The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-05

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The louisiana Offices.
Times Democrat.
The reform Democracy are quite jubilant
over the recent appointments made in this
State by President Cleveland. and we
suppose that the Regulars should appear
correspondingly unhappy.
Some few months ago We recommended to
our reform friends the cultivation Of the
Christian virtues of patience and resigna-
ton when they failed to materialiEe their /
plans at the Baton Rouge Convention. |
Doctrine so applicable to State politics |
may, we presume, without violation OF the |
spirit of our Constitution in its provisions |
divorcing State and Federal matters, be |
utilized by the Regulars on this occasion. |
1t was sad to see the men whose noble |
profile graced all Of our apartments, whose
benignant eountenance seemed To promise
so much to the rank and file, turn his back
upon the boys and take up the lean and
hungry fellows who have been making the
welkin ring with their cries for reform.
But the deed is done, the other fellows are
in by large majority, and the question
arises: "What will you do about it?"
Under the circumstances we think ii will
be best for our friends, the Regulars, to do
what they advised the other fellows to do
last year-sgrin and bear it." True, it
seems little hard, and little queer, to
those who were importuned by Mr.. Cleve-
lands friends before the Chicago Convention
to rally TO bis support against the naughty
Bayard and old Saddlebags, after bearing
the heat and burden of the contest, to see
those who had howled themselves hoarse
at Chicago in efforts to convince delegates
what grossly improper man Cleveland
was, now step in and dispense the patro-
mage.
Ii looks queer, we say, To the rank and
file, but they must understand that this is
superhne reform, and get used to it. If
the Regulars exhibit their sore spots they
will be laughed at, so they may as well
practice patience and resignation and en-
| Joy the sport of observing the efforts of the
victims who hold the commissions in try
ing to satisfy twenty applicants with one
position.
If the sentiment pervading the fore
going editorial had governed the actions
of the Regulars" we doubt if they
would now occupy the position of which
they complain.
| 1t does seem strange, indeed, that the
men who, at Chicago, were relied on to
| give President CLEVELAND the nomina-
| ton, should be set aside at the instance
of the Senatorial group" and their
allies who insisted that he was the most
| Objectionable of all the candidates.
They may not have their reward in
the shape of Federal Offices for
| the patriotic service they render
ed the country when they aided
in the initial steps which gave to the
country SO good a President as Mr..
CLEVELAND, but they have the con-
sciousness of duty well performed,
| which, though not as substantial as the
''loaves and fishes" of Office, furnishes a
good foundation ON which to rear that
perennial monument which latin poet
said was more lasting than brass.
1t is not surprising when we reflect
on the composition of the Cabinet, and
the preferences of its Southern members
as to the candidates before the Chicago
Convention, that the friends of Mr.
CLEVELAND pending his nomination,
have not had full sway in the disposal
of the Offices; and yet it is hard to
believe that those who opposed him
then, his warmest friends and most in
innate counsellors now, would desire to
punish the persons whose only ofense
was loyalty to the cause of Mr.. CLEvE-
LAND. The high character of the gen.
tlemen concerned scarcely permits such
a conclusion. 1t must be, then, that
the Regulars" finding that they could
not entirely control the Federal appoint
ments in Louisiana, SO conducted them
selves as to offend the dignity of
the President and members of his
| Cabinet and to compel the course they
| have pursued. The very consciousness
of the Regulars" that they had been
for Mr.. CLEVELAND while others were
against him, may have suggested claims
which would have been destructive to
the interests of the Democratic party,
and the refusal of these claims may
have been followed by a spirit of re-
sentiment which has met its just rebuke
in the bestowal of the offices to the Re-
formers (so-called) and those whom they
endorse.
| Senator EUslIs' arraignment of the
administration was ill-tempered and
ill-advised. Itthreatened the President,
and invited opposition, and, since the
honorable Senator represented the
Regulars and they have not disclaim-
ed sympathy with him, but rather have
stained him in his uncalled for
attack on the administration, they must
bear with him the consequences of his
folly This they Seem prepared to do,
and if the Times Democrat voices their
present mental condition they will
quickly outlive their disappointment