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Show CLEVELAND TURNED DOWN. In tho offlco ot John Sullivan, on the tenth floor ot the New York Life building, build-ing, "In n corner obscuro and alone," there rests un Inverted butt. Standing on one's head In order to scan the features fea-tures of the Individual thus Ignomln-lously Ignomln-lously treated, ono la shocked lo unravel un-ravel the classic features ot drover Cleveland from the cobwebs nnd debris ot nn old corner catchall. Then ono glances Involuntarily io tho no less classic features ot Mr. Sullivan, and It one remembers back n few years ono Is pained to see a complacent, almost exultant smile light up Mr. Sullivan's face. "Yea, that's all right," says Mr. Sullivan, "I llko to see him lu that position, Ho has lain that way for nearly two year, nnd theao hand of mine shall never right him. Tlmo was when I used to mako an obeisance to that statuette every tlmo I entered the offlco door, I used to salaam not tho door, for I wouldn't disturb tho serenity, seren-ity, the solemnity ot tho environments by slamming the door, I used to gaxt iiu. IQNOMIN10U8LY INVENTED, upon that face, upon which a solemn ecuso ot responsibility used to rest, and I used to watch thoso chiseled lips In the almost Inspired hopo that worda ot wisdom would fall from them as from those prophetic statuca we read about In school. Hut I don't do anything ot that sort now, I got over It long ago." Mr. Sullivan naa, a he saya, one ot the most ardent admlrera ot Mr. Cleveland, but when he (Sullivan) was singled out by blm (Mr Cleveland) and deposed from the lucrative position of secretary to tho federal building architect on nc-coynt nc-coynt of bla free sliver leanings, Mr, Sullivan' admiration received a doucho, and It has become actually congealed by this time The linai of Cleveland wus turned upside dawn, end In that position It remains to tblr day. |