The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 14, 1887, Page 2

aaa ann SOS AS mt SE CLEVELAND TALKS He Reviews His Course on the Subject of Civil Seryice Re- form. Mach Acco:nplisied in That Direction —An Answer to the Partisan Critics. His Opinion of the Wheeling Incident and the Grand Army—All Anxiety For 2 Second Term Diselaimed. New York, September #.—The World will publish to-morrow, over the signature of Ballard Smith, the vesults of an interview with Presi- dent Cleveland, held at Oak View and the White House during three days last week. This, probably the first aceorded interview with him since he was elected president, sets forth, to the extent of six columns, Mr. Cleveland's views upon such topics of national interest and im- portance as his renomination, civil service reform, the financial situation, the Wheeling incident and his com- ing visit to the South and West. The president said: “I have seen in the World, with great regret and surprise, a disposi- tion to throw obstacles in the way of my effort to establish civil service reform so firmly that there can nev- er be a return to the old, pernicious methods, although seeming to be its friend. I refer to the republishing of the comments of newspapers hos- tile to me and my purpose. often Republican newspapers, and thus giving currency through the great circulation of the World to carping attacks which otherwise would be limited to the small speculations of the journals in which they first ap- peared. No man in the country can know the embarrassments and the perplexities which have surrounded me in attempting to amend the con- dition of the public affairs, with these limitations to the immediately successful accomplishment of my purpose, but guided by every light possible to be made available. I know I am trying to bring about the remedy without the least per sonal ambition or intention. Not- withstanding the natural aggravation which I felt in noting the apparent disposition against me personally, I see the desire of Mr. Pulitzer, through the World, to aid in the same direction but the fact is I am necessarily the person now to bring this reform about, and is there any better way to secure the accomplish- ment of a reform than by helping me now to accomplish it, if he be- lieves me honest in my purpose? The man who holds the reins is the one to whom those interested in a safe termination of the journey must of necessity trust. Let me say here,” said Mr. Cleveland, “that if the dis- appointment arising from any ina- bility to name for office all those fevommended by near, personal and political friends were sufficient cause for alienation, those who wish me well would be very few to-day.” Concerning recent events in the ‘Grand Army circles, Mr. Cleveland said: “The soldier having laid own his arms, after making so many sacrifices and enduring so many hardships, having achieved such a vast and good work in perpetuating our republic, should be pre-eminent- ly the best citizen. When he again ‘in times of peace resumes his citizen- ship, his desire for the peace and quiet of country and the prosperity entirely dependent upon these, should be emphasized by the very ‘trials he has undergone. I do not ‘helieve that he can be carried away from the even plane of that good citizenship by the device of unscrup- lous men who would use him for partisan purposes.” He further said he did not fear there would be any overt act in St. Louis in relation to the Wheeling incident, because it was contrary to what he knew to be the spirit of the municipal and com- mercial bodies which had invited him there, and which he believed to be the spirit of the whole St. Louis. reacaies With the progress of civil service reform the President is very much “In the first year and a pased. p ease said the hilf of my administration,” President. “men came here by the hucdreds, by the thousands, each company filling the room and empty- ing it, only to make room for anoth- er throng, and there was always the same formation, “I have come Mr. President, to ask that Blank be re moved. ‘The reason? I would say. ‘He is a republican, would be the answer. This over and over again in each successive case, with seemingly hopeless lack of vari ation. I had always—I could have —but the same answer. ‘You must bring me proof of his unfitness as repeated a public officer.” well their inability to comprehend this view of the process which had obtained here for so many years. I could but sympathize with their inability, but now the formula , is altogether changed. I have not heard that expression for many months past. It is now at the out- set of every application for a change: ‘This man is unfit; a faithless public servant, and these are the reasons.’ | Is not this a very great deal to have accomplished? Is not this a suffi- cient answer for the time that has intervened to those who may com- plain that more has not been accom- plished?” Concerning the question of his re- nomination, Mr. Cleveland said: ‘It seems to be the universal belief that a president must desire a renomina- tion. I any man who has served one term as | president could have a personal am- bition in securing a second term, | with all its solemn responsibilities, its harrassing duties and its constant | and grievous demands upon the | mental and physical strength. consent, it seems to me, to accept a| second term should rest only upon his sense of a solemn obligation asa citizen and as an appreciation of his duty when called to bear his particu- lar part of the burden of citizenship. Thus the office can have—at least, it can have for me—no personal allure- ments. I hope my present term may be concluded with profit to the country and with as few mistakes on I understood very | can not understand how | His | merrier for 1888. Lots of slaugh- | shambles. old junk, or old vegetables. Uni- versal suffrage simply added to its merchantable value without iereas- ing in any way its respe ctability or Too many of the There ‘are too many appeals made by dem- as the its responsibility. voters wants nationalizi: agogues to what is kno German vote, or the Irish the Swede, Dane. Fr not vole, justas if every man who yoted at all was not a free American citizen. no matter where he was born, ' nor what country he came from. Furthermore, politics has beed de- graded much by mixing religion with it. The two can not mix. Those who do seek to mix them make a stew and a brew that would nauseate the devil. In the end religion gets 'by far the worst of the contract. 'Mountebanks like Sam Jones and Sam Small multiply. True mea, and | men of honest and conscientious | ‘convictions avoid the churches. ! When Neal Dow magnified is put in | | the place of Christ crucified. and | preached up one side of the land and | | down the other, unbelievers increase | |in exact proportion as cant and hy- | | poerisy seize upon the pulpits. The } | two old parties suffer most, because | | they stand more steadfastly for what is solid. tried and approved of by} |time. Because they refused to be- | jcome insane. To rave or to rant. | | To reform the earth with a number | five head and a number twelve boot. | | To damn 2ll opposition because it | | | | | i j |thinks. To light a two-pemny ial- low candle to see the universe. To | do aught in fact out of the usual or contrary to the old political | | processes which have prevailed since | | the constitution was created. | However, the more parties the der, tering is to take place in that year’s Never since the days of Jackson was the democratic party in so perfect a fix, physically, for knocking down and dragging out. | What a blessed thing sometimes is a good hickory club.—K. C. Times. Endurance of Society People. A prominent society lady of Washington being asked by the Prince ot Wales, ‘‘Why is it you my part as is incident to fallible hu- man nature.” Weknow of no mode of treat- ment which offers to sufferers trom chronic diseases, a more certain hope of cure than that which is com- prehended in the use of Ayer’s Sar- saparilla. For puritying and invig- orating the blood, this preparation is unequaled. A Stormy Old Year. Evidence accumulates that the year 1888, in a political sense, is to be one of the stormiest ever known in the history of presidential strug- gles. Ever so many parties have been or are being formed. The country has gone wild on issues. | For every issue there is a following, a convention, alot of planks rough hewn and nailed together as a plat- form. The socialists are to have their ticket; the labor union theirs; the knownothings theirs; the female suffragists theirs; the prohibition- ists theirs, and to judge from Ben Butler's recent discourses, the green- backers theirs. Being looked upon | as the two great parties of the coun-| try, it is not worth while of course in this connection to speak of the republicans and democrats; but what most curious people would like to know is something about the true inwardness of so many factions. aggregations, combinations and or- ganizations of men outside of the old party lines, and arrayed under so many splotched and piebald banners. What sort of a wind has been blow- ing lately across our old-time poli- tics? Why are the political waters - —- and why upon the banks of them do so many apples Ww which are bitter to the taste Tike the H apples that grow upon the shores of the Dead sea? Why are so many guerrilla bands abroad, and why 50 many predatory ones, proclaiming a season of general upheaval, wherein | the battle cry shall be lost, and the | rallying cry the division of plunder? Why, indeed? The question, in our opinion, might be answered thus: American politics is no longer homo- | geneous. In the larger cities men | trade in it as they trade in old rags, t gists. i people here manifest so little tatigue from dancing, receptions, etc,” re- plied, **Why you see we Americans regain the vitality wasted in these dissipations by using Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic."’ Wilkins’ Wit and Wisdom. Men are fools for revenue only. Time changes many a counterfeit bill. Wisdom skippeth the device set by fools. The tramp’s motto—“God bless our roam.” The drunkard’s thread of life is wound on a reel. Donkeys have powerful reaches with their rears. When honesty is a man’s best poli- cy it loses its virtue. Food for reflection—the good din- ner that you missed. No man can love his God who does not love his children. Jurisprudence is usually at the mercy of a jury's prudence. He who tries to cracka joke often- times cracks his fingers. One dead woodcock in hand is worth two bald eagles in the bush. One of the most uncertain of all things is a sure thing—in the future. The quality of a man’s christianity | is tested when he steps on a banana skin. The only good thing that the daily newspaper artist can draw is his salary. God's mercy would be a valuable commodity to many, if it could be sold in small quantities at high prices. There are a great many who would refrain from blowing Gabriel's horn —unless it is so hot they couldn't drink it. There is more joy in a sanctum for the bore who is kicked, than there is for the ninety and nine who get away with your favorite exchanges. —Whitehall Times. rs Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cnts Bruises, Cuts, Ulcers Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Cancers, Piles, Chilblains, Corns, | Teter, Chapped Hands, and all skin erup- tions,and postiveiy cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed togive pertect satistaction, or money refnnded. Prive per box, 25 cts For sale by all Drug- | gritty. | blessings A Proud Spirit Broken. A Dakota settler who had had bad | inancially was finally taken sick. end called to see him and said to his’ wife: vas surprised to hear of your | and’s y strong and healthy.” ys healthy, ged at last but he got so discour that it jes’ made him sick.” “But he was always of such a] | Republican urges Mr. Small to re- cheerful and bouyant cisposition I never expected to see him give up this way.” “Yes, John was always mighty When the barn burnt up an’ killed the new team he never said a word, but jes’ braced up and ‘built another barn and got another team.” “Yes, I remember he did.” “Then when the house burnt he didn’t complain a bit, but went to | living in a tent jes’ as cheerful.” “I know it.” “When the farm was sold ona mortgage an’ the children were all taken sick John kep’ right up as happy as ever.” “Yes, that’s so.” “Byn by the sheriff took the cow an’ cookstove, an’ a wagon run over John’s foot an’ smashed it, but still he didn’t ‘pear to be a bit discour- aged.” “I know he didn't.” “Then our oldest girl run away an’ married a corn-doctor, both our horses died, John got beat on a law- | suit, an’ fell down an’ broke his leg. Still he held his head right up an’ said he'd come out on top yet.” “Yes; well what is it that could have possibly occurred to break his spirit and make him sick at last?” “He had to sell the old black dog for fifty cents to git money to buy | dour, an’ the man just bought him | for his hide an’ nothing else an’ we know it! Just as soon as John saw the man tie old Tige under the wag- on he come right in and throwed himself on the bed an’ says he: ‘Sa- manthy, that’s too much to stand—I won't never get up off'n this bed a live man!’ I reckon I won't be long follerin’ him—you orter to see the way old Tige could take a hog by the ear an’ swing it right around in a circle!”—Dakota Bell. Ballard’s Snow Liniment. It you have a terrible pain in the small of the back, get a bottle ot Snow Liniment, it will positively cure you and at once. Try a bottie and recommend it to your friend. A Codfish in Harness. ’ A young man at Fort Popham the other day caught a cod which weighed probably thirty pounds, and which he placed ina hogshead and so kept alive. When the party went into the water the young man harnessed mp the cod with stout twine and placed him in the water. He had a great deal of sport, and finally, after considerable persuasion 3 allowed a young lady to try his sea horse. A life preserver was procur- ed and fastened on her, and she grasped the reins holding the large cod. The fish struck out for deep water ata rapid pace. The young lady, becoming uneasy, dropped the reins, but they caught in her feet, and if a party had not gone to her rescue in a sailboat the result would have been disastrous.