The Nevada picayune., 1885-09-17
The Party Behind the President.

democratic conventions were held in all the states tomorrow all would do likewise; the Cleveland administration would not fail of a cordial and unqualified indorse- ment in one of them. This is the only commentary needed on the noisy assertion ill the Republican press of democratic o5scontent with the administration and pre- i dictions of a revolt against it. There is not state in the Union ill which q meeting of Democrats could be held to take issue with the administration, unless 1t be Louisiana, and if the ring faction were to hold such q meeting in Louisiana, 1t would Dc instantly overwhelmed by a counter-meeting representing fourffths of the , democrats in tire state.
 For twenty-iour years the coun- try had been under republican rule. now it is under democratic rule. It i9 6 democrat, and not a republican, who presides in tfe White House-and it is democrats, not republicans, who have the easy entrce to that official Ransion. 1t is c democratic,n mot a republican eX- ecutive who is commander-in- chic f of the army and navy, who re- ceives foreign ministers and ap- points American ministers to for eign governments, and fills vacant federal judgeships, attorncyships, marshalships aud other federal po' sitions, and who has authority ] whenever he sees it to exercise 1t, to make vaneancies in federal of fees. It is a democratic, not a re- publican administration, at whose 1 pleasure all federal officials hold their pieces.
 It is said that thousands of re- publicans still remain in office, True; but they have at least lost their powers of mischief. They ere responsible to q domocratic administ. alton. They are subdued intc the best possible behavior. They have lost the habit of con spicuously parading their republi- canism-and some of them are talk ing pains to let it be known that they are republicans no longer.
 The republican press is no lon ger the agbiter of policies and per. sonal and social regulations. It has been forced, much against its will and with ill-concealed reIuc- tance, to pass to the rear and gnash its teeth over it's lost privileges, And republican leaders, national and local, have ceased to fit and flash along the corridors of author. ity, challenge public obeisance to their names and persons and re' fleet the influence of the govern ment regime. Their persons are almost forgotten, and their names, like exhasted books, have gone out of print.
 These things show that change "a great change for the better has conc over the country-a change whose influence is felt and seen from the White House to the con fines of the land, but whose value we cannot yet fully measure.
 In the scuth President Cleve- land has signally exhibited his dis regard of republican :precedents and his respect for democratic counsels by giving appointments to ex-cOnfederates who are true representative of southern opin- ion and feeling-and this in bold and sturdy defiance of republi- can press which, for twenty years, has sought to bring prominent ex- confederates into odium. The president has recognized that these men are the capable leaders of that section and the recognized representatives of its opidiun and thought-and he had the wisdom and courage to assign them to posts of honor in and under his administration, in spite of the clamors of the opposition press against the practice. It is no won der that the long outlawed people of the south, grateful for this re- cognition, exhibit g peculiar warmth in their devotion 10 the administration and avow their sup port of it in emphatic and unequi- vocal terms. That is the section