St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-14
Wonderful Work Prosecuted by the Admin
istration in the Five Months of
Its Existence.
Frauds Unearthed in Every Department
and Many Millions Saved to
the People.
Democratic Congressman Anxious &c
Have the Civil Service Law Mod
flied or Repealed.
An Extensive System of Whisky
Frauds Being Practiced by Means
of Bogus Barrels.
Reform Administration.


has been i'm power Il little over five months,
and if is not too early to ask what kind of
an administration it is. The extreme diff
Guilty the New York Tribune and the Gin
ciunati Commercial-GaZette are having in
keeping up an opposition is pretty
good evidence that it is not
an easy administration to attack.
1t has made some mistakes, but the most
violent of Republican organs have to con-
tent themselves with a ridiculous belittling
OF the good work Of the administration. and
an equally absurd eXaggeration of those
small errors which every finite government
must make.
1t is evident from Republican papers
that they are getting very little campaign
ammunition out of this administration.
Take the treasury department a
man who is not a banker or an
expert accountant can now find out how
much gold and silver the government owns.
Every effort IS being made, and with full
ASSURANCE OF SUCCESS,
to prevent the substitution of the silver for
gold standard IN commercial transactions
until congress shall meet and have chance
To amend the legislation. The legal tender
issues has never been so secure
as since the department has adopted
lilt tNlitN Vi SNlllil5 dolhC NUN
its assets 500. 600. 900 of gold as fund
to protect and redeem them.
Whatever may be said of Auditor ChenO-
with's attitude on the civil service question,
he has done a COED service in exposing a
most disgraceful state of affairs III the coast
survey Office which his predecessor
might have exposed but he never did. Take
the interior department. In the general
land Office a substantial check has been
given to the vast fraudulent entry business,
and the rights of the settlers in the indem-
nifty lands have deem asserted. In the In
dian Office the illegal career of
THE CATTLE BARONS
In occupying Indian lands and fencing
public domains has been brought to an end.
In the pension Office there are fewer en-
plOyeS spending their time in politics and
more of them working for disabled yeter-
ans than ever before. There was never
before time in the history of the office
when it worked so rapidly and efficiently
as it does now, and all that
he Republican organs can say in reply to
his is that man whom the president APP
pointed pension agent took the response
biity of employing an eX-Confederate as
sistant chief clerk
Look at the navy department. The mere
declaration that the interests of the govern
ment are TO be taken care of just as mer-
chant would take care of his
own interests is hailed as revolutionary The
means Nj. Whitney is employing to protect
the interests of the government in the four
cruisers now mcOmplcted and to acquire
the very best possible information before
beginning the next four eOmmendS itself to
every intelligent man in the country, and
the only thing the
REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPERS
can do is to beg for sympathy for ROach's
discharged employees. The efficiency with
which the navy department supports the
state department at Panama and Guayaquil
IS creditabe to it. In the war department
there is q feeling that merit instead of intlu-
enCe is TO determine promotion of officers
and justice and the public good are to deter
mine details such as have not prevailed
there for many years. MIR. Lincoln
was an excellent secretary and would have
accomplished more in the direction of re-
forms if President Arthur had not had so
many friends. President Cleveland has no
friends in his mind when the public interest
is in any way involved. In the department
OF justice it is already apparent that there
is an attorney general who deVOteS
Ills ENTIRE MIND
to protecting the interests Of hiS CLIENTELE
government. We have had attorney gem
erals who looked ont for everybody eXcept
the government. Take the poStoilce de-
partment-the department that comes the
closest to the people. Forty or fifty thou
sand dollars year was saved Oh the contracts
for official envelopes. About $50. 600 was
saved on contracts for printing postage
stamps. Leases Of premises for long terms
of years at eXOrbitant rentals. procured evil
denIly for peclni&ry or political considera-
tons, have been declared invalid in accord
ance with an opinion by the attorney gen.
eral.
What postmaster general have we had
lately who would have sacrificed the oppor-
tunity of distributing $500, 900 among the
owners of American steamship lines, not to
promote the efficiency of
TIE POSTAL SERVICE,
bnt simply to add to the gains of the own
erS? Mr.. Villas did that and the
result is that not only are
mails carried as well as ever to
Cuba and Central and South America. but
the mails are carried more eXpeditiously
than ever before, because, instead of an all
water route part rail and part water
route has been substituted. Out of nearly
500 presidential postmaSters who
have been appointed, it has
DGcn learned IllaC one or two
were bad appointments, and to the unspeak-
able disgust of the Republican organs these
have been promptly revoked. Out of =. 500
fouTth-claSS pOStmasteTS appointed since
Mr.. Stevenson succeeded Mr.. HAY, il has
been found necessary to revoke the
appointments of five. The sum
of the whole matter is this: Five months of
Democratic administration has proved that
instead of there being only one, there are
two parties in this country, either one of
which is perfectly capable of carrying on
the government. This is gratifying news
to people who are Americans first
and party men afterwards, but who have
grown little uneasy lest the preaching of
the Republican politicians was right, and
that there was only one political organiza-
ton that contained enough brains and pa
triotiSm TO run the government without
running it into the ground.
Foo Much Reform.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-The question
OF the civil service law and its enforcement
or repeal Is assuming no little prominence.
Since the advent of the present administra-
tloll, me Democrats are not so well pleased
WIN The civil service law as they were in
the minority. They find it a barrier to their
aspirations for office. and now talk
OF a repeal or mobilization of the
law at The next session of con-
greSs Is open. This sentiment has
been brought by the experience
OF democratic congressman in trying to get