Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-10
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LANCASTER, AUGUST 10, 1885.
: He Has Earned a Vacation.


tunity for reviewing his work during the
past four months, with view of finding
out what manner of man he is rs the chief
executive of his country. No man ever
gave himself up more conscientiously or in
industriously to the work of the presidency
than Mr.. Cleveland has done. He has
labored early and late, in season and out of
season, to give his administration such a
character as he wanted it to maintain during
the whole four years. That he has sue
ceed no critic, however bitter partisan he
may be OF however given to carping, can
question or deny.
Mr.. Cleveland recognized from the be-
ginning, even long before his election or
nomination, that the first thing to do was
to command the confidence of the country.
Not only had great abuses developed them
selves during the twenty-five years of power
OF one party, but modes of thought had
become fastened upon the country and ideas
and practices opposed to the president and
the organization to which he was attached
had become the habit if not the convic-
tions of large proportion of the voters.
And the success with which the president
established himself goes far to strike the
truth of the old maxim that confidence is a
plant of slow growth.
Within the sixty days following the
fourth OF March he had demonstrated that
he was not only determined to be president
but the more important fact that he was
president had fastened itself firmly on the
public mind. He did not attempt to do
this by rash changes in either men or poll.
cies. He moved slowly and deliberately
Every important-act WAS done only after a
sitting of all the elements and the conclu,
sion that it was the best thing. The selec.
tion of his cabinet, the choice of men fol
the principal diplomatic positions, the uni.
form selection of high order of men fol-
bureau places, the care used in making ac.
ceptable and honest appointments for local
oiiices-ail these showed that the admins.
tration was looking to the interest of the
country rs well rs to the establishment OF
lhe supremacy OF the Democratic party
same care Vas manifested in matters
as The restoration of public lands
to the government, the protection of the
Indians from the rapacity of settlers and
cattlemen, the refusal to accept bad ships
for the navy, the exposure of frauds in the
agricultural bureau, and in the scientific
branches of the government-haye all
shown that the change not only did not
come too soon, but that il was healthful
and necessary.
these things have enabled Grover Cleve-
land to become more thoroughly president
OF the United States than any man who
has occupied that position since the days
OF Andrew Jackson, and at the same time
to escape the sharp and bitter antagonisms
which that strong man aroused. Having
shown that he has will of his own, and
that each and every important act is only a
part OF his general policy, and that he has
no personal ends to serve, he can now pro-
ceed to do just about as he pleases with
the country. The people are convinced
that he not only means TO do well but that
he is doing WELL He has corrected mis-
takes with frankness which to some of
the men concerned must have seemed
almost brutal but no honest, modest and
well-meaning man has suffered, while the
assurance that pretenders and frauds are
10 be sent to the rear has pleased party
opponents as well as friends.
There will be general acQuiescence in
the wish that he may have as good
a rest as he wants and return to Washing
ton with new vigor for carrying on the
good and much needed work which he has
only begun.