Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-14
WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAYS.
Cleveland on His Administration
once Seekers.

O"Oo SocAoA"
Nstc York Herald.
81 do not think any Administration for
many years has been so closely and JeaL
ously watched by the people as this one
Mr.. Cleveland said to your correspondent,
and | am glad of il. II any of US were
tempted By pressure or by our own weak
ness 10 90 wrong, | believe we should Rot
dare to do it for it seems to me the eyes OF
the whole people are fixed upon US. Every
smallest public act OF mine or of the Cabinet
is talked of and discussed. II We make
mistakes, as can't be helped, We hear OF
them ct once, and l say for myself that this
kind of close watch is q help to my endeav-
ors to do my duty. 1t shows that the people
are alive; they want good government;
they are not inattentive, and If sometimes
wrong judgments come out against us we
must bear them, and try to do the best we
know how.
He was urged to make a clean sweep in
one OF the Western States on the ground
that IF You'll do this for US We will make
the State Democratic next year. Prob
ABLY you could was the reply. but what
would be the use? By precisely the same
method the Republicans, when their time
comes, would make it Republican again.
That ISL the way to keep a party IN power
or make it strong.
Again, be was urged strongly to remove
3 Republican in another Western State and
appoint q man recommended by several
Congressman. you cant say you are not
9 tisGed of the honesty and capacity and
high character of the gentleman We are urg-
ing, Mr.. President, said they. Il don't
doubt all that he replied, but you have
not get given me any reason for removing
the man who holds the place. He is an
uucommonly able aud thoroughly honest
man in that place. What excuse have for
luraiDg him OUT
Some Of our people don't see,' he said
TIE other day, that when q Republican is
lefin Office his hands are tied so far as use
fulress to his party goes If | should turn
ell the Republicans out of Office. without re.
gard TO their conduct, | should set tree 8
large army Of their most active and etfec.
tive political workersto labor in every cam
psign against our party, and every faithful
and honest man / had turned out would
have the public sympathy with him. | no
tee that in Ohio a prominent Republican
is a keen enough politician to see this point
and how it bears against his party"
The President is a kind hearted man, who
would ike to please and crafty his friends;
and he complains Of the WEAKNESS Of con-
slant resistance. Il go to bed after q long
day with the feeling that must be the
meanest man in the world, for l seem to
saw only no where l would only be too glad
to say yes. But this Office seeking is dis
ease-im entirely satisfied Of that. 1t Is
even catching. Men get it, and they lose
the proper balance oftheir minds. l see
them here as undoubtedly crazy as though
they were in q lunatic asylum. l can't &C
count for it, butt is clearly a disease. I've
known men come here to Washington On
other business, with no thought OF office;
but when they had been here a couple Of
weeks they've caught it. They seem sud
denly to get q mania, and such men have
come in here fora place, when knew that
before they left home they hadn't thought
about office