St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-21
Cleveland and Civil Service Reform
Especial Telegram to &c Globe.i


WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-The evidence ac-
eumulates that President Cleveland is to be
bound hand and foot by the Pendleton civil
service law and that, although the Democrats
are within the promised land, they are to
have none of the fruits. That eminent In
dependent and civil service reformer, Carl
Schurz, writes to a clerk in one OF the de-
partments, under date Of the 18th inst, in
which he gives this assurance:
SIN answering your letter of the 14th inst.
can only say that believe Mr.. Cleveland
viii faithfully carry out the civil service law.
He favored the enactment of a similar law in
this state, and il has been strictly observed.
have no doubt be will as president act
upon the same principles which he professed
and adhered to as governor"
The president-elect, no doubt will take
the ground that the presidency is an execu-
tive Office, and it is his duty to execute the
law. 1t is not his fault that the law is on
the statute books. The full credit OF
ii is accorded TO Ohio's senior senator, who,
it is said, is now anxious for an Office him
self. A dispatch from Albany gives chat
had with Gov. Cleveland by the correspond
ent of the Baltimore AHaerieaH. The writer
says:
''My own opinion Of the principal quail
ties be possesses for making a fair president
are his phlegmatic temperament and his bull
headedness. he does not appear to have
been at all worried by the work
of the campaign and he is evidently
determined upon doing as he pleases. When
/ called upon him to-day his attention had
just been called TO u ready made cabinet tel
egraphed from New York to Washington.
IF let those fellows 60 ahead said he to
me, Il won't have much to do when / go to
Washington. Wen, let them keep it up, and
when they get done III do as please The
governor refused to be interviewed,
but he is a great interviewer on his
own account He asked ne great many
questions about the size and shape of the
White house and about life in Washington
generally, but he kept wholly aloof from pol
iucs. In the course Of general converse
ton, however, and by means of remarks
dropped 10 others who happened in, had a
good opportunity for knowing that all talk
about who is 10 get this or that Office is de-
cidedly premature. Gov. Cleveland has not
so much as given a thought as to what he
viii do when he gets TO Washing
ton. 1T is a long way off, he says,
"and / have enough TO think of,in the duties
OF my present Office without trying to dispose
OF any Of the questions that may arise when
l assume the other" / have heard that the
governor had been invited to indulge in
Hfffa Morr1ora ~
that Mr.. German and others might have
chance TO feather their nests, so to speak. /
asked him to-day whether he expected to
visit Maryland. He replied that he had heard
nothing about any such plan, but when l
said l had heard of il, he said, -'Oh, believe
there was little something said about nv
going down there, but never had the slight
est idea Of going. 1 shan't go anywhere till
go TO Washington, unless 1 run out to
Buffalo" The state civil service commission
called on the governor while 1 was in his
room to-day. 1 afterwards learned that the
commissioners regard him as a typical civil
service reformer, and am inclined TO believe
that ne at least intends to be one. 1
have it from his own lips that be does not
expect TO make any unnecessary changes at
Washington, and, furthermore, that he
thinks there are vacancies that may occur
which ought not to be filed at all''
To add further TO this painful subject OF
civil service reform comes along Representa-
tive Mitchell, Of Connecticut who says that
anybody who expects Cleveland to persue the
old policy Of ITO the victors belong the
spoils, will be greatly disappointed. He
anticipates a conservative policy and that the
next president viii exclude mere partisan
ship from consideration in making appoint
nents.