Show THE POLITICAL POT reminiscences OF 1888 why the th new york thought cle clove land weaker than thau III nil barty on the of january 1889 tie the new york world devoted a leader over a column in length to a statement of the reasons which in its opinion had combined 1 I 1 1 to compass the defeat of tho democrats I 1 in the presidential election of 1888 1889 this article will ho be read with interest just now it will be seen that it was the candid opinion of tho the world in 1889 1880 that ita its party had lost tho presidency the year before not through any fault of its own but because of the conspicuous and many bided aided weakness of it its candidate grover G rover cleveland mccleve sir Mr cleve lands immediate partisans are fond of arguing that he lie is better than his ills party the world does not go into the question of ethics but it distinctly charges that lie was weaker than the democracy foul years tears ago Obviously what gives peculiar significance to the article in question is the fact that the world at present is assuring its readers that mr cleveland ras nominated on and not in of hu I 1 record what is his record on the worlds own showing it is the record of an official who pursued a vacillating couce course who betrayed the causo cause of civil 1 service reform who did the right thing at the wrong time who erected a personal administration of bis his own who ignored the wishes of tho the majority ol 01 the people and of tried and true party leaders who treated his cabinet officers officer stas as though they were so many clerks who cruelly snubbed the democracy of new york city who vh I 1 committed a preposterous blunder in his choice of collector for tho coun arys chief port who played into the hands bands of those representing the most corrupt phase of municipal administration sinco tweed who brought gh shame anle and demoralization to his party b by y I 1 his scheme of parties without partisanship and politics without politicians ciani I 1 ostensibly enforced in one ono state to be conspicuously violated in another such in brief ia is mr Clev elands record aa as T tho 0 world apprehends it and I 1 1 has outlined it in ita its own columns 1 nevertheless yesterday in commenting I 1 upon his triumph it calmly asserted that ha he was nominated on his clia character rao and record of course the best beat thing our neighbor I 1 can do in the circumstances Is to shut its eyes to mr Clev elands record and proceed to support him on the assumption that he got any arit or it can take the ground that the indiCt indictment men I 1 which it framed against him in 1888 was I 1 a typographical error or it can hold that the leopard has changed his spot that while the cleveland of 1 SM 1888 was wab truly bad tho cleveland of 1893 1892 is a reformed man now york tribune |