Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-11-25
The President and his Spells Critics.

The President is now about halfway
through his term of office. 1t was not
to be expected that he would give salts
faction to Republicans, so any failure
in that direction is not to be charged
against him. Has he made any adj
vance in the favor of the Democratic
party! The answer to this question is
that the sharpest and most cruel criti-
cism of him personally and of his policy
politically comes from has own party.
On the one hand, the Mugwumps are
continually apologizing for him, reason
ing with him, and extenuating his con-
duct in violating the civil service law
and catering TO the spoilsmen of the
Democratic party; while on the other
hand these very spoilsmen are continu-
ally assailiDg him for not turning out
more Republicans, although there are
very few left except clerks and letter.
carriers. and delivering over the patron
age in bulk TO the Congressional pur-
yeyors.
IL is said that the President is pecu-
liarly sensitive to criticism, particularly
when the critics are Democrats, as all
the hardest and toughest ones are. He
certainly has the right to be, for moth
ing could be more unjust, more cruel.
or more unfounded than the snarls and
complaints of these clamcrous spoil.
shriekers and seekers. When the full
sweep of the Presidential prerogative is
considered, and when the victims of the
Official guillotine are counted up in
every state, county. city, town, and vii
lage, 1t will be found that Mr. Cleveland
has already swept more than three
fourths of the Republican office-holders
out OF their places Qeaving nothing but
a remnant of little fellows), merely be-
cause they were Republicans, and in
defiance of both the letter and the spirit
of the civil-service regulations, and that
he has not left Republican in even
the lowest office where by any posi-
bility his position could be used to the
detriment of the Democratic party. All
the responsible officials have been be-
headed. That the spoilsmen are not
satisfied even with this wholesale
slaughter of their foes shows that they
are disappointed because he has not
provided offices for the criminal classes
OF the party, the loafers and bummers
OF the wards, the shriekers and heelers.
and the unconvicted convicts who stuff
ballot-boxes, forge returns, and manip-
ulate tally-sheets. 1t shows that they
want him TO parcel out the offices by
metes and bounds in each district, Civ
ing to each Congressman the appoint
ing power, so that he can parcel out
offices to his henchmen and aides-de-
camp. But the fact that he has in a
large degree done this very thing shows
that they not only want him to chop off
the heads of all the little clerks and
letter. carriers, but to do it as if he liked
it and, like old Gen. Jackson when he
cleaned out the National Republicans
(alias Whigs), TO announce it with a
loud hurrab; and, whenever he lifts a
scalp, TO sound war-whoop, brandish
his tomahawk, have war-dance, and
strike terror to his Republican enemies.
To the extent that Cleveland has fallen
short of this Jacksonian mode of scalp
ing Republicans they find fault with
and denouncc him. CHICAGO Tribune.