Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-29
OPINION OF THE PRESS.


Gresham and his fellow cabinet
clerks are beginning to discover that
the president is genuine boss. N. Y.
| Advertiser.
"a The treasury has all the gold that
| it needs, and thus the course of the
Harrison administration on the bond
question is thoroughly vindicated. st.
| Louis Globe Democrat.
g8@I If anybody thinks the republican
party is not alive and vigorous all. he
has to do is to observe the results of re-
cent local elections, both in the east
and west.-Troy Times.
The manner in which Cleveland
| is treating the Illinois officeseekers
shows very plainly that he does not pro
pose to waste valuable patronage in the
foolish work of trying to keep that
state in the democratic column. st.
! Louis Globe Democrat.
4There is at least one redeeming
feature to the carnival Of spoils now
going on at Washington. The hypoc-
risy of reform has been abandoned
and no pretense is anywhere made that
the offices are being distributed for any
other purpose than as party patronage.
Boston Journal.
! .H The new admins tration at WASH
ington is as busy dividing the spoils Of
victory as if it had been elected for no
other purpose. The lame and the lazy
| have to be provided for, and for that
reason apparently Offices arc created
| The president might as well be blind
folded and draw the names from an
urn as far as practical results go.-
Providence Journal.
~ President Cleveland has not
stopped the guillotine. He has simply
suppressed the record of its work. That
may be democratic reform, but it bears
strong resemblance to the plan in
| force in Russia, where the czar does as
he pleases and tells the people nothing
about it. For a party that hates the
very name of czar this new reform az
| Washington is significant Chicago In
ter Ocean.
aE-Mr Cleveland has 50 far made
some extremely bad appointments.
Nearly all them have been open to
criticism. This criticism has not alone
come from the republican party. 1t is
sharpest from Mr.. Cleveland's own
friends. What few promises were made
| by the president before election seem
already to have been broken. And
only one month of the administration
has passed. Blade.
| sY Gresham is proving the truth Of
the old proverb-that perverts are more
extreme than those born in the faith.
At cabinet meeting the question of al
lowing republicans in the diplomatic
and consular service to serve out the
terms for which they were appointed
was discussed. The sentiment expressed
was in favor of not removing any re-
publican hold-over except for cause,
with Gresham alone in opposition. He
counseled wholesale decapitation. Said
he: IF am permitted to have my way
there viii not be a republican holding
consular or diplomatic position at the
end of three months. ! believe in turn
ing them all out" How far his insane
enmity to Benjamin Harrison prompts
his extreme views Gresham alone can
tell.-Toledo Blade
Grover Cleveland has had
magnificent chance to make record
this time as civil service reformer
such as the country has not seen since
the early days of the republic; but there
is not one sign along the political hori-
zon that such an idea has found lodg-
mcnt in his big head. If the work Of
the first month is to be repeated in all
the subsequent period the present ma
tional administration will simply go
right along in the well-worn pathway
of all its predecessors for half century
Or more so far as the civil service is
concerned. The appointments made
have generally been of fair character,
but some of them have not been gilt
edged. AS whole they simply repre-
ent the average Of party ability, expe-
diency and purpose e.-Philadelphia Tel.
egraph.