The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-26
REPUBLICAN AMMUNITION.

That New York correspondent of the Bos-
ton Herald who lis on the inside of things
at Washington and New York as an organ
says, certainly gets the outside 'of
thing occasionally, if not usually. This
was the case when he ''saw a close friend OF
Manning a few days ago who told him that
the Secretary of the Treasury sis very ill-at
ease in Washington, and longs to get back to
private life and the companionship of his
wife Secretary Manning is altogether too
slrewd to entrust any condolences to such
CLOSE friend as the leaky individual de-
scribed, who would unburthen himself thus
to that Boston Herald correspondent,
to tell the readers of his paper that
Mr. Manning 'may be expected to resign at
any moment, though in all probability not
until after the autumn elections" That last
clause is good, and the b. II. correspondent
doubtless expects it to help him out. No,
Mr.. Manning will not resign 'until after the
autumn elections'-in fact, probably not for
some years after. He is the right man for
the place, and Mr.. Cleveland knows ii as well
as do the people, who have discovered the
fact of his fitness by his able management of
his department. The Republicans would be
glad to officer placed at the head of
the Treasury who would make financial
failure of its management. They have no
hope of such result while so able a financier
is in charge as is Secretary Manning The
organs discover nothing to find fault with
in Mr.. Manning's conduct of the National
Treasury, excepting of course his OCCASION
ally turning the rascals out As to his
handling the money bureaus of the Govern
ment, they find no vulnerable point of at
tack. But they must raise hue and cry
somewhere about Secretary Manning, so
their policy is to claim that TIE President
and his Secretary of the Treasury are not on
good terms; that there is a GOODNESS between
them, and thus do they hope to create be-
lief among the people that a sclism exists
between these two, who are really warm
friends, who understand themselves and each
other perfectly.
Having unsuccessfully tried this tack for
long time, the organs are now clamoring that
Mr.. Manning really wants to step
down and out into private life,
and intends doing so; but they
take the precaution of stating it upon the
''if not this time some other time vague
sort of way as the b. H. correspondent has
done.
When we sift to the bottom all the fault
found by the Republican press with. the
Cleveland administration, how little there is
of moment to the people. Their cry is
principally confined to bewailing the decapi
tation of Republican officials heads, and to
bowling because fat contracts are taken
from those who have for many years drawn
sustenance from Uncle Sam until they roll
in the wealth extracted from his Treasury
and his broad domain of Western lands. 1t
savors of the snarl of a wolf when even a
former Secretary of the Navy shows his teeth
and growls because John Roach has lost a
job which the 2. o. p. had given him so long
ago that he considered it his birthright.
Everything shows that the Republicans
have lost their grip; that they have no longer
policy. Principles to fight for they now
have none, unless it be the spoils principle.
The people are getting an honest Govern
ment economically administered. They are
seeing reforms made where such innovations
have long been needed. They know that
the pruning knife is at work, and will lop off
decayed branches and suckers" and they
realize that il is the Democratic administra-
ton which is engaged upon this task, not be-
fore undertaken for generation. The
organs may continue to publish the stories
Matched up by their correspondents about
the so-called GOODNESS between the President
and members of his Cabinet. They
must have some cud to chew
Meantime the new administration is making
itself so solid with the people that the organs
are beginning to realize that the Democratic
party has come to stay in power. They
aim at sowing seeds of dissension in our
ranks, but such a course only adds to their
own weakness while it detracts not from
Democratic strength.