The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

Reasons Why President Cleveland's Admin.
istration Will Be o Great Failure.

istration Will Be o Great Failure.
Letter In Cleveland Leader.
A senator of the United States, whose rame l
can not give because our conversation was a
private one. said to me last night: 'If 1 am not
greatly mistaken, this administration will be the
greatest failure in our history"
"Why?"
II will tell you why. Because it has Of itself
no cohesive elements, and because, founded by a
great party, it is disregarding the party, calling
to it's support unknown and inefficient men, and
because all its views on public questions are
taken through the wrong end of the opera glass.
There will always be two great parties in the
United States, and one or the other of these is
dent elected turns out to be a trimmer and at
tempts to hoe a middle row between the two
great party lines. he is sure to fail.
'He loses the support of his own party, and the
other party, while pretending to admire him,
laughs in its sleeve and stabs him in the back.
Cleveland so far has totally disregarded the
Democratic party. The boys of the party, the
great masses, the men who carry the banners,
who influence the immense vote of the lower
classes. are getting nothing, and they will surely
They will do it in New York this fall. Mark my
words! The State will 60 Republican by more
than 40, 900, and there will be the same result
everywhere an election is held. Grover Cleve-
party, and if he goes on, and he probably will.
the party will be nearly ruined by 1883.
The Republicans are laughing at his
administration now, and the Demo
Gratis themselves will laugh between their
intervals of cursing before two years have
passed. He is making a fool Of himself every
week. Look at this Ada Sweet matter. Ada
Sweet had been in office for more than a decade
at a good salary. She expected to 60 out, and
the Republicans expected her to go. Cleveland
allows Black to write her a letter that puts his
administration in the hole of going contrary to
its principles, and says in black and white that
there is no cause for her removal. Then, again,
that postmaster at Rome. The postmaster was
guilty of q misdemeanor, and the President
should have turned him out on that ground with
out a word. Instead, he puts out a letter of half
a column to the country apologizing. The early
Lamar, for instance, the most arrant demagogue
south of Mason and Dixon's line, makes a
grand parade about selling 500 worth Of car
riages, and on the next day spends more than
that amount in fixing up a private bathroom in
his department. for himself which would have
been an extravaganza in the days of Caligula,
the Roman Emperor, who fed his horses in
marble troughs and shod them with shoes of
gold. Even had this horse-selling reform been
a good stroke, it fails because only one or two of
the Cabinet engage in it. Villas, the youngest
man in the Cabinet, holds on to his horses. az do
the others. with the exception OF Garland and
Lamar. The people Of the country are not fools.
Cleveland must do something il he would have
their approval. So far his administration has
been one series of mistakes, and it has failed
utterly to show any signs Of the reform it has
promised"
at has not turned the rascals out said ].
Nor replied my senatorial friend. ut has
not, and neither the President. his Cabinet, nor
the people arc aware where the rascality exists
in the departments There is no doubt but that
| there Is corruption, but this corruption does not
exist with the heads Of bureaus or the high.