The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-01
TURN THE RAsoALs OUT

TURN THE OUT
Was the rallying cry of the Democracy
for months before the election in Nov.
1884, which resulted in placing that huge
mass of mortality Stephen Grover
Cleveland III the presidential chair, a
seat frequently honored IN the past his
tory of our country by men whose
brains was in much greater proportion
to their bodily ~corporoslty than Grover
Cleveland's, and probably not more than
once dishonored by an occupant where
the disproportion in the same direc-
ton was equal to Cleveland's case. Ten
months of Cleveland's administration has
rolled along, the books examined, the
cash in the treasury found correct to
the last cent, not a rascal found in all
the incumbents, yet despite all the loud
p~retensions of devotion to civil service
laws of Congress, under cover OF that
enthusiastically small and ~disgraceful
p~retense of Offensive ~partizanship,'
thousands of Republicans against whom
no other charge could be made have
been removed, and their.places filled
with loud mouthed brawling Democrats.
The worst element in the old rebel dis
tricts of the South and from the Cop
perheads of the Northern States are
evidently the most preferable subjects
for position in the estimation of the re-
former Cleveland. There's not enough
of the old Douglass element sprinkled
in to season the mess. 1t is folly for any
man to pretend that Mr.. Cleveland had
any other intention when elected than
to administer the government on
strictly partizan principles, and b
more offensive to the Republicans, the
better. He made his purpose evident In
the selecting of his cabinet and all sub =
sequent appointments of any impor-
lance. Why else did he select the con-
fidential clerk or secretary of Boss
Tweed in his career of plumber in New
York as the most fitting Democrat in all
the country to have charge of the Unit :
ed States Treasury. Why else was the
affairs of the interior department contid-
ed to the management of me OF Jeff
Davis's most prominent officials and adj
yisors, a man who had violated his oath
to support the constitution OF the Unit
ed States and promptly took another to
destroy it, or in common English, com
united perjury. Why else was its legal
affairs committed to Garland or State
affairs to Bayard, the navy to Whitney
the simple tool Ex-Governor Hoadly and
that most offensive monopol Of the
United States. These men were ap'
pointed by Mr.. Cleveland with a per
feet knowledge of what manner Of men
they were, and what kind Of men they
would be most likely to put in their de
partments to do their bidding as theil
subalterns. And Mr.. Cleveland is eithel
ignorant of the character of the men Il
whom he has entrusted these importan'
appointments, or should be hello
equally if not more responsible for Lane
Commissioner Sparks blunders or crime
than his secretary Mallory and in the
case of Heddsn, the totally incompetent
} and by some charged scoundreli,
collector. When the notorious Hub
ert o. Thompson demanded as thu
reward of his labors to secure the nomi-
nation and election of Cleveland and
was told he could not have it but tina,
he might name the man. IL there an!
man so idiotic as to suppose the fresi
dent did not know that the man named
by Thompson would be m of his owl
5 calibre, one that would act under hi
advice and divide the spoils, and all th'
bowls of New York importers at He'd
| denis rascality and under valuation
should not be directed exclusively a
Manning? They knew HIM of old and 81
did Cleveland. and the responsibility FOL
his i'll doings should be fairly divided
Nor is it fair or just that all the bolts o
l righteous indignation at outrageous ap'
pointments, reckless disregard of Law
which has characterized the career o
Postmaster General Villas, who think
his head is much too large for the bal
l ance of his co%rporosity, should not by
any means be directed solely at tn
I Postmaster General the pigmy WHIT
Z thinks what he is there for is to play thu
martinez over $4,000 post-masters as III
did over his battalion when wearing
: the major stripes in the army, and tina
his own sweet will should be the only
law known to that department whethe
in conflict with the laws Of congress an
i common decency or not, for II MI
: Cleveland did not know Was, he knew
' or ought to have known, the Democrat
syndicate of office brokersf for Minnesot,
who we're his principle hackers, an
while Mr.. Cleveland permits Mr.. Villa
to exercise his despotic instincts unre
Il buked and permits Kelly and his vicero,
s Doran to continue their dictatio
in Minnesota, he is the "particep
crimiens' with the crowd and shout
share at least equally with Villas an
: his makers the odium the pigheade
$ m~ontebank from Wisconsin ha
brought upon the post-offce depart
ment and Cleveland's administration
Mr.. Cleveland for the past ten month
S has shown so plainly with what class {
men his svmpathies run, that his civ
service vail can no longer conceal fror
the public gaze his real purpose.