The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-30

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Letter in Cleveland Herald.I
Senator of the United States, whose
name / can not give because our conversa-
ton was private one. said to me last
night: IF am not greatly mistaken. this
administration will be the greatest failure
in our history
Why"
Il will tell you why Because it has Of
itself no cohesive elements, and because,
founded by great party, il is disregarding
the party, calling to its support unknown
and inefficient men. and because all its
views on public question are taken through
the wrong end of the opera glass. There
will always be two great parties in the
United States, and one or the other OF these
is bound to rule from time to time. When
President elected turns out TO be trim
mer and attempts to hoe middle row be-
tween the two great party lines. he is sure
TO fail
He loses the support of his own party.
and the other party. while pretending to adj
mire him, laughs in its sleeve and stabs him
in the back. Cleveland SO far has totally dis
regarded the Democratic party. The boys
OF the party. the great masses, the men
who carry the banners, who influence the
immense vote Of the lower classes, are get
ting nothing, and they will surely knife
Cleveland as soon as they get chance
They will do it in New York this fall.
Mark my words! The State will 90 Re-
publican by more than 10000, and there
will be the same result everywhere an cleo
ton is held. Grover Cleveland is cutting the
heart out of the Democratic party. and if
he goes on, and he probably will. the party
will be nearly ruined by 1888 The Repub.
licans are laughing at his administration
md ha xv,l
laugh between their intervals of cursing
before two years have passed. Look at
this Ada Sweet matter. Ada Sweet had
been in Office for more than decade at a
good salary. She expected to go out, and
the Republicans expected her to 90.
Cleveland allows Black to write her letter
that puts his administration in the hole of
going contrary to its principles, and says in
black and white that there is no cause for
her removal. Then. again. that postmaster
at Rome. The postmaster was guilty of
misdemeanor, and the President
should have turned him ont on that ground
without word. Instead, he puts out let
ter of half column to the country apologize
ing. The early rising and the carriage
business is another farce. Lamar for in
stance, the most arrant demagogue south of
Mason and Dixons line, makes a grand
parade about selling 500 worth of car
riages, and on the next day spent more than
that amount in fixing up private bath
room in his department for himself which
would have been an extmvagance in the
days of Caligula, the Roman Emperor, who
fed his horses in marble troughs and shod
them with shoes of gold. Even had this
horse selling reform been good stroke, it
fails because only one or two of the Cabinet
engage in it. Villas, the youngest man in
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the others, with the exception of Garland
and Lamar. The people of the country are
not fools. Cleveland must do something if
he would have their approval. So far his
administration has been one series of miss
takes, and it has failed utterly to show any
signs of the reform il has promised.
1T has not turned the rascals out, said l.
"No," replied the Senatorial friend. 1T
has not, and neither the President, his
Cabinet, nor the people are aware where
the rascality exists in the departments.
There is no doubt but that there is corrup-
ton, but this corruption does not exist with
the heads of bureaus or the high-priced
clerks. 1t is the middle men, and the fell
lows who get low salaries that do the steal
ing. These men hoodwink their chiefs and
play into the hands of the jobbers. Cleve-
land is keeping these men in office, and is
putting new men over them. Men, too, in
most cases, whom it is far easier to deceive
than the ones he has turned out. They are
men who are new to Washington, and are
totally innocent of the ms and outs of the
departments and the capital. They 60 into
the departments dependent upon the clerks
under them for their knowledge of the de,
partments, and the result will be that what
ever rottenness there is will be covered,
and that it will increase. This is but the
history of the past The President and
Secretaries could not discover the rascality
of Howgate, of the Signal Service, and of
Carrigan, Of the Navy Department, until
hundreds of thousands of dollars had been
squandered. When their attention was
called to the matter they did not give heed
to it because some of the confederates Of the
thieves in office were busy shielding the
culprits. There are many Howgates and
Carrignns in Office to-day The removal of
the Chief Signal Officer alono would have
given Howgate broader field on which to
operate under new chief, more ignorant
than the one displaced. The removal of
Surgeon General Wales would not have
stopped Carrigan's operations. During the
campaign the Democrats claimed that the
departments were rotten with corruption.
Hendricks the Vice President, said on the
stump that one-third of the clerks could be
dispensed with without trouble. Now
nearly two months have passed, and the de-
partments remain as they were, and the
clerks who have been cut off can be num-
bered on your fingers and toes.
"Clevelands biggest mistake, the Sena-
tor went on, "ies in his Cabinet. He is a
good executive officer himself, but he
should be aware that this country is too big,
and it has too many notifications for him
to personally supervise the whole of 1t. He
should have the best executive officers in
the country to help him, and should not
rely on set of dreamers, theorists, and
impractical men who know little of bust
ness and less of the ms and outs of Wash
ington departments and Washington men.