Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-06-11
oLEVEnAxD,s FALSE rRIBNDs.
Cuipabtity OF the Men who Have
Deceived the President.

49, a 10Y may <utll4
There is no doubt but what the President
mas, IN some instances, been badly deceived
by Democrats whose position In the party
entitled their recommendations to his i'm
plicit confidence. In other instances his
Democratic friends may have themselves
been deceived in giving slight or hasty con-
sideration to matters connected with the
bestowal OF executive patronage, which
should have been thoroughly analysed and
understood before being pr, q ID upon the
Presidents attention.
Certain 1t is that wherever an appoint
ment has been made, whether for foreign
mission or a consulship or m lrshalship
or any other place, that has provoked Just
criticism or engendered bad feeling, or
been adjudged a mistake, the original re-
sponsibility for II will be found to rest with
Cleveland as to the fitness Of the candidate
In question, or so fortified his claims with
their personal Endorsements as to leave the
President no plausible excuse for resisting
their opportunities.
The cases IRE comparatively few--singu-
larry so, considering the large number OF
offices in which changes have been made
but there ought not to have been solitary
one. There never would have been one
excepting through the duplicity or mlsrep-
reservations of Democratic politicians
senator's, representatives, leaders and coun-
sellers of the party-of whom the President
| was bound to expect better things.
In the Just and satisfactory distribution
OF the enormous amount of patronage at
| his disposal Mr.. Cleveland is confronted
| with task OF the magnitude of which no
Democratic President before him ever had
an approximate conception, nor even the
later Republican Presidents any actual
| realization. Nothing like it is known in
the history of this or any other country.
| To run the machinery OF the government in
| 1856 was nothing but child's play compared
with the handling OF its ponderous and
| complex mechanism to-day; and no Presi-
dent was ever placed in position Of such
| peculiar burdens and difficulties as the
/ present incumbent, called upon, as he is, to
i recognize the civil service In favor of a
party 25 years out OF power and insatiate
for the spoils OF victory.
i Under such circumstances It becomes the
duty of Democrats in every section Of the
country, as they value the worth OF the
battle they have won and the honor Of the
administration which represents them, t.
stand by the President In the midst of his
great responsibilities with answering and
chivalric loyalty.
We can conceive OF no political crime
more dastardly than, for the sake OF some
private emolument, to take advantage o.
the manifold perpleXities that surround tn,
executive and betray him into errors fol
which he and not his betrayers will DO hell
| accountable.
Yet senators, representatives and other
of high standing who might be named hav
been guilty Of this fraud and deception
this veritable treason.
To redeem some paltry pledge OF thei
own, to reward some hireling, TO get rid o
some importunate applicant for place, b
help some needy kinsman, to promote som
speculative job, to make some personal cup
ital for themselves, they have virtual
forged and falsled the credentials Of me
unfit to be recognized as candidates 70
positions of public trust, and in securn
executive approval placed the presiden
before the country in the humiliating att
tude of II demagogue or blunderer, or eve
worse.
This is grave crime not only against tn
chief magistrate but against the Demo
, cratic party and the country. It is n
wonder that Mr.. Cleveland is indignant an
, resents the impositions that have been prat
ticed upon him. His own appointment
, have been uniformly creditilble and con
mendable. He has a right to demand thu
none but crnditahle and commcndable aI
! pOintments shall be asked OF him. He hi
also the right-the right of self-protection-
to go still further, and whenever he su
poets u recommendation to have been mad
/, in bad faith or with deceptive intent to di
card it altogether and act upon his ow
y | Judgment