Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-09-17
ENDORSED BY THE PARTY.

ENDORSED BY THE PARTY.
The Splendid Change That Has Come
Over the Country.
It is significant fact that every
State Democratic convention held
under the Cleveland Administration has
given it cordial and unqualified in
dorsement And if Democratic con-
ventions were held in all the States to-
morrow all would do likewise; the
Cleveland Administration would not
fail of a cordial and unqualified indorse-
ment in one of them. This is the only
commentary needed on the noisy asser-
tions in the Republican press of DEM
ocratic discomfort with the Administra-
ton and predictions of a revolt against
it. There is not State in the Union in
which meeting of Democrats could be
held to take issue with the Administra-
ton, unless it be Louisiana; and il the
ring faction were to hold such meet
ing in Louisiana, it would be instantly
overwhelmed by acounter-meeting rep
resenting four ffths of the Democrats
in the State.
For twenty-four years the country had
been under Republican rule now it is
under Democratic rule. 1t is DEM
ocrat, not a Republican, who presides
in the White House-and it is Demo-
Gratis, not Republicans, who have the
easy entree to that official mansion. 1t
is a Democratic, not Republican Exec
utive who is COMMUNICATIVE Chief of
the army and navy, who receives For
eign Ministers and appoints American
Ministers to foreign Governments. and
fills vacant Federal Judgeships. Attor'
neyships and Marshalships and other
federal positions, and who has author
ity, whenever he sees fit to exercise it,
to;make vacancies in Federal offices. IL
IS a Democratic, not a Republican Adj
ministration, at whose pleasure all Fed
eral officials hold their places.
1t is said that thousands of Republic
ans still remain in Office. True; but
they have at least lost their powers of
mischief. They are responsible to a
Democratic Administration. They are
subdued into the best possible behavior.
They have lost the habit of conspicu-
ously parading their Republicanism-
and some of them are taking pains to
let it. be known that they are Republic
ans no longer.
The Republican press is no longer the
arbiter of policies and personal and So
cial regulations. 1t has been forced,
much against its will and with ill-con-
cealed reluctance, to pass to the rear
and gnash its teeth over its lost privil-
eyes. And Republican leaders, Nation
al or local, have ceased to fit and flash
along the corridors of authority, chal-
lenge public obeisanee to their names
and persons and reflect the influence of
the governing regime. Their persons are
almost forgotten, and their names, like
exhausted books, have gone out of print.
These things show that change-a
great change for the better has come
over the country-a change whose in
f1uence is felt and seen from the White
House to the confines of the land, but
whose value we can not fully measure.
In the South President Cleveland has
signally exhibited his disregard of Re-
publican precedents and his respect for
Democratic counsels by giving appoint
ments to ex-Confederates who are true
representatives of Southern opinion
and feeling-and this in bold and
sturdy defiance of Republican press
which, for twenty years. has sought to
bring prominent ex-Confederates into
odium. The President has recognized
that these men are the capable leaders
of that section and the recognized rep
resentatives of its opinion and thought
and he had the wisdom and courage
to assign them to posts of honor
in and under his Administration. in
spite of the clamors of the opposi-
ton press against the practice. It is
no wonder that the long outlawed peo-
pie of the South, grateful for this rec
ognition, exhibit a peculiar warmth in
their devotion to the Administration
and avow their support of it in en-
phatic and unequivocal terms. That is
the section in which Republican official
ism has been most arrogant and irk-
some to the peopIe-and it is there the
President has been most prompt to
award the benefits of the change of re-
ginae.
This is day of plain speaking. and
in the exercise of this privilege Demo-
Gratis sometimes criticise the President.
But it is to be remarked that the COM
plant is not for what he has done, but
for what he has not done. Every step
in the positive policy of the Admins
tration has been in accordance with the
accepted maxims of the party that
elected him-and there is not doubt
that he will find that party at his back
ready to support him when that sup
port is needed.-SL Louis Republican.