St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-28
REPUBLICAN, SPLEEN.
Opposition Senator's Firmly Deter
mined to Reject Nominations When
Information is Not 0btainable.
Pillsbury and Chase to be the First
Sacrificed and Many Others to
Follow Soon After.
Many Democrats Said to be Ex-
asperated at the Attitude OF
the President
In Battle Array.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The contro-
verSy between the president and the senate
is taking shape. The Republican senators
are ready 70 reject number OF the presi-
dents appointees, net only on the ground
OF unfitneSS in some cases, but on the gem
eral ground that they have attained place
by a defamation of their predecessors.
Among the irSt victims to be inundated are
Charles II. Chase. who is revenue
collector in Maine, and Eben I. PillSbury,
nominated TO an Office in Massachusetts.
Preliminary to wholesale action in the mat
ter of reflections. three weeks debate in
open session will intervene. so as TO make
plain the position of the Republican sena-
tors. This will demonstrate that the Re-
publicans are ready to confirm any mt APP
pointee that the president may nominate,
provided he has not attained his office
through charges filed by himself or his
friends against the officer he succeeds. The
president has taken the position that he has
not made and will not make
REMOVALS OF REPUBLICANS
except for cause AS this implies that
every officer is under the bane of cause"
the senate will insist upon knowing the
cause or reject the nominee The Demo
cratic senators, or some of them, think the
Republicans are engaged in a game of bluff,
and that their line cannot be held solid.
/ They anticipate number OF reflections. but
/ think with this the Republicans will be con-
/ tent. In other words. they say the Re-
/ publcanS want to make demonstra-
| ton, but after having made it and
/ emphasized their position, they will draw
/ Oft and peace will again reign. This view
/ may not be an illusOry one, but ii is to be
recorded in candOr that no Republican SEN
\ atOr can vet be found who does not believe
/ in the attitude of his party. Behind the
/ demonstration is the desire to tear away the
/ SO-called
MASK OF REFORM
with which the Republicans say Cleveland
/ has clothed himself. They say that Mr..
| Cleveland ought TO have the manllness to
declare that he wants the Offices for his
\ party friends, a right the Republi-
cans will not gainsay, and not pose
/ in a false light by seeking
an excuse to give them to Democrats
\ by blackening the characters of the officers
/ turned out. 1t is getting more and more
/ apparent each day that the president is
/ losing ground with the Democratic leaders.
At first his administration course was crti-
| ctsed by Democratic senators in undertOneS.
| Not so now. In the cloak rooms the sena-
/ tors gather in knots and discuss the presi-
dent in such an unfavorable manner as to
make his ears Jingle. Some of
/ those more open and manly
are ready To denounce his administration on
/ the floor of the senate, but they are just at
( this time restrained because of the half
hearted hope that the row between him and
the Republican senators will make a Demo-
crat of him. The president, because OF his
WANT OF CoRDIALITY
/ m Namnarafip
in the plight of being at the head of party
without having behind him the support of
his party. To this hour he has not given
his confidence to a single Democrat
| IN congress who can get up in
his place and voice the aims and
desires of the administration. There are
no reciprocal relations between congress
and the executive, The measures which
( he has urged upon congress in his message
would, il adopted by Democratic votes,
I safely make the next house of representa-
! tives Republican by a good majority OF
/ votes. While this OF itself is exaSperating
/ enough, the situation becomes further az
/ gravated from the fact that Mr.. Cleveland
/ will not honor the recommendations
/ of Democratic congressman in the matter of
appointments. In nine cases out of ten he
endeavOrs to find out what they want. and
then treats them to surprise, modification
ton and humiliation by doing what they
do not want. If such thing could be in
congress as having vote
EXPRESSING CONFIDENCE
in the acts of the president as thus far re-
vealed the president would be amazed to
find what a hopeless minority he Is
in. Those who want to stand by
the president and who incline to be roseate
as the future, say: Have patience. Every
thing will be all right after awhile" Per
contra, this is met with the statement: eve
were told this eight months ago and yet
things are even worse now than then" 1t
may be that the president penetrates
further into the future than his critics 1t
may be that, like the veteran faro player, he
has a system which in the end will win
1t may be that the president thinks he can
purify and elevate the Democracy of the
land by the Christening process. Howbeit
the fact is that some of the wisest leaders
openly proclaim that his administration is
hOpelessly wrecked, and that the lesson OF
the hour Is how TO save the Democratic
party from going down in the whirlpool,
into which a Democratic president has de-
liberately thrown himself.