The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-05-23

the close OF the fiscal year, and OF
that day the public books will be bal
anced. Then, if your correspondent
is not very much misinformed, the
accounts of thousands of worthless
employees will also be balanced, and
they will be made to walk the plank
This statement is not made for the
purpose of encouraging the boys who
are waiting patiently for an Office,
nor is it made to excuse apparent
slow progress the President is max
ing in turning the rascals out. The
President is not SO slow as his critics
in the party seem to think. He has
not wasted an idle hour since lie took
the Office. He has, indeed, been a
very busy man, and has done a great
deal of hard and earnest work. From
the start he has been actuated by the
highest motives, and has honestly
and sincerely tried to give to the
people a good government, honestly
ana economically administered. He
has set himself about to do this, and
to accomplish that purpose he is
compelled to move slowly and surely.
His first duty was thorough and
complete organization of the great
departments and up to this time he
has succeeded admirably. There is
everything on earth in having a
splendid organization, and after that
the rest is all a matter of detail.
Not a day passes at Washington that
yon do not hear of an important
change in one of the departments.
This man or that man is reduced in
the ranks or removed, and better
man is substituted in his place.
These important changes, which are
constantly occurring, cannot be made
in week or month, OF a year.
1t takes time to find out incompe-
tent men and turn them out, and it
takes much longer time in finding
good and competent men to fill their
places. In the latter duty the Presi-
dent has already been severely tried,
and III several instances extremely
vexed. He has right to expect
that men holding high and houored
positions in his party should only
recommend for Office men Of the
highest character, fully competent to
discharge the duties of the Office for
which they seek. This has not al
ways been done, and the result is
that several appointments have been
made which have been disappointing.
But on the whole the appointments
of the President have been good
ones, and it is safe to predict that he
will improve the future by the knowl-
edge of the past.
As for the Democracy of the Presi-
dent, have no doubt be possesses
the pure and genuine article. He |
has paid off the Mugwumps by the |
of Pearson postmaster |
Of New York, and he will pay off the |
Democracy of the country by filling
the other Offices in decency and order
with competent aud deserving Dem
Dcrats. The Democratic masses
throughout the country have need
only to be patient and give our new
Democratic President decent time
and living chance. He has done
nothing up to this time to forfeit
heir friendship, or to evoke their
criticisms Let these Republican
'ffice-h olders guy you as much they
please. Never fear, they will twist
heir faces in a different direction
before the end of the year. They
augh best who laugh last This was
10 in the last campaign, and this will
,e so long before Grover Cleveland's
ERIN of office expires, and don't you
orget it.