Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-01-26

1t has been discovered by the New
York Herald, q staiwart administration
| organ, that the president has decided
| not to give the senate the information it
asks for relative to suspended officials.
Its special correspondent called upon
Mr. Cleveland for the purpose of secur-
ing accurate information upon this
point and at the conclusion of the inter-
view the correspondent said of the presi.
dent:
He has come to the conclusion that
the constitution gives the senate no
| right OF inquiry, and that he ought to
| to stand upon his constitutional right,
and, as he said to your correspondent,
hand down the presidential preroga-
| tlvss unimpaired to his successor"
After this interview and it's results the
Herald reverses its opinion of the
| president and concludes he is not the
has pretended to be: The Herald goes
on to say:
| 1t is not many weeks ago that Mr..
| Cleveland got some cheap applause by
| the declaration that his administration
was living behind glass DOORS" This
ID supposed to be u government OF the
| people, for the people, and every admin;
istration ought to live behind glass
| DOORS Secrecy in public affairs almost
| always means fraud, corruption, chica-
! merry and intrigue. But it seems Cieve-
LAND, soured by democratic office, seek
| ing sen n.tors, has determined to pull
down the curtain, and cover his glass
doors. He tells the Heralds Washing
| ION correspondent he will not
| make public the papers in relation to
| his dispensatioa OF offices de
will not give these papers to the open
| senate any more than to its secret ST e.
| sions, and it would seem that he in
| cines TO look with favor on the senate
| secret sessions. We are sorry for Cleve-
land. He had good opportunity by
| the coat tails, but his hold has slipped
He had a chance to take the people / to
| his contid nee, and he turns his back on
| them and goes In with the political
class. Poor Cleveland BY the way,
THAT about this great reform we hs1s
heard 80 much about? Where ls this
| Moses. who was to lead us up out of
the landof Egypt?"
There is an empty sound to the pre-
tensions of the reconstructed govern.
ment under the auspices of the purity
loving democracy and Its mugwump
allies. The battle of the nation was last
| fought upon the declaration of reform
in official circles and as the outcome we
now find one man arrogating to him.
decapitation of officials, under the
sweeping allegation that they have been
unfalthful to the trusts imposed upon
th, m, or that they were individually un
fit to perform the functions of the
positions bestowed upon them. And
then be refuses to give to the public the
evidence upon which he bases his dam
aging conclusions. The Inference il
that he has no evidence which viii
stand in the light of unbiased investi
cation, and, knowing tuls, like
the weak creature he has proven himsei
to be, he stands upon an assumed pre-
rogalive and brutally refuses to permi
his victims to clear away the stain hl
has placed upon them This is Grove
Cleveland as he appears stripped Of tb
flimsy curtain of an ideality which tool
upon itself, for purposes now we'll under
stood, the partisan name of reform. l
democratic president possessed of th
common attributes of political manhoo
would have removed republican offic
holders because they were republicans
But our president is not q man of loft
purposes. He prefers to be an assassi
rather than fearless executioner. It
mere matter of taste.