The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-26


| have read your letter with amazement
and indignation. There is one, but ope,
mitigation to the perHdy which your letter
discloses, and that is found in the fact that
YOU confess your share in it. / don't know
whether YOU are Democrat or not but,
If YOU are. the crime which you confess Is
the more objectionable. The idea that
this Administration, pledged to give peo-
pie better government and better officers,
and engaged in hand -to-hand fight with
the bad elements of both parties, should
be BETRAYED by those who ought to be
worthy Of implicit trust, is atrocious, and
such treason to the people and to the party
ought to be punished by imprisonment.
Your confession comes too late to be OF
immediate use to the public service, and /
can only say that while this is not the first
time / have been deceived and misied by
lying and treacherous presentations, you
are the first one that has so frankly owned
his grievous fault. If any comfort is to be
extracted from this assurance, you are
welcome to it. GROVER CLEVELAND"
The rebuke administered by the Pres
ident to those persons who have indis-
criminately signed petitions for appoint
ment, is we'll deserved. The evil has been
intolerable. Not only have reputable
citizens in many instances recommended
unworthy persons for appointment, hut
| they have actually endorsed from one to
half dozen persons for the same place
Members of Congress have been per
picked by finding the names of citizen:
to whom they would naturally look fol
| guidance, ON different petitions.
The Indignation of the President in the
case above mentioned was natural, anC
the outrage was deservedly rebuked
But the President has brought himselt
under fire in Withholding the names o.
the parties implicated by the correspon
dence. The effect of his reticence hal
been to throw suspicion over every ap
pointment he has made of the clas
referred to. 1t is asked why does he no
give the names of the guilty partie
in order that the finger of scorn may b.
pointed tat the right persons? Ant
besides why does he not revoke thu
pointment and undo the mischief? Th,
n. Y. Herald, which has been kind t.
the President, puts the question strong
ly in the following extract from its issue
of the 14th:
"But what can be said of the Presiden
in the matter? Certainly nothing good
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the writer of the letter, but adds: You
confession comes too late to be of immedi
ate use to the public service. Pray, VIII,
too late? Mr.. Cleveland is notified tina
he has been misled into making yer,
improper appointment He scolds the MAJ
who tells him this, but keeps the man
morally and professionally unfit, in thu
place he has given him, and that a judg
ship. We have waited ever since tn,
publication of this queer correspondence
to see if the President would order tbs
recall of a judges commission, but W.
hear of nothing Of the kind. 1t seems t.
us time to say, therefore, that Mr.. Cleve
land has, in this case, committed very
gross and serious outrage on the public
OF what use are loud professions of de
sire to improve the public service, when HI
keeps in so important place as judg
ship a man morally and professionally
unfit? Your confession comes too late t.
be of immediate use to the public service,
Mr.. Cleveland cody writes. Is the public
to understand that Mr.. Cleveland is to,
great a man to rectify mistake? Tha
when he has made an appointment, NJ
matter how improperit may turn out to be
he will not recall it, but insists that thu
public shall suffer the evil consequences o
his..act? This case has that appearance
and this theory of it, disgraceful as it is II
the President and humiliating to his con
stitutional advisers, is fortified by som
other cases."
THE country is looking impatiently t.
| further disclosures.
Meantime let the people take warning
not to be too handy with their endorse
ments.