Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-03
is THE PRESIDENT A DEMOCRAT?
The following appeared in the New
York Sun of November 2Sth:

Inc 1olloWlng appeared IN tne NeV
York Sun of November 28th:
To the Editor of the Sun:
SrR:-As lifelong Democrat, who votel
for Grover Cleveland both for the Office o.
Governor of the State of New York and fo
that of President of the United States,
beg leave to dissent from your statement
that cas- long as the President appoints
Democrats and not Republicans his party Is
not going to quarrel with him. I take
issue with Mr.. Cleveland, because his whole
course since his induction into his present
Office shows Enthusiastically that he is not q
Democrat. Not being Democrat, be
cannot reasonably be expected to recog-
nize the binding force of the principles, the
history, and the traditions OF. the Democratic
party.
To pass from generalities to particulars,
he has failed to effect the reforms which l,
in common with thousands of others, ex-
pected at his hands. He has made no ap-
preciable reduction of the grand army of
office holders, numbering not less than no.
600, myriads of whom were put in their
places for the sole purpose of keeping the
Republican party inpower. He has frittered
away his time in concocting new devices,
under the name of civil service reform, to
keep In office the rascals whom he was
elected to turn out. He has spent several
weeks in depriving that honest, capable, and
faithful Democrat George FL. Sterling, of
the petty office of weigher in the Custom
House to which he had been appointed in
strict conformity with the law of Congress,
and the rules framed pursuant to its provi-
sions. For the first time in the history of
the country-I trust for the last time in the
history of the country-he has issued his
imperial rescript, forbidding his fellow
citizens, not excepting the members of Con-
gress, from entering his presence.
these ofba {r1<,
numerous to mention, l sought to rebuke
him by advocating the nomination and the
election of that sterling Democrat. David B.
Hill, to the office of Governor. Further
more, l voted the entire Tammany ticket
for county and municipal officers. What 1
have done in the past ! shall do in the
future, without any variableness or even
shadow of turning, so long as Grover Cleve-
land shall retain his present Office.
A COUNTY DEMOCRAT.
We take it that there is no doubt of the |
Presidents Democracy; likewise, there is
no doubt but that "a County Democrat
is thorough spokesman, and in all Ii keli-
hood believes that the profoundest maxim |
OF free government that was ever uttered |
is the famous Jacksonian one, " To the
vlctors belong the spoils." 81 A County
Democrat makes many charges against
the President, but they are more grumb.
lings than anything else. 1t is pure non
sense to talk about the President issuing
an imperial rescript, and if any Amer
lean citizen has any legitimate business
with the President, the President can be
seen at any time, if not otherwise en-
gagged.
Ii the President has retained many
in office, he has done no
more than the party pledged itself to do
when it favored civil-service reform. Mr..
cleveland has scarcely frittered away his
lme in devising new methods, under
he name of civil-service reform, to keep
n office the rascals whom he was elected
0 turn out" Ii ga County Democrat
will prove any Federal office holder a ras- c
al, be his politics Republican or be they /
Democratic, he may be certain that Mr.. /
cleveland will turn him out. The politics d
MIR. Cleveland when Governor must
ave been known to this Democrat, and Fl
ct there was no complaint about his c.
democracy while he was Governor. And e
President he has pursued the same ri
olicy that he pursued as Governor. ri
"a County Democrat takes issue with ct
he President because he has not turned W
Il the "rascals" out, which is but a d
'mplaint because Mr. Cleveland has not pt
vided the "spoils." Ii we were going p
} take issue with the President on il
IS Democracy, we should take issue with 81
m for his departure from the Chicago to
atform in the matter of appointments tv
r Utah. In Utah the President has sh
ade appointments for the friends of ey
liticians in the East, when the party it
edged itself to the true Democratic doc VIZ
me that ''the selection of Federal officers We
r the Territories should be restricted to tel
liens previously RESIDENT therein. f" If
lah, thus far, has been treated according bo
the good old Jacksonian theory, and it VIC
ems to give satisfaction all around, es- en-
cially to the Democrats of Michigan. fra
ssouri and Indiana. liti
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