| Show PELTING THE PRESIDENT are not generally con seaous for lair fair and honorable treatment jentof of an opponent more particularly 14 ibea tf it campaign is on in or about to open on the contrary every trifling departure of remote or recent occurrence 6 is dug dog up and spread broadcast ito of the features bg being permitted to take plate place while the distribution Is in operation let a mu ma be nominated for president when the odds are almost at an equipoise and he will find a famil family and neighbor pod good history of himself himself in print in a very short time time one that will startle him for two reasons that it reviews things that occurred which he had bad long ilace forgotten and that it produces lome som other eother things that never had an iMa td tence otence perhaps no man in public life who hu has labored as faithfully industrious ier intelligently teli agen aly and impartially as president den t C cleveland veland has been sub betted tp to more abuse and so unceasingly bombarded with paper missiles lobendo loa ado endo insinuation misconstrue misconstruction perversion of conclusions mis stong facts downright alyin and otter stock in trade of the political costermonger have been lavishly bestowed upon apon the executive w who ho so tunas br has shown no signs of weariness or impatience but lets the f usi lacle go j OB unchecked hp reminds one sometimes of the ox in the table fable on tod about which a busy fly had bad bm been buzzing for some time without the slightest token of recognition finally the insect unable to tend such treatment any longer fonger WW tailed out 1 I beg your pardon for dis ming ja you so much 1 I you were there replied the he the latest thing in the way of pabulum the flock of human vultures has lit won to la the death of the man who idab the war lie had a tote surely but bat this person only atod to be that person and never pat forth rth the slightest proof to te h his pretensions but mere fact that he be so limed caused the opposition to ke and treat it as the truth with ehele ope of course of throwing at ut one mud ball that would stick did not stick however for several amons the man was living so far 1 ah aft preponderance bauce of evI evidence deace can Ift blish a matter in which issue has tnt flirt been joined mainly u upon on the noto ty his claim yielded elded being shiftless in his disposition md indolent dol eat in his habits in the place e the same class of f evi buce shows show a that his bis claim was falcons and an d his bis complaints about un ir treatment meat a shallow republican magn dodge designed desil designed ned to arr array cloyal ayal elements aga against ast cleveland bellig being well known and a matter me ater of word that the real substitute was 14 in full by bis principal rin cipal and the lovern men t it all illustrates the of the schem schemers errs who design d carry on this twaddle they only pw to PIL part rt of the history of the case age ta the e whole of it would make V W a com complete defense for the accused s not therefore available for othe col nans 11 they not only do not han reason why a substitute was loll 1011 go cured d how he ae was procured and athe e man really was but tall fall back wa 4 the merest fiction lor for their cam api upi material even grossly distorting X wal W conclusions when handling TM ad whole story is that there were i of toe the cleveland boys of militar military ts imd they decided by lot whick which sald d ko go to the field and which rest reat home ho e to look alter after affairs uly and the welfare of their aged or particularly the chance tell berto remain and the others wat 5 to the front and remained till i later in the war when con was going on throughout the grovers name was drawn ler er than completely sacrifice a which had already yielded slvio much ot ol its strength and ift 1 he offered a liberal price for some one to take his place the offer did not go beg begging by any means the substitute was accepted and came out alive this is not the story entire out but it is the substance ol of it and it illustrates how much can be made out of a little and the little itself be a pore invention with refert refer nee nce to tire above here is a specimen brick from the san francisco chronicle president Clev elands substitute died a pauper it is to be hoped that the president will contribute some taing for a tombstone tor for the man who took ois his place in front froat of recel bullets perhaps Pera Peru aps however he be would regard this as an insult to the solid youth south that tie lie is doing so much to cultivate 11 this is what might be called contemptible temp tible |
