Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — THE REAL CLEVELAND. [ARTICLE]

THE REAL CLEVELAND.

As He Appears to the Astonished I’rsion of fills Former Infatuated Worshippers.But there is another and a real Cleveland who has been slowly coming out the dissolving view into which the ideal portrait has melted. The real Cleveland is a coarse, narrowminded and sensnal man In place ot the noble Roman who sat for the rapt artist \yhose masterly drawings have - engaged the attention of many men, we see a b.utal, beefy figure, his neck uncirculated with a twenty-inch collar and his head tilted for a No. 6 hat. Greedy of gain, he has ever been found; feeding at the public crib, indifferent to fame so long as fees and salaries accumulated. In every office, front his lowest to hig highest,’his chief aim has to get money, money to squander on hjs coarse pleasures and gratify his animal desires. Politics were nothing to him except as gainful means to an end. With the hardened horn cicnee of a coirfrrmed office-hcddor, he contrived to Tgmd cut tH.’J .days service in <me year, feit jd a deputy's, fees by hanging prißCi.nei s with his own hands, saddle, 1 , every pi ss ble ; ersotiw expense on the tax payer.-, and choused the people out of thuusayda ot dollar.-, beyond all precedent- ip . bis office cf Sheriff.. H*j shown by hih st-Anty

writings and reluctant speeches to be intellectually sluggish, uninformed and uneducated, and utterly incapable of framing an original thought or expressing himself in grammatical language. /Hie vulgar debaucheries have stained his puplic career, and the homes of decent people in his own cityare closed against him. A consorterof low resorts, his early intimates knew |iim only by a nickname. Utterly unfamiliar with the society of good women, no reputable lady outside of his family would dare to sit at his table were he the tenant of the White House. This is the creature of very common clay, lumpish and stolid, that has been set up for the admiration of the citizens of the Republic. The other Cleveland was a dream of deluded enthusiasts. This is the man whose elevation to the chair of Washington corrupt politicians and oftenindicted officials anxiously wait.-*New-ark Advertiser. ' „