The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-09
THE NEW STATES.


Tho Democratic Policy Toward the TER
ritoriss Reviewed.
Albany Times.
The admission Of the new states Of waning
ton. Montana, and North and e5ufh Dakota IN
om swo ns ssn re # idho and
Wyoming Will increase Il 70 fourteen: II tness
SIX tsrrfJ.ries had been Democretac they would
not have been admitted. Weekly.
1t Is - unquettionable Is Wholly y rit The
Dem cratic party has lost all these new STATES
ct least temporarily who 10 to blAme7 Inc
men primarily Responsible are Grover Cleve.
land, late president Of the United States and
his secretary Of the interior. Nj. Lamar. Their
associates and accessories In introducing these
six new Republican states into the Onion were
the Mugwumps, such Is the editor OF Harper's
Weekly end other men Of his stamp. whose "a.
vice and approval the president preierred
throughout his term Of ONCE 70 that Of old-u
clean-grit thoroughbred Democrats. II Mr.
Cleveland had been q much Of Democrst -
Mr.. Harrison il Of Republ,can-if he had not
been surrounded and controlled By the "non-
partisan idea people, to whom he c0nsigned
himself--if he had had . Democratic territorial
policy during the iour years he occupied ne
chief magistracy- IT least OF the ak new
new states might have entered the Union dur
ing his administration, and might have come IN
as Democratic states, instead OF being manipu-
lated, as they have been, into Republican states
and admitted under B publican auspices And
the URited States Senate today. instead OF con-
tanning large Republican majority Of senators,
would have been Democratic, or evenly BAR
anced.
I'm politics plumbers are crimes" and bad
faith toward friends IL the objectionable sin.
The convention which nominated Nj. cleve-
land for the presidency In 1884 resolved that the
officials of each territory should be chosen BY
the president from among the residents Of that
territory. That was and Is good and sound
Dem cratic doctrine. The abuse which had
grown up in the interior department at Wash
ington of sending favorites out TO govern the
territories, like Roman Observation-Disclosures
feet who had to consult map In order to md
their respective Jurisdictions was the primary
grievance Of these new political communities,
ana was what the convention resolution In
tended to stop. There wss no subject the terri
torialists felt SO sore upon, for, being for the
most part native Americans, their pride re-
VOTED at the imputation of interioriiy, and the
selections of strss rs for their Offices. mads by
Presidents Hayes. Garfield and Arthur, had
been particularly offensive in many ossea
When this plank was inserted in the Chicago
Democratic platform of 1854. and duly accepted
by Mr. Cleveland along with the nomination,
the democrats in the territories were greatly
elated and encouraged. Had the territories
possessed electoral votes, that single plank
would have carried them all for Cleveland in
1884.
But. the election being over and Mr. Cleveland
inaugurated, and Mr.. Lamar put into the in
terror department surrounded by Republican
holdover subordinates), The administration pro-
ceeded in due time to name certain governors
secretaries, judx es, msrshas and postmasters for
the territories with the coolest possible disregard
of the Chicago platform. Never was there
more paipable instance of bad faith. Most Of
the Republicans found in Office In the territories
were allowed to serve out their four years, and
some of them to remain great deal niger.
Then, when they were finally got rid OF, Mr..
Cleveland carefully sought out men to Ill their
places whose partisan feelings should be so faint
and doubtful, or whose participation in politics
should be SO uninfueutisl, that Mugwampism
could not object nor could Democracy triumph
in their select n. Finally, he took care to pick
out non-residents, strangers to those among
whom they were sent and therefore sure
to encounter jealousy and weaken adj
ministration influence. And all this
while the Democrats of the territories
were intensifying their wrath and were COM
PEELED, If any of them visited Washington, to
stumble over Mr. Curtis in the White house COR
rider or run against Mr.. Eaton on the staircase.
OF the eight organic territories In existence
when Mr.. Cleveland became president, i've or
six had Democratic leaniDgs, and all could have
become permanently d. mocratic had they had
from Mr.. Cleveland the kind OF partlssnship
they have since had from Mr.. Harrison. Al il
is, thesix new states have not been won from
Us: they have been thrown away. and that for Z
time only. They are now in the Union, and,
although their Democratic voters begin their
statehood under Instantaneous circumstances,
although they have been neglected and aban-
doned when they should have been recognized
and encouraged, there Is every probability that
hey NIL va ind ivoc afox md In,
spite OF Grover Cleveland and his stupid depart
meni of the interior, recover their ascendaucy.