Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-29
DEMOCRATIC DlSCOATEHT.
MIR. CLEVELAND CONTROLS EVERY
PART or THE ADMINISTRATION.
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PART or THE ADMINISTRATION.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
WASHINGTON, May 22.-Discon.
tent among Democrats is Oh the
increase. The fact is patent TO all
that Grover Cleveland, be he what.
ever he may In the contest between
high tariff aud free trade, in his
own affairs is most aggravated
case Of monopoly. There is no
doubt, and the fact will admit of
discussion, that Cabinet officers,
United States Senators, members
Of Congress, are alike without in.
iluence with the Chief Magistrate.
No senator has yet been able to
get what in common political court
esy is his due. No congressman
has met with political or official
recognition to which his Office lust
~ entities him. Here and there a
cabinet officer, senator, or intrig-
uant has been able by deceit to
purloin a little official pap, or by
the most abiect entrcaty to place a
friend or adhercnt in place. The
President, | fear, is victim to that
execraled class known as "tattlers.n
A New York politician of note, a
man wcll.knOwn in official life in
the East, in a recent interview adj.
vocating the claims of his friend,
was met by the President, in reply
to a remark the gentleman had
made: con, don't tell me anything
about that man. | know all about
him. He talks disrespectfully about
me behind my back"
"Talks disrespectfully about you
behind your back, Mr.. PresidentW
eyes replied the President
" He misses no opportunity Of say.
ing unpleasant things about me-"
The New York gentleman re.
piled: Why, Mr.. President, re-
gard such information as most dan.
gerous. Have you stopped to con.
slider? You must know that the
man Who brings such information
to you must be either an caves
dropper, a liar, or a bctrayer of
confidential communications"
Il" Well,o said President Cleve.
land, "the fact, nevertheless, re-
mains that he talks about rae be.
hind my back, and don't like him."
Imagine man occupying a great
place at the head of a nation of
fifty millions of people to be set
upon by such yermin, such crea.
lures - tale.bearers - and, worse
than all, that he will for one in
slant give ear to such class of
politicians.
OF late Mr.. Bayard has been n
much abused individual because he
has made apparently stupid nomin-
atoms. Admitting that Bayard
has Numbered, he has at least tried
to do something for his friends and
for the party. An intimate friend
of the Secretary Of State is reSpons.
ible for the following:
" Mr.. Bayard told me within the
last ten days that he was utterly
powerless; that he could not fiji the
most obscure COnsulship without
first explaining TO the President in
detail every reason for the change"
Bayard, like most of the Cabinet,
in fact like all OF the Cabinet, is
well nigh stripped Of power for
either good or evil. Go to Cab.
met officer, complain to him of the
snail-llkc progress in the way Of
appointments, and you are told:
Don't he in 4 hurry 20 quietly :;
remember, the Administration is
new. (0u must remember that the
Democrats have come into power
after having been frost bitten for
the last tWehtylOur winters, ana
Sunstruck for the last twenty.lour
summers, and you must not expect
too much \ man urgent in his
appeal for a change is quickly dis
posed of, if necessary, by the great.
est brusQueness on the part Of the
officials.
To illustrate the situation Of the
Cabinet officers, it is probably not
out Of place to observe that, save
one, no Cabinet officer has yet eth
er bought or rented house in this
city, showing how fragile they be.
lieye their tenure of office. 1t is
not secret that the President
would most willingly release his
Secretary of State should he make
the request.