Show PRESIDENT CLEVELAND His Course Disapproved and Giving Giv-ing Dissatisfaction There are cords and chords and discords dis-cords since Harpers Weekly Puck and the New York Post became the dictations dicta-tions of the present administration we have been furnished with a vivid illustration illus-tration of how neatly and exactly that trio of desirable things first mentioned can exist at the same time and be blended in the same system For instance in-stance there are cords which bind the three illustrious Mugwumps who conduct con-duct the journals named to the alleged Democratic President and him to them this produces chords which vibrate sweetly upon the tympani of the journalistic jour-nalistic political triumvirate and its followers while from the hosts who were neither mongrels nor Republicans when the battle was fought and won and from the latter part also by the force of habit discordant strains both loud and deep are wafted on every breeze Under such circumstances the Presidents sensations must be as varying vary-ing and unfixed as the shades of a chamelion he finds cold greeting in the house of his friends on general principles cannot consistently go squarelv over to the enemy who have men of their own upon whom to bestow their smiles and support and meets with only a conditional condi-tional welcome and a sort of haughty keepyourhandsoff recognition when he betakes himself to the camping ground of the political hermaphrodites Grover made a huge mistake at the beginning He thought that by averaging averag-ing his policy he could please everybody every-body so he started out by putting stalwart Democrats in his Cabinet and a like quality of men were given the best foreign missions to offset this and make his grand la perche eauipol feat a success he appointed a Republican Republi-can to the best postmastership in the country and has occasionally made an appointment here and there of the same nature while leaving undisturbed about fivesixths of the Republicans holding lucrative offices whenhe was inaugurated Now look at it If he appoints a redhot Democrat the Republicans Re-publicans wave the bloorfv shirt upon I the outer wall and rend the Empyrean with shouts of disgust if he appoints ap-points a trueblue Republican the Democrats want to know if he ever stops to think who it was that elected him and for what purpose thev did so and tif he singles out a halfbreed for I preferment both Democrats and Republicans Re-publicans make the welkin ring with anathemas This comes of trying to be all things to all men and the discomfort and annoyance created thereby might all have been avoided if the President had decided at the beginning to be exactly ex-actly what all hands his own party the opposition and the intermediates alike expected him to bea Democrat presiding over a Democratic nation Esop tells of a man a boy and an ass oing along a highway It occurred to them all at once that one of them rnisht as well ride the beast so the son climbed up to the hurricane deck and took a seat Coming tp a crowd of people the boy was blackguarded mercilessly merci-lessly because of his riding while the old man walked Rather than offend anybody the programme was changed another crowd was overtaken who jeered the man for riding and jetting the poor boy walk and thinking to obviate further complaints the aged I equestrian bade the boy get up behind which he did and away they went thinking the trouble was overbut it was not The next crowd raised a bisrger tumult than either of the others saying that the two men were better able to carry the ass than it them Yielding again to public opinion they got off took the animal upon their shoulders and marched slowly along doing very well until they got to abridge a-bridge when the beast became frightened fright-ened and Kicked till he freed himself dropped off into the water and was drowned So in trying to please every body the travelers pleased nobody and lost their ass in the bargain Substitute head for another word and the great and good Grover can see what he is coming to I am as sure of this as I am of anything else I have testified tes-tified to in this case Yours without an office ESSAY CHon |