Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-05-14

CHAS. HOFSTETTER.
In view of the obscene din kicked ur
by the yellow striped wing of Democ.
cracy, in its efforts to re-habilitate the
heavy jowled old ruffian, Grover Cleve.
land, to whom they look up to as thei,
Moses: We believe it would be appro-
pirate to submit to the readers of the
MINING NEWS the picture of this de-
generate as he appears to Judge Good
win of Goodwins Weekly, under the cap
ton of Cleveland and Douglas"
Grover Cleveland has in two letters
lately denied that he ever had colored
man for his guest, but some papers are
charging that he really did entertain
Fred Douglas several times at the White
House, and in his own book Douglas
speaks with gratitude of Mr.. Cleveland S
social courtesies.
1t is a matter of small consequence,
only the mention of it sets some rather
ancient memories in motion. Forty
years ago Grover Cleveland and Fred
Douglas were residents respectively of
Buffalo and Rochester, New York.
Grover Cleveland was the son of a
clergyman, he had been given all the
advantages of the schools, he was try
ing to make living In the practice of
the law in one of the most fourishing
cities on the continent, but he could not
succeed. The people had to give him
little Office to support him. Moreover,
his life was such that every decent house
in the beautiful city was denied him.
Indeed, after an eccentric fate and a
whole train of accidents had made him
president of the United States and he
desired to return to make visit to the
city in which he had lived so long, only one
respectable gentleman of that city could
be found who would open his doors to
him.
On the other hand Fred Douglas was
born a slave. He had no lineage, no
honest name, the faint of servile race
was upon him, but multitudes hung upon
the rhythm of his words, he stood a
power among the proudest of all the
white race there, and they included the
very flower of the highest manhood and
womanhood of all this land, and every
door was opened in welcome to him.
When the great war came on Fred
Douglas was an evangel for liberty.
Mr.. cleveland hired substitute to go
to war in which he had no sympathy.
1t is not strange; it is in keeping with
Mr.. Clevelands whole life that now he
should repudiate that he ever associates
socially with the nameless. son of slave
mother and a perfidious scion of that
chivalry that does not notice the pres
ence of a colored man when he stands
behind his chair, but falls into convul-
sions if that same colored man ventures
to take chair on the other side of the
table.
But if Godis mo respector of person"
in what estimate does he hold the ex-
slave and the man who, measured by
earthly luck is the most striking ex-
ample of what God thinks of money and
earthly political baubles ever exhibited
to an astounded world?
From nothing-less than nothing
Fred Douglas made for himself immor-
tally; created for himself name and
framed it in everlasting splendor; his
words will be an inspiration for every
name and race that throufh all the roll
years may cryout for liberty and justice.
Grover Cleveland caught current
that carried him by natural gravitation
to the highest station in the gift of a
great people. When he shall have been
dead as long as Fred Douglas has been
what man will be able to recall one
thought that he ever expounded?
In the years to come, when both Doug
las and Cleveland shall be but memories
and the halo of the years gather round
both memories, which will take on the
diviner tintsY