Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-07-01
THE ADMINISTRATION.

IT, is quite convenient for the assailants OF
the administration to declare it failure,
and that the people are now all ready to
turn against it, because of alleged inefficien-
cy. Oh, what charming thought &! How
convincing and how powerful it has been in
less than four short moons in scattering the
Democratic party! We say, how conven-
iently it answers the purposes OF the oppo-
sition in trying to re-organize their wander
ing forces for another campaign, to assume
miserable feebleness, where, in truth, are
the essential elements of giant strength
in establishing right and liberty against
wrong and oppression. This is very much
like their tactics during the late canvass
1t was then maintained that Mr.. Cleveland
was wholly unworthy of the place to which
he aspired, or to hold any other trust of
public confidence; but after his election and
the condemnation of such means in attempt
iEg his defeat, how lovingly and with what
sweet confding smiles the amende was
made.
The country seems to be quite as pros
porous, and there is evidently more conf
dence now in the present and future than be-
fore the change of rulers. If it were other
wise, which is by no means admitted, the ad-
ministration should not be held responsible
for it, because the establishment of unselfish
and correct principles in conducting the
government has just commenced, and it
will take some time before parallels can be
drawn and comparisons made by fairly
constituted judgment.
: The opposition is sorely troubled because
in less time than four months of new rule
its exercise has been sufficient to satisfy
fair-minded men of that party Of the safely
conservative and truly national spirit which
guides the President and Cabinet in mana
ging the public affairs of the country. The
well-known cardinal principles by which
the President has always been govern
ed in discharging the rapidly succeeding
executive positions to which he has been
elevated, are finding responsive and trust
ing approval from the people of all parties.
Swapping the chains of sectional misrule
and scattering the agents of inscriptions
power, and restoring the country to the
realization that all the States and all the
people are equal in their rights, and in a
participation in directing the government,
are quite sufficient, under the circum-
stances, if Mr.. Cleveland accomplishes no
more, to place his administration beside the
best, in just comparison with any which has
existed.
When called by the Democratic party to
lead in the impending issues before the peo-
pie, he announced in the canvass, and made
good his integrity in his inaugural, and by
his actions-yes, his stern and infexible
actions-has proven himself to be the Pres
ident of all the country, and not the
schemer to array one section against the
other. 1t was for these exalted purposes,
the Democratic party called him to the
helm, and, guided by them in the even
tenor of his way, he is maintaining the
eminent position lie fills in that manner
which must receive the approval of all our
country, as we'll as the commentator OF
all civilized governments Let the pipers
pipe on. Their little discordant notes will
no more disturb the settled convictions Of
the people now than when they tried to ar
rest the Judgment which seated Mr.. Cleve-
land in the White House.