The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-09-05
TIE TICKET.
The Democratic Party Congratulated on Its
Wise Nominations.


Wise Nominations.
The democratic party is TO be congratu-
lated upon the excellency of its preslden-
tial ticket. Two more strikingly repre-
sentative men than President Cleveland
and Allen G. Thurman can not be found
IN the United States. l have expressed
my appreciation of the administration of
President Cleveland so frequently that |
may be excused from going into it on this
occasion to any great extent. In fact, 1
have little new to say upon that subject.
He has proven himself to be so able and
efficient in the discharge OF the executive
duties devolving upon the president, that
his administration will prove TO be one of
the brightest models in our history. In
its administrative character, its chief
characteristics are in exacting a strict per-
torrance of official duty on the part of
federal officers, from the highest TO the
lowest, and in the rigid economy which
has been carried into every department OF
the government President Cleveland as
sumed the presidential Office with the
solemn understanding that he was taking
upon himself great and important trust,
and he has devoted himself toit unceas-
ingly. There is nothing that requires his
signature, to give it vitality, that he does
not fully comprehend before that sigma
ture is given. With a capacity for labor
which few men possess, he devotes to the
public service more hours in the day than
are required OF any laborer in the land,
and he eXacts the same earnest and faith
full discharge of official duty by the other
officers and employees of the government.
He is especially intent upon guarding the
public treasury, and his courage in doing
this against the cutlery and Clamor of the
republican party and press has secured
for him hold on the esteem of the peo-
pie that will disclose itself in the coming
election. In fact, the chords of sympathy
that extend from the president to the peo-
pie and from the people to the president
are quite irrespective of mere partyism
and vibrate without the aid of political
machinery.
The effect of the presidents economy in
the administration of public affairs is very
clearly shown in the treasury reports, and
notwithstanding the fact that our country
is rapidly developing and expanding, and
its business increasing from day to day,
the ordinary and current expenses of gov
eminent have been constantly decreasing
under his administration, it having been
reported in the treasury statement closing
the fiscal year on the 30th of June last,
that there was a saving in the ordinary ex-
penses of the government, as compared
with the year before, of S10,000,000, and
the preceding year had shown a saving of
Sl5,000,000 over and above the lowest av-
erage expenditure under the last republic
an administration.
This system OF rigid economy displays
itself in all the departments of the govern
ment, and in its great bureaus, but, per-
haps, is as well illustrated by a brief
reference to the pension bureau. This, as
you know, is presided over by Gen. John
c. Black. No drawer soldier fought under
the flag of his country, and the wounds
that he received in battle he will carry to
his grave. No truer gentleman can be
found throughout this broad land. Yet he
has been the subject of more vituperation
and abuse from the republican party than
perhaps any other man in public life, for
no other reason except that he is demo-
cratic soldier. He has rendered more
efficient service to the soldiers of this
country than any man who has ever held
the office of commissioner of pensions, and
at the same time has greatly curtailed the
expenses OF the bureau, and with greatly
reduced clerical force has accomplished
much greater results than his immediate
predecessor. The report of the Office for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1887, shows
that there were borne on the pay-rolls of the
office, at that time, l,540 officers and en-
ployes, while for the year closing 1885, be-
ing the last year of the republican admin
istratiOn, the officers and employees of that
bureau numbered 1928.