Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15
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[From the Argus Of this week,l
The Democrats Of Vermont have been villihed, in
suited and Illuminated, until they have borne about
all that mortals could which has led some Of them to
feel that they should have the earth just
their candidate for President elected. Keep cool
friends You going to have the earth, and in good
time Those at the head Of affairs at Washington are
moving deliberately, but none the less surely Lots
OF us would liked to have seen "the rascals" turned
out bag and baggage the first week, but the best in
terests Of the public service demanded that the change
should not be so immediate. Every day we get the
Of important changes, and they will be more
merous before they are fewer. Good men, men who
are Democrats in fact well as in name are what we
all want, and that is what we are going to have. This
il is settled fact.
We copy the above paragraph because it is
typical of a large number of utterances eman-
ating from Bourbon Democratic sources dur
ing the past week. Among the most signi6-
of these has been a leading editorial in the
Cincinnati Enquirer in which il was plainly
said that Mr.. Clevoland's policy disappoints
the Democrats who elected him, that per-
sistence in his course will result in an open
outbreak in the psrty-that "suother month
of it will break the cancels back, that "the
volcano of discomfort will belch forth il there
is not change SOON" The Enquirer calls
for recast of the Cabinet, for men in high
places who will give the offices to the Demo
Gratis to whom they belong. mot a single
Cabinet officer, " it says, "has displaced any Of
the department chief clerks, and, what is
still worse, important places not protected
by tile infamous CiDH iSe1Uice lao, remain I'M
changed" In the plainest possible language
the Enquirer says that the Democrats fought
for the "whole estate" and not for fraction
of it, and that 'if the 'rascas are not to be
turned out, the inference can only be that
there are none in, and that the cry raised by
the Democrats of the land in this respect was
false"
Last Saturday the New York Sun came out
in double leads, both in its editorial column
and in Washington despatch, warning the
President that he had come to 1.-The Parting
of the Ways" A conference of party lead
ers, the Sun said, had been held in Washing
ton, and Mr. Cleveland had been kindly
and plainly told" that on no basis except that
of giving the Offices to the Democracy could
he hope for the success of his administration
THE administration must be Democratic or
Mugwump." Further than this the Sun took
the responsibility of promising that "the in
evitabo day when a partisan shall be appoint
ed for partisan reasons in succession to ev-
cry Republican oficeholder as yet unmolest-
ed, is only postponed for a time. and the
Mugwump dream of non partisan civil ser
vice is as far as ever from becoming a reality"
Other accounts agree that a conference of
workers like Randall Barnum, Voorhees,,
Beck, Payne and Smalley has been held aud
that they used every effort to convince Mr..
Cleveland that his only safety and success
lies in making the long deferred ''olean
sweep" and giving the Democrats the offices.
One cannot help believing that an expression
like that from the Sun is a bit of fine sar-
casm said with deliberate purpose to bring
trouble and confusion on a man whose cleo
ton that paper bitterly opposed. With the
Argus however, an expression like that at
the head of this article is said with sad sim
cerity, with an evident purpose to keep up
the dropping spirits OF the Vermont Democ-
racy yet little longer. 1t gains additional
significance when it is known that Mr.. At
kins was in Washington last week aud labor
ed personally with the President to convince
him that he ought to turn the rascals out" in
Vermont and give him and Smslley their in
heritance forthwith.
All the indications, like those TO which we
have alluded, plainly show how little the Dem
ocratic leaders relish the course which Mr..
Cleveland has undertaken to pursue, and that
they are bringing all the pressure they can
command to induce or compel him to aban-
don it. What the result will be in the end
there is small use in attempting to say. Ev-
cry good citizen who values good govern
ment above mere partisan advantage will hope
for the best, but there is only too much truth
in the Suns remark that sit is possible that
a man may be greater than his party, but it ID
very certain that in this country the attempt
to prove it has generally ended in disastrous
failure"
Republican papers like the New York Tri
bune and the Boston Journal will do we'll to
lay aside their magnifying glasses and STOP
their petty criticism of things comparatively
trivial until time shows whether men like At
kins carry the day, or whether the President
develops stamina enough to hold true TO his
civil-service. reform promises. Mr. Cleveland
has made mistakes, some of them grievout
ones, but common fairness compels the ad
mission that these mistakes have not beer
more numerous than would be expected Of
any new and untried man. Those Republi
cans will prove themselves the true friends OIL
their party who remember that running fire
of picayunish criticism of trivial things dis
arms the force of real and deserved criticism
when occasion for il arises