Nevada County picayune., 1886-11-10
Have we Cromwell Among Us?

This question might be esteem ed more pertinent and plausible if
 it were framed in this wise: Have
 we second edition of Andrew Jackson at the West end of Penn sylvania Avenue?
 In the early day of French his tory before Charlemagne mounted the throne that Clovis had founded there was line of Kings derisive- ly styled Roistaisue ant. They constituted dy nasty of gluttons imbecils invested with the symbols of authourlfy bat elsewhere of no account. So for many years we have had in the White House a mere figure. .head-a sort of Pro- thanatory to register the edlcts of party caucuses and to ratify the action of Congressional majorities. Not since Andrew Jackson was wont with uplifted right hand to swear "by the Eternal" have we had President who stoood square ly on his official feet.
 The Van Burens, Pierces and Hayes and others of that ilk, have been mere pupets, not less so than
 Pepins and Childeries of the Nero win gian dynasty But little more can be said of Lincoln, Bnch anan, Grant and Arthur. These were largely indebted for their distinction to the simple fact that flame is oftener than otherwise an accident, and history itself a dis tillation of rumor." So much i'm deed for the wisdom of Vor POp- uli and the wonderful virtues of universal suffrage. But in these latter days one Grover Cleveland seems to have realized the truth that the Chief magistrate of the Nation has somewhat to do in the matter of Government. That the Presidential oath to faithfully eX- ecute the laws and to preserve and defend the Constitution is some- thing more than parenthesis in the pomp and circumstance of an inaugural pageant. Without of fensiye self-assertion he magma fies his office and yet at the same time seems snblimely indifferent to the criticisms of a partisan press and the objurgauons of fusiband Senators and Representatives. It is not singular that party hacks on each side of the Chamber should find it difficult to interpret the straightforward methods of the present occupant of the White House.
 His downright refusal to furnish a Republican Senate with the evi- dence on which he suspended Re. publican officials for undue parti. sanship, was rightly considered a braver act than Jackson's remov- al of the deposits. Such men as Edmunds and Hoar were startled and shocked, and began to talk of impeachment, which Cleveland as little regarded as did Brutus in the play the braggart threat of the enraged Copins.
 Nor has Cleveland been more enraged at the clamOr of Demo. cratic Journalism for clean sweep of Radical ofliceholders. "Turn the rascals out" implies a just Ex- ecutive discrimination between treasury blood-suckers and capa- ble and honest officials. UnmOyed by threatened disaffection amonst his own political followers, he ad heres ..to his often declared pur- pose to respect and enforce both the letter and spirit of the Civil Service Reform act For this man. full defense of the right he deserves the gratitude of all who would de- plore a return to the miserable spells system once in vogue.
 Another feature of his admins trative policy is his bOldness of the Veto power.
 It was not without a purpose that the President was clothed with this Tribunitial authority. 1 Indeed under our system it is the best safeguard against the despot- ism of maj critics. Hitherto he has used chiefly to defeat peculation under the patriotic guise of special pension acts. It is evident how ever that he will not be reluctant to interpose when larger schemes