The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-11-16
BASE iNGRATITUDE.
HOW CLEVELAND'S OFFICE HOI-
DEES EJOsCED IN HIS DEFEAT.
Our Correspondent Thinks that Narri-
son will Pursue II COncilialOry Policy
Towards the SOuth.
ISpeC1aI Cor. STATE CHHONICLE.
" ASHINs4ToN, D. c.. Nov. IS, 1888


WASHINGTON, D. O.. Nov IS, 1888
Last Tuesday night ! was on Pennsy-
wanna Avenue until a late hour with
party Of Democratic friends. We took our
positions in front OF one of the stereopti
cons on which the bulletins were posted
elated with the thought that within one
hour at least the returns from New York
would confirm our hopes that Cleveland's
rnagnifcent and almost unparalleled ad
ministratiOn would receive the endorse
Inent Of his own fellow citizens. AS !
passed the Republican headquarters on
Thomas Circle noticed thousands Of peo-
pie gathered together, and wondered why
they were shouting SO Justify 1nvestiga-
tiun proved that the crowd was composed
mostly of Republican officials and their
families and that they were yelling over
the returns from Kings county. These
officials, you must bear in MUD, have been
kept in office for the past three years and
It half because the ajority Of Mr.. Cleve-
lands secretaries saw fit to strain the let
ter and the spirit of the Civil Service law
beyond its most liberal construction. AS
l have condemned them for it in this col
umn of the CHRONICLE for all that length
of time, and as | have repeatedly said that
Mr. Cleveland did not require nor endorse
such a course, ii is useless to upbraid them
now. Mr.. Bayard whose house was near,
Mr.. Endicott, whose residence was within
hearing of the mob, Mr.. GarlaUd and
even Justice Lamar probably realized be
fore they went to sleep that night, how
much gratitude they might expect from
the horde of partisan Repubiicans whose
enforced and treacherous silence found
vent that night in shouts of triumph which
made the streets Of Washington res0und
if an orgie Of howiing Dervishes vas i'll
c,,t ~ u hi ba
Republican returns were doctored for eff
feet, we proceeded to the Jackson Demo
cratic Club where returns We're displayed
to "a crowd ten times as large. These are
Democrats, | thought. and When long
loud "hurrah' was heard | looked up to
read good news. Instead, it was the vote
OF kiog's county. and against Cleveland.
iIls enormous assembly OF men, women
and children, stood almost in sight OF the
pillars of the White House, and where the
| man whose leniency had fed and clothed
them, sat surrounded by trleIds to receive
tie verdict Of his c0untrymen. The shouts
+ must have puzzled hiu. | tnen turned
/ my attention to studying the faces OF the
crew that surrounded nle. Many OF them
fairly glOated over the President evident
defeat. one shrewd, diSreput&ble looking
william seemed to have some private in
/ formatiou, and >urrounded 0y number
of brother officials. he figured up Il safe
/ Republican majority smiled al him
and made up my mind then and there to
! try and have him bounced for offensive
| ness on Nov. 18TH | would and could
not believe that Harrison was eiGrted un-
/ til Wednesday, O'Clock p. m, when |
| sent the CHRONICLE its first special. The
! wires were 50 overloaded, | notice that,
! and subsequent specials were aoout three
/ hours III reaching you. Those specials
! contained the latest and most reliable
news. and they bore to your readers the
tlding> of a National calamity The causes
| of the disaster are various Cleveland is
Lot to blame in any particular, and to day
and forever he Is greater nobler, grander
III his defeat than any President St the
United States since Thomas Jefferson.
! The tariff issue was a necessity OF the sit
uation and Is to-day, must ne for years
hence, the only line of demarc"tion be
tween the great contendng parties. The
! Democrats must educate the people up to
that issue and four years hence lei Cleve-
land as their standard bearer, avenge the
deeds of Nov. 9th, 1888. Another cause
is 81 900 900 was poured out to the venal
vote Of New York State during November
by the Republican Committee You re-
member Walter Page told me in an inter
view published in the CHRONICLE recently
have been verified. Another cause of the
defeat is that the Secretaries above refer
red to kept in office Gt was not tleveland's 5
business TO turn them OUT high officials
who III not come under the Civil Service
law These high Republican officials kept
in partsans under them, and so on. En-
dicotts Department had been run by one
John Tweedale, a partisan Republican
chief clerk. some of whose exploits are on
l.. l. bar hn L
Lamar and Garland both seemed afraid
to turn the rascals out" Bayard is the
chief offender in this particular Not two
IS months ago, | called by name Republicans
whom he had favored and promoted to
the exclusion of tried, true aud competent
Democrats It you had the space, would
recapitulate and tell how Second Assistant
Secretary Of State, Adee Ca partisan Re
publican) was promoted; how one BryaL
was favored how nearly every Bureau il
the Department has a Republican for it:
head but the story is an old one. 1havt
written it. until am weary of spelling
the names of the traitors who received
these emolumentS and then spent then
money and used the State secrets obtained
: through their official position to defea
, the best President under whom they eve1
served Mr. Btyari deserves some con
side alton at he hands of his Republican
friends and | hereby nominate him 70
: Senator-foI the Legislature of Delawar
is Republican, for the first time in years
He has richly won the reward. The Dem
Ocratic party can dispense with his ser
! vices in the future
y The House is close at best Before .hi
| is printed, you will know definitely. Bu
if it is not so now, it soon will be. Tn
f Republicans will admit all the NOrthwes
E, tern Territories As States who can sub
4 stantiate any kind of claim to that posi-
ton This will give a good Repulca
: majority i'll the House aud probably
= better one IN the Senate. 1t may ais
r increa-e e the Republican chances for tn
$ Presidency in 1892. Major Mckinley VIII
S wrote the platform on which the Nations
victory was won, will be the Speaker G
:, the Republican House.
Harrison is no ogre. He is a shrewd
}. level headed Republican, and he is a ger
l. teman of character. Moreover he is {
o South hern antecedeuts. His aDcest Ors weT
IS Nirginians and he is a near relative of tn
Randolphs, Lees and Carriers of Virginia
It l cannot help it, but have an abidin
laith in scions of such, or of similar stocl
t. If he had lived in Virginia he would L
20 doubt have been Democrat. hear frol
Is many sources that We have reason to e!
pect from him an honest administrator
I understand he is a man of great Wi