The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-01
CLEVELAND AND HIS INCENSE

CLEVELAND AND HIS INCENSE
BURNERS.
i Here is an editorial from the Kansas
City Times. Ii is so much according
to our liking that we publish it. To
the INTELLIGENCER's readers we COM
mend it. The lNTELLIGENCER will
stamp its Endorsement on this article :
''Present Problems was the theme
Grover Cleveland was billed To speak
upon ut the Reform club banquet Sat
urGay night. lie slipped a cog, how
ever, and talked manly on "'past
treason and ''present enmlties."
The first he classed as ''splendId dem
ocratIc patriotism" and the latter was
brawled forth against the party that
had twice made him president of the
Uuited States.
The language of the besOtted traitor
and egregious political humbng and
%hypocrte was loaded down with the
freightage of ponderous platitudes and
~pleonasms hat he acquired
the habit of swaddling his ideas in
while he was in public life. He told
the little band of Joss-worshipers and
incense-burnerS about him that the
leaders who shook off the yoke of Wall
street and arrnyed themselves on the
side of the people at Chicago last sum-
mer were actuated by ''sordid greed,
selfish interest and partisan ambition"
Such accu sations sound odd from
the lips of one who has fawned upon j..
Pierpont Morgan and the allied money
kings of the east. and whose fawning
has been followed by thrift. They
come with i'll grace from the month of
a person who was an i~mpecunious,
struggling third-class lawyer when the
democratic party took him up nearly a
score of years ago, and who became a
millionaire while in the Office that
party bestowed upon him. Such utter
ances prove only Doomerangs against
the dissembler who has the stupidity
and effrOntery to utter them, for there
IS no member of any political party in
the United States-unless we dignity
that shriveled, QuiXotic and discred-
tied few who voted for the two decrepIt
old gentlemen nominated at Indianap-
| oils as such-who o not understand
that Grover Cleveland employed the
power placed in his hands by the DEM
oeratic party IN al effort to destroy
it, and who does not believe hat he
loaned himself as a willing tool to the
parent of trusts-the gold trust-and
assisted it to reduce the great body of
the producing masses to a condition of
financial peonage. That his private
fortune has not suffered by his align
ment of policy on the side of the
money power is n proposition which
none but an idiot or a cuckoo will have
the termity to deny.
But why discuss the ~disgruntled and
brazen political migrate and traitor,
Grover Cleveland, or his post mortem
utterances ~seriouslyP Whatever Pres
ent Problems exist, they are largely
of his creating.
The imminence of the accession 10
power of the democratic party need
not torture his prophetic soul into
vigorous and vociferous warnings of
calamities to come. The Stuffed
Prophet is whistling against IA rising
tide. Were the democratic leaders and
the six and a half millions who voted
for the democratic candidates, bent on
carrying into execution all the evils
that the Political Dodo of Princeton
charged them in his TRADE of Sat
urday night with contemplating, their
direst results would be mild, compared
with the ills that have betallen the
agricultural and commercial interests
of the country during the our years of
Cleveland's administration, by reason
of his utter and contemptuous failure
to carry out the platform commands OF
the democratic party.
There was q touch of comedy in his
post primordial vaporings, after all.
The mastodonic Has-been, who escaped
from his tomb the other night to bel
low his ire, his resentment and his
bombast INTO the ears of the corporals
guard that assisted in the opera bouffe
performance given at Indianapolis last
summer, gave token that he considers
himself a presidential possibility in
1900. He has wallowed so long in his
over weening egotism that, like the
ssdebased and infected Stuarts," he
thinks the country, finding 1t cannot
get along without him, will call him
back to w His r~Odomantode at
the Reform club banquet reeks with
this absurd and insnfferable presump-
ton. 1t displays itself paipably in the
heel of his speech.
'tLet us" he tells his adoring cuck-
COS, ssdevise means to break through
the influences of the mischievous lead
ership tina surrounds those democrats
in sections where financial error is
most general and without arrogaDtly
assuming that no wrongs or hardshiPs
afilict them, and that no reforms in
their condition are needed; let us meet
our countrymen face to face IN argu-
ment and counsel"
The records of the feast do not say
hat Pierpont Morgan, Belmont, the
agent of the RothschIlds, and the other
money-grubbers whom the eX-Buffalo-
Man served so elficaciously while pres
ident, were on hand to stamp their
feet and clap their hands in approval
of this suggestive and characteristic
utteranee. If they were not, 1t was
borne to them by the newspapers and
filled their souls with an old-time glee-
In it they recognized the {
form of expression that has
already lone service on the tongue of
the confirmed political bunco-steerer,
has shown such pernicious activity
in deceiving the country into pawning A.,
its TO feed their Golfers. q,
But Grover and his reformers will !
have to play a game of political soil !
They can't coax the people !
whom they have reformed into !
poverty, unrest and despair to join d
hem. They are in the shape the
said he was before the adop- 1
lion of the constitutional amendment c
allaryinr nnlnraA man I'm vote He l.
said: "The Lord didn't van him,
he devil wouldn't have him; so he
would be forced to go off and start a
little Hereafter of his own"
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