The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25
Mr.. cl-EVELANp,s INTENTION.
His Object Is to Render Ehicicnt the Civil
Service Of the Government.

His Object Is to Render Enacient the Civil
Service OF the Government.
Although it is but little more than
three months since Mr.. Cleveland was
inducted into the Presidential Office. it
is already apparent that one of the chief
objects of his administration will be to
bring the, civil service of the Govern
ment up to its highest possible stage Of
efficiency, no matter how much time
and deliberation the carrying out of
this programme may require nor how
much impatient and unfriendly criticism
it may provoke.
No more important subject could
engage his attention from now on
to the assembling of Congress, nor is
any other SO essential in its prelimi-
nary relations to the great work of adj
ministrative reform, while all candid
observers of the situation must admit
that the President, in spite of few
questionable appointments which he
was deceived into making, has shown
an admirable aptitude for the respon-
sibility which he has assumed and
made most suspicious beginning.
But the duty thus set before him is
one that no man, whatever his physical
strength or mental vitality, should be
asked or expected to perform single
handed and alone. To thoroughly ac-
complish the grand results proposed
the reorganization of service made up
of more than a hundred thousand dis
tinct Official factors-will involve an
amount of laborious investigation and
exhaustive detail simply overwhelming
to the contemplation and the Presi-
dent, resollte and ambitious as he is to
succeed, will need all the co operation
| that car be made available to the con-
| summation of his purpose.
The conservative public sentiment Of
the country is already with him. He
has able and conscientious associates in
the Cabinet, upon whose assistance he
| can rely. He has the approval of the
masses of the Democratic party, and he
should have the active, earnest and
honest support of the leaders of the
party.
Our Democratic trends should bear
| in mind that the election of Mr.. Cleve-
land meant something more than an in
discriminate distribution OF Offices
among the voters who elected him. The
scheme of political salvation is not SO
simple and easy as this. We are won't
to speak of the change of administra-
ton as the dawn of q new era in the
Government; but this depends entirely
upon the wisdom and honesty and
sound craftsmanship with which the
affairs of the Government are to be ad.
ministered.
The majority by which the Demo-
cratic party assembled into power is not
SO ove1poweringly large perma-
nently assured that we can afford to
trifle with our victory. The new era
has dawned, but will it reach the high
noon OF our anticipations? This re-
mains to be seen. The Republican
party is by no means dead yet, and we
have first to convince the people that
they have profited substantially and
largely by the defeat OF that party
before we can have any definite guar
antv OF an extended lease of power.
Hence the necessity, not of parcel
ing out the spoils in hot and reckless
haste, but of laying broad and deep
the foundations of the civil service as
tower of strength to the Government
under Democratic rule, and not be-
, grudging the time that it may require
to do it. This is the burden which Mr..
Cleveland has taken upon his shoulders,
not as work for this year or next veal
of his own official term, but for all time
} and for the glory OF the Democratic
party. Washington Post.