The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-03-08
The Old and fhe New.

1t will not be necessary for the Cleve
land Administration and its trends Il
patiently await tie impartial judgment
] OF history in its behalf AS the Ad-
ministration retires it is followed by
abundant evidences OF the hearty good
will and applause OF the great body oi
| the American people. In the manage
| ment of the executive affairs of the
! Government President Cleveland and
his official advisers encountered obsta-
\ cles and endorsements which could be
overcome only by the utmost firmness
| and most resolute devotion to the pub
lie service. Upon undertaking the
task OF administration they found in al
the official departments a spirit OF
! fasoritism and subordination of the
government machinery 10 private inter-
ests.
In the Department. of the Interior
monopolists OF every grade and variety
held high sway, from the subsidized
railroad companies aud cattle bATons
in usurpej control of the public domain
to the rings Of pension agents and In
dian contractors at Washington.
In the Post Office Department still
fingered q remnant of the Star Route
ring-by no means so bold as formerly.
but watching every opportunity to
prostitute the public service to private
ends.
The Navy Department when trans>
mitted to the Administration now go
ing out was encumbered by its Naval
Boards and other parasitic growths of
malfeasance in government.
In the War Department was in trench-
ed little army of snobs, who ruled the
military establishment through their
social influence in the fashionable sa-
looms and clubs OF Washington.
The Treasury and its custom houses
swarmed with accompiices OF importers
and manufacturers Systematically en-
gagged in plunderibg the Government of
its revenues through false and fradut
lent underyaluations of merchandise.
In wrestling with countless abuses
engendeIed during long sway OF party
President Cleveland and his faithful
assistants in the Cabinet met not
merely the vindictive hostility of pow
erful private Interests but the persistent
opposition or partisan majority In the
Senate of the United 5 ates. In no
branch of the public service has this
partisan hostility OF q Senate majority
been so keenly experienced as in the De-
partment of State.
From the very outstart IL seemed to
be the deliberate purpose of a partisan
Senate TO battle and defeat every effort
OF the Administration TO make an hon.
orable and advantageous adjustment of
important Questions OF inter natioual
controversy. While the Senate, in
ooeylng blind spirit OF party, rejected
the Fisheries treaty and the Extradi-
tion treaty to break up the colony OF
America scoundrels in Canada, the
Jingoes within and without its doors
sought to urge the country into a con-
hict with peaceful nation over a hand
ful OF petty islands in the South Pacific.
But, thanks TO the patriotic wisdom
OF the Administration and to tie pru-
dence and skill of the head OF the State
Department, President CIeyeland's
Term closes with the country not mere
ly at peace but holding the most friend.
ly relations toward all foreign Goyern-
ments. Though some questions remain
unsettled, the negotiations have pro-
gressed so FAR In friendly and honor
able spirit that nothing but folly and
reckiessness can make them grounds of
international conflict
The new Administration will begin
under quite different conditions fIon
those which President Cleveland and
Cabinet encountered on the 4th of
NNNAOHs 4OOO- 1uolcdu VI racing q nos
tile Senate, President Harrison will be
greeted by Senatorial majority eager
to sustain him and his official advisers
in every measure they may propose.
AT the same time they will succeed to
management OF the public service
from which grave abuses have been ex-
tirpated, and which is now conducted
with order and integrity in every de-
part tment. In such circumstancas tha
administration OF the Government ought
to be comparatively easy task,
Ii the new Administration shall prove
as successful in ell respects as that
which has preceded It the American
people will have cause to rejoice. Let
US trust that, with the fair critscism to
which it should always be subjected, it
will not be followed by the partisan
misrepresentation and calumny that
have dogged its predecessor.-Ph PhiIa.
Record.