The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-03-07
THE INAUGURAL,


President Harrlson'a inaugural ad'
dress Is q fair state paper, rhetofleally
speaking, and he has evidently given
his best thoughts 10 its preparation, II
is cautious, conservative and non-eom'
INITIAL on questions OF vital Importance,
like the taFin, our foreign policy and
civil service reform, and on nOn'eHseh'
tiaI and dead issues he Is foroeful and
sometimes quite eloquent
Take the following sentence from the
inaugural, on our foreign policy
1--WE shall Neither fail TO re6peet the
nag OF any friendly nation on the lust
rights OF It's citizens, nor TO exact Ike
treatment for our own, Calmneaa, JUS
tioe aud consideration should ohaTao'
terlze our diplomacy"
The above Is u stale platiWde and
meaningless sentences that any high
school boy might utter without fear OF
being rated as q preeocloua youth
Ills talk on soldiers pensions can sat
isfy no one, No one can tell from what
he says, what kind Of new legislation
on pensions he fayors or whether he
fayora any legislation,
Ills talk on the tariff Is equally oh,
scure, lie marks out no line OF tarlli
reform, although he comedies the
Democratic position that the tariii
must be revised aud the surplus re'
duced,
on civil service reform, he eOob as
gentle as the sucking dove, No one
can toll from his language what he In
tends to do, but It Is clear no viii not
follow the line marked out by OK Pres
ldent Cleveland, The following is o
paragraph from the Inaugural on the
civil service reform business
oThe civil list Is 80 large that q per-
sOnal knowledge of any large number
of applicants ia impossible, The Pres
ident must rely upon the representa-
tIOna Of others, aud these are often
made InCOnalderately aud without any
lust sense OF responsibility, | have a
right, | think TO insist that those who
volunteer or are invited 10 give advice
90 to appointments shall exercise con,
aidcratlin ana fidelity, ! shall expect
those whom appoint to Justify their
selection by conspicuous efficiency IN
the discharge Of their duties Honor
able party service Ia certainly not 10 be
esteemed by me u disqualification for
office, but " will In no case be allowed
10 serve as 6hleld TO olllclal negli'
geuce aud incOmpetency"
OnIce seeking politicians viii not fail
to understand what these negatively
constructed sentences mem, He Gays
honorable party goyyIce will not be es'
tttmed disqualification for office. The
country would have thought Just as
much Of him, had Ae said Just what he
means by this, and framed the follow
ing sentences
Jim BlaiUf oNd ! lwW take care Qt
he men who gW Mp me siUP 10 oUyg
Nao rob aHd lUdi0a1, which states
gave us control Of this government,
Harrison Intends 10 do Just what he
can't help doing for ciyil service re-
form, which win be precious little,
Every intelligent citizen Of the United
States Of mature age, knows that Jim
Blaine viii now run the civil service
business, and that his motto 10 "to the
ylctoB belong the spoils Of office, and /
believe In getting every dollar there Is
out of H."
Every person Of intelligence knows
that llarrIson's election was secured by
the inoydlnate use Of money NJ the
polls and that the men whoput UP the
money propose TO get II back out Of the
government patronage, and he Is q silly
goose, who does not know that II will
be done, Hence II is a cruel, wicked
farce for the Ostenslble head Of the
Blaine administration TO perpctrato q
sanctmonious smile over The ghost Of
civil service reform.