The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-10-22
Makes An Ass of Himself.

Cleveland, the great Cleveland-not
Grover, the Stuffed Prophet, but A. O.,
the Cuff Prophet-has come, seen and
conquered-the English language.
Despite the amount OF Advertising
free and otherwise-given MIR. Cleve-
land, despite the drawing power oil a
brass band who worked like c~oal-heavers
! and jammed wind til! the cows came
home in their efforts to draw a crowd,
despite two coal oil lamps set out as a
danger signal at the main street corners,
and called by courtesy bon-fres, and de-
spite the efforts Of a number
OF apostles who went out into the high
ways and byways to rustic up the lame,
the halt and the INDEPENDENTLY the
latter-to fiji ia at The meeting, in spite
of all this the opera house presented the
same appearance as it might have a ten
cent show been playing there at dollar
rates. Not only was the audience small,
but it was frankly and u~nequiyocally
cold and unresponsive. They plainly
were waiting for some new fact eloquent
ly stated, that might warm them into at
least a sembIance OF enthusiasm, but for
both facts and elequence they waited in
vain.
Mr.. Cleveland said he was a candidate
for Senator on the Home Rule platform.
He laid great stress on the fact thatlhe
wants Nevada represented by a man or
men who will invest their money in this
State. And then he went on to explain
about his applying for the Marshalship
OF Utah ten years ago. He said he did
that because lie wanted the money there
was in the office. This paive explana-
ton provoked a faint smile on the faces
| OF his auditors. He was interested in
mines in Nevada and the office wa
worth $4,000 or $40, 900 a year, and be
wanted that money, not to play poker
or buy boose or sport his figure at tie
Paris exposition, but just to put it into
his property in Nevada-dear old Nsya-
da-that was all.
1t never seemed to draw upon the
broad comprehension of this giant in
tellect that in making such an explana-
ton he was doubly damning himself and
stultfyi ing his own argument. This man,
who is making his fight ON the ground
that we import Il public representa-
tives IRON abroad and that they invest
their money abroad. on his own admis-
sion, did his very best to be appointed
Marshal of a neighboring domain in
order to get the salary OF that Office and
invest it in another territory. Reason,
where art thouP Consistency, where art
thou? Decency, where art thou? All
gone a-glimmering, all flying before the
peretic intellect OF A. G. Cleveland, as
cleanliness from a pestilence n sound
men from a leper.
Having thus with ease the most grace
full suruounted the Utah Marshalship
breastwork, Mr.. A. G. Cleveland opened
his vocal batteries on Senator Stewart
and the English language, in which on
slaught the latter got decidedly the
worst of it. If it be true, as has often
been asserted, that good language is the
result of clear thinking there is no doubt
that A.. G. Cleveland's seldom brains
have to wade through an ocean OF mud
everytime they deliver themselves OF a
thought. A man 30 illiteiate as to in
~cessantly give ~utterance to such phases
as ''they done something for the State"
''there is not enough young men," The
lied on the sofa, !" "cuts no figure in no.
thing has = tremendous nerve when he
asks to be sent to represent q civilized
State in the most enlightened delibera-
tive body in the world. A Senator of
the United States who could be guilty
OF coming such words as Representa-
tive" and ~"candicy' would be laughed
from the floor OF the Senate chamber BY
the gallery. The Senator who was so
illiterate as to use the word reserve" in
speaking OF a judges decision Gas MIR.
Cleveland did last night would afford
food for the mirth of the newspaper cor
respondents and substance for the ma
tions for the next decade. While we do
not hold that a man to be United States
Senator must have a University educa-
ton. 1t is very absurd to think Of the
chief representative of a sovereign State
making errors in speech that any ton
year old schoolboy would blush to be
detected in. Granting that Mr.. Cleve-