The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-04-03

lnluenCe OF his star. certainly, whether
Grover Cleveland is a very great or a
very small man, he is very extraordi-
nary man. His career forbids any other
conclusion.
The Democratic party was not want
ing when the convention was held at
Chicago, in many great and illustrious
names, men who had led the forlorn
hope in its darkest days, men for whose
character, achievements and history
not only that organization but the coun-
try had the profoundest admiration and
respect. There was Thurman, and
Bayard, and Hendricks, and Tilden,
and others perhaps not less worthy, but
less illustrious, upon whom the mantle
of that great distinction might properly
have fallen. But Grover Cleveland,
the man who at the mature age of
thirtyfive abandoned liberal and hen
ored profession that he might become
sheriff of an interior county, was Sc
lected for that position. And when,
a little more than year ago, he en-
tered the Senate Chamber and subse-
quently took the oath of Office on this
platform, he encountered an audience,
not one twentieth part Of which had
ever seen him, and the greater part OF
which two years before did not know
him even by name, and who was even
at that moment practically unacQuairted
with the leaders of his own party in
the Senate. The rise of Napoleon
was sudden, startling, dazzling. Many
other soldiers of fortune sprang from
obscurity to fame, but no Illustration
of an elevation from an obscurity so
profound to height so brilliant and
dazzling is recorded in history as the
selection of Grover Cleveland to be
the Chief Magistrate of 6o,ooo, 900 of
people. If, when he was inaugurated
he had determined that the functions
OF Government should be exercised by
men OF his own party, the Nation
would bo,,a b.a,, oo,+,,. ,rJ l,ox.;,,
is founded the justification that the
majority of the Senate can use in de-
handing that no action shall be taken
in connection with these proposed re-
movals from office until there has been
satisfactory assurances that injustice
has not been done. If it were under
stood that these removals were for po-
lltlcal reasons the country would be
content the Republican majority in
the Senate would be content. But
what is the attitude? Ever since his in
auguration and before his inauguration,
by many utteranCes, official and pri-
vate, never challenged, Mr.. Cleveland
has declared that he would not so ad-
minister this Government. In his
letter of acceptance he denounced the
doctrine of political changes in the
patronage of the country and through
all his official utterances down to this
present time that same doctrine had
been repeated. Some Republicans
have been suspended and others re-
tanned. What is the irresistible inhu-
ence-the logic of the situation in view
OF the Presidents utterances except
that every suspended man is suspended
for cause and not for political reasons ?
Mr.. ingalls, alluded to the "celebrated
circular" issued by the Postmaster
General which he characterized as 'the
most thoroughly degraded, defled, exc
cradle and detestable public utterance"
ever made by any official. 1t was an
invitation, he said, to every libeller,
every anonymous slanderer, and sour
rilous defamer to pour sewage into the
Post Office Department. The Post
master-General's reply to a resolution
of the Senate, introduced by him (Mr.
Ingalls, showed that S,o35 fourth-class
postmasters had been removed in the
last year by an Administration pledged
to remove men only for cause. This
was tWenty-eight removals for every
day in the year and counting seven
hours to days work, it was four re-
movals an hour-one for every fifteen
minutes, every working day for twelve
months. Laughter. That was non
partisan Civil Service Reform.
Mr.. Cockrell-There are 10000
fourth class postmasters in the country,
and of these only about 5000 have
been removed.
Mr.. lngalls-Well, the Administra.
ton did the best it could angels could
do no more. Laughter. But let the
Senator from Missouri (Mr. CockrelD
curb his Impotence and impetuosity.
The Postmaster General will "get
there in time. One for every fifteen
minutes is not so bad. How many do
you expect How many IN the other
departments, including the "Illumi-
mated Department of Justice" Laugh
ter is unknown therefore the friends
Of the Administration should be CON
soled.
Mr.. ingalls, read from Tile Boston
an interview with the Presi-
dent, which represented him as saying
among other things that the Senate had
not called on him for papers. "That
MIR. ingalls, commented,
"no longer exists" [Uproarious laugh
ter Continuing he said it would seem
that the cry OF "Put the rascals olt'
had been changed to "Put the rascals
in.' He had heard a good deal about
corruption and profllgacy of Republi-
cans in office. The Speaker then read
and commented on q lict Of p,r,ae cf