The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-09


Never was there time when Democratic
patriotism so strongly demanded ss now that
tie party uphold the arm OF a national ad.
miIistTaton.
A few disappointed men within the party
sTe see king to create schisrns within its ranks.
They ere wIoth because OF having failed to
obtain appointments for themselves or ID
control Offices for thsir fsvorites. They ara
saying the administration is not Democratic
because, forsooth, 10000 Democrats have
not, within sixty DAYS after the inaugural
tion, been substituted for that number OF
Republican plsce-holders. These critics ara
irrational. They are foolieh enough to fancy
tbst Rome might have been built in day.
These unreasonable Democrats would
have the vast machinery Of ths Government
preoipitated in day into the hands OF IN
trained operatives, only provided that the
new operatives be Democrats. The Presi.
dent and Cabinet must not have time to in
quire into the relaliYe fitness Of the various
applicants for places. No consideration
nCst be exercised by them for the efficiency
OF the several departments Of the public ser.
vice. The critics baYe bat one idea-change.
Let The service be thrown into confusion and
the party thereby be handicapped in the
next election, but, Notwithstanding
To carry cut the idea the President and the
department heads may be worn to ex-
haustion and are subjected to
liability to mistakes, but those are
matters of minor importance compared to
chsnge. The result of immodsrate haste
may throw the affairs of the Government
into confusion, and give our enemies a
whip-bandle over rs with which they may
drive us to defeat in 1888, but such con-
summation is welcome provided we are only,
at once, given a complete change.
Now, while the Sentinel is as eager as any
Democratic critic Of the administration to
see Democrats filling tbs public oficeg, we
yet appreciate that such can not safely De
accomplished in day nor until the lapse of
many days. 1t VAS the reckless filing
of Offices By partissas regardless
OF efficiency or honesty, that disgraced the
Republican party and drove il from power.
It was identically the same spirit manifested
by the Democratic critics OF the admins
tration which the Democracy has denounced
in Republican administrations. We do not
hesitate to say that should Mr.. Cleveland
fail, in the end, 70 fulfill the obligations
he is under to the popular will Of the
county SIS expressed By the ballots on
the 4th of November, 10 give rs change,
then the Sentinel will bef0ond among
bis critics. But We havs no fears OF being
placed in such an attitude toward the Prssi-
dent. We believe him 8 Democrat, but o
Democrat ambitious 10 give the country en-
administration Of its affairs IN such noble
contrast with the Republican. adninistra-
tons preceding hs thst the country will be
bettered, and the Democratic party thus be
deserving of an Endorsement of its reign
when 1888 shall rell around. Certain it is
that no sohisn in the Democratic ranks
at this time can strengthen the party. 1t ia
also certain that Mr.. Cleveland is not
an executive to be veered from his conscl-
entiously selected policy by the decryings of
malcontents. The trHe Democrat and the
patriot is he who does what he can to uphold
the arm of the administration while it eau.
tiously treads its way through the intricate
mszes Of the vast change it has before It for
accomplishment.