Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-03-11

tors as to the prerogatives of the President on
| removals from Office, has called forth a mes
sage from President Cleveland. The mes
sage is a remarkable State paper, which de-
monstrates to the country that the present
occupant of the Presidential chair has the
courage and frmness of jackson. No paper
has emanated from President since the
memorable message of President jackson
against notification, that compares with the
message of President Cleveland to the Sen
ate, defining the rights of the Executive.
While we give the message complete in this
out a few of the most salient points of the
message, which shows the President to be an
expert in the art of "putting things" What,
for instance, could be better stated than this,
with reference to one of the bubbles raised
| by the Edmunds committee:
'I do not suppose that the public offices Of
| the United States are regulated or controlled
! by the fact that they were created by laws
enacted by themselves. 1t must by that these
| instrumentalities were created for the benefit
| of the people and to answer the general pur-
pose of government under the constitution
and the laws, and that they are unincumbered
by any lein in favor of either branch of Con-
gress growing out of their constitution, and
unembarrassed by any obligation to the Sen
ate of the price of their creation"
| In speaking of the private papers which the
Senate has chosen to regard as official be-
cause they were on file in the departments,
the President says:
| "There is no mysterious power of transmu.
tation in departmental custody, nor is there
magic in the underlined and sacred solemnity
of department files. If the presence of these
papers in the public Offices is a stumbling.
block in the way of the performance of sena.
torial duty, it can be easily removed"
St. jerome himself will hardly deny that il
rather neat. Nor, it is to be presumed, viii
he and some of his associates fail to see thu
point SO clevely made in the following:
''I have not felt justified In suspecting the
veracity, integrity, and patriotism OF sena
tors, or ignoring their representations, be
cause they were not in party affiliation witt
the majority of their associates; and recall |
few suspensions which bear the approval o
individual members identified POLITICAL.
with the majority of the Senate"
And it will not be denied that this brief ex
tract is refreshingly free from ambiguity:
"The pledges have made were made t
the people, and to them am responsible TO
the manner in which they have been re
deemed. I am not responsible to the Senate
, and am unwilling to submit my actions an
official conduct to them for Judgment"
j And finally, the spoilsmen of both partie
, will certainly have no difficulty in under
i -
standing the concluding passage of thi
admirable production, which reads:
"Neither the discomfort Of party friends, nc
the allurements constantly oifered OF cor
avowal that suspensions have been made o
party grounds alone, nor the threat propose
, in the resolutions now before the Senate ths
, no combinations will be made unless the dt
mands of that body are complied with, al
sufficient to discourage or deter me from TO-
: lowing in the way which | am convince
leads to better government for the people,"