The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-02-05
The Case Of Grover Cleveland.
BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.
From The New York Journal

BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.
From The New York Journal.
vi.
Briefly the hog. One should study the swine
in his penfold to bear witness to him as he goes
about. Your hog is terocous and will devour an
ungarded and inadvertaut infant should such fall
in his way. He is cowardly to the point which
flies shriekingly from the least and puniest attack.
He is pertiracious without valor. obstinate with
out bravery, cruel, greedy, egotistical without
dash of courage. Nor is there gratitude in your
hog. Feed him from youth to old age, and though
he may know he has these fayors from your hands
for your hog mind you, is not without sapiency
and will yell for food the suggestive sight of
YOU, yet will he never bear you gratitude nor love
for all you bring him. Dogs and horses are dif
feIent folk. They have hearts as well as memories
There is another sublime thing about a hog. He
is led by appetite, by instinct never by reason
His notion of right is his notion of want, and what
he needs is what to him is just. So far is he ruled
by appetite and instinct to the allegiance of reason
that he is proof against the lessons of grief Your
hog may go to your garden thirty times; you may
set dogs on him thirty times; singing with pain.
with dog swinging to each ear, he will come from
his vandalage thirty times. What then? Clear but
the way before him, call back your dogs, and
within two minutes your hog will return to the
garden for the thirty-first time. He knows that it
means pain and grief and trouble and cataract
of ours. But he goes. Disaster teaches your hog
| nothing.
| Cleveland is by nature Tory. He has no in
stinctive conception of republicanism; no knowl-
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America belongs. He is Tory. Had he lived in
the smoke-blown day of Bunker Hill his substitute
would have worn a red coat and fought at the foot
of that celebrated eminence against Warren and
the others at the top.
| His instinct is monarchical. Three time within
three years he aligned himself with throne. In
Samoa, in Hawaii, and last in Brazil. He sue
ceeded in Samoa, and this country today, with
England and Germany, upholds King in those
far lands He failed in Hawaii with his clumsy
King making and public opinion frightened him
away from Queen Lii. Mendonca drove him
backward with laugh and sheer in the case OF
Brazil.
| Today his toryism is at the brakes With Cuba
bleeding at our very door, with people and
Congress demanding her relief Cleveland refuses.
He sides with Spain.
Men call Cleveland ungrateful. This is not just.
He isn't capable of an obligation. This is true
personally, true politically. The home of his
uncle, who sheltered him in his poverty and
youth, lay under foreclosure within three years.
The uncle dead; his daughter unable to lift the
load the place, sent to Cleveland for aid.
| 1t was no vast sum; not so much as he had been
given in this same house in the years he tries
to forget.
| Not one groat could she have. Not one dollar
would he part with. The daughter ofCleveland's
forgotten beneiactor will tell you in Buffalo, this
story today.
| In politics it is the same. Those who helped
him most were most roundly rebuffed. The fat
terer the sycophant. the homeless Mugwump
thrived the friend who had built him went with
out reward the laborer of party without pay.
One could name a brigade of such.
| 1t was equally true as to States Massachusetts,,
which never was and never will be Democratic,
which had voted against Clevelan' in his Flee
tora College, got thirty seven Consuls beginning
with Pat Collins, at 100000 year in London,
and a Cabinet officer, to say nothing OF Joshiah
Quincy.
| Illinois, Democratic for the first time since the
days of Douglas was give seven Consuships and
a Cabinet place.
Now and again what men term his ingratitude
takes the guise OF small tyranny. Hisresentments
are worthy some James or some Charles of Eng
land. Here is an instance
II expect to resign" said Bissell one day. "rm
losing all my law practice staying here"
| Cleveland grumbled. 1t had been a case of
"Shan'' and "Grove" between him and his old
partner, and might have reminded one of DIR.
Holmes "Bill' and Joe 1t aroused Cleve-
lands peeyish heart the idea OF Bisselrs resigna
ton. Later he said:
"Bissell, when do you expect to resign?"
"Oh not for some MONTHS replied Bissell.
my house in Buffalo is rented. l can't get it
back for some time"
This made pleasant chance to play the small
despot. Bssell should be taught Cleveland's
power and his own dependent littleness. Wilson
was named to take his place without one notify
ing word to Bissel. Representative Straus knew
of it for he hung eternally about both Cleveland
and Wilson, and told Guthridge, newspaper
man. 1t was he who brought first word to Bissell
who thus discovered himself tumbled bodily out
of the Cabinet with about as much consideration
and grace as attends the eviction of pup from
basket. Such exhibitions of power cheer Cleye-
land nightly.
In conjunction with these it might be pertinent
to recall that none of Cleveland's relatives come
near him. He has brother. He has sister
Who hears of them at the White House? What
letter from either was ever delivered there?
Neither has come near the place since the last
Inauguration. Why? They know him.
/ VIII.
| To egotism and a coarse greed Cleveland adds
the heart of hare. None is more tightly timid
in physical way. Perhaps it was this that kept
him from the war when the nation fought for its
life in the CO.'S and Cleveland, aged twenty-three.
in perfect health without wife to weep or child to
stay him, took good care not to CO.
| Once went to Morgan, Senator from Alabama
l found him in his mouse, and his mood was col
ored with deep philosophy.
SENATOR said, 1.-The paper wants me to in
terview you on the subject of Cleveland"
| This is unfortunate" said Morgan. 81 would
have personally no hesitation about expressing
my views on Mr.. Cleveland. But you must re-
member this is an administration of retaliation.
And am here, not in private way, but las the
agent of constituency, and to represent Its
interests If Mr.. Cleveland did not like what
said, and he might not, he would revenge himself
by vetoing bills dear and necessary to my people.
However" continued Morgan, in broad.
thoughtful fashion, Il might talk of other things
which would improve and interest Now, there's