Show CATCHING ON president cleveland and the J PITH PEN he must be a hypocrite for ho man can possibly be as hon i eat as he I 1 bite a number of democratic ra of the impatient sort ani pluming themselves upon their with respect to the mug aud complacently calling out I 1 etolil you eo commiseration 10 th president for all that mr cleveland has pursued from the beginning the steady course of an honest and a wise statesman nor ha he been so greatly deceived as his critics imagine As far back as tho early part of last may he to the most distinguished of the editors whenever I 1 do a thing that plead cayou it is all right but when I 1 do a thing to please myself that i n all wrong makes me feel ike doing nothing or you at all kyen the president was catch ng on to the caper but he held hia peace kept his counsel and like a man of sense batted wat ted ho may be appointed diss n some individual particulars but the general result in ho ale him the to snatch a phrase or two from charles lambs account of the poor relation is a piece of impertinent an odious approximation a haunting conscience speaking he may be likened to a turkey buzzard for aa a harp of d thousand strings has it he goes up an up an up into the ar an the fust thing yu know ha is by the roadside feadin on the carcass of an ole dead liess As pox said of thurlow he be a hypocrite because no man can possibly be as honest as he looks in truth the has sustained not a little detraction and ridicule but his superiority ia undismayed and his calm pa per conscience a wealth of celluloid professions unmoved beany emotion more violent than the tranquil virtuous heart lie ought to be n good character actor of the trie school for he can say thu moat absurd things wath the greatest selx eunity and in a stylo of high com edy worthy the best days of charles matthews he is the gentleman the walking gentleman in politics he dresses the part to a nicety and he impersonates it esth a it ought to be done if ite hould be attempted mi the english stage in a word the is a new dramatic creation and lest he last not very longa having ultimately to be pre served ina bottle we may as well i make the him while we have tatt dude is going frbnk us the gentleman in politic 1 lt tia consider him examine him take him to pieces analyze the glue attaches his joints the sawdust saw dust which fills his cavities test the wires on which his little limb have their vibration he is above all else genteal that which he most detests vulgarity ho not have been professionally barn his honest old father may in deed have begun his prosperous ca reer aa a porter and his honest old offspring must be college bred and have had at least five years politic poli cal instruction from that oracle cf the british colony in america which is said to bo edited in heaven these essentials complied with he is ready to enter politics and to be admitted to the society of gen here hia duties are perfectly simple ho must oppose everything that w and support everything that pretends to be he must not soil his handa with any practical thing whatever his platform is reform and hia demai d instantaneous perfection which indicates hat he ought to be a photographer if iverc be any element hohas a horror of it ie the people that there can be any virtue beneath a battered hat or any ap pp under a ragged coat he cops not in his opinion human society should bo divided into two general classification the and the kiwe the i to oscillate between the of the latter and BO to rule by a sort of prescriptive right of substituting for tho old fashioned democratic plan of party administration a system of competitive examination and a permanent aristocracy in office by this process he expects to make guiteaux Guite aus and Guiteau ism twenty years or one partisan official isali isili and to reduce the government of the people for the people nud by the people to the narrow dimensions of the in short when he has re created everybody as bloodless himself has all popular iu and abolished the cooj mans IH them when hp hass broken up i chii holiday feature of our common life hone too exhilarating or loo happy add replaced it v th economic asceticism af a when he has realized the dreamon dream of the I 1 i 11 it 1 6 federalist and brought the aiden cau bif tem as flear it arid made the national capital at washington af respectable and corrupt as yest bei afi satisfied be and may then ahe aad a ts eo vf can am on selves fionne public tion or questions other thau the reform af pf tha civil berdice Bery ice n akia caper of the is most insidious assault which has ever been directed our itis the insane attempt of tho top of pull up its it ait could aeed our democratic rc republic He public would experience the fate which befell the who rebelled against the stomach in fable but it will not succeed ita will not succeed because no pary is honest in seeking it all parties amaat heart opposed to it and af by lits fth issue oneie tn eIe should to baor row they wind with the of the pickpocket who having secured lug booty strolls leisurely and safely down tho most crowded thorough fare i under the demoralizing effects ofa single party tenure expended over a quarter of a century undoubted evils have sprung up all through our civil service these stand in the direst reform it was to secure this reform thatah change of parties was ordered by the people and ahe administration thua brought into patient ly honestly intelligently but am and nature of the basei casei effecting ithe reform re that it vi make a vast and change in acerba our public service arid servants we sincerely believe that aitor any party willor should revolutionize the system we do J liev e conner journal |