The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-28
WHY THE PRESIDENT BLUNDERS.

WHY THE PRESIDENT BLUNDERS.
The President is excusable to great degree
for the many palpable errors he has committed
since he became chief executive of this Nation
In the first place, his advisers, at the head of
the several departments are, without excep-
ton, Democrats, and are imbued with the
idea that Democrats, man for man, are the
equal of any other kind of men, which is very
erroneous, as any one may discover upon ex-
Democratic counselors, and restricted in his
selections to such as can be made from the
Democratic ranks, it is in the nature Of an
impossibility for him not to blunder, and
blunder badly. This statement is made in
all seriousness. The men who, for the past
twenty-five years, have been active in Demo
cratic councils, taken in their entirety, are
not the equals, as citizens and men, OF Repub-
leans No man who has implicitly followed
Democracy from 1860 to the present time is
wholly sound. There must be weak spot a
corrupt spot, rotten spot, somewhere in his
mental makeup. The man forty-fve years of
age, or older, who has been Democrat
Through thick and thin all his adult life,
and who has not repented of it, is not
the kind of man from which good
citizenship is made. The follies and
crimes for which Democracy has long been
notorious, and which have cost the people so
much in blood and treasure, are not the en-
vironment in which good citizens are reared.
A good man may come out of it. but he must
come out of it to be good. These structures
apply with peculiar force to that class Of men
who, in the country's hour of peril, were
termed 'copperheads" and recognized as
its enemies. There is kind Of respect for
the Democrats who, believing in rebellion,
were courageous enough to take up arms
Their courage provoked respect at the very
moment their cause was held in greatest con-
domination. But for the Democrat of the
North, who from an inherited spirit of
trucking to the slave power, had not the
patriotism to stand up against the dismember-
ment of the Union in order that slavery
might be perpetuated, there was and can be
nothing but contempt. Yet from among just
such men must the President make the ma
jority Of his selections, unless he 60 South
and in true Democratic subserviency tender
the official platter to the rebel brigadiers.
The Presidents multiplied mistakes have
arisen from this dual cause. The men nearest
him recognize no objection to these men. 10
them the offenses named do not constitute ele-
ments of weakness, but rather commend these
men to their favor. If Democracy of the old
fashioned kind is to be rewarded, if men who
have Democratic records running unbroken
over the past quarter of a century are to be
commended, and so retain their old prestige
then just such men as Montgomery and
Meiere, Kelley and Higgins, Hanna and Judd,
and the score or more of the same grade, al
ready named, are men to come to the front
1t is evident, therefore, that, if the
President is to be restricted to Democrats,
he is morally certain to disgrace his
administration by the appointment Of
men wholly unfit for official
honors. That the Cabinet and Democratic
senators and congressman do not hesitate to
recommend the appointment Of such to Of
fees of distinction and trust shows that the
antiquated Democratic ideas are still living
principle with them. No wonder there is talk
of secret record searches in behalf Of the
President. Within the past few days an ex-
horse-thief came near being appointed to
Office because of the strong Democratic in
dorsement he had. Despite the hope that
every lover of his country shared, that the
new administration might be credit to the
people, it must be confessed that enough bad
appointments have already been made to make
it growing stencil. Less than three months
have passed, and the outlook for decent
public service is far from encouraging. The
animus Of the Presidents advisers is bad; the
material drawn upon is rotten.
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