St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-12
REPUBLICAN ESTIMATES.

1t must be admitted that the Demo-
Gratis have been disposed to be quite
charitable and fair in their treatment of
the administration. Possibly extreme
partisans will not crncede quite as de-
cided phraseology. and it may be in
sisted III an explanatory way that DEM
ocrats have been more engrossed in the
educational work of tariff calculation
than in watching the details of admins
tratiye movements which have been
confined in the main to getting Demo-
Gratis out and Republicans into office.
AS matter of fact. further. the Repub-
licans themselves have been saying so
much meaner things about the ruling
people than the Democrats thought, that
they have not been inclined to compete.
No reference is had to the deliveries Of
those disappointed in securing expected
Office. They are like an army with
banners in number, and display much
of the mood of the profane cohorts in
Flanders. The peculiar methods pur-
sued have suggested neither policy nor
principle, aside from recognition at
times of personal gratitude or implied
NOiIloCp. 1iO OCNOtOSb
come from Republicans who have no
thought of personal advantage in poll
ties, but have followed persistently in
the party lines in the faith that the pro-
fessions of the platforms were the real
guiding force. OF this class is DR..
LEONARD WooLSEY BACON, one of the
original Republicans and most clear
headed thinkers in the East. He has
been connected with educational and
literary interests rather than partisan,
and his article in the Forum for this
month is surprise to the Republicans.
His view of the way the president and
others have attempted to carry out the
policies they were elected on is indicat-
ed in this paragraph:
''Mr. CLEVELAND's administration IN
its later months lapsed painfully from
the reSolute faithfulness ito civil service
reform with which it began. But at it's
worst estate his administration was like
the driven snow in comparison with the
shameful corruption with which the
pOstoffice patronage has been handled
by those two eminent Presbyterian
elders, Mr.. HARRISON and Mr.. WANA-
MAKER, from the moment they gripped
in family prayers. not lifetime of labor
in the Sunday school, can undo or Guido
one-hundredth part Of the demoraliZa-
ton that has been wrought by this
treachery to public duty"
DR.. BACON is divine not at all pref
udieed against Presbyterian elders, so
that there can be no sectarian discount.
The drift of the party is as Objectionable
to him as the course of the head of the
administration. 1t is not moving to-
ward reform and the interests of the
people. He partially sums up the
points in this:
''In the states in which the Repub-
lican party is dominant, or has any
chance of dominating, it is, on the
whole, as compared with its antago-
| nistic party, made up of the best ele-
| ments of society. This being the fact,
how does it come about-can any one
explain it on any known principle of
human nature-that on the principal
| questions on which the two parties
stand in opposition or in con-
| trast, the course of the Republican
party is the most offensive TO the
| known and recognized sentiments
of the best citizens? That it is SO. is
| evident on comparing the course of the
| two parties, first, on the related but
not identical questions of reduction of
revenue and reduction of eXorbitant inn
| posts upon trade; second, on pension
| robberieS; third, on civil service re-
form; fourth. in the nomination of can
| didateS,"