St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-21
GROVER is KING.
Like Napoleon He Believes in His
Star
And Wants No Advice From Dem
ocratic Senators.
His Desire to be Recognized as the
Boss,
While the Power of spoils Alone Gives
Him Support.
Opposed by His Party on Great and I'm
pOrtant Questions.
Silver Supported in the House and Opposed
in the Senate.
Angry at BEING Ignored.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-The Washing
ton correspondent of the Cincinnati In
Quirer telegraphs his paper as follows:
The talk of a disagreement, or. as some
put it, war between the president and
the senate, is fudge. The president is
not inclined to make war. He is ready to
concede most any thing asked Of him by the
senate. The trouble has been that the
committees of the senate have asked
cabinet officers for certain information
touching changes in the offices, and the
president is stubborn because he has been
ignored Being the boss of the cabinet,
end allowing these officers but little liberty
of action, he wants the senate to come
direct to him for what it may want Off
cially, and he will direct his cabinet heads,
whom he treats as mere clerks, to furnish
it. If there should be a war between the
president and senate, it will not be the
presidents fault. The senate, as is known,
is a Republican body, and while Mr..
Cleveland is inclined at times to
snub the party to whom he owes his
election. he never, even by hint, does
aught to hurt the tender feelings of the
no war. The president has gone to the
iimit of personally advising Republican SEN
ators that he should be glad if they would
reject unfit appointments. Having thus
openly solicited antagonsm, he is not now
by any act of his own going to put up
barrier to prevent the fullest investigation
at the hands of those who are to pass upon
his appointments. Behind all this talk
there is another matter. The president
feels that in some Of the appointments he
has made during the recess
HE HAS BEEN BUNKoED,
so to speak, by the friends who urged them
upon him. Like the fellow in THE Mi
kado," he has a dozen or more on the list
who never will be missed by him, and the
truth is, he wants them rejected. He can
not well ask Democratic senators 10 reject
appointees of their own faith. so he has
cleverly set up job with half dozen Re-
publican senators to help him out. The
president, despite the ill-feelng of his party
towards him, does not fret. All his life he
has been the creature of luck. Like Ma
poleon, he believes in his star. and for
this reason he wants no advice from Demo
Gratis. He feels that his position
places him at the head of the Democratic
organization, and that instead of having
advice thrust upon him, he is the one to
dictate. He wants Democratic policy, as
he interprets it, to be promulgated from the
White house. and not to be filtered to it
from outside sources. Democratic leaders
are fast beginning to find this out. They
believe that the policy Of the president is
sending the Democratic party TO the devil.
out they dare not antagOniZe him, because
their constituents are clamOring for the
offices. and the president has them to be-
stow. If at one fell swoop the patronage
of the government could be taken away
from the president, but few would do him
reverence. He would be
SEVERELY LET ALONE.
Snd the mass of the Democrats on hand
would hail it as the day of their deliver
ance when his official term ran out. The
president to-day stands Squarely in oppOSi-
ton to his party in all of the essentials upon
which Democracy has waged war against
the Republicans. First. he is a civil service
refOrmer. True civil service reform
he interprets to be the keeping
in Office of Republicans. LOOK over
the land in any direction. and to-day the
Republicans are intrenched in the best
offices Second. he repudiates the Demo-
cratic party in its sympathies for the poor.
This by his efforts to again demOnetiZe sill
yer. Put Mr.. Cleveland on his own plat
form. made by his first message to congress.
and he could not carry one side of Indiana.
The Pacific states would be in a revolt
against him, and he could net even hold the
solid South. But yet he has starved army
to treat with. 1t has been buffeted and
surfeited in the stormy sea of politics for
quarter of a century. 1t is hungry. Mr.
Cleveland has the commissary train. Now
and again he throws bone to Democrat.
This inspires hope. The balance, who are
waiting for the next installment. live on
faith. which the lore of the catechism says
is the substance of things hoped for, not
seen. Mr.. Cleveland's position to-day with
his party is just this: They respect him for
the offices he has, and damn him for his
principles. TO this complexion has it come
at last. The power of spOils alone gives
him the only support he has.