Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
The ADMINISTRATION.
conparfsOns which Speak Praises in he
half of President Harrison

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Comparisons which Speak Praises in BE-
half of President Harrison
Let no good Republican think that he
has any apologies TO make for the main
positions and acts of the current Admin
! istration. In every department. the Fed
eral Government is moving positively,
forcibly and sensibly. Between the
J well-considered movements of this Ad-
ministration that understands itself
and the cratic, half-insane perform
| ances of its predecessor there could
hardly be greater contrast. The broad,
mastery lines of the Presidents mes
sage show we'll the constructive plat
form of vital principles upon which the
| party stands and upon which the Ad-
ministrationis calmly playing its splen-
did role. In eight months Mr.. Window
has Treasury and all its problems bet
ter in hand than his Democratic prede-
cessors in their four years. Manning
and Fairchild were personally able and
honorable men, and they would have
been apt pupils under an experienced
fnancier; but they were not qualified to
take control of the great department.
Mr.. Window is bringing the snarls out
of the tangle with the simple ease of a
great finance minister.
The foreign affairs of this country
were, toput it considerably, managed
with great timidity and awkwardness by
Mr. Bayard. Secretary Blaine assumes
the portfolio with confidence and vigor
that have already had magical effect.
His policy is not pyrotechnical nor vent
uresome, but is simply the strong, con-
fident one of a man who understands
the country, himself, and the rest of the
world.
Secretary Noble and the heads of the
bureaus and commissions that are in
cluded in the Interior Department are
dealing with lands, Indians, pensions
and all the rest of their varied business
with a prompt, businesS-like air that
charms the West after some years of
Vilas-Sparks-Black administration. Res
ervations will he opened, public land
questions will be settled fairly and
without needless delay, and all that lies
in the department will be done to pro-
mote internal progress.
The Post-Office Department has taken
up new life. The navy is booming. The
new Agricultural Department is Justify
ing it's creation. There are no pan-elec-
trio scandals in the Department of JUS
tice.
The appointments of this Administra-
ton are worthy of comparison with those
of any preceding one. Not to speak with
lack of respect of the man now sitting
as Chief Justice, it is but fair to contrast
the selection of Mr.. Cleveland of an alb
solutely unknown lawyer for this posi-
ton with the merited promotion by Mr..
Harrison of Judge Brewer, who has
made his way up through the grades of
the federal judiciary.
Not to carry comparisons further, we
have but to point to the admirable prac-
tical programmes laid down by the
President in his recent message and by
the Cabinet officers in their reports, and
to contrast them with the vagaries and
crOtchets that were contained in the pc
culiar literature promulgated by Mr.
Cleveland and his Cabinet advisers as
state papers. This Administration is
showing itself one that practical and ex-
perienced men can respect. - Mime
apolis Tribune.