The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-03-22
The New President.

Some dissatisfaction is is expressed |
In certain democratic quarters with /
our new president. II is urged that
he Is too slow in turning the rascals
out" which is only another way of
say ing that he Is not nimble enough
in reaching the conclusion that the
grumbler is the one only aud solitary
man In the union capable of saving 1t,
or of administering the affairs of the
office to which he aspires, with advan-
tage to the country. Mr.. Cleveland is
an open and avowed civil service re-
former. He made his identity in that
character while governor of New
York, and the democratic party knew
1t well when it nominated him. 1t
was to this character that he owed the
result in New York, which deter
mined the election. This quality won
for him the support of the liberal re-
publicans aud Independents of the
George William Curtis stamp. In
deed, the Times and all other potent
powers in the east, knew as well as
did the democrats that Mr.. Cleveland
in carrying out his purposes of re-
forming the public administration
would not only proceed slowly in
making changes, but he would go to
the extraordinary length of retaining
honest and efficient republicans in
subordinate positions. The party
during all the years of republican
ascendancy complained of the cor
ruption, the partizauship and the gen.
eral bad conduct of the public admin
\ istration. Mr.. Cleveland hated this
thing as bad as anybody, and we, for
one, are most heartily glad that he is
going to make all active and vita
principle out OF what had been, mp to
his advent in the government, only
beautiful abstraction, a glIttering pos
sibility which hung only a little out
of reach OF human and partizan reach
II he only accomplishes this and moth
tsSf oRReet t dFAps u me h soT %HS'
ment has had. All good, honest ant
clean-handed democrats viii stand b,
President Cleveland in his efforts in
the direction of civil service reform
so long as the purpose of reform i
plainly evident. 1t would also b,
| ,van 40 rap,an, hat that N man whn 4
In hot chase after good fat Office i
not always just as patient as he nigh
be, and time drags with him.
On the matter Of silver, we western
and southwestern democrats cal
hardly understand or appreciate tn
feeling which animates the people
in the east. Here we have the bal
ance Of the circulating medium
against us always, and an.
circumstance which tends t,
contract or curtail our circulating
medium or any medium of exchange
is from the very nature of it, intensel.
unpopular. The circumstances here
tofore surrounding Mr.. CLEVELAND
have been very different. He ha
seen silver Cutting the money mar
kets of the east and clogging every
thing and probably doesn't realize tn
exact nature of the necessity existin,
here or in the west, that il be contin
ued not only as marker of values
but as an active working factor in tn
daily business Of life. He probably
doesn't understand how many OF tn
industries of the west depend upon
the business of digging the precious
metal from the ground. We have
always noticed that men are inhu
enced by their surroundings, more o.
less. But few men rise above all sec
tionalism, thereby enabling them
selves to take purely unpart;zan oil
unscctional view of living questions
We feel the utmost certainty that &
few years experience in his present
position will enable the president to
take more liberal and catholic view
of the silver question, TO the extent al
least, that he would not want to lock
up the mines in which is contained so
large n share of the hone of the west.