The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-30

'HOiA SiuoS, HelinelS anu elegant man.
ners, in the East room.
This made comment of the disagree
able kind. The next reception there
were no poiice, but at the last moment
every army and navy officer not other
wise engaged was ordered to attend the
reception. They 'did police"
However, no harm came. 1t was
one of our sleuth's useful fairy stories.
/ The above are only specimen bricks OF
an overabundance of similar building
material.
In the luxurance of his egotism, he
holds that he elected the democratic
party. His cuckoos, as they fan and
fawn and flatter him, assure him OF
this, and he believes it. He has said as
much. Every defeat the democracy
has suffered since 1898 serves as q
proof to him and warns him with q
mild pleasure, as he sees reflected in
the black returns his popularity. "See
""N'N h"PPShS hhCh hhl ilOl IuiliiiuSS
he says, and draws glow from party
| defeat like an inspiration.
1t was this that taught HIM that
patronage WAS his, not his party's.
And he used it TO please himself; to
buy his way with congress and as
jewels wherewith TO deck his courtiers.
One Offshoot of his egotlsm, partly
barn door, turns down every light,
gags every mouth, hides everything he
may.
There are but two keys which go
with the government; one is to the
treasury, the other to the Jail. But
Clevelands instinct is for bolts and
bars. He hates questions, he hates
newspapers, he hates light. He has
sworn-this is fact-lhe entire state
department, during his Queen lii
imbecililies, to give out no information.
Cleveland holds that president is II
guardian. Bayard, with an American
ism as flaccid rs his wit, was the mirror
to Cleveland when he said in England
that the American people were turbu-
lent and unruly brood, and needed a
strong ruler like Cleveland to keep
them in check. Mark the word "ruler =
That is the Cleveland idea. He
''rules' the country; the people are
his subjects. That is the song his
cuckoos sing him.
In his egotism Cleveland plays the
tyrant. He snubs congressman and
ignores the people. lie will turn
congressman from his door untIl they
tire of coming. lie didn't know one
in ten of the democrats in the house at
the close of the last congress. They
wearIed of coming TO be Thurbured
out of doors, and at last stayed away.
No claim is strong enough to win
entrance 10 him against his whim.
Within three days after the repeal of
the Sherman law, wherein Voorhees,
and Mills had perilled their political
lives to do his will, he refused TO see
them.
The same day, hover, he would and
did see the sleek negro, Taylor. This
last illustrates phase of Cleveland S
superstition-a commodity whereof he
fairly drips. Taylor is a fashion of
black mascot.
In CIeveland's first reign he named
Taylor for Liberia. When Harrison
beat him at the end of his term, Taylor,
in the equatorial exurberance of his
nature, wrote Cleveland to be of good
cheer. Taylor could see with the eye
of tropical prophecy that in four years
mOre-1S92-Cleveland would again
be named and win over the country
like the grace of heaven over a camp
meeting.
When Cleveland was elected IN 1892
he recalled Taylor as a black Elijah,
albeit his walks were far from holy.
He named him minister to Bolivia.
Morgan, of the committee on foreign
relations, would not report the nomi-
nation.
There is another illustrative story
that might be told to indicate how close
and warm wire Cleye yeland believes
exists between him and the powers
above. Cockrell of the senate could
tell you this.
Once when an Office TO which army
officers OF a certain rank might aspire
was vacant, and forty applicants were
in the field, an officer was suddenly
named whom nobody knew. He had
not asked for 1t: no one had urged
him, but he got the place.
Cockrell and Vest, like all the other
senators, had Il candidate. The nam
ing of this unknown aroused Cockrell's
curiosity. \ few days later he asked
Cleveland rs TO this officer.
The great man beamed. No one
had recommended him. Cleveland