The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-30
THE PRESIDENT TOO SLOW FOR THEM.
Democrats Who Want Mr.. Cleveland to Hurry
Republican Officials Out.


Washington Star.
A Democratic member of Congress has figured
the thing out and says that at the present ratio
it would take Cleveland just sixty years to clean
the Republicans out of the government service.
The result is not at all satisfactory to the poli-
ticians and ofice-seekers. They say that Cleve
lands civil policy may give him some nar
tional popularity-and maybe that is what he
wants-but that it will play the mischief with
the Democratic party. The disregard of con-
gressional influence is most talked of but, in the
midst of much grumbling. there ara
many favorable comments upon CeyelanGs
course In this respect. A prominent
Democratic congressman, speaking with a Star
reporter to-day, said that the people throughout
the country were tired of having congressman
control the whole administration and there was
universal demand that Congress be forced into
its proper position as one branch of the govern-
ment and that the executive be given
control over executive appointments, i'm
dependent of congressional delegations They
were tired of having congressman exercising this
influence of federal patronage, to keep them
selves i'll. Cleveland'S action in treating con-
gressmen like other citizens, would be very
favoraby received. No appointment has yet
been made through congressional influence, and
it does not look as if there would be any Office
seekers have begun to accept this situation, and
say they look upon the Endorsements of del
egations injurious to their chaEcess
as Cleveland they believe, is resisting
such pressure as matter of principle The
kicking, but that if the Republicans arei
ultimately turned out of the offices and Demo-
Gratis put in Sheir places all will be we'll Bat
and here taey begin TO get serious-if Clevc-
land persists in keeping Republicans in under
Democrats who do the work will kick very hard,
the House will be at variance with the President.
and the party will be disrupted. The politicians
say they will be slow to come to the conclusicu
that Cleveland will stick to this; that he is
shrewd man and may think it wise to 60 slow,
but finally to get the ins out and the outs in-
If this is true though, they say, he will have to
go little faster than he is now. The most
discouraging act of the President since his
Inauguration, they say, was that of providing
the White House. In this he went far
beyond the requirement of the civil service
rules. and indicated that he was really mug
wump." They say, too, that his Cabinet has
pears at first sight. Whitney has a tendency
that way, Endlcott is a civil-service reformer,
Bayard has shown himself to be of the Same
faith, and is said to have declared that the Re
publican consuls are not to be recalled and even
Garland and Lamar have committed themselves
to the Pendletonian doctrine by reassuring the
trembling clerks All this they regard as bod
ing i'll for the Democrats who are out in the cold,
but they say they will keep still as long as they
can, and if they do have to repudiate the ad-
ministration. it will not be until things have
gone so far that they cannot be corrected. Then
they don't know what would follow. Cleveland
would either go out like Andy johnson, or if
the reform element proved strong, they would
reelect him and break up both the other parties