Montgomery County sentinel., 1884-11-28
THE RIGHT RING.

AAh bLOhL hINus
-Pesident-elect Hendricks, in the
course of his remarks at the Democratic re-
joicing in Brooklyn, New York, on Thurs
day evening of last week, said, "Citizens of
Kings county, you have stood by the ban
ner and it floats for you. You have stood
by Cleveland and Hendricks and by Gods
help they will stand by you. The hickory
broom is the symbol of my Democracy. |
believe the hickory broom will be the ban
ner of President Cleveland"
These words have the old Jacksonian
ring, and emanating from such a distin-
guished Democratic fountain head, will be
received with joy and gladness by the De-
mocracy throughout the country.
"The hickory broom is the symbol Of my
Democracy"-that is the way we like to
hear Democrat talk. All who may re-
member to have seen or read OF the hickory
pole with the broom attached at the upper
end in the first campaign of Gen. Jackson,
have not forgotten its significance. 1t meant
a general sweeping out, and it means to-day
what it meant in the great canvass of Gen.
Jackson, who rested not upon its meaning,
but who had the nerve and spirit to see that
its meaning was put into execution. We
have every reason to believe that the same
spirit will animate President Cleveland.
Hannibal swore at his fathers knee, Gen
Jackson by the eternal, Calhoun with his
hand upon his heart by his own Palmetto
State, but that splendid old Democratic vete.
ran who has for the second time been elected
Vice-President of the United States at an
hour when the very air was trembling with
victory and when halleluiahs were sweeping
over the land with all the fury Of cyclone,
said, you have stood by the banner and it
floats for you-you have stood by Cleve-
land and Hendricks and by Gods help they
will stand by you"
We remember tO have read that shortly
after Gen. Harrison had been naugurated
President he was discussing with some of
his advisors as TO his policy with respect to
removals from ofiice--turning to Mr. Clay,
who happened to be one of the company,
he said, "What is your opinion, Mr. Clay?"
Mr.. Clay is reported to have risen from his
seat and walking towards Gen. Harrison, ex-
claimed with some warmth, Universal pro.
scription, Mr.. President" II is also known
that William l.. Marcy, of New York,
when Secretary of State under Van Buren,,
gave utterance to the declaration "that to
the victor belong the spos." How fully the
spirit of these declarations have been car
ried out, is no where better demonstrated
than under the administration of the Re.
publican party for the past twenty years,
and in this, the hour of our political triumph,
Vice -President-elect Hendricks has sounded
the keynote as to the policy of the admin
istration with regard to removals from odice
Mr.. Hendricks words, however, have a
higher, broader and deeper significance than
the mere fact Of removal and the substitu.
ton in office. He rises TO the high apprecia-
ton that the democratic party stands pledged
TO the correction of existing abuses and the
a asystem of retrenchment. He realizes that
every bureau of the general government,
from the Executive Mansion TO that of the
smallest department, has been contributing
TO the fraud and corruptions which have
cursed the country all through the several
consecutive administrations of the Republ-
can party, and that the only way by which
these evils can be effectively cured, is to
make a clean sweep-apply the old broom
and cleanse out the Augean stables. If
surgeon is called upon to remove a cancer
he not only cuts to the root of the disease,
but he follows closely the winding of its
various branches until the last trace is re-
moved in order that there may be no further
development of the malady. The cancer,
which has been feeding upon the body
polite for the past twenty years and nursed
by official curruptions until its virus rests
upon every official desk OF the government,
must likewise be removed and in such
manner that no fear Of its breaking out
need be apprehended
Gov. Cleveland stands pledged to an hon.
est administration of the government, and
il is hardly likely that he will be able to
give the people such reformation with every
department Of the government packed with
enemies-enemies so educated in fraud and
dishonesty that it will be impossible to keep
the current of civil power pure. There is
but one effectual mode by which Mr. Cleve.
lands tenure of office can be kept and con
tnued as the people who have elected him
desire, and that is TO open a new set of books,
place them in charge of honest and capable
men taken from the rank and file OF the
Democratic party.
So far as the civil service reform bill is
concerned, we have declared hundred times
that we never had any sympathy with its
provisions. We never were an admirer of
gentleman George Pendleton, never took
any stock in his Democracy and we took off
our old hat and shouted thank God when
the Democracy Of Ohio sent him back ~
private life, from which, experience shows,
he should never have been called.
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