The Indiana State sentinel., 1885-06-10
OPENING THE BOOK AND GET TING
UNDER WAY.

The books have been opened in hev3rious
departments of the Government for trihe
over three months to Democratic inspection
not very wide, it is true, but wide enough
to reveal a considerable amount OF bad man.
agement and rascaIity on the part of en-
pIoyes Of Republican administrations. A
large amount Of crookedness has been un-
earthed in the Navy and Interier Depart
msnts, and much rottenness indicated by
Secretary Bayard in the Republican consular
service. Some rascals have been turned out,
some skipped out, and others have commit
ted suicide. Secretary Lamar. in the Interior
Department, has put an end to the enormous
raids on public lands left in progress by his
predecessor, and has surprised even his
friends by the vigor and success with
which he has filed q position re.
curing large administrative abn-
tiles. Attorney General Garland
has made an efficient law officer OF the ad.
ministration, and has bsen able to effect
something in securing, through subordinates
a mest careful looking after the interest of
the Government. In referring to Secretary
Baysrd, the Baltimore Sun ssys that he has
been more fortunets than the rest of his col
leagues in having been called upon by events
in South and Central America and in Ger
many to declare soon after entering offics
his views upon several large questions OF
policy, and in seeing the ideas he has tormu-
lated as to the attitude the United States
should assume in dealing with foreign gov
ernments cordially accepted by the entire
American public, without distinction OF
party. His foreign policy as regards the
rights of Americans abroad is, in fact, ap-
proved even by his opponents as rsturn to
"the broad, noble Democratic doctrine held
By William L. Marcy and enforced under
the administration CT Franklin Pierse." As
the New YcTE World says, Every Ameri-
lean citizen ought to be proud of this change
in our national policy" and the Charleston
News and Courier, in common with all fairly
conducted journals of the country, speaks
in the same vein of enthusiastic commsnds.
ton. Yet no member OF the Cleveland Cab
met has been more studiously ignored and
misrepresented by certain leading news
papers in New York and the East. His acts
as Secretary of State are either passed over
in silence, though he has placed the question
of the righss of the American citizsns abroad
ard the future of the Panama Canal on an
entirely new footing, or as,ribed TO Prssi-
dent Cleveland. His appointments to i'm
portant positions have been necessarily m ore
numerous than those of his colleagues, and
have, therefore, oftener given his opponents
texts for criticism. Secretary Manning is
looming up wonderfully, and the indications
sre that his administration of the Treasury
Department will surpasss that of any of his
predecessors. 1t is brainy, bold and fearless
and conservative enough to meet the views
OF old fcgylsm, which deprecstes anything
outside of very quiet and careful policy in
financial matters We think that the oppo-
sition have outgrown the idea that Mr.. Man
ming was a mere politician. Mr.. Endicott is
making very vigorous War Secretary, and,
as the Sun remarks, has sought to put an
end to favoritism in the army, and is en-
deavorlng to raise the standard of Official
duty and honor in his department Of thu
public service to what it was twenty-five
years ago, but, apart from his management
of the Indian outbreak in the South west,
Il g country has nothing By which to test
bis executive ability.