St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-05
A Southern Editor Pronounces the Ad-
ministration Democratic in the Tru-
est and Noblest Sense
Cleveland a Plain, Common, Genial Man,
With Sohool-Boy Love of
Fair Play.
Chara cter His Strong Point---His
Hates and Loves Are Few---
Party Loyalty.
The Air Of the Work shop in Every
Department--The President at
Gettysburg.
ON the Administration.

week, will tonight send the following to
his paper as expressive of his impressions
of President Cleveland and his admnistra-
ton: "a slight attack of sore eyes sug-
gested visit to Washington and
having tried the executive and de-
partmental treatment for nearly a week,
it has occurred to me that a brief account
of some impressions of the administration
may not be without interest to the readers
of the COurier-J ournal. "On certain oc-
casion Artemus Ward stepped in front of
his canvas and, pointing to the passing
scene, said to his audience: Ladies and
gentlemen, these are horses It
was only this morning that the
artist came to me with tears
in his eyes and exclaimed: I can conceal
it from you no longer, Mr.. Ward, they are
horses. In its entire utterances and ap-
pointments the administration has so
spoken to the country; it can conceal it no
longer. 1t is a Democratic administration.
For my part have never doubted this in
the least. If I had been given to the
making of it I could not
better have suited myself. Indeed
1 have been so well pleased 1 have been
content to stay at home and play at philos-
Ophy, leaving others to play at pat
ronage, quite satisfied that the president
and the eminent and
ACCOMPLISHED MEN
whom he has surrounded himself with
might be trusted to give us civil service
capable and clean, to handle the public
business with fidelity and efficiency, to dis
charge adequately their obligations both
to the people and the party.
Personal contact and opportunities for get
ting at both sides of the points of criticism
and dispute have strengthened these original
impressions, and am happy to say that the
case of sore eyes with which started from
home has entirely disappeared" The
president is less reserved and more
likable man than had been in the habit of
thinking him. He is at once exact and exact
ing, but there is beneath his unmistakable
businesslike purpose and exterior doughti-
ness of spirit, and an engaging candor
which come out strong for very little provo
cation, and which save his manners from
severity. Genial is hardly the word to de-
scribe the sunny side Of him, for he is a
serious man and hard-worked and hard
working man. But he has the gift of ap-
probation, simple
SCHOOL BOY LOVE
of fair play and d repose altogether un-
affected and complete, and singularly lack
ing both in cynicism and cacuity. OBJ
served the latter of these admirable quail
ties in Miss Cleveland, whose rapid adj
vancement and elevation to the highest
social hOnOrS and duties have no wise dis
concerted her, and who will add one more
name to the very short list of la
dies dI who have signatized and adorned
the mistressship of the executive
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deeply or seriously read as she,
not SO much of a doctrinaire, if indeed a
doctrinaire at all, for should say he has
been student rather of men than books,
but he has an undeniable genius for COM
mand, and for one of so little ostentation is
the most unpromising subject of familiarity
imaginable. His weight and size of brain
have perhaps never been tested or meas
ured. He has yet to put forth his
full mental faculties hnd recources. Time,
which develops one, only disclOSes the ma
ture and extent of these, but there is one
thing about him which
NOTHING CAN OBSCURE,
which shows itself in all he says and does,
which is blazoned upon all his aspects.
That is character, and the older grow and
the more l see of life and men,
the more respect I have for char
acter when brought in contrast with
intellect. Many man called dull and
slow has by honest purposes and inf1eXible
will, enlightened by nothing more luminous
than plain good sense, the offspring of every
day experience, conferred inestimable bless
ings upon his kind, while the history of the
world is full of examples of curses wrought
by brilliancy corrupted and genius misap-
piled. Mr.. Cleveland is a. plain,
sober man. There is nothing
dramatic or sensational about
him. He has not, like so many politicians,
a long conscience and short memory. His
hates and his loves are few, positive and
sincere. He has shown himself abundantly
able to say yes and no. Yet, as 1 have seen
him, no man has livelier wish to crafty
the wishes of others. He wants to do the
right thing and the kindly thing, and there
is not the smallest doubt that since his cleo
tion he has been inspired by the
TRUEST SPIRIT OF JUSTICE,
and the most conscientious sense of duty,
equally loyal to his great place and to his
party, asking no favOrs and looking to his
work to vindicate itself. Very great for
bearance and patient temper should be
extended by the public to such public
servant He selected his political advisers
by the rule of fitness, and he
has inspired them with his own
businesslike spirit. The departments are in
hands best informed and methOdical. Ev-
cry one of them there circulates the atmoS-
phere of the workshop. To say nothing
about practical benefits and utilitarian per-
formance and promise, all this has a moral
value incalculable 1t is in itself sort of
Democracy, and much needed sort at
that. The attack of Mr. EustiS upon the
administration seems to me equally unjust
and unwise. As long as senators and rep
resentatives insist upon sharing the patron
age Of the government they should be will
ing to
SHARE ITS RESPONSIBILITIES.
To-day the president is just two months in
office. There has been no attempt to shape
a policy. The thankless duty of hearing
the appeals and considering the claims of
aspirants and the friends of aspirants has
consumed all the time. Appointments
have made disappointments because for
every place there are dozen or more ap-
plicants and for each of which he
fills the president must take the risk
of making one traitor and eleven enemies.
No one understands this better than
Mr.. Eustis, who is deliberate and thought
full man, and hence it is matter OF sur
prise to those who know him that he should
break with the administration upon sim
pie question of patronage. There is little
reason to doubt that when congress assem-
bles he will find himself in close agreement
and sympathy with it upon all the leading
issues of the time, so that he will be placed
in the
AWKWARD SITUATION
of having his approval and support forced
from him, in spite of his personal hostility,
circumstance which whips the advantage
of the controversy over to the side Of the
president The Louisiana senator, indeed,
may get temporary profit out of this at
home-albeit it is by no means certain that