New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-01
THE POOR MARTYR.

Mr. Cleyeland's friends now rerresehb nm
as man who is to be pitied. Accord
inc 70 the correspondent of Tie Herd'd
of Wasbin qton. the President is annoyed ana
erieved by a "strong and persistent pressure
for .veeping changes" He is represented as a
stnbborn hero. who stands like rock against
the demands of his party. The correspondent
is anxious, and feels that I" the public ought 10
know this" namely that there Is greas con-
stant-and it is not too harsh to say infamous
G-pressure upon him and his Cabinet to make
q general clearance a clean sweep, as the pollt-
cal bucksters who exert this pressure phrase
ait.r 1t is represented that he solemnly promises
the favored correspondent that he will continue
tn resist this pressure. Therefore, the CORE
snondent believes that he will 20 even slower
hereafter than hitherto.
This is agreeable matter for the President to
have pnblished in his behalf, and it shows how
he would like to have the public regard nlln'
callous ana unfeeling public, however, has tne
uncomfortable faculty of comparing man
professions with his acts. Every day there aP
pears a long list of new removals ana appoint
ments and every day the country Is impressed
with the conspicuous lack OF decent reasons
given for the removals made IT the President
wants people to believe that he is rock, stand
ing unmoved amid the surging waves, he must
try to be rock, just little. Otherwise tle
clan-trap of the correspondent whose ear be
bonors by his whispers will appear to the publc
coptemptible chaff and q mere prOlongatlon oil
the humbug and the false pretences by when
the election was gained If he wants the pubic
to believe that he is going slower, he must go
slower. The President is not jolly waterman,
who can look one way and row the other.
The public is informed that this infamous
pressure, and the reports which I'LL the ar that
a clean sweep is coming. may be traced To TWO
classes of people. There are first the Demo
cratic bosses, who want to reward the people
who have beer doing dirty work for the party.
1t is represented that these men have imposed
upon the President great deal already. There
is not doubt about it, And if the President
has any common sense, he has known from the
bepinninr that such men cannot be trusted to
disregard the workers upon whom their very
existence depends, and to care only for the
credit of his Administration. Of course, if he
did not know this, he has to learn 1t by painful
experience. His friends say that the blunders
made already, through these misrepresenta-
tons, give him great pain. We'll they may,
and III he Is q man OF nOutSL puiP'SO hO "'''
take care to clear out of the way every man
who has so deceived him. In that case, he
will begin with some members of his Cabinet.
He does not, and therefore the public does not
believe in his honest purpose.
But il is said, too, that the Repubhcan pon-
ticians circulate the current rnmors and are anx-
ious for the clean sweep. This they want, 1t Is
said. because they can then promise all sorts
of places in the next election. This does not
bappen to be true. The Republican politicians
who have any sense know that the patronage
il only a harm and an obstacle to party, and
that the President will hurt his own party more
by filing the places, and offending nine out OF
ten of the hungry ones, than he can hurt the
Republican party. They know, too, that the
Republican party derives its strength from Its
principles, and from the peoples liking tor
those principles. The Democratic party derives
its strength from its hunger. If Democrats I'LL
the Offices 30 that other Democrats cannot hope
to get them, hunger will move very few men OF
that party to work. For its principles or sup
posed principles, and for its aims or professed
aims, the people have no liking whatever. IL
the question Ii between Republican principles
and Democratic want of principles, the Repub-
lican party will WIN. Therefore, if Mr.. Cleve-
land will be good enough to break the power OF
Democratic hunger as an incentive, by filling all
the places he can, he will do the best that lies
In his power for the Republican party.