National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-09-29
Unfairly CrI,leIs,pr cleveland,

The New York Shn is becoming intolera-
bly, arcastlc in It's comments on President
Cleveland. Almost everybody outside OF
the sun office and the sanctums Of the
Mugwumps knows very well that Mr..
Cleveland's civil service policy, as illus
strated in practice, is a sham. That the
civil service law has been virtually set aside
in numerous instances and that It is persist.
emily evaded in several Of the departments
In Washington are notorious facts. But II
suits the purpose Of the Sun to hold up the
President as the head and front Of the
reform movement, that purpose being to
bring the President into bad repute with his
party.
The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, believing
that II the spoilsmen really understood the
Presidents policy they would cordially like
1t, is doing what 1t can In q modest and
quiet way to show that, although the Presi-
dent talks in the Mugwump dialect, he
always acts Democratlcally.
The San has had It's sensitive ear panied
by "a good deal Of talk about the impro
| priety Of federal ofllceholders taking par,
in politics, and, ~ the grumbler goes on To
cay, sit seems to be supposed that federal
official who busies himself In politics to the
extent Of belonging to n political commit
tee, or even Of attending political con-
ventiOn-except when enjoying holiday
comes within the anatbema of Mr.. Cleve.
lands executive order in restraint Of per-
nicious activity. OF course, hundreds OF
the appointees Of the present adminlstra-
tion work at politics with oil their might,
but they do so at their own peril. Mr..
Cleveland says they mustn't, and he meana
| IT,"
The last clause Is not true. On the con.
trary, II is great mistake. The President
may deem It expedIent to bounce one or two
uninnuential ofllceholders for "perniclous
activity" hut the great mass, probably 90
per cent. OF the hundreds" will get nc
hint Of displeasure from the white house.
The SIN dives into history for ammuni
tlon wherewi,h to annoy the President II
goes back to the New York campaign oI
1859 thus:
A little moro than five years ago there wa
a Democratic state convention ut Syracuse
| Among the persons who came to Syracuse
day or two before the convention met wa
| Mayor Grover Cleveland, OF Buffalo. He cam,
TO boom himself for governor under the gnil
ance OF Mr. Solomon Scheu md other BuiIa
lonians Of political sngacity. The convention
which nominated him was full of state ant
municipal officers. In the contest between
the supporters of Mr.. Flower and Gen. slocuu
| 1t seemed that a third candidate might have
chance, and u quiet little Cleveland boon
was begun. 1t ended in making Mayor Cleve
land Gov Cleveland.
Having cited these facts the Sun expend
itself in stiff dignity and wants to know
why, II mayor OF Buffalo can without i'm
propriety 60 to a state convention and ge
himself nominated governor without neg
lecting his duties or incurrlng censure,
collector Of internal revenue or postmas
ter cannot go to state convention, ant
even be candidate before 1t, without in
curing Mr.. Cleveland's displeasure?
The reason why they cannot is very sim
ple-itis because they can, because they do
AS the san knows, and as all the worlt
knows, hundreds Of them have been doinj
so for months past. The Presidents or
der, as interpreted by the sollcitorgeneral
amounts to nothing. The Mugwumps ma.
demand one or two Victims and their orde
may be filled, for their support is wanted
but the "hundreds" will be graciousll
spared even so much as the mildest robuke