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of Columbia once made him persona non orata
among tho raw Mhitea there.

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among the raw whites there.
Cleveland has seldom prepared q public adj
dress longer than he could commit to memory.
His easy carrying away of the honors from Har-
rison ut the New York centennial celebration
was q potent cause OF his denomination. He
was perfectly prepared and Harrison had be-
Titled the competition. Cleveland owes much
to his preacher art.
II Cleveland came to Washington with any
high Ideas of other public men. especially in his
own party, he seems to have soon dispensed with
them. He told Dorsholmer In his first term that
both Carlisle and Morrison had come to see him
and had only talked for the offices.
lie chose his company In the incidental rela-
lions of his office, and especially, after his de-
feat, in the leisure of New York society, both
down town and up town. He thus returned to
place with n knowledge of that higher public
opinion which, like the snow, falls from above,
but warns the seed and fills the rivers.
He followed Arthur, his immediate predeces-
sor. in holding the merchants, financiers, and
lawyers OF New York as paramount authority.
-Four years of easy financial rest, with Il young
family coming on, seems to have %softened
Cleveland TO outside influences, but hardened
him to Congressman. At SO there returned the
influence of his clerical father upon his mind.
He had formed few or no social intimacies. No
important family visits the White House. A
lonely man, with n new Cabinet, he cared very
little about the inflicted "coparceners OF poll
tics, rs he may have thought them, and re-began
four years of employment with the sympathies
OF party fellowship almost dissolved.
Years before he had said, in reference to tho
Republican party, when he thought II would
nominate Edmunds instead of Blaine: ~ never
knew them to make a mistake" This was In
the privacy of his Office ut the crisis of the Re-
publican Convention in 1884. There is reason
to believe that his respect was profound for tho
Republican party from the time he was Mayor
of Buffalo.
Never. that I can remember. has he reflected
upon the Republicans. not even upon their can
didatcs. He has treated the Republicans as IL
they were public opinion and tho Democrats as
II they were his militia company. to be silent
and obey the Captains blurted command Of
left wheel!' Present arms!" "Rest!"
Cleveland was as severe in general invective
as he was unphilosophica in receiving it.
His diet and habits were not always the same.
and his exercise. to work off office phlegm, was
spasmodic.
He was not for several years as conservative
as he has of late become in his views.
He appealed to the prejudiceso of voters against
the wealthy and the employers. but the mean
of his objurations has been didactic, like old
style preaching.
William Singerly of Philadelphia said he had a
meddlesomc mind with local and State politics.
"A very hard-headed man." said Jimmy
Oliver of New York to me eleven years ago.
He was not personally grateful for parallel or
even personal assistance in politics, and did not
consider that his appreciators had earned his
favors. He went far beneath him occasionally
to lash some petitioner for pardon while par
doning in the Barabbas class.
l have sometimes, without meaning to de-
tract from Cleveland, compared him to Henry
VIII. of England. in the %savagery of his onset
and the nervous fretfulness of those who make
great flesh.
The most extraordinary reign in English
annals" says Bacon. Henry married his
brothers widow. Cleveland his partners daugh-
ter and his own ward. Henry was intended for
the church and Cleveland was a preachers son;
Olncy has been his bricfer Wolsey. Henry be-