Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1893 — Watterson versus Cleveland. [ARTICLE]

Watterson versus Cleveland.

Henri W. Watterson, the editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, who was also the author of the tariff plank of the democratic platform and who is an acknowledged leader of democracy, now says of Mr. Cleveland: “A man asincapableof rec (living’ impressions as of returning warmth, and sensible of criticism, only to the point of resenting it, the president sits in the white house like a wooden image made to be worshiped, not to be loved. To the weaker members of his cabinet he has in parted his. dull self-sufficency and cold stolidity. The most servile as well as the sincerest form of flattery is imitation and the beggars on horseback whom Mr. Cleveland, seeking to discover a new politcal planet and to people it with creatures of his Own, brought into being and mounted, have caught the trick of their chief and are equally industrious and successful in neglecting great for little things. They too take more joy in a republican who has repented and turned mugwump than in 99 democrats who have never gone astray. A near and old friend of his said to me not long ago: ‘Of all the arid natures I ever encountered he is the most arid. He sympathizes with nobody, makes common cause with nobody, and in the most serious affairs trusts wholly and solely to fortune or caprice.’ ”