Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-08
AFIRM BELIEF IN DEMOCRACY

WASHINGTON, Nav 5.-Mr. Henri V
Watterson, who has been here for the
past week, will send 10 his paper to-
night an expression of his impressions
of President Cleveland and his adj
ministration. He says in part: "The
administration has spoken so plainly
to the country that ii is Democratic
administration, that for my part |
have never doubted in the least. If
had been given the making of it,
could not have better suited myself.
Indeed | Lave been so well pleased
that have been contented 10 stay at
home and play at philosophy aud leav-
ing others to play at patronage, quite
satisfied that the president and the
eminent and accomplished men with
whom he has surrounded himself
might be trusted 10 give us a civil
service capable and clear, handle the
public business with fidelity and eff
cheney, and to discharge their duties
in a manner adequate 10 their obliga-
tons both to the people and the par
ty. Personal contact and opportuni-
ties for getting at both sides of the
points of the dispute have strength
ened these original impressions, and !
am happy that the case of
sore eyes, with which started from
home has entirely DISAPPEARED.
The attack Of Mr.. Eustis upon the
administration seems 10 me equally
unjust and unwise. To-day the pres
ident is just two months in office
There has been 10 attempt 10 shape a
policy. The thsnkless task of hearing
the appeals and considering the claims
of aspirants and the friends of aspi-
rants, has consumed all the time. APP
pointments mean disappointment,
because for every place there are a
dozen applicants. For each one he
fills. the president must take he risk
of making one traitor and eleven enc
congress assemblies be will find himself
in close argument of sympathy with
one and all of the leading issues of the
time.
After twenty-fOur years from pow
er, the Democratic party has, BY little
less than a miracle, come into the Gus
tody of the national government.
Whether it retains that custody will
depend upon the success or failure of
the man it has elected TO represent
the party who is on trial, and ineyit-
ably il is bound TO stand or fall by its
III cannot afford TO
quarrel with this upon matters of de-
bate or TO criticize it.
There viii be time enough to disown
il when il violates its pledge. In
the meantime, the Democrats |
should remember that the I
party is composed of Democrats and !
that the Democrats who compose it |
have their rights with the rest, and |
that no one of them has given the |
smallest reason for anybody to dis
one spirit and my opportunities for
forming any judgment have been the |
most ample and this is a spirit of 10y
atty TO the party and the country.
will stake my life upon the
sincerity OF this, and assure the /
and the doubling I
among the Democrats that if the presi-
dent should go faster than he is going |
he would surely run his bark ashore. /
The administration that starts out to
please everybody will end by pleasing |
nobody. This administration is try
ing to do its duty, beset on all sides
by communications and badgered by /
Ii has kept its temper I
passing well, and has made no more /
mistakes than are common 10 new
in Office and not so many as
might have been expected"