St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-03

/ Gov PATTIsoN will gain, for his valiant
! effort, the heartfelt gratitude of all work
| ingmen, and when occasion arrives they
will probably not be slow in testifying
their appreciation.
DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATIONS.
Now that the state campaign has been
opened and Republican platforms are
loaded down with planks arraigning Mr..
| CLEvELAND's administration on all sorts
of charges, the fair minded voters of the
state will stop to inquire whether there is
any foundation for the charges or whether
| they are, as political platforms usu-
ally are, mere clap-trap. The best
way to determine the matter is by a COM
parison of the CLEVELAND administration
with the preceding Republican adminstra-
ton. Less than two years has the national
! Democratic party been in power, and a
comparison of the last two years of the
governments history with any two proceed
! ing years under Republican administration
will make a satisfactory revelation for the
Democratic party. In the first place the
Republican platforms asSail the presidents
civil service policy. Where and wher I'M
der a Republican administration was
there ever as honest an effort to en-
force the civil service laws and rules
or to establish reform in the civil service
as there has been under Mr.. CLEVELAND'S
administration? When the Republicans
can point to one single instance it will be
time enough for them to assal the presi-
To 4bo oi4
The country witnesses to-day what this
generation has never before seen, the spec
tacle of political caucuSeS and conventions
| being held absolutely free from the interior
ence of federal officeholders. That, of it
| self. is evidence of the progress that
civil service reform has made under
a Democratic administration. Additional
evidence is found in the fact that there are
no more political assessments against office
holders. such as were made and collected
during successive Republican administra-
ton. Whatever embarraSSmentS may have
| beset the president in the enforcement of
an honest civil service reform policy, the
Republicans have not been able to throw
| obstacles enough in his way to prevent him
| from eliminating JAY HUBBELLIsM from
our national politics. For this much at
least, the country is indebted to him. In
the next place. these Republican platforms
assail the president on his pension record,
and charge that his administration
is animated by hostility to the veterans of
the late war. What are the facts? During
the two years of Democratic administration
there has been an annual increase of over
81, 900, 900 in the payments for pensions.
But, they say, he has vetoed large num-
Der of private pension bills. What of it?
Didn't he do right IN vetoing them? Will
the author of single one of these platform
planks, or will any Republican organ or
orator who repeats them. lay finger
on a single private pension bill that
was vetoed which merited the execu-
| tive approval. In all the wholesale
denunciation that has been hurled against
the president by the Republican press and
| Republican conventions. not single aSSail-
ant has had the manhood to designate a
vetoed pension bill which has merit in it.
| Without exception. these pretended pension
claims had been previously examined by a
board consisting exclusively of Republican
officials, and had been rejected. They
were then taken up by members of congress
| who generally had a contingent fee
in the case, and by the system of log
rolling, which prevails so extensively in
| both branches of congress. were passed
without regard to any question of merit or
demerit. Because Mr.. CLEVELAND was
| the first president who exhibited the pru-
dence and caution to make personal exam
nation of each bill that came to him for his
signature, and exposed the corrupt methods
| by which the public treasury had been
robbed year after year, on the hypocritical
plea that it was being done in the cause of
pensiOning war veterans the cry of dema-
gogy at once went up from the Republican
camp. If these demagogical assalants
of the president will just stop long enough
| to single out a single instance where Mr..
| CLEVELAND has vetoed bill that did not
merit veto. the people will bear with
them more patiently.
Vast quantities of the public land, which
had been appropriated by private syndicates
under Republican administrations, have
been recovered and saved for settlers by
this Democratic administration which is
now the subject of abuse from Republican
platforms. Measures of economy in
collections of revenue and in expend-
iture which have been established
| by the CLEVELAND administration have
yielded good results. A summary statement
of the business of the treasury department
during the last two fiscal years is proof of
| this. During the year ended June 80, 1885,
the receipts were 1923, 800, 70e. 80, and dur
ing the year ended June 80, 1886, $780,
439, 727. 06. while the expenditures of the
former period were $3.50, 226, 1876. II, as
against only S242. 49, 13S. so in the latter;
or roundly stated, more revenue was col
lected during the preceding year by S13,-
600. 900, while the expenditures were de-
creased by $4,000, 600, and, too. notwith-
standing the increase in the payments for
pensions was over $1,000, 900. Now,
until these facts are obliterated or the Re-
publican party can show a better record.
their convention platforms should cease
bowling. Facts and not bowls are what the
people are eager for.
THE LAST REMEDY.
In recent sermon DIR. TALMAGE as
serted that the gospel was the only remedy
for the peoples ailments. There no one