The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-18

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rascals out" was the cry of the
victorious party. But very few, if any,
"rascals" were turned out. Mr.. Cleve-
land selected Democrats for his cabinet
and instead of going ahead as his party
demanded, with removals, permitted
the Republicans to hold on until the end
of their terms When his own term
had half expired, two-thirds of the men
holding Federal commissions were
Republicans; now, with Cleveland on
the last third of his last year, more
than one-fourth Of the Federal Office
holders are Republicans, men who con-
tributed money to bring about his de-
feat and the overthrow of his party.
In the departments at Washington to-
day, threefourths of the clerks and
employees are Republicans, who are
rejoicing over the party victory of the
9Th instant, and chuckling over the
early retirement of President Cleveland.
In thus clingipg to his enemies and
helping them to the means with which
to fight him and Democracy, the Presi-
dent was guilty of a very great wrong
to his party and of a political blunder
which may result in imposing upon
thu people many years of mis-
rule, dishonest government and public
corruption. We know what Repub-
lican administrations have been in the
past, and what reason is there to e1-
pect they will be better in the future?
But Mr.. Cleveland has been forgiven
for his mistake, for everybody knows
he was honest in it, and that he acted
in the manner which he deemed best.
Now, however, there is about to come a
change of administration, and every
Democrat who is self-respecting will do
his utmost to make that change COM
plete. Those who are in Office, if they
are honest with themselves and with
the administration, will promptly place
their designations in the hands of the
President, and ask to be excused from
not believe, and whose political princi-
Piles they despise. We don't believe 1t
will be permitted them to resign if they
shall fail to be prompt, for General
Harrison belongs to that school of
politicians which thinks that to the
victors belong the spoils; he believes
that when the people say they want Re-
publicsns in Office they mean it, and he
knows that there cannot be successful
Republican administration by Demo-
cratic office holders doing their utmost
to bring disaster to his party. Harrison
will not hesitate to bounce those Dem
ocrats who do not manifest q willing
ness to surrender that which the
majority of the American people have
said they are unworthy to hold.
There is another thing which should |
induce the Democratic officeholders to
get out with decorous speed, and that
is consistency. We all know how Re-
publicans were denounced for holding |
out and embarrassing the President; |
we all know how everyone of them was
regarded as more or less of
an usurper, taking advantage of the
false notions of civil service reform en-
tertained by Cleveland, and we all
know the Republican Office holders lost
in public esteem and respect, when
they chung to their places in defiance of
the popular judgment that was pro-
nounced against them in 1884. Demo-
cratic officials should not try to blind
thar eyes and hide from their intelli-
gence facts which have been uppermost
with them all these years. They
should remember their own feelings,
and be consistent with their own pro-
LESSONS. In plain words, they should
get out voluntarily and not wait to be
kicked out.