St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-10-26
Politicians and Schemers Endeavoring to
Entangle the President in Their
Meshes,
But His Closest Friends Insist that He
Will Not Vary From His First
Plans.
The Reported Change in Civil Service
Rules Pronounce d a Glow
ing Canard.
Gossip About the Tariff and What
MIR. Cleveland Would Like to
See Changed.
Firm as a Rock.

Special to the GLOBE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-The lines are
being slowly drawn between the president
and those members of his party who have
kept themselves in political activity, either
by the patronage they were able to control
or by the belief that they could control pat
ronage. The question is asked dozen
times a day: ''Will the president hold
out?" 1t is perfectly safe to answer this
question in the affirmative. Stories are go
ing around about the presidents decision
to modify the civil service rules in the in
terest of the spoils mongers, but it is only
the spoils mongers who believe and retail
these yarns. The president laid down
program for himself in his letter of accept
ance. He followed this up after his election
by his letter to the civil service association;
he repeated his views in his inaugural ad-
dress. and in his letter to Mr.. Eaton he
said it over again, and more emphatically
than ever, that he was fighting the SpoilS
system. He has already resisted impor
tunity, Establishments and denunciation.
What has he TO gain by hacking down a
reputation for weakness and vacillation?
The letter of Secretary
WHITNEY TO THE FoREMEN
of the Brooklyn navy yard. and his cir
asking for information if in any case fore
men have been employing men for political
reasons, do not indicate any change of
policy on the part of the administration.
The presidential brother-in-law named
Bacon, who has lately been here, has
gone back to his home in Toledo
and told newspaper men there that if the
president changes his course at all it will
be in the direction of allowing political in
| fiuences less and not more weight. A
prominent Democrat who is not in office,
and who does not want to be- has had two
or three long talks with the president the
past week, and in reply to the question
whether the president would change his
course to meet in some degree the demands
of the spoilsmen, he said, very decidedly:
''He will not change his course at all. He
has taken his position deliberately, and he
has enough courage and firmness to keep
it. He will not come down to his party
but he will bring his party up to himself.
He will do this because he is right, and be-
cause he has the
ADVANTAGE OF POSITION.
''There are cases where man elected as
vice president has laid out policy and has
not succeeded i'll carrying his party with
him, but there is no case in our history
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larly- elected president, instead of the pres
ident going to the party. In regard to the
public service, the president would carry
his party with him, because the people of
this country are on his side. 1t is only a
very small portion of the community that
cares who holds the offices. What the vast
majority want and all they care for is good
government. President Cleveland is
giving them that, and they will not help
the few sore heads who are
anxious to fight the president because they
have not got the offices they want. A
large proportion of congressman and sena-
tors are on his side. Representatives who
are really dependent on patronage fol
strength are helped out by the fourth-class
postmasters. The official class that wields
political power, the class of rural postmas-
masters, these are being changed as fast as
is practicable This is enough to uphold
the power of those congressman who have
to show their virtue to their constituents by
distributing Offices