St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-16
Grover and the Members OF
His Cabinet Are in Per-
feet Accord.
Favoritism Replaced by JUS
tice and Fair Dealing to
All Americans.
The Restoration of the De-
mocracy to Official Ten
ure Is Certain.

dS lOliOWS. % peflCCG Has DCeu Gllt
harmony between the president and
the members OF his cabinet that the
absence of friction has given rise to the
impression among some of those who
are familiar with Mr.. Cleveland's posi-
tiveness of character and his firm and
decided views upon every subject he
has studied, that his rugged personality
has dWarfed the various mem-
bers of his official family and re-
duced them to the condition of mere
agents of his individual will and
pleasure. A very slight personal
acquaintance with the several heads Of
the departments, and the most casual
president will serve to convince any one
not blinded by prejudice that this theory
is untenable. MIR. Cleveland has not
ments drift along in practical isolation
Animated by q high sense of his re-
sponsibility to the people, he has kept
himself fully informed as to what is
going on in every branch of the eXecu-
tive administration, and has undoubt-
edly impressed his individuality upon
all the departments. At the same time
he has refralned from all
UNNECESSARY INTERFERENCE
with this or that branch of the service,
and has given the individual members
of his administration free scope for the
exercise of their abilities and energies.
The true secret of the absence ofjeal-
Ousies and diSSensions, and of efforts to
advance mere individual interests OF
pretensions among the cabinet officers
is to be found in the fact that one and
all have been actuated by the spirit
which has dominated Mr.. Cleveland'S
course, that of :subordinating personal
considerations to the desire to give the
country an administration of the high
est grade. A prominent leader of the
Democratic party, and warm
admirer of Cleveland, SAID to the
writer to-day: ~ have had op-
portunities of observing Mr.. Cleve-
land under a great variety of circum-
stances since he became president, and
have yet to see the slightest indication
of desire to promote his personal in
terests. The American people ought to
be informed that, in the opinion of those
best qualified to judge, he has been ac-
tuated from first to last by high, pat
riotic sense of duty. The same may be
said of every member OF his cabinet.
On the other hand, it is not to be in
ferred that the president has, at any
time, lost sight Of the fact that he was
elevated to his present position by Dem
to be president of the whole people. he
has been mindful all along that this is
A GOVERNMENT OF PARTIES,
and that the Democracy in electing him
to the presidency, made him the official
representative before the country of its
principles and its purposes. In forcing
upon the attention of the country the
issue of tax regulation, his zeal tor the
public welfare went hand in hand with
his desire to secure for the Democratic
party the credit of effecting this great
reform. 1t may be assumed that his
obj ect was to give the party some higher
motive than the mere greed for Office
ing. 1t has been said that there has
bee no party leadership under the
present administration, but. leav-
ing out of the account the
bold and aggressive course of Mr..
Cleveland with reference to the tariff, it
must be conceded, in view of the sud-
den solidifcation of widely divergent
elements. as demonstrated in the re-
nomination Of Mr.. Cleveland by accla-
nation, and almost unanimous passing
the Mills bill in the face of the open re-
volt of the Randall faction, the discon-
tent evinced by the civil service policy
and the disappointment of thousands of
office seekers that there was leadership
somewhere. A gentleman who held of
flee under the Arthur administration
said to-day: at can not be denied that
all the departments have been free of
JoBDERY AND FAvoRITIsM."
When 1t is considered to accomplish
this result an administration must needs
offend a multitude, OF selfish interests.
which are to he found in every party
organization, it will be seen that Mr..
Cleveland and his colleagues have had
no easy task to maintain that standard
of official probity which eXtOrts such an
admiration. With record of admins
trative capacity and honesty to which it
may point with pride, the Democracy,
at the close of Mr.. Cleveland's tenure
of office, finds itself the representative
before the people of administrative
economy, of determined opposition to
sectionalism and encrOachment upon
the autonomy OF individual states and
of discrimination in favor of any race OF
class at the expense of the people as
whole, and the declared and recognized
champion of the tOiling masses as
against the steady march of corporate
and monopOlistic greed. 1t has purified
the army, replacing favoritism with
justice and fair dealing to all in the
face of the mostinsidious and persistent
attempts to perpetuate the ScandalOus
methods of former regimes. 1t has rem
dered a similar service for the navy, and
has made substantial progress in the
face of enormous difficulties, in the
work of supplying our sailors with
SERVICEABLE SHIPS AND GUNS.
Its management Of the fiscal affairs
the country has been Singularly able
and conservative, and whatever its
critics may assert, it has maintained the
dignity of the country at home and
abroad. Could party be in better or
stronger position? If it adheres to the
lines laid down and consistently fol-
lowed by this administration. is not its
restoration to official tenure merely
question of time The people will
only begin to appreciate what the Cleye-
land administration has done for the
the country, said a gentleman high in
the councils of the Democratic party,
after it has gone out of Office and they
realize the difference. To the South
especially it has been benediction in
securing freedom from the Irritating
and disturbing interference which the
country repudiated years ago.