The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-03-16
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Attic Parting OF INC NAS1'
It will not be unkind or "offensiyely
partisan" 10 say in public what thousands
Of Democrats axe thinking and many do
not hesitate to declare in private. It's
gravely suspected that after twenty-four
years Of waiting, with the help Of the
Muewumps, OF St. John and Of Burchard's
B,s, tho Democratic party has not got a
Democratic President. Already Cleye'
land is rated as political nondescript,
who either does not know what his party
wants, or lacks the heart or the nerve to
place himself in active sympathy with the
organization.
Civil Service reform, it is thought, was
well enough before election, when utter
snces in that behalf were supposed to be
delivered with playful contraction ofthe
eve.lids. There was no serious objection
to stately Civil Service paragraph in the
inaugural address-if tho President didn't
mean It. What disorders the Democratic
stomach is that the President gives eyi-
dence that he means some oft. He in.
tends, Of course, to take care Of his per
sopal friends, and E1r. Manningsand Mr.
Germans, but II is feared that he isn't 60
ing 10 have a general jail delivery OF a
hundred thousand ems to let in as many
Of the impatient "outs.'
This fear has taken very fast hold OF the
Vice President, whose earnest efforts to
Undue the President with the true spirit
OF Democracy have been duly chronicled
in the news columns. This Hendricks.
Cleveland interviewmaybe the beginning
oftour years Of unpleasantness between
the head and the tail oil the administra-
tion: in which case It will become an i'm
portant chapter Of history. For this
reason is given the account Of that notable
meeting as it is reported in tho Boston
Adcsrtiser, a Republican newspaper which
supported Cleveland. This dispatch is
very valuable for what it reports these
eminent men as having said toeach other:
Vice President Hendricks and Senator
Voorhees, have had an interview with the
President, in which they tried to persuade
him that he ought TO move promptly ~
putting Republicans out and filling their
places with Democrats. They pre-
sented all the arguments OF party policy
and OF the doctrine that to the victors
belong the spoils." President Cleveland
heard them through, and then told them
plainly that he intended to carry out the
pronos;tions he had set forth inhis letter
81 aeceptance on the Civil Service, and the
declaration OF his inaugural on the same
snIiect. He held the party by its Civil
Seryice law to be bound 10 an honest effort
10 carry It's principles into effect. Both
Hendricks and Senator Voorhees, dissent
I'd most emphatically from the position OF
the President, and especially from the pur-
nose he announced OF making changes
yery slowly, and, except in those classes
OF offices where eHsry one expects q
change almost at once with an admins
tratioT1. making them only for cause. The
Prosident's views, II carried out, will,
Speaking generally, not give the offices to
lie Democrats much faster than commits
sions expire.
The position and the dissent Of Senator
Voorhees, may mean trouble for President
Cleveland. Voorhees, is a fighter, and he
is in position to make it very rough sail
ing for the President on the Senatorial sea.
The fact that the Vice President and this
powerful Senator thought it Unnecessary to
double.team the President SO soon, sug-
gests some very grave possibilities for
"The Man Of Destiny"
Beyond question sIr. Hendricks and Mr.:
Voorhees, represent the aim and spirit OF
the Democratic party. They have fought
the battles Of that hopeful organization.
They know its composition, its methods
and It's purposes. They know where and
how to. strike the heart Of their party.
They have pointed the President to the
way. II he insists on going the way Of
the Alugwumps there is going to be "a
heap Of trouble on the old mans mind"
The beginning is not suspicious.