
gan bonds. The revolutions effected by
Henry in however coarse way, were last
ing and inevitable. His methods with the
monasteries were those of Cleveland with
the rings and politicians.
As Andrew jackson threw overheard the
old republican party and made new ore
out of his personal adherents and .he Fed
eralists, Cleveland has driven the business
wedge into his own old party. whore he
voted for Breckenridge against Douglas and
has split the South asunder His party
convention repudiated him before he parted
with it.
He holds the political class at Washing
ton TO be no better than he found it in
buialo and congress of little greater cali
her than the Buffalo city council. He did
not bring to the white house a cordial
spirit, and his asseverations of democratic
party regularity have ended, like those OF
all his democratic predecessors, n an in
crease of the Federal centralizing Lower
His last position-that congress can not
hlnd him by its laws to an executive act
gees iurther than Andrew Johnson to limit
ana tarnish the Influence of congress
of
lenses against the law of nations, TO de-
clare war, to raise and support armies
me president shall make treaties provided
thirds of the senators present concur"
mus reads the constitution.
In the year 1914. partly in the same
month Of December. more than half a CEN
Jury ago and before a new president sl-
ready elected could come in, the pnneXa-
ron OF Texas was passed by 81 to % in the
senate buchanan, Woodbury., Dix and Dick
,nson voting for II. The house passed 1t
ny i"2 to '6. Massachusetts protested that
ioreigh state could not he admitted ly
mere act OF congress but in vain
Louisiana and Florida had been ad..ited |
peiore Near the close OF February 1S45 |
by Joint resolution and 90 majority, Texas
was admitted to the Union
The extension of our territory by the
South has received check from the only |
democratic president since Buchanan voted |
to let Texas in.
Monroe bought Florida and the senate
promptly ratified in 1913; in two years 1t |
was rc-ratfied with four dissenting votes
having been delayed in Spain.
Spain had coded Louisiana to France in
lSo2i Napoleon, who as irst consul had
usurped all the functions OF France, some
what like Cleveland, sold il he nett year
10 The United States. The senate ratified
by ~ to I, and the bill TO execute passed
the senate by e6 to 5, the house w 50 to 20.
our extensions OF territory have almost
an peeh OF Southern initiative, and though
we ahlmatlng interest of slavery is doad,
the hatred Of the dons has been trans
ni'teu TO the South. and the traditions of
liouhton, walker, Jackson and CritteuGen
refer the Southern votegetters 10 Cuban
interference as an old means TO recoup
popularity.
Again and from the Carolina coast Clevc-
lana assumes the corrective method Of John
Adams over Hamilton's Miranda schemes
ana the South divides upon the p-oposi-
ton.
There is old Harris, who went TO Mexico
10 heln Macmillan take 1t, Il senator in
congress, late the president of the senate.
MS companion in Mexico. General ice Shell
~, takes The other side
ne sclid South has ceased TO have a
policy One Connecticut democrat has
Narted tho South moro than all the South
1Fn generals and philosophers ever Eartod
The North
Tho procession Of the great bull Apis,
with ring in his nose. led by a lady with
The smell of a wooden nutmeg in her Rand,
s nothing to this. Gath.