Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-03-12
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY. MARCH 10. 1885.
Promise and Performance.
From the New York Tribune.

Yesterday we gave such welcome as
was possible to President Cleveland's
premises. 70 day we have to comment
upon his OwA Interpretation Of them by
his earliest official acts Scarcely any
act during his term of Office can posi-
bly, disclose so mach OF his purpose and
best Of mind, his sincerity OF inslncsr-
ity, as his. choice of Cabinet officers.
Courtesy toward the new Presidsn re-
quire6 that his inaugural declarations
should be treated, not as empty platitu-
des, but as expressions Of sincere pur-
pose. So justice and self respect will
compel the American people to say. when
they learn what Cabinet officers he has
chosen, that, in some respects at least,
his choice stamps his professions with
mark of insineerity.
No other declaration Of the inaugural
address attracted more attention than
the Presidents words about Civil Service
reform. But the country demands not
words but deeds. The President may
rest assured that the people are net to
be deceived by empty platitudes, and
when he selects for the very Office which
has largest c0RtrOl eyer appointments.
and has ever been misused for partisan
purposes, a inln who is known only as a
political "b0ss' OF tho most unscrupu-
lous order, they will not give Mr.. Cleve-
land credit for sincerity. Mr.. Manning
is indeed fine person to head the cru
SADIE for the reform Of the Civil Service.
The citizens who were quite to holy to
support the Republican candidate will
no doubt congratulate themselves that
at last they have succeeded in serving
the cause Of reform by putting into the
Treasury Department one of the associa-
ties if net hirelipgs Of Boss Tweed, who
afterward became his imitator.
Another declaration of the inaugural
which meant everything for the coun-
try If it was sincere, concerned the
treatment of the colared sitizens Of the
South. What are we to think OF Mr..
ClevelaDd's sincerity in these 6as pro-
LESSONS, when he selects, as the very Of
ficsr OF all others charged with the duty
Of enforcing the election laws. Mr.. Gar
land, OF Arkansas, a product of the
shameless conspiracy which to-day rules
ia so many Southern states by systema
tic fraud, for which systematic assassin
alton prepared the way? Mr.. Garland
was not merely one OF tho products of
this law defying and Infamous cOnspir-
acy: he was ono of those who gave his
efforts and his influence, aAd his weight
of character to make that conspiracy q
success, to shelter assasiAs from the
consequences OF :heir crime, and 10
shield fraud and perjury from public
Odium. Nor il he the only enc who was
lifted to high STATEN by such denial Of
the rights Of freedmen. Mr.. Lamar req
resents State In which q majority Of
the persons entitled to vote under the
Constitution of the United States are
now and ever have been hostile to his
party, and no knows that at no time for
the last fifteen years has it been posi-
BILE for him to reach either branch of
Congress from the State of Mississippi,
except in defiance of the will of the
electors. Able men, honorable men in
other matters, Mossrs. Lamar and Gar
land the more tOreibly illustrate that
incOn ceivabls pervsrsiOn Of mind which
counts it not dishon0rable to enjoy the
fruits of a vast robbery by which mil
lion Of free citizens are deprived OF their
sacred rights.
The selection of Mr.. Bayard, a promi.
nsnt and thorough free trader, would
have east similar light upon Mr..
| 10 II
tiOn. had Mr.. BayaTd been selected for
the Treasury Department.. As 1t is, judg-
ment mast be reserved until more may
be knewn OF the purpose of the political
boss who has been chosen in Mr.. Bayard' s
stead for the department of finance. But
in one respect the selection of Mr.. Bay
ard accOrds only too well with the ten
dsnsies of the Democratic party. 1t is a
selection which will please Great Britain
very much better than the United States
II is to 10 noticed, also, that while Mr.
Cleveland makes elaborate professions
of a desire to put an end to sectional
feeling, no il careful to select, az the
only members Of his Cabinet who have
National reputation, extended influence
or large experience in public affairs
three representatives Of the late cOnfsd-
sracy. Men of weight and power, men
of ideas and of craftsmanship, are choE.
on to speak for the South, and that il
proper. But who represents the North
Where 10 Mr. PendletOR? Where il Mr.
Thurman? Was 1t not possible to fnd
in New England a man of larger influ-
ence and greater experience than Mr.
Endicett? Does not the Democratic
party know at least as much of Senator
Mcdonald rs Of the corporation lawyer
Colonel Vilasp
New York has strong statesmen on the
Democratic side. Seymour and Herman
and Hewitt, and others not few. Mr.
whitney 10 known In this city as a eapa
BILE and ACCOMPLISHED man, and beyond