Show AVATTERSON OXi CLEVELAND What boots it now what were Mr Clevelands ulterior purposes If he meditated medi-tated the disruption of both of the Republican Re-publican and Democratic parties and the construction of a Cleveland party as his enemies allege he perpetrated a grievous miscalculation The party which thrice honored him with its nominations and twice elected him president is left with the bag to hold and a very empty bag it1 is He has had his day to him full of glory and renown to his party full of disaster Presently he will go out of place and power carrying with him the curses of some the adulation of others and the average opinion that he was an average president who if he did no great good did no great harm marking time as it were and leaving tho public service very much as he found it albeit for the < time being wrecking tho cause which the people fancied to be embodied in his person Mr Mortons illustration of a bank and a bank president presi-dent with reference to Mr Cleveland and the government sizes up Mr Mor tons master perfectly Mr Cleveland has had a higher ideal The image which the people have constructed out of their own generous and confiding beliefs setting it upon a pedestal labelling it Cleveland and extolling its virtues has never had any actual existence but in its stead a dull plodding bank president suspicious and grudging destitute alike of imagination imagin-ation and sympathy and far very far from a hero of any kind Louisville CourierJournal |