Show i Mr E L Godkin who so long was editor of the New York Evening Post Is J writing for that pIper some reminiscences remi-niscences lie came to America first i In 3S5G lie tells the condition of pub 1 lie affairs as they existed up to the beginning of the Civil war and he evidently evi-dently is growing old for of the present pres-ent and future of this country he takes a somewhat gloomy view For instance in-stance ho says that the election of the chief officer of a State by universal I univer-sal suffrage every four years by a Na 100000000 Is not tion approaching I simply a novelty in mans efforts to govern himself but an experiment of I which no one can see the result The mass is J already becoming more and more difficult to move The old arts of persuasion are ahead ceasing to I be employed In It OC Mr Cleveland he has this to say Cleveland was a success In moat ways and i failure In a few J lo had till courage cour-age and tho Independence which exclto great hopes and down to his Venezuelan eacnjuido there was nothing moro serious to reproach him with than hIs failure lot lo-t tm with Congressmen In u democracy this failure was of course nol a i light thing No government can succeed no matter how well drawn Its Constitution muy be unless those who aio canylng It havo been buaver on can agree He might Ho might without damage have brought more 01 Mr McKlnleys unctuousness LIthe LI-the discharge of his duties Hut he had I as everyone has tho defects of hla qualities quali-ties Ho did many good things but ho did not open up as many hoped a now era That extract shows that Mr Godkin with all his brilliant ways Is one of the poorest kinds of Judges of human nature It is l sulllclent to say that had Mr Cleveland never weighed more than 110 pounds ho never would have been thought of as Chief Magistrate and he gave Godkin evidently the same Impression Im-pression that the elephant gives tho small boy in the caravan He does not stop to question whether the elephant symmetrical shapegraceful motion or winsome In manners He Is Just bullied by his immense bulk and goes home telling his mother that the I elfant Is the biggest thing In the world |