The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-24
OUR WORKING PRESIDENT.
President Cleveland Institutes a
New Order of Affairs at the
White House.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-There have
been several publications lately written
in an ex cathedra tone, stating that GER
tain officials who have been very promi-
nent in Investigations will not be con-
firmed by the senate. One dispatch has
said that Senator Edmunds will inter
est himself very actively to prevent the
confirmation of the new minister to
Mexico. These publications have
been made without sufficient informa-
ton. The fact is that the minister to
Mexico has been confirmed, as has also
the first comptroller, against whom so
many shafts are hurled. Moreover,
those qualified to speak say that the
strict scrutiny which Auditor Chenowith
and First Comptroller Durham are Civ
ing to the accounts which come within
their jurisdiction is exactly the kind of
work which the President most ap-
proves. 1t is the Presidents purpose to
give the people an efficient, pure and
honest administration. and the officers
who help him most to do this, even if
like other mortals they sometimes make
mistakes, are those whose services will
be most appreciated at the White House.
1t is quite difficult for the ordinary
politician to understand the purposes and
methods of the President. A gentleman
who recently conversed with Mr.. Cieve
land on the result of the Ohio election.
and on the possible result in New York,
said that he never before had q thorough
understanding of the presidents posi-
ton.
"Mr. Cleveland" ;" he said, sis of course
a democrat, and desires the success of
his party; but he wishes, above all things |
to give the people a wise, pure and hon
est administration for four years. All |
of his acts, when judged by that stand
ard, are perfectly explicable, and what
ever he has done that can not be recon-
ciled with such a course is the exception
and the mistake. The departures from
this programme are many of them ad
mitted to be errors by the President
himself. He intends to reduce these de-
partures to the minimum. They have
resulted in almost every instance from
Over-confidence in representatives and
senators, sometimes cabinet officers, and
always persons whom he ought to be
oble to trust He intends be at the mer-
cy of selfish counselors as little as posi-
BILE, and it is for this reason that he is
directing all his energies to filling all
the vacancies and to making all the inn
portant removals which he intends to
make prior to the meeting of congress.
''He has found that in the multitude
of cOunsellers there is not wisdom, but
confusion. 1t is his experience thus far
that he is much less liable to make mis-
takes when acting upon his own indie
pendent judgment, formed after careful
investigation in every instance,
than when he depends upon the recon-
of those who insist that they
know everything about given case. and
that he knows nothing. To facilitate this
work more attention is required to be
paid by the departments to the prepara-
ton of the papers of applicants for office
than ever before All the recommends
tions in important cases are digested, ac-
curately briefed, indexed, and a summa-
ry of the points prepared, SO that the
time of the President is econOmized.
The clerk in the appointment
offices who should make misleading
digest, or improperly back the papers,
would be very sharply. called to account.
The President is working great many I
honrs every day-many more than the
clerks in the departments. and more
han many of the under officials who
of the hardships of their posi-
ton.
The President allows himself absolute
y no more leisure than is actually nee l
assary to preserve his health. The
months of vacation, in which he wholly
divorced himself from the cares of state, }
proved to be very profitable investment, :
and the store of health which he thus Sc
cured he is using to the best advantage.
He lives a regular, systematic, frugal life.
The congressman who desire to see hlm
before the n Getting of the committees or
assembling of the two houses will not'be
as they Frequently were during
he last regime, at midday even, that
the President had not yet breakfasted.
Flowers.
Ever Blooming Roses, each 10c; per {
ioz. 81. Fine Geraneums, single and :
louble, each 10c; per doz. 81. Pome- :
sranate Punica Nana), Flowers a pecu- |