The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-22
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DiDSShbhH NJ ho
The Washington correspondent of Gin
cinnati Enquirer telcgraphed the follow
ing bit of vituperaiion to that Journal
last "Wednesday, and the same was pub
lished in the ST. Paul Globe yesterday.
The talk of II disagreement, or.
as some put it, Il war between
the President and the Senate,
is fudge. The president is not inclined
to make war. lie is ready To concede
most anything asked OF him by the SEN
ate. The trouble has been that the
committees of the senate have asked
cabinet officers for certain information
touching changes in the offices, aud the
president is stubborn because he has
been ignored. Being the boss of the
cabinet, anu allowing these aliicers but
little liberty oi action, he wants the SELL
ate To come dlrert 10 him for what il
may want officially, and he Will dlrec.
Ills cabinet heads, whom he treats as
mere clerks, To furnish II. Ii There
should be u war between the president
ane senate, II Will no De the prcsldciLs
fault. Tne Senate, as 10 known, Is u lie
publican body, ami wnIle Mr.. CietclaiIu
Is lncllued u. times 10 snuU the pdily
u wuom lie owes Ills election, ne hover,
even by hint, does auSht ~ nuIt tue ten
der feelings oI the opposition. for THIS
reason there viii DC no war. The presi-
dent has gone " the iiniiL 81 Personally
advising RcpuuIlcan seLa.ors mat iv
should ue glad II they Would Reject uii-
tit appointments. Having thus openly
solicited anta2onlsui, lie 10 MOI nov D.
any act vi Ills OWE going 10 put up Al Oar
rler to prevent the fullest Investigation
at the hands vi those who are 10 pass
upon his appointments. Beulnd all tuis
talk there Is another matter. Inc presi-
dent Ieels that III some oI the appoint
ments he has ma'ie during the recess
he has been bunkoed, ~ ~ speak, b.
the friends who urged them upon INN.
Like the fellow in The Mlkado," lie
has u dozen Or more iii the list who
will never be missed 10y him, and the
truth is, he anti them rejected. lie
cannot we'll ask Democratic SENATORS 10
reject appointees of their own latin, 81
he has cleverly set up u Job with u hall
dozen Republican senators 10 help hlm
out. The president, despite the l~ll-feel-
ing Of his party towards nm, does not
fret. All his life he has been the crea'
ture Of luck. Like Napoleon, he be-
leyes in his star, and Tor this reason he
wants no advice from Democrats. He
feels that his position places him at the
head of the Democratic organization,
and that instead oi having advice thrust
upon him he is the one 10 dictate. He
wants Democratic policy, AS he inter
prets it, to be promulgated from the
White house, and not To be tiltred to il
from outside sources. Democratic lead
ers are fast beginning to lind this out.
| The, l.li.x,. thut thu nnlI,.y nf flln nrnS-
ident is sending the Democratic party
TO the devil, but they dare not sniago-
nize him, because their constituents are
clamoring for the offices, and the presi-
dent has them To bestow. III ut one tell
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, and the mass of the
Democrats on hand would hail it as the
day of their deliverance when his oth-
cial term ran out. The president to-day
stands ~squareiy in opposition To his par
" in all the essentials upon which De-
mocracy has waged war against the Re-
publicans. First, he is a civil service
reformer. True civil service reform he
interprets to be the keeping III office OF
Republicans. Look over the land III
any direction, and the Republicans are
intrenched in the best offices. Second,
he regulates the Democratic party ill
its sympathies for the poor. This by his
efforts To again demonetiZe silver. Put
MIR. Cleveland on his own platform,
made by his first message to congress,
he could not carry one side Of Indiana.
The Pacific states would be in Il revolt
against him, and he could not eve hold
the solid South. But yet he has II
starved army 10 treat with. IT has been
butfeted AMI surieIted III the stormy SEA
OF politics or Il quarter of Il century. IL
is hungry. Mr.. Cleveland has the COM
missary train. Now and again LIE throws
a bone TO u Democrat. ms Jlres
hope. The BALANCE 40 are yditlns foi
he Installme.it, live on faith,
WITCH the lore of the cItechism says Ii
the substance of things hoped for, MOI
seen. Mr.. Cleveiand's position to day
with the party is just this: They re-
spect him for the offices he has, anu
damn him for his principles. To thi~
complexion has ii come 1T last. The
power CT spuilS alone gives him the only
support he has.
The Enquirer is John McLane's paper,
and is about rs near the Democratic
idea as it is possible to get, and the GLOBE
is known to he Simon pure; 80 we con-
clude that when Democratic thunder
thunders so thunderingly there mast be
Il sore " loose somewhere in the party
mechanism.