Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-26
THE President TOO SLOW FOR
THEM.
Democrats Who Want Mr. Cleveland to
Hurry Republican Officials Out-Sus.
Picions That ssMuSwump'' C0unsels
Prevail

"A uemocratlc member Of Congress has figured
tne tnlng out, and says that at the present rate
IL would take Cleveland Just sixty years to
clean the republicans out of the government
service The result is not at all satisfactory to
the politicians and Office seekers. They say
tnat Cieveland's civil service policy may give
MIN some national popularity,-and may be
that Is what he wants,-but that It will play the
mischief with the democratic party The dis
regard OF congressional influence is most talked
ol, OUT In the midst of much grumbling, there
are many favorable comments upon Cleve-
ianos course In this respect A prominent
oemocrattc Congressman speaking with STAR
the country were tired of having Congressman
control the whole administration and there
was universal demand that Congress be forced
government and that the executive be given
control over executive appointments indepen-
They s
selves In Gleyelands action in treating Con
eIat ment has yet been made through con-
fthere would be any. Office seekers have be.
gun to accept this situation, and say they look
upon upon the endorsements of delegations as inju-
lieve, is resisting such pressure as a matter of
principle The result Of this they say will be
much k1cking, but that If the republicans are
crats put In their places all will b. well. But
ana here they begin to get serious-but if Cleve-
!anu persists IN Keeping republicans in under
the civil service law there will be trouble. The
democrats who do the work will kick very hard
the House will be at variance with the Presi-
dent, and the party will be disrupted. The poll
ticlans say they will be slow to come to the con-
ciusion that Cleveland will stick to this that he
Is q shrewd man and may think it wise to go
SLOW, but finally to get the ms out and the
outs IN. II this Is true though, they say, he
Will nave TO go a little faster than he is
now. The most discourag1ng act of the Presi-
dent since his inauguration, they say, was that
OF providing other places for the clerks dis
charged from the White House. In this he went
far beyond the requirement of the civil service
rules, and indicated that he was really ssmug-
Wump." They say, too, that his cabinet has
much more Of q "mugwump' flavor than
appears at first sight. Whitney has q tendency
that way, Endicott is a civil service reformer
Bayard has shown himself to be of the same
faith, and is said to have declared that the
republican consuls are not to be recalled: and
even Garland and Lamar have committed
themselves to the Pendletonian doctrine by
reassuring the trembling clerks. All this they
regard as boding Ill for the democrats who are
out In the cold, but they say they will keep still
as long as they can, and If they do have to repu-
diate the administration it will not be until
things have gone SO far that they cannot be
corrected. Then they don't know what would
follow. Cleveland would either go out like
Andy Johnson, or If the reform element proved
strong they would re-elect him and break up
both the other parties.