St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-03
DEFENDING CLEVELAND.
A High Democra tic Official IndOrses
the Presidents Policy.

| Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, May "A Democratic
official of high rank, who ought to know
| as well as anybody what the presidents
policy regarding the officeholders is, and
| who thinks he does know, makes the fol-
lowing remarks: ''The president knows
| what he has promised the people to do.
| For him to fail to keep his word would be
crime to those who had trusted
him. The enormous task before him
is sometimes appalling, and have
never known a man who so felt his respon-
sibility as does the president. He is en-
deavoring to comprehend the system of the
government since it has been turned over to
him. He thinks as do, that he must change
many Of its methods His is the
beginning of a new regime.
In every section the Democratic
| leaders who are battle-scarred. shall say
who is fttest to stand as Interpreter
AND EXPONENT OF THE FAITH
that was young under Jefferson and grew
to it's full statue under Andrew Jackson.
Whosoever the people want at their homes
as postmasters, collectors OF pension agents
thev can have, but he must represent in
every respect the faith Of the party that
gives him power and place."
''What about the MugWumps" was
asked.
eff you mean those who, having belonged
| to the Republican party, left it while it was
still powerful, and came out from among
evil, can answer you. they belong to
us. They could not longer aid by their in
fluence and suffrage party they believed
was wrong. They felt that the way to des-
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that evil, and many of those who were
better days came to Mr.. Cleveland's assist
ance, because they judged him by his
works. You ask what about them. They
are now precisely upon the footing of Other
| Democrats. If their fellow citizens of the
Democratic faith recommend them for posi-
ton, they
| WILL BE APPOINTED
| Just as readily as the man who has voted
| for every Democrat from Jackson down. II
any person proves recreant to his trust, he
will be remanded, no matter who he may
| be. Now word about the civil service.
The Democratic party passed that act. An
| Illinois Democrat is forgotten as the apostle
| jeered at him, but when that party became
sick it got scared. ''When the devil was ill
the devil monk would be; when the devil
got well, the devil monk was he.'
''The civil service act and rules will be
administered, not as shield for political
workers, but for the better protection of
those wac are the necessary instruments in
conducting the important routine business
of the departments. The great admins
trative branches of the government are
| full of
| GOOD WOMEN,
andnobody wispes to disturb them. Many
of them are of the Republican faith, but
they are well qualified for the duty they are
engaged in. Whenever woman is in a
place she is fitted for, and she is what she
should be in character and department,
she shall stay, no matter what
her politics may be. We are
after the worthless men who are filching
from the government wages they have moi
earned-men who are incapable, worthless.
drunken, and class worse than the ''po-
litical workers." whose business it is to dc
the dirty bidding of the party leaders and
who have denounced democracy as being
the sum of villiancies. Why in the treas
ury alone I am told, there are about one
hundred of this class. They are known,
however, and will not eat unearned bread
much longer. They, and all political
sneaks, will walk into outer drrllness fol
| the rood of all. )"