Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15
CLEVELAND'S EULOGY.
A Review of the Presidents
Official Work.
1--WE HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE
He is Entirely Satisfied With the
Policy He Pursued and is
Glad to Retire.
Associated Press DISPATCHES to the HERALD.

Glad TO Retlre.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
BALTIMORE, February 14.-The Sur
tomorrow will publish long dispatch
from Washington, giving eulogistic re-
view of President Cleveland's admins
tration and long interview with the
President himself on the incidents and
experiences of the past four years. The
Sun declares that the key note of Mr..
Clev Glands policy, from the beginning
has been to give the people practical,
business.like administration irrespective
of personal considerations. "There if
probably no American in public life, y
says the writer, "who has deeper, more
genuine sympathy with the people, and
there never has been President more
accessible, or one who surrendered 80
much of his time to crafty national Gu
riosity and the interest of the people,
than has Mr.. Cleveland. In conversation
with the writer, the President remarked
that his afternoon receptions were the
plea santest incidents of his official life. The
close of his administration finds him as
busy, and perhaps even buster, than
when he was inducted into office. Much
of his time is consumed unnecessarily by
the want of consideration displayed by
Congressman, and persons who merely
call to pay their respects. The afternoon
receptions were set aside for this class of
visitors, but the majority of Congressman
pay little attention to the rule. Notwith-
standing his patience under these ex-
actions, and the fact that almost his
entire time during the day has been
given up to the public, the President has
been criticised for being exclusive, and
complaints have been made that he
would not give the representatives of his
party an opportunity of consulting freely
with him. 1t is known to his friends
that the President feels acutely this charge.
He has all along been animated by high
and serious sense of his duty to the people
and this has often prompted him to a
course of action in opposition to the
wishes or opinions of personal friends.
1t may be stated that the President is
thoroughly satisfied with the practical
outcome Of bis administration and its
effect on the fortunes Of the Democratic
party. He is very earnest in predicting
great future for the Democracy and in
asserting his unqualified devotion to the
party. 1t is grand party said he,
and was never in better shape than at
present. When we consider the condi-
tion it was in before the tariff issue was
formulated, the want of unanimity, the
wide divergence of views on many
points, and the hearty and united sup
port it gave me during the campaign,
who can doubt that it's status has been
improved, and that it has a glorious
future before it?'
1.-The PRESIDENT is as firm now as ne
ever was In the opinion that tariff reform
is the great living issue for the Democ-
racy. He regards it as an issue in har-
mony with the spirit and traditions OF
the party, and one involving enormous
benefits to the people. He believes that,
sooner or later, the toiling masses will
be thoroughly aroused to an indignant
perception of the burdens unjustly i'm
posed upon them by the tariff laws, and
Of the fact that the taxing power of the
nation is being recklessly used for the
benefit of favored few. He does
not tolerate the idea that the Democ.
racy was beaten on the tariff is
sue last fall. Had certain conditions
been eliminated from the campaign, he
says, we would have won decisive vic
tory So far as he is individually con-
cerned, he has no regrets at laying down
his trust. He thinks the defeat of the
Democracy is to be deplored because of
the injury resulting to public interests,
but personally he experiences profound
sense of relief at the prospect of a speedy
relief from the ordeal to which he has
been exposed during the past four years.
One of the most trying features of his
position has been that, in the discharge
of his official duties, he has been
called upon frequently to offend persons
whose friendship and good opinion he
valued. The insensibility; of which he
has so often been accused, is atrait of his
character. He has had to fight for the
right at almost every step of his official
progress, and he is naturally tired of the
continuous wear and tear of the contest.
1t is an open secret that he accepted the
Democratic nomination last summer with
genuine reluctance, and after earnest
efforts to escape it. His supposed
political aspirations for the future do not
exist. There is no rivalry, on his part,
between himself and anybody else. L
am in no ones way he says, I shall be
delighted to be relieved of the cares of
the Presidency on the 4th of March next.
On purely personal grounds there will be
no happier man in the United States
With reference to the civil service sys-
tenn, he is as firm and decided as in his
views on the tariff question. He believes
that civil service reform has come to
stay. He has treated it solely as prac-
tical question, and has been much hamp-
cred and embarrassed by the vagaries Of
sentimental reformers and theorists who
have been continually urging him to do
this or that for mere sentimental effect, a
course which he did not regard as judi
cious. He has endeavored to give
the civil service scheme q fair
trial, and expresses himself full
ly satisfied with the results.
The worst type OF bureaucracy
was developed under the spoils system
of former administrations. When MIR.
Cleveland came0into Office he found the
departments filed with incompetents
who had found permanent lodgment
there through favoritism. His doub!
is whether sufficient clearing-out has
been done to subserve the best interests
of the Government, and to give wider
scope for civil service reform through lts
methods in filling the places OF the In
efficient with capable men.
"The President recognizes fully the
feeling of the great mass of Democratic