Evening journal., 1912-03-28
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Prejudice That Imperill-
ed ClcVeland'S Chance
for the Presidency
Rr HatIand
BY Holland.

Some of the more intimate Of the /
personal and political friends of Gro /
yer Cleveland sometimes thought that
he was not always tactful, especial /
ly in his relations with certain men
who possessed considerable political /
influence. NO man knew this better
than did Colonel Daniel S. Lamont
who was the executive secretary of
President Cleveland IN his first ad-
ministration and his Secretary of War
In the second
"Cleveland's so-called lack of tact,
Colonel Lamont used TO say, was
really due to the intensity Of his con-
viction respecting right and wrong
and also TO his moral and intellectual
integrity. He thought that if thing
was right there was no need of tact IN
handling il or directing Il, and If on
the other hand, the thing was wrong,
it should be cast aside without core-
mony.
In addition to this sometimes
rough but always sincere expression
Of opinion regarding policies or men
which many politicians thought tact
less, Cleveland sometimes took pc
culiar preiudices without any reason
and which caused him to lose what
otherwise would have proved valuable
friendships
Every one who took part in the
presidential campaign of 1884 Will re-
member that the New York Sun op-
posed the nomination of Grover
Cleveland and carried that opposition
so far that after Mr. Cleveland's nom-
ination for President The Sun sup
ported General Ben Butler. who had
been nominated for President by a
boiling faction of the Democratic
party The Sun had previously broken
with Blaine This support of Butler
by The Sun served to make the re-
suit of the election in New York State
very doubtful Butler did receive
enough votes in New York state 10
imperial the election of Cleveland,
and as it was, the latter gained the
electoral vote of the State by only
eleven hundred plurality.
Nov, but for a peculiar and, as
some of his friends thought, unrea-
sonable prejudice which Governor
Cleveland had taken toward Nr Daua.
The Sun would undoubtedly have cor
daily supported Cleveland's nomi-
nation and he would have received
much larger plurality in New York
state so that it could not have been
said of him, as it was said, that
change OF six hundred votes in the
State of New York would have elected
Blaine.
mo man was a greater admirer OF
A Fh.. 10 faI
S. Manning, who was Mr. Cleveland's
campaign manager and whose gen
eralship brought to Mr. Cleveland the
nomination in 1884. Mr.. Manning had
the profoundest respect for Mr..
Dana's intellectual ability and especi-
ally admired the work he did as an
editor. In addition to that, he found
Mr. Dana one of the most charming
of men personally, and knew him TO
be a man without a superior in the
stanchness of his devotion to his
friends
Manning was. therefore, very anXi-
Gus that Governor Cleveland should
meet Mr. Dana and planned giving a
dinner at which the governor was to
be the guest Of. honor, sharing that
distinction with Mr. Dana. But when
Governor Cleveland learned that Man
ming wanted to give a dinner especial
ly for the purpose of bringing him
and Mr. Dana together, he put his
foot peremptorily upon the plan. He
wouldn't give any other reason for
his action than that he didn't like Mr.
Dana; he knew nothing about him
personally, but he had conceived "a
dislike and when Cleveland enter
tanned a feeling of that kind it was
quite as strong as was Mr.. Dana's
own capacity for dislike.
Manning, of course, was greatly
disappointed but he could do nothing
with Cleveland Yet the incident
would have been forgotten had not
some busybody of a friend taken pains
TO report with some eXaggeration To
Mr.. Dana that Governor Cleveland re-
fused to meet him al dinner, that it
was Cleyeland's personal dislike to
Mr. Dana that led to this. and that he
declined to listen to any suggestion
for appointments that Mr. Dana had
made.
"Well, that was enough; Mr. Dana,
naturally. felt hurt and took the mat
ter up. and when Cleveland was NOM
mated for President The Sun was not
found among Clcveland's supporters
II have always felt that had Cleve-
land met Mr. Dana he would have
been as greatly charmed with him as
evory other man Of great intellectual
power was. and, i'm all probability i'm
stead of receiving a bare plurality Of
eleven hundred he would have carried
New York state by as many thous-
and
Copyright. 1912 by z. J Edwards
All rights reseryed)
Tomorrow Mr. Edwards will tell Of
The Chance Accident That Deter
mined a Great Democrats Career"
GRANGE TO HEAR REFERENDUM
The Hon Charles f. Adams Of New
York city will speak on the initia-
! tive. referendum and recall at the
meeting of Diamond State Grange. at
/ Stanton. on the evening of April s.
/ The grangers of Marshallton and
Newport will he present. and big
crowd is expected.
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