The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-05-18
sAUK CENTRE HERALD
THURSDAY. NAY 10, 1893.
NO TIME.

President Cleveland has issued per,
emptory order that the ofice-seekers
shall not be accorded personal inter
view for tie very excellent reasons that
it is impossible for him to identify them
audremember their claims when the time
for making appointments to the Offices
they are applicants for shall arrive; for
the further reason that he has not time
to devote to listening to their Emporium
tiles. For more than two months the
executive chamber has practically been
In possession of horde of active, work
ing politicians demanding pay for their
services, and the inevitable result has
been a distraction of the presidential
mentality from more serious, if not more
pressing duties. Individuals have taken
the time and patience legitimately be-
longing to the nation. But the fault is
with the system. and the manifesto OF the
president serves only to check In degree
the annoying incidents without in any
degree rectifying the principal evil. Prac-
tical politics has wandered far from the
theoretic administration of our govern
ment. The spoils system is growing
more clamorous of recognition with
every new administration. The remedy
can only be found in divorcing the presi-
dent and his power of appointment, and
no one ought to welcome such radical
change more jubilantly than the presi-
dent himself. Patronage is. and ever
will be in increasing degree, an element OF
weakness to the president. To HIM
should be accorded the privilege of nam
ing only such officers as exert direct
influence upon his policy of administra-
ton, and in their appointment he should
have absolute and undivided authority
and responsibility. The senate SHOULD
not be consuited-as that body is never
called upon to share the responsibility OF
the acts of the officers when they confirm
and the prerogative of rejection is never
exercised for any other purpose than a
desire to embarass the president. There
is neither sense nor justice in their inter
vening either for or against the will OF
the only person who is held responsible
for results. Having filled the Offices
which are to give color and effect to the
administration. the president should be
relieved from lot of perfunctory acts,
dictated to him by interested advisors,
which acts are fruitful of more adverse
criticism and embarrassing opposition,
than any other which he is called upon
to pertorm-the appointment of thou
sands of men to fill petty Offices, whose
fitness he cannot, in the nature of things,
personally pass judgment upon. APP.
pointments make no friends, how
Judiciouslv made-but in selecting one
among dozen friends with conflic ting
claims that one is reta ined and the
Others alieniated or rendered lukewarm.
Every department should have it's board
disappointment whose action, if not final,
should at least be only subject to revisi on
under prescribed rules or laws. With
civil service something more than a de- |
lusive sham. and an appointment bureau
to examine the fitness OF applicants for
the several departments, President |
Cleveland would be saved the humilia- |
tion of making such an order.