The Irish standard., 1897-03-13
HOT ROAST FOR CLEVELAND.
Terrible Summing up of the Man
rlentaliy, Morally and
Otherwise.
A Shyster Lawyer Playing Cards
in Buffalo for the
Drinks.
Uneducated, Conceited, Ungrateful,
BOOriSh and Without Nat
ural Ability.

| ural Ability.
Now that Grover Cleveland is polit'
| ical -been-it but remaining fo1
Uncle Sam to give him his conge-it be-
comes possible to make a correct est1-
mate of the man. Shorn of the dazzling
| halo which doth behedge q president;
withdrawn from the chevelure of in
cense offered on the altar of authority
! by professional tOad-eaters; no longer
apotheosized by those who servile1y flat
ter that thrift may follow; nc more a
mark for the shafts of malice, the object
Of studied misrepresentation by political
enemies, Cleveland stands forth in his
proper person and the world may see
and know him as he actually is. It is
customary to make an epicedi,lm an eul-
ogy, and should much like to lay few
Texas field flowers on Cleveland's polit
| ical sarcophagus; but funeral orations
and epitaphs are usually falsehoods, and
it is the duty of the Iconoclast to confine
itself to the factual, whether dealing
with the quick or the dead.
Cleveland will undoubtedly occupy an
! important niche In the history Of the ma
ton; but those who, standing in the
| shadow of his adventitious greatness,
would place. him on a. level with Wash
ington and Lincoln, will find that theil
pride blown demi-god shrinks like tor.
| rified jelly fish or flannel bathing suit
as he recedes into the shadows of the
| centuries. To thoughtless man an arc
! light by which he stands may seem
greater than a star; but place them equi-
distant, and the .one is swallowed in the
nav of immensity the other foods him
:. with astral fire. Clevelands admirers
| delight in referring to him as "strong
| man." and it is true that he exhibited
some of the characteristics of those
| other strong men, Caesar, Cromwell and
Napoleon; but these be not men we
could care to place at the helm of a re-
! public, whose strength is supposed to lie
in the people. Lincoln was a strong
| man; but his strength was exerted to
| promote, not to. pervert, the will If the
people. He aspired to serve wisely rather
than to tyrannically rule, and was there
fore strong with the strength which
should ever characterize our chief magis-
trates. It must be confessed that Cleye-
lands strength was exerted, from first to
last, not to foster local government,
! not to preserve and enlarge the privi-
leges of the American citizen, bu. to en-
hance presidential perogative-to trans
form the chief magistrate from what Mi.
Bryan correctly, If somewhat coarsely,
| calls hired man." into an absolute
monarch. AS "the evil men do live after
them" Cleveland is likely to occupy an
whose shoulders rest the government, III
whose hands is the nations destiny, ne
knows absolutely nothing. His only ac-
complishment Is certain expertness
with rod and gun; albeit his so-called
duck hunts might more properly be
caMe periodical drunks. He has no ear
for music, nor eye for art. He couldn't
distinguish between Yankee Doodle and
Dixie, or tell a plaster cast OF Muckle'
Mouthed Meg from Carian Venus de
Medici. Instead of making the white
house the resort Of authors, painters
poets, philosophers and scientists, it Is
the rendezvous of female necromancers
and niger mascots. Jefferson's delight
was philosophy; Lincoln recuperated
from his bloody cares with Artemus
Wards Wax Wurx; but Cleveland de-
lights in fishing and fortune telling. Hie
idea of "feast Of reason and flow o1
soul' Is something that can he gotten
into q gut. The spiritualists assert THAI
both of his administrations were d1
rected by female medium whom he fire.
onently consulted. About three years
ago this spook -compeller was touring the
Country anu SALCNhlVS4y GSUSOA SA0AAA0 AA,>~
self as Cleveland's confidential adviser
directress general of the nations des'
tiny. The Blayatsl1yites claim his as
communicate. Whether this be true
know not; but that, like most ignorant
people, he is grossly superstitious. there
is ample evidence. He is confessed
fatalist and fond of alluding to himself
as "a man Of destiny" He once ap
pointed to an important army post a MAJ
Of whom he had never heard, because
as he confessed to Senator CockeriA, HI
chanced to see the name in print ant
chad an impression" that he was th'
right party for the place. He was s.
pleased with the prophecy Of . corrup
coon. that he would be reelected II .:
THAT he tried to make him . minister Il z