National Republican., 1885-04-04
A prsskr.st.raDIo Letter to tho President.

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since no one has heard you complain ofyour
job II may be inferred that you like It pretty
well SO far, especially since this pay day brings
you in 81, l6G, which is right tidy sum, and
out Of which one ofyour habits of industry and
Jefiersonian simplicity will no doubt be able
to save about 81, 500 to lay up for rainy day.
In honest truth II may be said that in the
main the people like your methods pretty
well. A few things have been done that
had better been left undone, IL is true, but per
iection does not exist and is not expected in
earthly transactions. Your exceedingly In
dustrious habits and your accessibility to COM
mon people, MS well as uncommon people,
draws many encomiums from all quarters
Your reception of the base ball boys Thursday
and your pleasant expression Of interest In
their calling shows that you have the same
healthy human liking for innocent out-of-
door sports that distinguished your two imme.
diate predecessors and in your case, as in
Garlcld's, people will think none the worse
of you If you now find time TO come out
with them to see the games that interest so
many respectable people in Washington and
elsewhere.
Turning from personal TO public matters,
the developments of your first month OF adj
ministration show quite clearly that your.
civil service policy docs not exert the same
pressure to the square inch In all of tho de.
partmonts. This variation may not have oc-
Cured to you, but the people are aware ofthe
fact that tho wholesale decapitations in the
Treasury Department are in striking contrast
to the policy pursued in the other depart
ments, notably In the state Department and
Department OF Justice. You have just glven
a signal indication of your personal devotion
to tho principle of civil service rcGgrin in the
case of the New York postmsstor, but Mr.
Manning has caused the removal of many OIL
cials of equal capacity, efficiency, experience,
and faithful serglae, and better men personally
than Postmaster Pearson. In all this there Is an
inconsistency beiwixt your practice and that
ofyour Secretary that should receive your con-
siderate attention. It Is not because the Off.
oials removed are Republicans and will be
succeeded by Democrats that your attention
is called TO this matter, for Republicans have
no disposition to ask favor at the hands of a
Democratic administration but It is because
you have taken high position and said
plainly that faithful servants OF the gov.
ornment whose integrity aud efficiency no
one could question should not be disturbed In
office, and because that officers who come
up to the highest requirements OF your
standard have fallen at the hands of your
wicked partner, Dan Manning. Dan. you
must remember is a newspaper man, and,
consequently, requires to be watched. Mere
force of habit, growing out of his experience as
a reporter, causes him to look out for chances
to scoop somebody, and he certainly ap'
pears to be getting In his work with you. Not
| to the advantage OF the country, either, II we
may Judge from the evidence afforded by the
| sixth auditors office, where one of the most
valuable men in the service of the government
has been succeeded by man whose qualifca
tions do not bear investigation in comparison
Your freedom from prejudice, Mr.. President
as oXemplided by the readiness with which you
adopt many of the good matters of policy orig
mated by the Republicans, is certainly very
commendabe trait Now, in the matter of tn,
troubles In the isthmus of Panama, you have
acted with degree Of vigor that must chal
lenge the admiration of your countrymen A
the same time, in so doing, you have showr
that you do not possess that false pride which
would have prevented other Democrats, If il
your position, from strictly carrying out
policy recommended 10 you by Republican
Senate. In this matter you are following th'
lines indicated in the Edmunds resolution
and have shown good horse sense and tru'
American spirit in doing so.
After all, Mr.. President, your Secretary o
the Treasury is undoubtedly better posted al
to the details ana deals OF the presidential
campaign of 1884 than you are, and has mad,
up his mind TO make his promises to tn,
boys good. To do that he has to max
holes for Democratic pegs, civil service or N
civil service. Mr., President, gentleman O
excellent sense and great ability, Democra
also remarked the other day that the appoint
. | nf IN ha m nf
York, is not up to the mark of your usual 50
gaclty. That he represents nothing but pc
litical intrigue, and that the future vii
show IT,
He ought not to be misled about the politica
value of Pearson's appointment, because tn
} little circle of mutual admirers who asked
OF him declare that their virgin bosoms heav
and swell with delight at the result. The
are old professionals, and can initiate plea
, ure and sorrow with an adroitness that
likely to hoodwink the most experienced dil
sember. The Republicans know them bette
, than he does, They have hung on the
flank for years, aud porplexed them wit
, their inoiplent political idiocy, There
not great rugged nature among theI
to illumine their torpid Inedocrit,
They subsst upon q smaller capital Of priI
ciplo than any body OF persons essaying
mould public opinion. They will not nbat
their dsdain of the Democracy because
Peanon's appointment, In the late eloctio
Q these Mugwumps so.called for lack of
, more meaningless aud impotent word to on
press their two characteristics did not ct
operate with the Democratic party or It's con
mittees, but, on the contrary, created and no
, keep alive separate organization Of the
own, for purposes Of future political barte
+ Mr. Cleveland cannot have forgotten no
!. they pulled aside their robes an
a held their superclllous noses as the
passed Democratic headquarters durir
o the campaign OF 1884. Every Rppointme
Z which ho comedies TO this separate organic
, tion recruits and replenlshes its power to di
} tate to his party in the time to come. They d.
, clare at this day, through their organ (fdrpeI
, IYeekly), that while they will continue to fG
latent impulses Of respect for Cleveland pC
sonally, 80 long as he appoints them to hiG
1 Otiices, yet their adherence Of the rank ~
IS file of tho Democratic party sinks
a the depths of their sensitive natures. Mul
a wumpery is political dotage. 1t Ia neither f
), protection nor against II. II Is not for intern
improvements and commercial doYelopmel
" nor against Il. II hRsno conception of our 1
u ternational relations, and therefore express
u no opinion concerning them, II keeps its @
to the ground to hear the ohirpIng OF the
seets aud knows nothing Of the great govern
l. mental topics which occupy o region
:. thought entirely above their capacities
~ reach. Their thoughts, their declaration
II and their actions arc pitched TO the one igr
d bic key Of the disposition OF the Offices"