The Wilmingtonian., 1886-04-03

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name. It has been left to the party to which
l belong to afford conspicuous ard shining
illustrations of that class of political thinkers
who are never quite sure that they are sup
porting party unless they are reviing its
candidates and deuouncing its platform. who
are not positive that they are standing erect
unless they are leaning over backward, and
whose idea Of reforming the organization in
which they profess to be classi d is to com
bine with its adversares md vote or caudi
dates who are openly spurn their professions
and depreciate the st bck in trade which they
denominate their principles. Standing on
the corners of the streets, enlarging the
borders of their phylacteries, they loudly adj
vertse their perfeotious, thanking God that
they are not rs other men, even these Ripub.
licans and Democrats; they traffic with both
to ascertain which they can most prcttably
betray.
Mr. President, the neuter gender is not
popular either in natare or oGiety "Male
aud female created He them" But there is
third sex, if that can be called sex which
sex has none, resulting sometimes from a
cruel caprice Of nature at others from acc-
dent or malevolent design, posSt2sing
neither fecundty nor vrilty endoTn0s.sith
the contempt of men and the derision of
women, and doomed to s,erility isolation,
and extinction. Bat they have Recognized
functions. They sing falsetlo and they are
usually selected as the guardians of the ser
aulios nE n.iantol
And TINS to pass from the illustration to
:he fact, these political epicenes, without
pride OF ancestry or hope of posterity, chaut
in shrIl falsetto their songs of praise of non
partisanship and civi-service reform, and
apparently have been selected as the harmless
custodians of the onscience of the national
Executive.
Sir, am not disposed to impugn the good
faith, the patriotism, the sincerity, the many
unusual traits and faculties of the President
of the United States lie is the sphinx of
American politics. 1t is said that he is a
fatalist that he regards himself as the child
Of late-thc man OF destiny; and that he
places devout and implicit reliance upon the
guiding influence of his star. Certainly,
whether he be very great man or very
small man, he is Il very extra 'rtliuary man.
| His career forbids any other conclusion.
The Democratic party was not wanting its
convention assembled at Chicago in many
renowned and illustr:ous characters; men
who had led the forlorn hope in its darkest
and most desperate days; men for whose
| charontnr and oohiavampnts f,r yvhosa fana
and history, not only that organization but
the co2ntry had the profoundest admi; alton
and respect. But the man who at the ma
ture age of thirty-fve abandoned liberal
and honored profession to become the sheIif
of Erie, without known opinions and desti-
tute of experience or training in public
affairs, outstrpped them all in the race Of
| ambition aud when but little more tn an a
year ago he entered this Chamber as the
President-elect of the United States, he en-
countered the curious scrutiny ofan audience
to whom he was stranger in feature as in
fame; stranger to the leaders OF his own
party as well as to tho representatives Of all
the nations Of the earth who had assembled
to witness the gorgeous pageant Of the inau-
guraton.
Sir, the career Of Napoleon was su den,
startling, and dramatic. There have been
many soldiers of fortune who have sprung at
one bound from obscutity to iam1, but no
illustration of the caprees of destiny So
brilliant and bewilderlnJ is recorded in his
tory as the elevation of Grover Cleveland to
the Chief Magistracy Of sixty millions OF
people
If when he was inaugurated he had de.
termned that the functions of Government
should be exercised by officers selected from
his own party the nation would have been
content; but he did not so determine, and
herein and hereon is founded the just iicatior
that the majority of the Senate can satsfac,
torily use and employ in demanding that nC
action shall be had in connection with these
suspensions from Office until there has beer
satisfactory assurance that injustice has no
been done. If it were understood that thes,
suspensions and removals We're made (o
political reasons the country would be con
tent, the Republican majority in the Senatt
would be content. But what is the atti ude
Ever since MS Inauguration anu lot many
months before, by many utterauces, ot1icil
aud private, in repeated declarations neve
challenged, Mr.. Cleveland announced tina
he would not so administer this Government
, at the very utset, in his letter of acceptance
he denounced the doctrine OF partisan
changes in the patronage, aUd through all 0
his political manifestoes down to the pres
ent time he as repeated these assurance
, with emphatic aud umchanginE monotony
He had declared that there should be n
changes in office, where the incunhents wer
4 competent and qualified, for politica
I reasons but that they should be permitte
t to serve their terms Like those who wer
q grinding at the mill, one has been taken an
, another has been lett. Some Republican
. have been suspended and others have bee
1 retained. What is the lng c Of the events
e except that, in view of what the Presder
0 has declared, every man who is suspcnde
! for cause, aud not for political reasons?
it not possible to suspect the President {
i duplicity and treacherous deception,
t For tine purpose of illustration, let II ca
the attention of the Senate aud through I'll
a Senate the attention of the country, whic
e is to judge OF this matter, to the basis a
. which this inquiry proceeds. reat frOi
n the letter of Grover Cleveland, dated AlOau.
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