—Portland Ar- gus. Fred Nye, who wets things around Omaha in the capacity of the World’s “Fountain,” dampens the arder of an aspiring fiddler in this style: We are happy to state that the man who has been practicing on the violin in the room in the Merchant's hotel which abuts, as it were, against the World office, is improving. We do not know as this will ever meet his eye. We do not know his name or the name of his teacher or the make of his violin or what crime he may be seeking to atone for or to avenge. We only know that he be- gan to practice three or four months |ago and that he is improving. For this we reverently thank God. It is one of the greatest of this world’s that the man who practices on the violin improves. Ayer’s Ague cure acts directiy on the liver and bilary apparatus, and drives out malarial poison which induces liver complajnts and billious disorders. Warranted to cure or money retunded. Try it. ss—I thought he | | T have Hed for it. Excusing Mr. Small. The St. Louis Republican is ina state of mind because the Rev. Sam Small recently said: “I sas borna raised 2» democrat. I studied principles fully. I worked for it. Ihave spent money Thave drank whisky for it. T have stolen bal- lots for it. I have stuffed boxes for it. I did all it told me. and it took me within a half a mile of hell. The democrat. its fo turn to Georgia, plead guilty to bal- ! lot-box stuffing in open court, and go to the chain-gang. Our contem- porary is unduly excited. Mr. Small has never injured any political party in Georgia by the work he has put in against it-—Atlanta Constitution. “Fire Proof Paper May be Made,” says a scientific exchange, ‘tirom a pulp consisting of one part vegetable fibre, two parts asbestos, One tenth part borax and one fifth part alum.”’ It is a pity that such facts as the one follwing cannot be written or print- ed on some kind of indestructible paper. ‘‘My wife suffered seven years and was bed ridden too,’’ says W. E-: Heustis, of Emporia, Kas. ‘“‘A number of physicians failed to help her. Dr. Pierce’s ‘Golden Medical Discovery’ cured ker.’ All druggists sell this remedy. All ovghtto keep it. It only needs a trial > The Inquiring Mind. “What was cats made for mother?” asked a little boy who had been scratched by the household tabby. “Cats made for, well, I suppose to kill mice.” “Who made ‘em?” “Well, [suppose God made them.” “What was mice made for?” “What funny questions you ask. Mice were made for cats to catch I suppose.” “Did God make the mice too?” “He did; he nade all things.” “Well, if cats is made for catchin’ mice, God wouldn't needed jto make cats if he hadn’t made mice, would he?” “No, I suppose not.” “What did he make ’em for then?” “Make what?” “Mice.” “Child, it is time for you to go to school. HurryZup or you'll be late.” And thus the inquiring mind was again switched off the track.—Bos- ton Courier. The St. Louis Chronicle has a long yarn about a philosopher and astron- omer who called at the office of that paper and left a document in which he says that he has been observing Venus for many years through a powerful telescope, and that he has seen cities, rivers and seas on the planet. He declares also that the people are of a higherforder$of civi- lization than the inhabitants of the earth and navigate%the air in balloon ships. He thinks theyjare trying to attract the attention of the earth, as several times he has seen them firing a great gun at us, and has noticed that the ball explodes and goes to pieces by the time it gets half way here. This may account®for the areolites which occasionally drop on the earth, but it is more than likely the whole story will account§for the loss of a patient from some®Iunatic asylum. Governor Marmaduke in Europe. Jefferson City, Mo.,:Sept. 7.—The Hon. S. C. Yantis received a letter from Governor Marmaduke to-day, in which he announced that he would not leave Europe until September 28, when he would sail for this country on the City of Rome. The governor was in good health and enjoying his travels. He landed in=Queenstown, and, after spending two weeks in Ireland, crossed to England and went from there to the Spa, Belgium Too Big a Contraet. : The sad intelligence of the shoot- ing scrape in Kingman county, Kas., merely goes to demonstrate that a man cannot successfully combine a drug store and a billiard hall. A man who operates a drug store in Kansas ought to be too busy to fool around a billiard hall._Kansas City Times. ——_—_____ Prickly Ash Bitters is an unfailing cure tor all diseases originating in biliary derangements cane by the ma- laria of miasmatic countries. 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