The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-30
lad never seen him, never heard of

had never seen him, never heard of
him.
"But," said Cleveland, looking at
Cockrell with his vague, dim, but
deeply impressive air, and lowering
his voice as one who deals with the
occult. not to say the awful, 81 was
reading the army list one night with
nothing particular in view, and as my
eye rested on the mans name, it stuck
me as if by revelation that lie was the
one to select for this place, and so,
after thinking of him for a day,
named him and there he is
Cleveland here looked as if full of
the triumph of new magis all his
own. Cockrell said nothing.
But one might go on for year like
this. ! might tell how his cabinet
fears him; how it has assembled, and
neither president nor message came
from Woodley; how the cabinet daw-
died about in dark ignorance an hour,
wondering why "Cleveland doesn't
come LOme,' and at last went back to
IT'S desks no wiser. There was tele-
phone to Woodley, too, bu. not one of
them dared to ring it.
The next day it was learned that
!'the president had stepped on gravel
and sprained his ankle, already painful
with gout."
As Col. Morrison once told OIney,
''rhis is the dirtiest administration I
ever saw in Washington. And yet
the head of it wants third term IN
1900. Come to Washington for the
| first time to learn the littleness of
piracy. That lesson Is every day.
Wait until bond deal, and be taught
something of The bigness Of public
plundering. Millions have been made
by the coterie about the White House
in the last three years, made when the
extra session ballooned the market !;
made with bond deals; made with the
tariff
Cleveland;s inconsistency did shine
oll in the tariff. Poncher, the appoin-
tee of the week before to a district
attorneyship in New York, would come
to the ways and means committee with
| a letter from Lamont TO Wilson and a
mission to lobby tariff on barley
| mali Chaar,,,an H0ar anot har t,,tO-
wump pet of the administration,
rewarded with district attorneyship
at Boston, would be there TO lobby n
tariff on burlaps, bagging and binding
twIne. In the same hour Cleveland
would refuse TO appoint one Donnelly
United States marshal at Chicago, be-
cause he had once lobbied at SPRING
geld for the Illinois Central railroad.
Cleveland, himself, with Carlisle,
was doing all he could to put the Have
meyer schedule on sugar. And
when he couldn't he failed to sign the
bill for ten days, and gave the longest
possible limit to the trust TO ram in
sugar free. That ten days pOut cost
the treasury SlO, 100000.
What has been the record of this
reform magistrate? He called an extra
session to the great advantage of Bene-
dict. Congress came and he threw his
patronage right and left. and pulled
at the lobby ropes, and worked at legis7
lalion like a common sailor. He bought
and he bullied and bamboozled. with
his patronage to have his way in the
senate. .s.
"Repeal the purchasing clause,of the
Sherman law" said he, tand the busi-
ness sun will SHINE, the business grass
will grow, and broad prosperity will
be ours again" His prophecies fell
fiat with a good failure. 1t was the
same with the tariff and the three bond
issues. 1t has been ever, ''do this"
and s'do that and time and tide will
turn and success come riding in.
From first to last he has been false
prophet. No one has had the success
of which he sung but the tariflitcs and
the bondiles, and the ring about the
throue. The back stairs cabinet and
the pool with White House pass keys
has thriven nightly. All others are
lean and hungry.
When Cleveland came in in 1898 he
found the treasury on the rocks. He
has kept it there ever since. He has
pounded hole in its bottom and
stuffed the leaks with $240, 200, 900
worth of bonds. He sells these at 104,
and next day they bring 100, and bring
it while this is being read.
Had mayor of New York or any
other city indulged himself in the bond
antics that have been witnessed in
Washington during the last three years,
special grand jury would have been
on Lis trail W tn Lorn of law and hound
of inquiry in moment.
But bonds go and go and go again,
aud as a bye-play, and just to show
the bond of sympathy that exists be-
tween us millionaires, the fine imposed
on Carnegie for rotten armor plate, is
remitted.
There was nom during Harrison's
reign. Cold he was, unsocial he was,
an unlovely soul at best, but honest
was Harrison, and clear rs ice. :.
When Cleveland came in with Car
isle the bond woive, Logan to snap
and snarl about gold. Carlisle ha,
intended early in the summer of ,'93 t"
do as Manning had done in 80. He
told Vest and he told Cockreil snd lie