Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-02-22
Mr. CIe,eInnd,- vnIcdic,orr.

The Baltimore Sun published last Friday
what is regarded as Mr. Cleveland's vale
dictory, or his own summing up of what
his administration has done. This review
is based on conversations held with the
President. Summarized briefly as pos
sible the following are the main points
given by the Sun:
1t NAV be stated that the President is
thoroughly satisfied with the practical out
come of his administration and its effect on
the fortunes of the Democratic party. He
is very earnest in predicting "A great future
for Democracy and in asserting his unqual-
flied devotion to the party. He is as firm
now as he ever was in the opinion that tar
iff reform is the great living issue for the
Democracy. He regards it as an issue in
harmony with the spirit and traditions Of
the party and one involving enormous
benefits to the people He does not toler
ate the idea that the Democracy was beaten
on the tariff issue last fall. Had certain
conditions been eliminated from the cam
paign," he says. I'VE would have won de
csive victory.
So far as he is individually concerned, he
has no regrets in laying down his trust.
He thinks the defeat of the Democracy is
to be deplored because of the injury result
ing to the public interests but personally
he experiences a profound sense of relief
at the prospect of release from the ordeal
to which he has been exposed during the
past four years. 1t is an open secret that
he accepted the Democratic nomination
last summer with genuine reluctance and
after earnest efforts to eyade it.
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 practical ques
ton, and has been much hampered and en-
barrassed by the vagarles of sentimental
reformers and theorists, who have been con
tinually urging him to do this or that foI
mere sensational effect which he did not
regard as judicious. He has endeavored
TO give the civil-service scheme a fair trial
and expresses himself as fully satisfied with
the results. His doubt is whether sufficient
clearing out has been done to subserve the
best interests Of the government and t.
give wider scope for civil service reform
through its methods in filling the places o.
inefficient with capable men.
The President is especially gratlhed al
the effect of his administration on the pros
perity and happiness Of the Southern peo
ple, both black and white. He believes il
making no distinctions between any of thu
sections, and he deprecates strongly the re
vival of animosties which We're suppose,
TO be dead and buried lie is satisfied tina
the race problem can he worked out 10y TIN
people of that section without outside in
reference.
He speaks in terms of grateful apprecia
ton of the hearty and united support ac
corded him by the members OF his cabinet
No breath of scandal or faint of corruI
ton has attached to any branch of the pub
lie service.
In view of the iohbery and schemin
that permeated every department of tn
public service under former regimes, an,
which seemed to have become "A permanen
feature of official life in Washington, II
more honorable epItaph could be applied t
the administration now drawing to clos
than the emphatic declaration of the Pres
ident 10 the writer we have nothing t
hide,
1t is Mr.. Clevelani's privilege, uudoubt
eddy, to tell the country what he thinks h