New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-07
NOT CONCILIATING.

lt Is Ine Op1DlOU VI JuuitiOuo 1S'NNA'@N
journals that the party stands in need, IN TINS
State at least, of policy of Cancellation. IL
cannot afford, they urge, to afiront OF ohehu
anybody, because only $4,000 votes were cast
for the Democratic candidates at the last cleo
ton. while GOA. 900 were cast against them.
With a hostile majority of 1000 to overcome
in this State, upon which the result OF the next
Presidential contest will doubtless depend, the
Democratic managers cannot afford to consider
the wishes of those only who supported MI.
Cleveland. Unless they can conciliate Others
and gain part of the strength which was ar
rayed against them last fall, they have reason
to expect that the opposition will be sufficiently
united at another election to overwhelm them.
II Is irksome to Democrats TO remember this
limitation of their power President Cleveland
has shown that he realizes the situation, but has
not shown as yet that he has wisdom enough to
meet it. BY his selection of Mr.. Manning he has
offended some; by other appointments OF
minor importance he has already disguised
many of his former supporters and he has done
nothing thus far in the choice of officials to win
to his party the confidence of any who were OPP
posed to it. The appointment of Mr.. Pearson is
not an exception, as some may think, because it
the President was to be regarded as contrary to
the rules which in other cases he woul follow,
and in other cases thus far he has taken Gaze to
put Democrats only into places OF political con-
sequence.
But the necessity remains, nevertheless. The
party must somehow conciliate part OF those
who opposed it last year, or it must expect de-
feat. 1t does not cOnciliate, as yet by the ap-
pointments on the contrary, it oflends all its
opponents and many of its adherents also. The
only hope the President has, If one may Judge
from his conduct, is to please his partisans In
the end by his appointments, and meanwhile to
please some other people by the conduct OF the
Administration on questions of public import
ance, such as the tariff and the finances.
If this is the Presidents aim, he has sue
ceeded much better so far in nlcasing Republic
cans by his financial course than in pleasing
Democrats or anybody else by his appoint
ments. His silver letter gave general satlsfac-
ton in this State, but it has been much
diminished by his appointment OF some con-
spicuous foes of his policy to influential places.
His apparent disposition to avoid any mis-
chievous meddlng with the tariff, which some
of his acts have shown, has inspired the less
confidence because he keeps Mr. Bayard,
Jealous free trader, as the nominal head of his
Cabinet, has sent small army of free-traders
to represent this country abroad, and has
negotiated treaty with Spain which, it is
feared, will be found hostile to home industries.
Nevertheless the President has given much
hope to Republicans that his Administration
will faithfully defend the public credit, and
that he will spare no effort to avert the danger
from silver coinage. These things please Re-
publicans, though they cannot overlook the fact
that the principles of Civil Service reform are
disregarded completely and contemptuously.
But the President has not yet succeeded in
pleasing his own party at all. The Democratic
partisans are just now less pleased with him
than anybody else, for the professional believers
in Civil Service reform can put up with any vio-
laton of 1t, however fragrant and shameless,
that satisfies his grudge against sincere and
faithful Republicans. But most of these people
are also professional free-traders, and are pretty
sure in the end to be Disguised by the Presi-
dents course on the tariff question. He has not
discovered how to conciliate any body of OPP
ponents as yet; on the contrary. he has failed
thus far to retain all his supporters.