The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18
Can the democratic party be trusted?

During the late political campaign
the Republicans arraigned their oppon-
ents as unworthy Of public confidence
not to be trusted. And that, even if
successful in electing good man to the
executive chair the tendencies and tradi-
lions of the party would not permit him
to successfully administer the govern
ment. AS a fountain can not rise high
er than its source, it would be found
impossible for man to rise above the
party that created him.
The people decided otherwise, decid-
ed that they could be trusted, and
placed Grover Cleveland i'll the execu-
tive chair. And the party are now on
trial. While we are willing to confess
that President Cleveland manifests a
disposition to put good men into Office
and honestly administer the govern
ment, these very difficulties, as prcdic-
ted by Republican speakers and jour-
mails, are daily presenting themselves,
and sooner or later he must bow to the
inevitable, must succumb to the dictum
of the party that made him President.
We quote from last weeks Windham
Co. Reformer, by all odds the ablest
Democratic paper in Vermont, the fol-
lowing, which needs no comment:
''When he received petitions with the
names of entire delegations in congress
asking for certain places for the men
therein named, he supposed that these
were honest papers which he could af-
ford to treat in good faith. But when
ever acting Oh some of these and find
ing in so many cases that those thus
pressed on him were not only wholly
unfit and their selection a discredit to
the administration and the party, his as
tonishment gradually gaveway to indig-
nation, and this at present bids fair to
pass the usual bounds and be made |
known to the public in way to bring
confusion upon those who have deceiv-
ed him. Every one of the appoint
ments that have been criticised SO sharp
ly were made upon these recommended
tons. At first he could not believe the
facts spread before the public about
them, or that it was possible that party
leaders had SO little concern in the sue
cess and honor of the party that they
would try to quarter murderers, de-
faulters, state-prison birds, and disrep-
utable loafers on the public service. SO
some of his earlier Objectionable APP
pointments were not revoked as they
would be now if he had the work to do
over again. Now where he finds that
he has been imposed upon in any case
he unhesitatingly cancels the appoint
ment and disbars the senators, represen-
tatives, or committee men who acted
80 unfairly towards him from recogni-
ton in any future appointments.
A United States senator had almost
persuaded Secretary Manning to ap-
point q friend to Office, when a man
from the district interested dropped in
and exposed the candidate as confirm
ed drunkard and an otherwise disrepu-
table fellow. The secretary at once
confronted the senator and his man
with the latter's accuser. The candi-
date confessed and withdrew. The SEN
ator, nothing daunted, brought for
ward another candinate, who proved to
be under indictment. Attorney Gencr-
al Garland was nearly committed, by
the urgent request of the Arkansas con-
gressional delegation, to the appoint
ment of man for whose arrest for
theft, he found on reflection, he had of
fered reward while governor of Ar
kansas. Postmaster-General Villas is
asked by congressman and judges of
Ohio to appoint to an important posi-
ton in the railway mail service de-
faulter, and whom his reeommenders
knew to be SUCH"