, 1886-04-08
The Administration. A

Nothing tnat PRESIDENT cleveland
has done since coming into power has
so revealed to Washington Territory
democrats his utter untitness for the
position he holds, as the appointment
of j. C.. Breckinridge, son of the
notorions rebel general, to our sur
eyor-generalship. Cleveland was
elevated to the office of sheriff of a
county in New York, tLen the mayor
atty of Buffalo, then to the governor
ship of the state, and from that to
the presidency of the United States
all within remarkably brief space
of time, a very few years. His
whole stock in trade is his executive
quality. Outside of this he is liable
to blunders which a man long famil-
lar with public affairs would never
fall into. He has apparently deemed
it his first duty to reward mugwumps
who went to his rescue from republi-
can ranks; secondly, to fit out the
southern rebel democracy with fat
offices, leaving loyal northern demo-
Gratis to content themselves with what
ever crumbs might be left after the
other and more favored guests have
feasted at the first table. Washing
ton Territory is peculiarly favored in
these days with young men famous
because they are the sons of their
fathers. The new surveyor general
adds one to the list. Kentucky was
loyal state during all the dark days
of the Rebellion when her influence
cast the other way might have chang
ed the result; not so with her noted
son, John c.. Breckinridge, who,
fresh from high official position IN
der the federal government which he
should have stood by, went out to ac
cept a soldiers commission in the
rebel army. Many rebel has since
been forgiven because his state pride
and state fealty carried him reluc-
tantly into rebellion's ranks when he
otherwise would have continued loyal
to the Nation; but it has remained
for democratic president TO reward
the son of a noted man because that
father not only lett high and respon-
sible federal position, but left his
state in its loyalty, and went over in
to the ranks of high treason. Does
anyone believe that young Breckin
ridge would ever have been heard of
in connection with our surveyor gen
eralship but for his fathers promi-
nent services in the rebel cause?
There are many democrats in this
Territory who have objected hereto
fore to such plain illusions as are
herein contained, because they felt it
to be an unwarranted Haunting of
the ''bloody shirt" for political effect
but the scales are rapidly falling
from their eyes. The Olympia Stan
dard, staunch wheel-horse of dem
ocracy for nearly quarter of cen
tury, speaking of the ignoring of Hon.
Francis Henry, a pioneer democrat
eminently qualified for the surveyor
generalship, and widely endorsed by
those who know him best, speaks out
in manly, candid tones, thus:
This is, however, but one of the
causes of complaint which the Demo
Gratis of the Territory have to annoy
them. 1t is Eot in the present in
stance, willful ignoring of one of
the principles enunciated in the plat
form that constitutes the principal
grievance, but disposition to foist
upon the people, in some instances,
men who have no claim on the party
which elected Mr. Cleveland, but who
on the contrary were its most bitter
and persistent enemies. A party
which has remained faithful to prin-
clple SO many years without the
'.loaves and fishes" has no difficulty
in determining its cour 7e of action
now. 1t is to sustain whatever is
Democratic in the present Admins
tration and unhesitatlngly condemn
what is not Washington Territory
may be snubbed as child, but the
time Is not far distant when she VIII
don the robes of Statehood and choose
for herself her rulers, even to the
highest.
In the case Of the confirmation of
Mugwump Adams, who was appoint
ed register of the Spokane land office
bY Voorhees, in nlaca of ArnaStrnncr