The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-11-28
Eutnre of G. Cleveland Eft al.

Washington correspondents must do
something to justify drawing their sal
aries, so, in default OF anything of
more substantial interest, they confide
to the public what Mr.. Cleveland and
the members of the cabinet are going
to do after March 4 next.
Should Justice Field fail to retire in
time, so that the secretary of the treas
ury may be appointed to a place on
the supreme bench, MIR. Carlisle will
resume the practice of law, but whether
his shingle will be flung to the breeze
in New York or Covington, the vera
cious correspondents omit to state.
1t is given out with certainty that the
distinguished assistant republican and
ardent gold bug, who once declared
the decentralization of silver to be the
greatest political crime of this or any
other age, will not 90 into co-partner-
ship in the legal profession with Cleve-
land and Olney, as has been OCCASION
ally predicted.
Mr.. Olney will return TO Boston and
resume the practice of his profession.
A person with his inventive faculties,
however-as was manifested in his
lSCONC VI TIC lilulllCoo omPiibuNO vi
the writ of injunction, and of the in
depreciation of the old Ku Klux and
anti-constltutional statute, by which
the federal government is empowered
to send troops into a state, without the
request of its chief executive officer,
and before time has been had to invoke
the powers OF the state for the suppress
sion of disorders calculated to put
money in his purse if he embarks in
the patent business, in the event the
law fails to yield him the revenue his
needs and wishes require.
Secretary Lamont will doff the armor
of Mars and go back to the more con-
genial pursuit of developing street rail-
way dividends and steering franchise
grabbing ordinances through the
boodle-salted waters of the New York
City council.
Postmaster General Wilson and Sec
rotary of the Navy Herbert will be pro-
vided by their chief with fat judicial
offices in Washington before he de-
scends from his official perch.
Hon. ID. r. Francis-our own Little
Dave-will return to us and go back
into the ssputs and calls'' business,
for which he developed such aptitude,
and out of which he managed to make
enough money to keep the wolf from
silver-hinged doors and the cat
his gold fish during his remain
ing years of private life. He will
never be a quantity in politics again,
unless it be as a member of the Filley-
Kerens- Warner Reorganization.
As for the Ancient Mariner of Buzz
Yards Bay, when he shall have become
an ex-president for the second time,
are told he will make a tour of the
appearing at such courts as are
apt to consider him some pumpkins
and treat him as such on account of
he fame he got out of the Venezuelan
20 controversy, which he owes entirely to
he inventive Mr. Richard Olney. Mr..
Cleveland is booked for a more OK
ended sojourn in s'Gay Paree'' than
the other European capitals: This
S the surmise, IN account of Mrs.
Jleveland's arduous study of French
or the past month. American citizens
m the shutdown side of the Mississippi
like HIM better if he would spend
year, or even less, in becoming ac-
IuaInted with the people and resources
+ the larger halt of the country over
which he has been president for eight
ears. They would prefer that he
hould in that way make an effort to
emoye from his mind the erroneous
npression-due solely to stubborn ig-
oranee-which caused HIM TO allude
D the Trans Mississippi region, in an
IIraeu fO m nnnafinn Of EaSfarn alnr-
ymen, as undesirable states and tur-
uJent territories"
Nevertheless, in the light of his pub
actions during the years of his Sec
nd term, it ought to cause no surprise
nat Mr.. Cleveland should rather prefer
} homologate with the crowned
eads who rule by divine right, than to
acquainted with the sovereigns
( the western mountains, valleys and
lains, who govern by the right of
manhood. The idea may have ger
in the mind of our recedlng
resident TO make the grand tour of
ie old world, as General Grant did,
the hope and expectation of r~eceiv-
lg a nomination for another presiden-
al term on his return. If so, the
ope is VaIn-the expectation will
rove a 'fpead Sea apple" Two terms
Grover have been one too many.
lie has made the people as tired as his
1bstitate was during tho war. be
Ill nevermore be president of any
in the United States again, unless
might be of a bank, a railroad, or,
of a Fishing or a Fat Mans
.ab.
Be hat os it may, before he shakes
he dust of official life off his patent
athers, Mr.. Cleveland should do
,mething for that most servile of all
Is incense-burners, the Hon j. Ster-
ng Morton. OF all the members of
is cabinet, he seems to be the only
ne for whose future support no pro-
sion has been made. ,