The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-01-29

VI II OOuANNS,
it's an enormous sum for one to
acquire as fruits of a capital made
up of money ignorance and nothing,
in twelve years, and it has not fail
ed to impress Cleveland and affect
him.
Today his great reverence is for
money; his profound respect is re
served for those who have it. Pow
erty is synonymous with ignorance;
wisdom goes with wealth, and the
best citizen is the best dressed cit
izen with Cleveland. Come afoot
to Washington and you can't see
him; come in private car and you
can. Your honesty, your worth,
the goodness ofyour purpose, or the
justice of your cause will not avail
unless they come in a private car.
People are nothing to Cleveland;
property is everything. He would
turn from a mere man in a moment.
Spill down a million dollars in gold,
and the sight would suspend the
action of his mind and hold him
spellbound for hours-cast him, as
if were. into a trance of riches.
V.
Cleveland is not book taught,
neither has he been taught by
travel. lie knows nothing west of
Buffalo, nor south of the North
Pennsylvania line. He has most of
all no imagination. he has heard
of West; he has heard ola South,
but the terms tell no tales to Cleve-
land. He can no more picture them
than he can form a conception of
Asia Minor. He knows that silver
comes from the West and Demo
cratic majorities from the South;
that is all he knows concerning
them.
What the West and South are;
their needs, their rights, their aims,
their strengths, looms but vaguely
to him, lost in the fog of no imag
ination and what he desn't know.
Cleveland knows New York and
and New England little, but not
much. He has not seen many men.
He has, however, seen few vast
number of times From these few
he get all his information. 1t is to
be feared that he hears less truth
than any man in the land.
Cleveland has small mind, but
hard and 1etentive. After a fash
ion, it has narrow strength, and
while he learns slowly he remem-
bers, not always, however, with
profit. He has no mental graces.
He has no bent for art or music.
He would have no preference for
one of Schubert's serenades over
"Maggie Murphy's Home" He
would rather talk than read, eat
than talk, fish than eat.
AS a conversatiOnalist hei rough,
ut times vulgar, often he loads his
English with slang. His taste is
for rude enjoyment, and when he's
bent for pleasure he calls for his
companions those who delight in
the excess of the physical. Any
one of his duck hunts could be
raided under the laws of the land.
Cleveland is a man of impulses
and instincts rather than ofthought-
full conclusions. Would you teach
him anything, teach him through
the eye. What he sees he knows;
what he hears-unless it be to some
ones disadvantage-make slight
impression.
He is easily deluded. He has
in his Office giving rejected a man
with long gray beard as "tOo DID,"
Four days later the man returned
with smooth and shaver chin. He
was shorn of his long gray beard.
Cleveland, who had no remembrance
! of him, named him and was sat
isfed.
Cleveland turns credulous, ready
ear to SANDER. The cOmmopest
blackleg of party, one whose plaudit
could not aid a man, can tear down
your good repute with a word. Nor
may the affirmations of twenty hon
est folk stand in your favor with
Cleveland against the malice and
mendacity of this one blaekleg.
Flattery is the most potent lever
in the case of Cleveland. Those
| thrive with him best who flatter