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

has he been taught by travel. lI~
knows nothing west of Buffalo nor
south of the north Pemnsl lvnnia line.
lie has, most of all. no imagination
He has heard of Il west. h1 has heard
of Il south, but the terms tell no tales
to Cleveland lie cap DO more picture
them than he can form a conception of
Asia Minor.
What the west and south are; their
needs, their rights, their aims. their
strengths, loom but vaguely 10 him,
lost in the fog of no imagination and
what he does not know.
Cleveland knows New York and
New England little, but not much.
lie has not seen many men. He has.
however, seen a few a vast number of
times-some of them too many times.
From these few he gets all his informa-
ton. II is to be feared that he hears
less truth than any man in the land.
Cleveland has a small mind, but
hard and retentive. After a fashion,
it has a narrow strength, and while he
learns slowly he remembers, not al
ways, however, with profit. He has
no mental graces. He has no bent for
art or music. He would not know any
pleasant difference between Murillo
Ia ru0rld
have no preference for one of Schub-
ert's serenades over Maggie Murphy's
Home. He would rather talk than
read, eat than talk, and fish than eat.
As a conversationalist he is rough,
at times vulgar. Often he loads his
English with slang. His taste is for
rude enjoyment. and when he's bent
for pleasure he selects for his compan-
ions those who delight in the excess of
the physical. Anyone of his duck hunts
could be raided under the law.
Cleveland is a man of impulses and
instincts rather than of thoughtful con-
clusions. Would you teach him any
thing teach him through the eye.
What he soes he knows; what he hears,
unless it be to someone's disadvantage
makes but slight impression upon
him.
He is easily deluded. He has in his
Office giving rejected a man with long
gray beard as s'too DID, Four days
later the man returned with smooth
and shaven chin, and Cleveland, hav-
ing no remembrance of him, named
him and was satisfied.
Cleveland turns credulous, ready
ear to slander. The commonest black
leg of the party, one whose plaudit
could not aid man, can tear down
your good repute with word. Nor
may the affirmations of twenty honest
men stand IN your favor with Cleys-
land against the malice of this one
blackleg.
Flattery is the most potent lever In
the case of Cleveland. Those thrive
with him best who hatter best. He is
as amenable to the tickle of the syco-
phant as was ever swine to cob. One
may stick bills on HIM so 1t be with
soft soap. AS result, those who stay
close to Cleveland are either cunning or
servile. They all sing his praises and
aA0NroAinf Of
about him are crafty and fawn upon
him to use him to their ends. Villas is
one of these. Others, like Thurber,
are more congenital bootlicks, fawners
rom birth. But honest natures
strong, open, frank, wise men, who
dare TO tell him the truth-are soon
brought to stay away. He wants none
such near him.
Cleveland delights in the little, and
will labor patiently at the oar of small
things. have known him to write
and at length in his small,
cramped hand the whole-full 1900
Dabney's commission as a
of the iim-crow board of
awards at the Atlanta exposition. lie
got Dabney's name wrong at that. 1t
is such clerks work that indicates his
measure.
1t 10 this trick of the intintesimal
that leads him to put in hours darkly
arranging a reason for shattering some
old woman's pension with the bludgeon
of his veto. He's honest about 1t, too,
and really believes he has defended the
nation from a wrong. Such is his
egotism, his alert ability to note the
mote in another's eye while overlook
ing the beam in his own-that follow
ing the arduous labors of this veto, he
will refresh himself with Il two weeks
trip on a lighthouse tender at public
expense, absolutely without the slight
est warrant of law, and SO himself cost
the government what would be a pen
sion TO a dozen old women.
AS was stated, he is moved by
not by reason. That which
he wants he believes in as right; that
which he doesn't want appears to him
as unlawful and wrong.
Cleveland is by nature Tory. lie
has no instructive conceptions of repub-
licanism; no knowledge native or
acquired of the school to which free
belongs. Had he lived in the
day of Bunker Hill his