Vienna.

It turned out that Mrs. Keiley was a Jewess and would not be received
at court. Then he named him Ambassador to Italy, when it appeared
that Keiley was an intense Roman Catholic, who had made at least one
ultramontane speech, and would be _persona non grata_ at the Quirinal.
Then Cleveland dropped him. Meanwhile poor Keiley had closed out bag
and baggage at Richmond and was at his wit's end. After much ado the
President was brought to a realizing sense and a place was found for
Keiley as consul general and diplomatic agent at Cairo, whither he
repaired. At the end of the four years he came to Paris and one day,
crossing the Place de la Concorde, he was run over by a truck and
killed. He deserved a longer career and a better fate, for he was a man
of real capacity.

III

Taken to task by thick and thin Democratic partisans for my criticism
of the only two Democratic Presidents we have had since the War of
Sections, Cleveland and Wilson, I have answered by asserting the right
and duty of the journalist to talk out in meeting, flatly repudiating
the claims as well as the obligations of the organ grinder they had
sought to put upon me, and closing with the knife grinder's retort--

_Things have come to a hell of a pass
When a man can't wallop his own jackass_.

In the case of Mr. Cleveland the break had come over the tariff issue.
Reading me his first message to Congress the day before he sent it in,
he had said: "I know nothing about the tariff, and I thought I had best
leave it where you and Morrison had put it in the platform."

We had indeed had a time in the Platform Committee of the Chicago
convention of 1884. After an unbroken session of fifty hours a straddle
was all that the committee could be brought to agree upon. The leading
recalcitrant had been General Butler, who was there to make trouble and
who later along bolted the ticket and ran as an independent candidate.

One aim of the Democrats was to get away from the bloody shirt as an
issue. Yet, as the sequel proved, it was long after Cleveland's day
before the bloody shirt was laid finally to rest. It required a
patriot and a hero like William McKinley to do this. When he signed the
commissions of Joseph Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee, Confederate generals and
graduates of the West Point Military Academy, to be generals in the
Army of the United States, he made official announcement that the War
of Sections was over and gave complete amnest