The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-16
CLEvEhANR's ADMINISTRATION.

his ADMINISTRATOR, ltS aims. objects
and asb.6ssnlsn..s; of his personal am
bitieAg aB9 efforts while at the head of
the nation; of his relations to his party,
and of his opinions as to the future.
What the President says is interesting
and will undoubtedly prove useful to
Others. When he entered the White
House he set out to give the people 3
practical, busineSS-like administrS-
don, 1rresp Give of FER onal con-
Siderations, and while he confesses
that he has not succeeded as
well as he wanted to, he il
proud that a considerable degree oil
SUCCESS was attained. He is frm in the
conviction that the civil service system
il right, and that 1t has come to stay
he II satisfied with the result Of the
trial that he gave the system, which
trial was made in opposition to the
opinions of personal and political
friends. The President also expressSi
himse I as being satisfied With the effect
his administration will have on the
fortunes of the Democratic party. The
party has great future. at is . grand
party" said he, land never was in
better shape than ct present. When
We consider the condition it was in be-
fore the tariff issue was formulated, she
want of unanimity, the wide divergence
of views on many points, and the party
united in thesupport it gave me during
the campaign, who can doubt that its
status has been improved, and that
there is q glorious future before it2"
He is as firm as ever in the belief that
tariff rsfoTm is the great issue, and
thinks that in time the toiling masses
will be reused to aYperception Of the
burdens imposed upon them by unjust
tariff laws. Mr.. Cleveland il pleased
by the thought of soon being able to
throw of the load which he has borne
for four years, and says that on the 4th
Of March, on purely personal grounds,
there will be no happier man than he
in the United States.
The entire interview is entertaining
and instructive. It expresses the mo-
tive that has actuated the President
from the first, and gives US az insight
into what has been running in his mind
all these years. Ar. CIeYeland has en-.
deAvored to hide from himself and from
others that he was partisan, as we
understand the word in politics.
Theoretically, an official should not be
q partisan; he should know no party,
all men being equal before him, and
measures being approved or rejected on
their merits and not because they were
ADVOCATED or opposed by the political
organization to which the official be-
longs. This is the theory of the
government The practice, however,
always has been, and We apprehend
always will be, different. There must
be partisanship, or there will be failure
On the part of the official. The the.
orists and the Mugwumps will take is
sue with this assertion, but they will
not change The fact. President Cleve-
land set out to make such an admins
tration as all would like to see, if all
were honest and unselfish. He under
took to reward merit and to place re
sponsibility only with the responsible:
in doing this he necessarily had to Of
fend politicians and partisans who
had grown up and been trained
in the belief as we'll as in
the practice, that partisan political
service should be rewarded. We.
may say this, belief and this practice
are both wrong; We; may even demon
strate that they are wrong, and that
their natural tendency or drift Is to in
competency and corruption in the pub
Lilo service; and having done this we
will have to admit that the belief and
the practice are more firmly grounded
inrthe minds of the American people
than is the desire for honest, but strict
ly non-partisan government.
President Cleveland has given
the nation q pure and able admin
istrstion; personally he has been above
reproach, and it has been his effort to
Pat only pure and capable men in
Office. Though Democrat in politics,
4 trustworthy Repu blican was pre-
terred by him to Democrat concern
ing whom there was doubt One who
is disinterested and partisan can
find no fault with CleYeland's admin
iEtration On the score of honesty or in
tention to do right. And yet Mr.
Cleveland goes out of Office charged, in
the mindsCf millions, with the respon.
sibility OF bringing defeat to his party :.
He has done nothing for which he
should not be commended as +,
citizen and as President of r.
Republic, but as Democrat he fail Il
TO do what his party demanded. a,
was non-partisan, and Democrats hol
that he should have been partisan
inst aa RenuhIicans will inaist +h