The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-29
VDTIERS||H IN
CLEVELAND
Kentucky Editor Writes
Searching Roast on Grover.
CALLS HIM A TOUGH"
A Man of No Education or
Human Feelings.


ter, Mr.. Watterson says:
quite a year ago when Mr.. Cleve-
land began to sit up and take notice we
thought all this, and ventured in our
shy, untutored way to predict it, but our
modest vaccinations brought down upon
US nothing but contempt. Nay, barrels,
buckets and tin pans of objurgation and
ridicule.
&" That great and good man. exclaim-
ed the Mugwump chorus. That states
man, sage and patriot-that inspiration
TO civic virtue-that unassuming citi-
gen. counting the classic shades of
Princeton that he may avoid contamina-
ton whilst he enjoys the society and
basks IN the sunshine of admiring jun
Tors and susceptible sophomore, whose
letters home VIII suffice to remind the
world that he still lives-a few incon-
gruvial college lectures that his great
brain still throbs for his country-in
short, that austere but august parsonage
who desp!ses office and abhors publicity,
is far too noble, too pure, too self-de-
nying, too lofty to notice this scurrilous
Kentucky scribble but isn't is just shame
full to have him so abused and maligned?'
Then the chorus went out to take
orink-in secret-whilst the eX-President
exchanging boquets with himself tossed
a nosegay to Tammany Hall, and waited
q disdainful kiss-something of Judas
kiss-in the direction of David Bennett
Hill, murmuring to the Tilder Club the
while the sad refrain, Your candidate
! hardly think I can ever get my blush
ing consent to be-"
THAT is to paraphraSe the words of
Cheyaliers song:
First he said he wouldn't.
Then he said he couldn't.
Then he said, well, I'll see.'
but, at last, the cat is clean out of
the bag and all that the Courier Jour
nal opined. and a good deal more of
the same sore is made matter of fact
and, yet, withal. mighty little let up as to
the alterations of derision and invective
levelled against the unhappy editor of
the Courier Journal, whose verified proph-
ecies bring him no surcease from sorrow
and whose mildest words are described as
O kind of double cross between hysteria
and idiocy
We take no accounts of the milksops to
whose attenuated ear-drums a few sylla
bles of robust English sound like the
thunder OF Mont Pelee. We take as lit
lie account of the housing rapscallions
that think by making monkey faces at
our parts of speech to enjoy a few mo-
ments of brief but delightful conspicuity
I'm these columns.
But here comes the staid old Philadel-
pha Ledger to speak of our "splenetic
and hysterical TRADE" Lord! what kind
of a bumblebee is that? And that para
gon Of rectangular politeness, the Phila-
delphia Record. to accuse US OF insult
ing the sage Of Princeton, of dealing in
''bombastic rhetoric" regarding him. and
heavens of being actually "tiresome."
Nor is this all.
I'VE might stand "hysterical" Some
time we grow 'tiresome' TO our own
shadow. But ignoring the many asser-
tions to the contrary the Pittsburg
Telegraph has the reckless effrontery to
say that "Watterson still smarts under
the remembrance of a personal quarrel
IN the White House over a social ques-
ton involving the families of both men
-as Infamous and as groundless as ever
sprang from the DEVILS own iaison of
cowardice and malice.
Alas and alack the day we cannot
hCttII MI AltNtlEiQ eliIeT dl MS OWL
rating Of himself-which was not origi-
nslly high-nor fan TO grovelling at the
feet OF a craven image, which the self
deluded Mugwump has clothed in all of
the colors of the rainbow and placed on
a pedestal and which he worships &C
cording 10 his bloodless kind.
As an all-sround man-about-town in
Buffalo Grover Cleveland possessed many
OF the virtues Of the natural man. The
tradition of Frank Tracy and Oscar Fol-
som and William Dersheimer and Grover
Cleveland and their companions IS s'n
cherished by the younger set in that mag
niicent. jocund tragic city-that dark
and bloody ground Of the Niagara and we
dare say its memories to the one lone
survivor are happy memories. irradating
the dreams Of days that are gone for
ever
Il IS the general consensus that he was
deal square man OF the rough and
ready species. He made a good sheriff
and a good mayor He owed the cover
norship and then the Presidency n the
Tilden Observation-Disclosures might cali
II Tilden machine. and from the day Of
his advent 10 the White House he pro-
ceeded TO so hack upon his friends and 20
deny his maker
He saw Edgar Taear sink broken
hearted in his grave. He hurried Man
Ming into the coffin. y he had a friend
who happened 70 want some thing or 10
need something. his back was pronintlv
turned upon him; or II he yeutured -
face him. he stood 50 s,iT rs 10 seem
20 lean backward. He had discovered
O. he thought he had discovered. or
somebody had told him that public
Office IS 81 public trust" and his siea was
that by ignoring all personal claims and
private obligations h woul6 sirnsHze
himself as a true servant 70 the people
ard incorrupuole Official. model of
sturdy virtue
We turned the Nuswunn down equally
with the Democrats; but h had q dead
sure thing on the Mugwumps who vent
81 rubbing their shias and rolling their
eyes 10 Heaven IN their nircompop &C.
stacy over the new-fou-d apostle OF 20
hticsl sweetness and leht
His old oTce holders thought That i
n got back they would set back They
worked effectively 10 this end for four
years. lie fooled them. too
Having neither senslbiities nor mag
snation. no gratitude and no affection.
no likes Or cislikes Re could with e0ual :
tnpunity and equanimity appoint his en-
envy 10 Office as proof OF his magma
simity AMI discrimination. ard withhold