The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-05-20
BRICKS THROWN at MR.. CLEVE.
LAND.
To the Editor OF the Sentinel.

In your issue of the 9th inst you have an edit
torial headed, Uphold the Administration" in
which you seem 10 ridicule the idea of a charge
oil Government officers ana employees, asserting
that the criticisms on the tardiness of the admin
is ration come from disappointed place seekers.
I wish to inform you that there IS not an sppli-
cant in this township for any positions that
Clevelands majority was 12s snd that should the
election occur next Tuesday he would not get
City votes. all told, in the township. We did not
vote for Cleveland as man; we voted for a Demo-
cratic administration. But the Cleveland policy
rs rot what we voted Tor we would rather that
our candidate had been defeated than TO have the
laugh on Us az IL now is. We see the men, who
ter end, retained IN Office and we read, now aud
then, OF Republican receiving appointment We
are told by the heads OF departments that
1t may take years to remove tue Republ-
cans, on the plea that the business OF the
Government would be endangered by put
ting in democrats at once. Sir, we Demo
Gratis have pride in our party. We know that we
have as wei educated and, judging by the past,
more honest men in our party than are in the Re-
and operate the affairs of the Government to-day,
and we feel that further delay BY the administra-
just Republican officials have violated Their
trust butt appears they must sll be proven erim-
inals before the administration will remove them.
We have received letters from the Indianapolis
Sentinel Office that were torn open in iranSiti also
letters from our Democratic State Committee that
able to name the men who did It, but we do know
they were Republicans. We are proud of our
Stale administration, but for the present we are
thing betier-ICurs truly, MANY VOTERS.
DeeIfeld, Ind, May II.
The foregoing communication was not
written for tuR. The writer of 1t is DEM
ocrst-no mistake about that. We frankly
admit, too, that his is not an isolated CON-
plant. Beyond any question considerable
dissatisfaction hiss sprung up in the Indiana
Democratic ranks with the hardness of the
ID sr4r II
letter uD der comment IS 8 condemnation of
most of the criticisms preferred. One other,
not included therein, is the point made that
Indiana has been the least recognized Of any
important Slate. Our correspondent paints
10 the gallant conduct OF the Indiana De-
mocracy Throughout I'll these years Of Rs
publican misrule; that Indiana was the frat
Of the States to whesl into the Democratic
column after roe var, in which her Demo
cratic soldisry covered themselves with
glory in fighting for the Union; that she hiss
ceen more to the Union in war and to the
Nation and Democratic party in peace, than
mas other States which have been favored by
the administration, albeit she has Demo-
cratic sons full as able and honest,
while more renowned than many of
the selections for high places by
the administration. Another correspondent
com plains 'that not only have Indiana
Democrats been sighted in the Washington
Offices, but that they are not even given the
Offices within the State; that the United
States District Attorney, an offensive parti-
SAN if there ever was one, still holds his
place; so with the United States Marshal so
sith ell, save one.of the Revenue Collectors;
so with hundreds of Postmasters, dozen or
so excepted, and so with the many other Re
publican place holders."
We give these c. iticisms without reserva-
ton, as they have been made by men whom
We know to be loyal to the Union, the
State and the party.
The communication printed here with
does the Sentinel injustice when saying We
seem TO ridicule the ides of change o.
government officers AID employees" W.
have distinctly stated our eager desire Il
see the entire machinery Of the Gov
/ eminent transferred into Democratic
hands. We are in full ACCORD
with the spirit for having this chang
made at the earliest practicable day. Blu
we haYe recognized that the administration
has hzd and still has Herculean task on it
hands in attempting to consummate an en-
tire revolution in the Office holdings IN
dsy. Sixty eight daYahav passed since th
Attn of Msrch, Of which ten have been Sun