Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-16
HOW CLEVELAND is REGARDED.

Sitting at Princeton, a hermit, un
noticed, is the once mighty leader Of
democracy. Feeding on the lucious
fruits of his official labors his corpu
lency increases, as his hairs grow more
silvery, and less frequent. As the
sheen upon bis silken hat, the warm
luxury of his heavy outer garments
denote that the wolf has not been at
the door, We look at him and wonder
how he passes the moments allotted to
him, and whether he entertains the
same feeling of loathing for the party
which once, twice, followed him and
elevated him to the highest place i'll
the gift of the people, that the people
who followed him now feel for him?
We wonder if he knows really, truly
and appreciatively, that his name can
not be spoken in any Democratic as
sembly except amid Kisses and execra-
ton We wonder if he has ever
brought himself to the consciousness
that he could not today be elected to
the most filthy and scullionlike JOHN
the gift of the Democrats OF the
nation? We wonder whether lie fully
appreciates how he is despised We
hardly hope he does, such knowledge
would send the ordinary man to his
grave or to an asylum for the Insane,
that is if he re allied and felt it, to the
full measure of its existence, unless be
in fact wears that rhineceros hide we
have SO often heard composed his cuti-
Gle covering. AS the disrupter of the
Democratic party he stands supreme.
H turned upon those who made him
with a degree OF depraved violence
and feIocity which amounted almost
to savagery. He shattered their ira
ditions, blasted their hopes, abused
their confidence, b%ankrupted the ma
tion, forced hunger and want into
every humble abode, and then rode
away to luxury and ease with his ILL
gotten gains. and now enjoys the
isolation which must be the reward of
political perfidy, the heritage of the
political leper.
The present condition in Kentucky
was alone made possible by the Caesar
operation performed by him on
his party, in his refusal to vote for
and his skulking into the camp
Of the enemy. His action lost to the
both houses of Congress at
one time, it lost also Maryland, Ken
lucky and West Virginia, but thank
God the Solid South was too clean for
him to handle, 1t neither turned trail
tor o became a purchasable COM
by any p%lutocrat. True be
carried with him many individuals
whom he had made his servants bv
patronage, and many who had been
the holders OF public Office and the
suckers of public pap. but he had no
more effect on the masses of the party
The plain people, who are born with
honest instincts, and who know nothing
well as right from wrong, than the
barking of a cur, upon the man in the
noon. 1t is these who 20 despise him
1t is these whom he has betray-
ed, these who earn their living by toll
and sweat. aud whose sturdy adher J
elce to right car never be loosed, if | .
their trust be not betrayed, or their /
sold for pottage. But {
Grover Cleveland has lost their conf. |
lence, he sold them as the swine herd. :
Aye more, be has justly earned their l
lestatiop, and he will pass from the d
Gene as a man the most heartily des- 9
ised by those who orce were his
riends who lever rose, or reigned, or