The Irish standard., 1897-03-13
Bolivia, and being sat upon by the sen
ate, kept the ebon-hued Delphic oracle
dangling about his court as a confidant.

ate, kept the ebon-hued Delphic oracle
dangling about his court as contldant.
| OF course these may be the idiosyn-
cracies of q genius, like DR.. johnson
coffin tapping in his search OF the Cock
Lane ghost; but without aid from the oc-
cult, how can we account for Cleveland s
| sudden acquisition of a seven-fgure for
| tune? He came to the white house with
| less coin In his pocket than jobs turkey
had grain in it's crop, and quickly bios
somed forth as a plutocrat. A fortune
teller would-for couple of dollars
locate for rhim the lost mine or the
; buried cash OF the erstwhile Capt. Kidd.
A magician might transmute his crapul-
| Gus perspiration into pearls, or lend him
Alladins lamp; but without supernat-
ural aid how can an absolutely honest
! man become multi millionaire in eight
years of Office holding at salary of $780,
600 per annum? OF course there are ways
by which a. president can make money
without conspir;ng with bond syndicates
for the sale Of public securities at mill
lions below their market value. Where
the evidence Of malleasance is solely cir
| cumstantial however strong, we must,
in conformity with legal usage, give the
official full benefit OF the doubt. MI.
Cleveland may have enacted the role OF
ninny rather than Of knave. The plot
telss may have worked him without
the necessity of taking him into partner
ship and sharing the sWag. That Cteve-
land permitted speculators to employ the
social pull of the presidency to boom
! real estate, and received $3.50, 900 as his
share of the profits On one deal in which
he had not invested dollar, even Cuck-
oodom does not deny. That none of his
predecessors furnished a precedent for
the Red TOD transaction is doubtless due
to the fact that they were gentlemen, ana
could not be used for speculative pur-
poses. But what matters the example
of mere American to the King of the
Mugwumps? Is not his Royal Highness,
the Prince of Wales, much given to the
sale of his august society? And If the
prince accepts a. fat fee for spending an
evening with parvenu, should not. his
admirer have something handsome for
residing at Red Top long enough to put
pride-blown values in building lots?
! Cert! Cleveland S rapid rise from pow
erty to at1uence may have been due to
inherent crassness, to more than Boe-
otian ignorance, to his failure to appre-
bend the difference between dollars and
dignity, rather than to absolute dishon-
esty, Be that as it may, he enjoys the
doubtful distinction of being the first
chief magistrate to leave the Office richer
than he entered it. That this was in no
wise due to superior business acumen is
evidenced by the fact that he was prac-
tically pauper at eight and forty and
by the further fact that from the day he
left the white house to the day he re-
entered it he didn't make dollar. III
these times of ostentation it is custom
arv to select for the higher govern
mental offices, such as members of the
cabinet and ministers, men of large prl-
yate means, it being tacitly understood
tha. the honor costs more than 1t comes
tn. Presidents have hitherto left the
white house with depleted purses; yet
eight years in that office made Cleveland
multi millionaire.
1t is popularity supposed that men raise
themselves to the chief magistracy by
inherent merit; but that is an egregious
error Take any executive office, from
grand panjandrum of 2x4 town to the
presidency, and you will find a second
class man behind the fasces of authority
, four times in five. Observe the second
growth of timber which Texas makes
| heroic young Christian governors!
What would physiognomist say OF that
face--two fish balls, a seed-Wart and a
pucker sketched on the clammy side OF
coyfte, Note the wooden-headed yaps
| who squat like moving apes on the SUI
preme bench Of New York deciding 1t to
be- not laudable'' for Jewish religious
socities to be held on Sunday-the
interesting page IN. American history-as
; we'll as crazy King George. 1t will re-
ouire years Of careful education to over
come the dangerous centralizing ten
denotes born of his administrations
worm the idea out Of the fat heads oil
monarchy worsbipring Anglomanlacs
| and boneless mugwulnps that there IS
| such 8 thing as presidential peroga-
tive" Perogative is the malodor which
rises from the rotten cess-pool CT "di-
vine right" It was shot out ct, our at
| mosphere by the men who tickled the
bustles of Burgoyne's Britishers with
their bayonets and gave CORVALLIS red
coats hours to get their impudent car
| casses OF the American continent. The
president of this republic is commits
stoned to perform certain clearly speci-
fed duties, and IL he transcend his con-
stftutional instructions Is answerabie to
! our co.,rts-nay be imprisoned IKE
common criminal or jerked to Jesus by
| ~ . n,h,{c hanoman Whenever you hear