The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-03-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, March l3, Is!

olC vi eAO uIoot Ol1Cult fOloS
ever attempted by a public mali
is that of setting himself up as be
ing better than his party. TIN
the friends OF Mr.. Cleveland have
persistently done for him evtl
since his entrance into nation;
politics, and the claims of his wo.-
shippers about his having refuse
to make one single promise dun
ing the last campaign have beer
louder than ever since his last ilt
auguration. Well, the idol ha
been shatterd. and in view of th,
whole world. One of the mos.
prominent nominations to office
he has made-ex-G Governor Gray.
of Indiana, to be Minister to Mex
ico-was the result of a bargain
made at the Chicago convention,
not, it is true, by Mr.. Cleveland
in person, but by his personal rep
resentative at that convention,
Hon. w. @. Whitney, Of New
York. The terms of this bargain
were that Gov. Gray was to with
draw as a presidential candidate
and throw the Indiana delegation
to MIR. Cleveland, and i'll return
was either to have a place in the
cabinet OF first class foreign mis-
sion, if Mr.. Cleveland were nomin
ated and elected. That bargain
has now been carried out, and it
is about time there was a cessa-
ton of the talk of his being bet
ter than his party.
Mr.. Cleveland's ingenius method
of knocking the army of office
seekers out by sections, as it were,
shows that he is wiser man than
when he was president before, and
has furnished no end of amuse
ment for those not after office,
as we'll as for the office seekers
not in the prescribed sections.
First, he disposed of that section
that were after the Office held
under four years commissions, by
telling them that no official would
be removed until the expiration
of his term, except for cause.
Next he jumped on the section
that held office under his first ad-
ministration, nearly all of whom
were here ready and willing, not
to say anxious, to again affix their
autographs to the official pay roll,
by telling them that none of them
would receive an appointment,
unless it were in some exceptional
cases where special qualifications
were demanded that were not pos
sessed by any new applicant.
| And his last Knockout was direct
ed at the democratic editors who
are hankering after the official
flesh pots. His words on this sub
ject are herewith quoted for the
especial benefit of the editors cf
your democratic contemporaries,
who might make the mistake OF
expecting all office. II have been
surprised', said Mr.. Cleveland to
congressman who called Oh him
in the interest of democratic
Journalist, sto notice the large
number of newspaper men who
have made application for office.
/ remember that during the recent
campaign, and in fact during al
most the whole of the last admin
istration, the democratic news
papers charged that in the ap-
pointments of whitelaw Reid, and
other journalists Mr.. Harrison was
attempting to subsidize the press.
| Now, don't you see | would be
laying myself open to precisely
the same charges if [ were to honor
the drafts made on me by news.
paper men? | do not like the
idea either, which the editors OF
little democratic papers all over
the country seem to have, that
they are entitled to the office oI
| postmaster Ill their TOWN."
Those close to the administra
ton say that the withdrawal ofthe
Hawaiian annexation treaty from
the senate does not Indicate tha
Mr.. Cleveland is opposed to annex
alton. They say that he thinks
more satisfactory treaty can bt
negotiated, and they predict tina
the new treaty will be negotiated
and sent to the senate before th'
present extra session comes to
close. In other words, if thes
gentlemen be correct in thei
statements, the principal objection
to the treaty was that it was he
gotiated by republican, instea'
of democratic administration.
The memorials may not be in
clined to favor the makers {
''moonshine" whisky, but officis
fourac chow that Mr. CLEVELAND