The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1885-02-19
President Cleveland.

1t Is little over week TO the TINE
of inaugurating the new president,
and yet the general public does not
know whit more about the politi-
cal family which is to surround him
or the principles which will guide
his administration than 1t did the
next day after the election. Mr..
Cleveland keeps his own council, OF
where he does confide secret TO a
person that person is always one who
has an iron clad mouth.
And get, nobody distrusts Mr..
Cleveland. The people knew just
what kind of man he was when
they voted for him. They knew
that he was sturdily honest and hon
orable; that lie had an extended
idea OF the responsibility Of taking
high office; that he believed that the
office should seek the man and not
the man the office; that he was hon
estly and heartily for reform in the
administration OF the Government,
and that he had the nerve and ener-
gy TO carry through those reforms as
well as the brains to discriminate as
to where they were needed. Know
ing these things, the people calmly
await the time when the oath of
office shall have been gwen to him
and he takes his seat as the first
Democratic President after an inter
regnum of nearly quarter of a cen
tury.
There will be no sudden or violent
changes when President Cleveland
takes his seat. He is level headed,
and he will have about him set OF
evel-headed advisers, whose opin
ions he will care fully listen to, and
then--do just what he himself thinks
best after weighing the subject in
hand. Senator Garland, who has
recently been called to another con
ference with the President elect, at
Albany, says:
when | went to Albany / expect
ed TO find man of gross habit and
limited scope, but instead found q
dignity and majesty of person which
impressed me at once. | found a
grace aud affability OF manner which
soon placed me at ease. found a
mind capable OF grasping the most
complicated questions OF public pol
icy and the closest details oil admin
istration. | found broadness Of
views, q determination To- do right,
a range OF conservatism which satis.
fled my mind that there was a high.
e. dlspeusaton in the nomination
and election of Grover Cleveland
than was realized at the time His
idea is not the rehabilitation of the
old Democratic party, a sort of fur
bishing up of the old machinery fer
new uses. On the contrary, Mr..
Cleveland proposes to organize a
new party--not Democratic party
nor a Republican party, but party
founded on Democratic principles as
enunciated py the convention of 1884
in their letter and spirit and not &C
cording TO The obsolete doctrines Of
tue past--and he asks the coopera.
tion of all good citizens, North or
East or West, in placing the Nation
on higher plane OF politics and
public duty"
This is like the man. he viii act
slowly ana deliberately in the dis
tribution of the offices; and as Sen
ator Garland observes; "Hc will Of
course, appoint his Cabinet, and as
It's members will have been chosen
with reference to their endorsement
OF his own views in such matters he
will expect the general policy of the
Administration to be carried out
without further direction from him.
There will be no disagreenents. Ii
is correct that, as q general rule,
officers will be allowed TO serve out
the terms Of their commissions.
In speaking Of the Cabinet, Sena-
tor Garland remarks: "As far as
am able TO make my own conclu
sions from personal knowledge OF
facts the next Administration, as far
as the Cabinet is concerned, will be
composed Of four distinctivcly repre-