The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-05
THE new ADMINISTRATIONS.


The Inauguration Of the first Democratic
President for nearly thirty years was accom-
plished, yesterday, with all the pride, pomp
and circumstance of great Nation, saved from
disruption and lifted to pinnacle of great
ness through the efforts of the party which
laid down the scepter of power, as against the
persistent efforts Of the one which took it up
with such exuberant manifestations. It
is to be noted, also, that the
man yesterday indicted into the Of
fee of President reached that place
only because he was not actively and decis
lively identified with the party which shouted
itself hoarse, and really believes that it has it.
self triumphed. 1t is our opinion that subse-
quent events will be likely to prove that it is
the Democratic party that was placed in power
rather than man, unknown but short time
ago, but who was believed by plurality of
the people in the State of New York to be so
much better than the party he belonged to,
as to warrant them in giving him their votes
on personal and not on partisan grounds. Of
this, however, we shall know more a few
months hence than we do now and specula-
ton would, therefore, be useless, and might
be regarded as ungracious. It is very plain,
though, that the independents" enough of
whom voted for Mr.. Cleveland to give him his
Office, cannot lay hold Of much, if any, of
yesterdays demonstration as their own. It was
demonstration Of the Democratic party, whose
brains always have been and are yet in the
South, and which has never been, and never
can be, in its present spirit and purpose, made
dominant in the Free Independent, sturdy and
equality loving North
The pageant yesterday was superb. All the
talk of returning to the better and simpler
days Of the fathers, to "Jeffersonian simple
ity," and the like ''rot' with which Democrat
ic demagogues sought to bamboozle the
people, melted away in the extraordinary
elaborateuess and gorgeousness of the display
Our special and regular reports give the full
est and most graphic descriptions Of the
splendor of the occasion, descriptions that
read like mockery of the words uttered by
the man, in whose honor the display was con-
ceived, when he took the oath of Office.
The inaugural addresssounds strangely put by
the side of the story Of the grand ball closing
the festivities of the day, and the latter is
singing commentary upon the empty words
and meaningless phrases INDUCED in by the
leaders of the Democratic party. The inau-
g,ral address Of Mr.. Cleveland is short plain,
sturdy in tone and sentiment, quite passion
less, partaking of the stoiidity which is ap
parently of the warp and wool Of the nature
of the new President. There certainly
can be no serious objections urged
against it, and it makes a platform
upon which his party cannot stand
and will not try to stand 1t is significant
that, while it was received with great APP
plause in parts, that portion regarding the civil
service elected but faint response. Mr.
Cleveland was not talking to a civil-service
reform crowd or to civil service-reform party.
The President has not yet announced his
Cabinet, and, therefore, the new administra-
ton is not fully launched. The composition
of it, however, is pretty well known, and that
1t will be Disappointing in some important
points goes with the saying. Such an APP
pointment as that Of 'Dan" Manning to the
Treasury Department cannot honestly be
justified or defended by anyone. There is
more in that appointment to determine the
probable quality of the administration than in
any other thing, inaugural address and all.
A President scarcely ever rises above
the level Of his ''chum" Cabi-
net, and when he advances his
chief '"chum, In the person Of ward politi-
cian to the principal place in his official house
hold, it is indicative of low tone, and dull
ness in experimenting the plain proprieties and
responsibilities of his position that does not
argue we'll But Mr. Cleveland enters upon
his new responsibilities with an expectancy
apd disposition of fairness that give him
such an opportunity as does not fall to the lot
of many men. 1t is his to improve OF to spoil.
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TARDY JUSTICE AT LAST.
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