Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-02-04
NOT TO BE BULLDozED.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND HOLDS
HIS OWN IN THE FIGHT WITH
THE REPUBLICAN SENATE.
No Reason Will be Given for the Re-
moval of Partisan Officers.
Another Andrew jackson in the Per
son ofthe ChiefExecutive.
LPlaIn Dealer Special

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 27.-After
talking with three Democratic Senators
of mature mind and conservative tenn
perament feel that l may write of the
issue between the President and the
Republican Senators without contribu-
ting anything to the volume of imag-
inative or sensational journalism. The
contest is quite sharply defined. II is
in its nakedness whether the Senate
can compel the executive branch of the
government to furnish it with the rea-
sons for suspensions from office made
by virtue of the authority granted by
section 1853 of the United States stat
utes. The test that has been proffered
by the Senate was not selected because
of any inherent points of advantage,
but merely because 1t was at the top of
the docketed cases of suspensions. In
fact this particular case would afford
the President another opportunity to
fill the Senators with chagrin, as In the
affair of the Utica, N. Y, collectorship,
where the removed Republican had
written trucking letter intima-
ting his readiness to barter his party soul
for retention of office. George w.
Duskin, the Alabama district attorney,
about whom this initiatory pother Is
raised, was removed for connection
with Marshal Scrobach's financial &C.
centricities. .a ~
THE PRESENT CONTEST
does not hinge, as mistakenly assumed
In some quarters, upon the constitu-
tionality of the tenure of Office act, but
upon the construction of that amend
ment of it which was inserted to
give President Grant the pow
er that had been restricted under
President johnson. The clause thus
interjected in 1869 gave the President
authority to suspend an officer during
recess, provided for the sending of the
appointee's name to the Senate within
thirty days after the commencement of
session and also for the sending in of
another name upon failure to confirm
the first. The presidential construc-
ton of this, and with him are the
unanimous Democratic Senatorial
membership-nnd also all Republican
precedents since 1869-is that the re-
quirement of the former act of 1867,
that causes of removal should be stated,
was prerogative of removal during re-
cess is in full vigor and subject to no re-
view. Rejection of the appointee does
not restore the suspended Official but
demands the nomination of another
person for the office. 1lh s
THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS,
with that proverbial disregard for pre-
cedents of their own creation, and also
of the law or even constitution, when
party exigencies suggest violation, now
seek to save their party friends that are
left in place, and also to whiten the
''rascals that have been turned out" by
endeavoring to set up senatorial form
of executive government for this ma
tion. Senator Edmunds leads the am
bilious plot. He is posing for the Re-
publican nomination in 1883. He lost
it in 1884 but in his defeat he was the
price of the mugwumps. Now he pro-
ceeds upon the theory that the vast
mass of people care nothing for the
manipulations about the offices, and IL
he can delight the mugwump heart by
making national fight against the
President, the fame will enable these
ethereal creatures to force him upon the
major section of his party as the eandi-
date. With Logan the participation in
this contest is purely one of partisan
antipathy. Nobody credits him with
broad views on any public question. 1t
is wormwood for him to witness the re-
moval of henchmen he inducted into
offices as recompense for personal al
legiance. Sherman and Evarts in the
impeachment trial were aligued with
what is now, as it was then, Democratic
doctrine on the right of the President to
remove. ~ "#| ~ H .,n Ga5a
When asked what advantage can &C.
crue to never-to-be-restored Republi-
can by refusing to confirm an unassail.
able Democrat, the Republican Sena.
tors respond that they 'y. ''a
MUST KNOW THE CAUSES OF REMOVAL
Senator Sherman has openly declared
that all suspended cases will be held uE
until the president yields. This then il
the issue joined. 1t Is not upon the
tenure of Office act but upon its amend
ment. The Republicans want to per
ceive, as still lodged in it, provision
that was expressly removed afteran op
Grafton of only two years to meet tht
patronage necessities of the Grant re
gime. The Democrats welcome the in
auguration Of the struggle that is to b,
protracted. s ass GorGe
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The Girl and the Bribe.
Kansas City Times.I
A story comes from Washington
: which has two morals. A Young lad