The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-04-15
PROMISE AID PERFORMANCE.
The Presidents Choice OF Advisers Stamps
~ His Professions ~ InsIncore. tsI "a

PROMISE AID PERFORMANCE.
Tho Presidents Choice OF Advisers stamps
His Professions n. InsIncere. lsA %
At first we gave such welcome as was
possible to President Cleveland prom
ises. To-day we have TO comment
upon his own Interpretation Of them
by his official acts. Scarcely any act
during his term of Office can possibly
disclose SO much of his purpose and
bent of mind, his sincerity or insincer-
ity, as his choice of Cabinet officers.
Courtesy toward the new Pre- ,ident re-
guired that his inaugural declarations
should be treated, not as empty plati-
tudes, but as expressions of sincere
purpose. So justice and self-respect will
compel the American people to say,
that, in some respects at least. his
Cabinet stamps his professions with the
mark Of insincerity.
No other declaration of the inaugural
address attracted more attention than
the Presidents words about Civil-Ser-
vice reform. But the country demands
not words, but deeds. The President
may rest assured that tho people are
not to be deceived by empty platitudes,
and when he selects for the very Office
which has largest control over appoint
ments, and has ever been most misused
for partisan purposes, man who is
known only as political "boss OF
the most unscrupulous order, they will
not give Mr.. Cleveland credit for sim
certy. Mr.. Manning is indeed fine
person to head the crusade for the re-
form of the Civil Service. The citizens
who were quite too holy to support the
Republ can candidate will no doubt con-
gratulate themselves that at last they
have succeeded il. serving the cause Of
reform by putting into the Treasury
Department one OF the associates
if not hirelings Of Boss Tweed, who
afterward became his imitator.
Another declaration of the inaugural
which meant everything for the country
II IL was sincere, concerned the treat
ment OF the colored citizens at the South.
What are we to think of Mr.. Cleveland's
sincerity in these fine professions, when
he selects, as the very officer OF all 9TH
ers charged with the duty of enforcing
the election laws, Mr.. Garland. of Ar
kansas, product OF the shameless con-
spiracy which to-day rules so many
Southern States by systematic fraud,
for which systematic assassination pre-
pared the wayP Mr.. Garland was not
merely one of the products OF this law
dofying and infamous conspiracy; he
was one of those who gave his efforts,
and his influence, and his weight of
character to make that conspiracy
success, TO shelter assassins from the
consequences of their crime, and to
shield fraud and perjury from public
odium. Nor Is he the only one who
was lifted to high station by such de-
NAL of the rights OF freedmen, and has
| nevertheless now been chosen by the
President to illustrate his regard for the
rights Of freedmen Mr.. Lamar repre-
sents State in which ma ority Of the
persons entitled to vote und ,r the Con-
stitution Of the United States are now
and ever have been hostile 10 his party,
! and he knows that at no time for the
last fifteen years has it been possible
for him to reach seat in either branch
of Congress from the State OF Missis.
sippi, except in defiance of the will OF
the electors. Able men, honorable men
in other matters, Messrs. Lamar and
Garland the more forc:bly illustrate
that inconceivable perversion OF mind
which counts il not dishonorabe TO en-
| JOY the fruits of vast robbery by
which million Of free citizens are de-
prived of their sacred rights.
The selection of Mr.. Bayard, prom
inent and thorough free.trader, would
have cast q similar light upon Mr..
Cleveland's opinions on the tariff ques-
ton, had MIR. Bayard been selected for
the Treasury Department. As 1t Is,
judgment must be reserved until more
may be known of the purpose Of the
political boss who has been cho en- in
Mr.. Bayard's stead for the department
OF finance. But in one respect the selec-
tion Of Mr.. Bayard accords only too
well with the tendencies of the Demo-
cratic party. 1t is a selection which
will please Great Britain very much bet
ter than the United States.
II is to be noticed, also, that while
Mr.. Cleveland makes elaborate pro-
fessions OF desire TO put an end 10 sec.
tional feeling, he Is careful to select, as
the only members of his Cabinet who
have National reputation, extended in
fuence, or large experience in public
affairs, three Representatives of the late
Confederacy. Men Of weight and
power, men Of ideas and Of statesman
ship, are chosen to speak for the South,
and that is proper. But who represents
the NorthP Where Is Mr.. Pendle. on?
Where is Mr.. Thurman Was it not
possible to find IN New England man
Of larger influence and greater expert
ence than Mr.. Endicottp Docs not the
Democratic party know at least as
much of Senator Mcdonald as of the
corporation lawyer, Colonel Villas?
New York has strong statesmen on
the Democratic side, Seymour and
Herman, and Hewitt, and others not
few. Mr. Whitney is known in this
city as n capable and accomplished
man, and beyond question his services
to Mr.. Cleveland have been of the kind
that compelled recognition. No man in
the Cabinet did so much TO elect him,
or will now make him more friends and
fewer enemies. But when the Presi-
dent decided to take two Cabinet officers
from his own State. might he not, have
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