Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-16
OF r IMPORTANCE.
Tarf Reform and a Sound Financial
Policy is What this Country Needs
First,

Luz ISlieI VI tH6 peopie-CuC
easement Of the masses of their bur-
den of unjust taxation through tariff
robbery, and of their financial dis
tress should be, and qUiU be, first con-
sidered by the Cleveland admins
t%ration, regardless of the crush" for
Office by "place hunters" and when
this is done the ofic es-the s'spoils"
will be duly dealt out: notwith-
standing the fact that, as the Allan
ia Journal says. that inconsiderable
element in the Democratic party
which opposed Mr.. Cleveland's
nomination and is now engaged in
attacking his administration by in
direction and inuendo, is seeking in~
d%ustriously to produce the impress
sion that the President is opposed to
filing the offices under his admins
tration with Democrats.
There is nothing in President
Cleveland's record or utterances to
justify this absurd inference, and its
systematic dissenina S only one
of the outcroppings of the fight that
has been begun on him by those
in the party who have new been
and can never be in sympathy with
his policy and purposes.
It's absurdity is shown when it is
recalled that Mr.. Cleveland when
President before. appointed no Re
publican to office, except in those
few instances where required by law
to do SO, and that he removed more
than 10000 Republican postnasters
alone, substituting Democrats in
their places. Most of this howl
about the Presidents alleged failure
to ill the offices with Democrats
comes from the South. Yet, where
in all this section was there a Re-
publican official left when Mr.
ClevelanI's first administration vert
out?
President Cleveland, while in Office
before, was worn to obey and exc
cute the laws of the country. The
civil service law, which is simply an
attempt to put the business depart
ment Of the government on a bust
ness basis and which the sentiment
of all parties has Endorsed at every
successive appeal to the people, was
on the statute books and he obeyeC
and respected it. What more o.
less could he have done? Any
other course would haye been as
absurd as/dnlawful. President Cleve
land, no one doubts. will obey ane
respect the law IN his new ADMINS
tration
In his last inaugural address tn
president deprecated the demoraliz
ing hunger for the spoils of office
and the people of the county dep
recate it. But neither the Presideu
nor the people deprecate honorable
ambition for political preferment.
!, We believe that this is Presiden
Cleveland's position, that the officer
under a Democratic administrator
should be filed by honest and com
petent Democrats.
!, But for e. very Office seeker, ther
; are thousands of sturdy citizens VIII
are far more interested in seeing tn
affairs Of the government honestl
and economically administered tia
E in the distribution of official pat
ronage.
Those thousands Of citizens al
; the people who put Grover Cleve
I land in the presidential chair an
they are backing him up to-day
the position he has SO boldly an
f wisely taken.
That there ought to be an equit
i able apportionment of the Office
among the states no one will dix
: pute.
!. Such a division is recognized b
t justice and demanded by the civ
service laws, and its violation is
high-handed outrage which will, n
doubt, be promptly remedied. Mort
D Carolina is entitled to her share
these appointments, and if she hasn'
got them We haven't the least dout
y hat she will get them when tn
/ present administration gets int
a good working order. There is notf
:, ing partisan about this; it is simpl
:. d matter Of equity.
:, But is not the revision of the tai
#, which is robbing the overburder
: ed farmers of the country of million
every year. of far more importanc
Il than the distribution of the patrof
. age at Washington?
a And is not the settlement Of tx
financial question, on which the il
e tegrity of our whole commercial Fl
brio depends, of infinitely gr.at'
im~nortanca than the parcelIirg M