New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-03
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| Mr. Cleveland seems to have forgotten New
York in his arrangements to purify the Civil
Service by casting out Republicans and putting
in Democrats. At rate which, if not wholly
unprecedented, is certainly more rapid than the
average, he and his assistants in the Admins
tration have been engaged IN hnding places
for their partisans. lie has been IN once
scarcely month but in that time, exclusive OF
Army and Navy promotions, he has MADE near
" hundred appointments, distributed largely
between Indiana and Georgia. The Hon. Hoke
Smith. whost existence three months ago was
called into serious question: has developed into
an exceedingly positive reality. The artfu
hand of Senator Voorhees, has made itself high-
" manifest. But there seems to be no molii'or
near the President whose influence Is equal 10
the task of obtaining office for the politicians
of New-Y York. Two Cabinet Ministers, 1t Is
true. are credited to this State, but they are
MIR. Cleyeland's personal friends. They DO not
REPRESENT tho Democratic organization. The
Assistant Attorney General, Edward b. Whit
nov. and the new Minister to Denmark, John
f. Risley, are also credited with residence
here, but Mr. Whitney appears to be OF Mug
wump persuasion. and Mr.. Risley is known TO
fame only as friend OF Senator voorhees, ana
AS a man who has thus far failed to explain MS
connection with reasonable society and the use
he is said to have made of its funds. The only
appolntee who can be said to represent the
New.Yors Democracy in any respect IS inc
Consul to Birmingham, George +. Parker, ana
be il appears. owes his unique advantage TO
his authorship of campaign biography OF Mr.
CLEVELAND which brings out the virtues and
gifts of that fo,,nt of favor in so extraordinary
n manner as to have rendered anything less
than first-rate consulship pitiful recompense
We do not forget, of course. the interesting
appointment Of Robert A. Maxwell to be Fourth
Assistant postmaster-General nor that 1t was
made against Senator Hills advice and in de-
sn;,. of his suggestion to the President that
Maxwell was bitter partisan, violent in his
hatred of the New-Ycrk organization, and that
some other place ought to be found for HIM
than one in which he would have such large
onportunitics to be disagreeabe. Mr.. Maxwell
has been i'm Office scarcely week, but IN that
time he has hustled Republican postmasters out
into the cold at the rate OF sixty or seventy
dav making the records of Mr.. Clarkson and
Mr.. Stevenson seem in comparison models OF
temnerance and forbearance. But even Max
WELLS unwonted activity has thus far been ex-
nended elsewhere than in New-York. Zach
davis DISPATCHES from Washington have record
cd the filing there of great punches OF applica-
tions from ardent and hopeful Democratic
natriots TO whose exertiOns any man less con-
WINGED Of his own sufficiency than is MIR. Clevc-
land would think himself indebted. What
happens to these applications no one seems to
know. but there is suspicion that they en-
counter blight almost as soon as they reach
| the files.
II is somewhat difficult TO understand Mr.
Clevelapd's position concerning the patronage
entertaining to New-York. Its failure to de-
yelop is certainly not due to his Discrimination
TO make changes, because he Is making ,hem
already as rapidly and with as little regard Tor
his professions of devotion to Civil Service
reform as is usual to Democratic politicians.
II would seem that he has served notice on
Senator Hill Senator Murphy and Mr.. Croker
that they and their friends are not to expect
recognition at the White House, and that the
Offices are TO be used as means of Gripping
and embarIassin those leaders. This Is the
Interpretation that the politicians IN both the
partisan camps place upon the appointments
that have been made, and upon the TACT That
nothing is accomplished in which Hill, Murphy
and Croker have the smallest personal interest.
1t comportcd with Mr.. Clevelands dignity, as
unouestionably it served his interest, to dine
| with New-YorIl machine politicians and to hold
close and frequent communication with them
during the campaign. All then was harmony
unity and cooperation, but the situation now
4 is different. Mugwumps and rabid personal
enemies of Hill and the machine are pushed
TO the front and put in charge of departments
controlling enormous patronage, and from all
the sources of information close TO the Prcsi-
dent comes the whispered ntimation that the
harmony and unity that prevailed until Ele-
ton Day accrue to the sole benefit OF the
Man of Destiny.