The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-08
MIR. CLEVELAND'S ENEMIES

1t is just as true today as it was
thirteen years ago when, in the national
convention, Gen. Bragg, turning on
those virulent opponents of the nomi-
nation of Gov. Cleveland, the Tammany
contingent, made the famous state
nent: we love him for the enemies
he has made" Expressed in a dramatic
way, it but stated in effect an accurate
lest OF character and gave just stand
lrd for measuring the standing of a
nan among his fellows. The law of
cohesion operates as well in the So
biological as the material world. and it
has its poles Of attraction and repul-
hon Like attracts like among men as
among substances, and unlike re-
pels with force varying in proportion to
the mass.
If we pass by those who allow their
partisan prejudices to turn their can
dor out of doors, and who regard anv
man not of their party faith as inner
emily and irretrievably vicious, and
those who hold. in one form or an
other, brief for their party obliging
them to treat the president of onnos-
ng faith as public enemy, the enc
mics Of Mr.. Cleveland narrow down 70
class of men whose antipathies do
aim honor and whose diatribes are the
highest form of praise. Take tvnes of
hem and analyze their motives. Among
editors, who has been more yirulent
:han Mr.. Dana, Of the Sun. If one
public act of Mr. Cleveland has ex~
!orted commentator from him no
word, spoken or printed, has ever been
allowed to give it expression. For the
acts for which MIR. Cleveland has won
The appreciation Of his candid oppo-
lents the Sun has had only condemna-
non? Why? Whom does the SIM de-
'end or applaud? Tweed and Twezdism
N their day, Plat and Plattism in these
lays. Would not praise from such a
source make men suspect the honesty
Of its object, and is not censure evi-
dence of worthiness?
Again, take Senator Vest. tyne of q
school whom Mr.. Cleveland early an
tagonized by refusing to turn over 70
them the appointments, and thus de-
prlVed them of what they had come to
regard as one of the prerogatives of
lhelr subordinate offices. The president
looked upon public office as a public
trust; they regarded it as a private
snap" He esteemed ability +o die
charge its duties as the primal quail
hcauon; they, capacity to advance or
maintain the interests of themselves a :
of first consequence in an appointee
another Of this type was Senator Dan
lei, who sank everything in his hatred
oil what he styled "Clevelandisn. and
SAID that he was for the free COMA 90
OF SILVER. not because he knew anything
OF II. not that it might not be dan
gerous, but because Mr.. Cleveland on
posed it, and lit was a good enough
club with which to knock him out"
Then take the jobbers and plumber
ers, of whom the five Judas Iscariots
of the senate" were representative and
~ - AA4~~AA' Ill CuS5d stII the country thew
have nothing but anathema for the
man with clean hands, to whom row
eminent meant duty, not gain; trust.
not plumber, and who aptIy described
them and their doings as the com
munism of pelf." The country over
there is no ''boodler," no corrupt Iegis-
lator, no venal representative of nub-
lie interests who does not regard the
man who has just laid down the high
trust he has so worthily held and dis
charged as the worst man Who ever
occupied the presidential chair" There
is not one of them whose itching palm
has been soothed with brides who is
not ready to denounce him in unnleas-
ured terms and ascribe to him his own
venal practices. What higher praise
can come from the mouths Of men than
these assaults? What would it
signify We're they to praise him
or any man? Who is the good
fellow Of rogues? What honest man but
courts their poor opinion and feels him