Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-04-10
1T CAN'T BE DONE.
THE CANDIDATE WILL NOT COME
FROM BUZZARD BAY.

30 Says Watterson and the Rank and File o
the Democratic Party - He Went Back OF
His Party and Its Principles - Cleveland ;
"Bloodess" Man - Not True to the Mer
Who Placed Him in Power-The journalistic
Scalpel Used With Terrible Effect.
A movement lately inaugurated by
Arthur c. Jones, prominent politi.
clan OF New York, is responsible foI
simultaneous action in Pennsylvania
Ohio and Illinois, to foist Cleveland on
the Democratic Convention of 1904
He claims that he has the names oil
300 prominent public men, who have
| promised to aid the movement, and
this has impelled that veteran journal
ist and Democrat to review, fairly and
impartially, the record Of the man who
forged the golden fetters that were
afterwards riveted by his colleagues,
the Republican party, under the gross.
est fraud and Misrepresentation. Here
is what he writes:
"Alas and alack the day! We can
not accept Mr.. Cleveland either at his
own rating of himself-which was not
originally very high-nor fall to grow
cling at the feet Of the craven image
which the self-deluded mugwump has
clothed in all the colors OF the rain
bow and placed upon pedestal and
which he worships according to his
bloodless kind. AS an all-around man
about town in Buffalo, Grover Cleve.
land possessed many of the virtues Of
the natural man. The tradition of
Frank Tracey and Oscar Folsom and
William Dorsheimer and Grover Cleve-
land and their companions is still
cherished by the younger set in that
magnificent, jocund, tragic city-that
dark and bloody ground of the Mag
ara-and we dare say its memories to
the one lone survivor are happy men,
ories irradiating the dreams of days
that are gone forever. 1t is the gen.
eral consensus that he was a dead
square man of the rough-and.ready
species. He made a good Sheriff and
good Mayor. He owed the Cover
norship and then the Presidency 10
the Tilden organization - vulgates
might call it the Tilden machine-and
from the day of his advent to the
White House he proceeded to 60 back
upon his friends and to deny his max
er. He saw Edgar Apgar sink broken
hearted in his grave. He hurried
Manning into his coffin. ii he had
friend who happened to want some
thing or to need something, his back
was promptly turned upon him; or, if
he ventured to face him, he stood SO
stiff as to seem to lean backward.
"He had discovered, or he thought
he had discovered, or somebody told
him, that public Office is a public
trust and his idea was that by ignor-
ing all personal claims and private OBJ
legations he would signalize himself as
true servant OF the people, an incor.
ruptible official, model OF sturdy vir-
tue. He turned the mugwump down
equally with the Democrats. But lie
had dead thing on the mugwumps,
who went off rubbing their shins and
rolling their eyes to heaven in their
nincOmpoop ecstacy over the new
found apostle of political sweetness
and light. His old officeholders
thought that if he got back they would
get back. They worked effectively to
this end for four years. He fooled
them. Having neither sensibilities
nor imagination, no gratitude nor af-
fections, no dislikes nor likes, he could
with equal impunity and equanimity
appoint his enemy to Office as proof OF
his magnamity and discrimination,
and withhold bread from a suffering
servitor and friend as proof of his de-
votion to principle. The poor devil
could 90 off and starve or die, nobody
sympathizing, nobody needing, whilst
the mugwump band played on and on
the rogues' march OF civil service re.
form.
"He actually began to set himself
up for an arbiter IN mOdo. OF course
he set up for a political economist
though he never read book in his
life and knew no more about scholar.
ships or ethics than schoolboy might
get out of an enclycopedia on an off
afternoon. All the time he was what
he had been when he ran with the
boys in Buffalo, tough, self-con-
tanned men, of excellent common
sense in matters within his mental
range; of immense working capacity
and indefatigable industry; loving
power for powers sake, avaricious and
dominant, good enough man under
normal conditions, but elevated to the
Priesthood, given smell of the flesh
pots, corrupted by the servility of the
base, the adulation of the little, the in
cense OF the self-seeking-a dangerous
man to all interests-to personal inter-
ests IS that every friend who has tar
ried with him has slept upon a upas
tree; to party interest as that the most
sacred rights of association and of
cOnaeraderie are as bits OF broken glass
in his hands to his country's interests
in case his fatuous ignorance and ego
tism could ever once get sure footing
in authority" |