The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-10-04
DOINGS AT HE CAPITAL.
RESIGNATION OF mR. EATON,
President Clsveisnd's Letter TO the Civil
service Chairman Very Offensive
to the Demoersts-seeisty Feat
ares = Personal Points
and Predictions.

turbed oyer the situation revesled by
the Presidents letter last week 10 the
Hon. Dorman B. Eaton on the occasion
OF the rendering by the latter of his
resignation as president OF the civil.
service commission. Among Demo-
Gratis especially the letter was unex-
pected and caused with them come
surprise. The spectacle of Demo-
cratic president gushing and slobber-
ing over one of tho sost offensive.
dyed-in-the- wool Republicans, and ONE
too, whose craftsmanship in the past
ought, under Democratic adminis-
tration, TO have speedily "shown him
the door OF office" was rather more
than the average Democrat an,ici-
psted. OF course amoug Rspub icsn
offioeholders here the letter was very
acceptable. II seems to have been
written in their interests, and, natur.
ally enough, ELECTED from them a mur.
mar Of approbstisn. But this mur-
muir, II 1t reach Mr. Cleveland's
ear, Will be Immediately
swallowed up In the angry sro.i that
comes from dissatisfied Democracy,
l say dissatisfied, because 1t is abun.
dainty evident that great many Dam.
ocrats are daily becoming more and
more dlspleased with Mr.. Uleveland's
policy.
A short time sincs the dissatisfaction
was limited 30 few politicians ans 81
horde OF otfice-seekers, hut recently.
things have trauspired that HAYS
added to that body a good many of orr
ablest and best men. The 1oliticaI
kettle begins to boil here In way that
oxcites much conment and some
alarm. Prominent Democrats are ba.
coming more outsp ken In their criti-
cism OF the Presidents way of carving
out Civil-sefvicc reform, and, III rnmor
prove true, a cloud il gathering that
will burst like 50 thurdor-clap over
Mr.. Cleveland's head when he least
expects it His idess of
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
nave been taken all along as being
founded on sincere and well meant in
tentions. But OF late some doubt has
arisen, and this doubt has been greatly
strengthened by The Eaton letter. In
the opinion of a prominent
Democrat here, il that Letter
had been written before election, Mr..
Cleveland would rave carried Masss
chusetts and lost Kentucky. 1t was
the most positive aud emphatic public
declaration he had ever made, and W. q
the least expected by the men who
voted for him. 1t sounded like death
knell to the me0 who haye spent their
time and money for tho lest % years to
elect q Democratic president, Ia. The
hopo of getIiog offices for themselves
ard friends, aud every congressmau
who ls, or has been, here looking After
appointments, feels as Ii no had been
slapped in the face by an ungrateful
son. Many OF them are koepinx silent
just now, but when Congress- snsets
and they all get together there will be-
music 10y the whole band. Senator
voorhees, il
GOING TO LEAD OFF
In a big speech, and when the polit.
ical msstiffs tegin TO bark we shall
near frsm the Whole pack in concert,
Inc letter contained come offensive al
Iusions that wsro very Irritating. A
member OF Congress- dooa not
relish being referred to a.
lmpudentiy standing between the
government and the people, whom no
comes hers to sees appointment Tor
MS constituents. He comes here not
from choice but from duty, because
1t has beea the custom from times inn
memorial, and representative who
would refuse - do 80 would fail in Sc
curing denomination in any district
In the country. And furthermore,
members OF Congress ard statesmen,
whose ability and integrity, and whose
views and ideas have never been uues-
toned by the people, are little Inclined
I'D oil
when they SEQ man who has sprung
into prominence in a day, sitting in
judgment and calmly and GelibaIa.e!y
branding them and the opisiens theg
advocate as mario Y,superaunuated, at
tenuated and belonging to tho old fos-
silized things of the past. The Demo-
cratic party lived long time ana saw
much
BEFORE Mr.. CLEVELAND WAS EVER
HEARD OF,
and If he thinks ne has been rent to
reconstruct and reform IL according to
his own broad Republican Democratic
views, we predict for him an
1nglorious failure. III Mr.. Cleveland
proposes to carry out the letter aud
spirit OF his letter to Eaton he viii be
as lar from the party that elected him
as was Andy Johnson. A great many
Democratic Congressman, who have
expressed themselves on tho subject,
believe that he will not try 10 carry
out tho views expressed therein, and
endeevor to console themselves by
thinking that The letter was intended
10 Keep tho mugwump vote in New
YORK, which IT. liable To be Loaf by the
nomination OF Hill, and Mr.. Hendricks
1sreported es saying II the Republic
ans OF New York hadn't nominated
such a strong ticket Eaton's rosigna.
ton would have been accepted In
silence. But tho correspondence was
dated before the Republican oonven-
lion, and Mr.. cleveland evidently had
no auch idea In view. The suspension
OF Sterling can not be reconeiled with
any such theory, and DIR. Waling, OF
Indianapolis, WAS ted that II change
was made la the hesd of tho marine
hospital service, man would DO 30.
looted from the corps of surgeons.
Everybody knows that they are,
almost to n man, Republicans. Besides,
any such idea M tho one cbNritsbiy
accredited tn MIR. Cleveland, as indi-
Gated above, " csrried out, woRld cnt
both ways, and no knows Il. What
would please the mugwumps Of New
York would demoraiize the Demo-
Gratis Of Ohio, and 1t II as important to
carry ono State ~ tho other. Tho fact
-, II IL becoming painfully evident
that Cleveland, In riding hts hobby Of
civil-scfvlce reform, " makiuga
BETTER nEPuBL1oAN PRESIDENT THAN
BLAINE
wonld have made had he been elected.
Clvil-servlc reform, II carried tuut
properly and iaifly, would no doubt
DO perfectly ncceptsblo to the Dsmo.
cratic party. But whom II tends to for
lily In tueir stropeholds q horde Of
bitter, paitipsu Republicans, who
openly ard boldly use their Positions
10 strengthen themselvss and their
party, to the detriment of good Demo-
Gratis, IL 10 we'll calculated 10 cause dts.
satisfaction. Nearly all Of the Inn
poftant positions under tho govern.
mont IRE held by Repub-
Ilcsns who came IN under Re.
publican rule, ssd th,s" positions are,
AZ many cases, openly used
10 advance private ends. Abe only