The Nevada picayune., 1885-05-28
THE CHANGES,
Being Made as Itipidly as Circuu- =
 stance Will Admit.
Figure Heads In ths Bureaus to be Soon
 Removed.


 editor and the readers of this paper that their Washington correspon- pondent is no friend of the Repub- lcan office holder. For the last ten years have been trying to have him discharged, and for the las eight years l have considered him and writton ofhim as no bet ter than a theft, who, like k. E. Hayes, drew the salary of another man. The only difference is that these office holders have been drawing their fraudulent salaries eight years instead of four; or ever since the voice of the country , discharged them by the election of Tilden. But notwithstanding l am anxious to see Republican off ce holders go, cannot join in the pretty common denunciatlon of the new administration because it has not completed it's four years mis- sion in ten weeks. To me it ap- pears remarkable that so much has been accomplished in so little time. and I can account for the den- unciation of the so o-called tardiness of the administration only on the supposition that those who de- nounce know nothing of what q task Mir. Cleveland and his cabinet had before them. Ten weeks ago the president found himself at the head of a ponderous and complica- ted chaos of governmental machin- cry intimately connected with the interests of 60,O00,OO0 of people and handling a300, 0,O00,000 per year in the transaction of public business. He was without eXper- rcuce in national affairs: had not been in Washington until he came as president. tis not remarkable that he spoke in his inaugural ad- dress of the painful sense of TO spensibility with which he nader took the stupcndops work. it would be very easy for him to daw dle through his term and pose as president like his proper and re- spectablc predecessor, but tho time demanded different work from him to work of reforming ana simpli- fyire a vast and demoTalized bur eaucracy and reducing it to an honest business basis. Ten weeks have passed and much has been accomplished. A large number of the civil service bureaus have been filled with good Democrats and with good men. To the unrefi eot' ing million this may have seemed an easy task but when it is remem- bered that the time of the admins. tration has been occCpied by bat taliOns of delegations pressing riv- al candidates, by office seekers sin gle. and office seekers in mObs, all good Democrats so.called and beautifully endorsed, it is rcmarka- ble that time has been found to make the best selection. Most people, I presume, are aware that the mere fact of having voted the Democratic ticket does not fit a man for office wherc he must DOT form promptly and credltably class of work about which he knows nothing more than he does of the Russian language. When Mr. Cleveland came into off co. the first consideration was, using and old figure, to keep the ship of state sailing smoothly and effectively, making the best time and prescrv- ing the precious freight of men and merchandise. Revenues had to be collected. The army, the navy, tensions, the courts and tho vast civil list had to bc paid; the books must be kept and ten thousand in cldental processes requiring skill and experience had to be minute ly carried out The president and his cabinet and his party were un- skilled and inexperienced in excu- tive affairs. They have as yet only agenernl idea of what they have to do, and what can be done. It is not anything to the Encouragement of many of the bureau officers that have been appointed to say that they are helplessly dependent upon their Republican subordn ates in office for information in the commonest details of their official duty. They are at the head ot the bureau. vast oli ;es employing from one hundred to six hundred cler&. ,anl yet they knowles tAa"