New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-21
1.-THE FULL SIGNIFICANCE"

Washington are cracking funeral jokes Ovc
the Cabinet appointments and privately OK
pressing their anger and disgust at Mr. Clevc
lands course in sending to them such emissare'
as MessrS. Willard Quincy and Dickinson
neither of wIeDm is member Of Congress
TO inform them what legislation he desires
and while leading Democrats all over the cOun
try arc wondering what the Prcsident-elcct j.
driving at. 1.-The Ncw-Iork Evening Post
has no difficulty in understanding the whole
situation, 1.-THE full Significance OF which. II
saws. els slowly but surely making its way int
the minds of all Observers The professional
politicians il says. arc a. usual the last to per-
ccive the truth They have never been able
TO understand Mr.. Clevcland's politics; hence
their present confusion over the construction
of his Cabinet. which, The POST says, Is IN
entire harmony with his political methods III
the past. and is in the fullest sense represent
alive of the influences which compelled his
nomination and cd his election From first
to last he was the choice of the people against
the machine or spoilS element of his party. and
he will enter upon his duties As President aS
the representative Of the people" Our con
temporary goes on II say that in making his
Cabinet selections Mr.. Cleveland was bound
10 consider the Influences which brought about
his nomination and election and the returns
leave no doubt a. TO what these were. "1hey
shifted the balance of Democr ratio power from
the East 10 the West. and made IL possible for
the Democratic party TO effect an exchange
which would immensely benefit is character.
And this exchange is very bluntly set forth
in the statement that the party-mcanins there.
by Mr.. Cleveland" could say to the degrading
machine combination in New-iork: You can
90 your ways now without giving us further
trouble Whether you become better or worse
matters not 10 ,ls hcnccforth. We have new
allies in the West who are respectable, and
with whom we can associate without being
ashamed of their company"
If this be actually 1.-The full significance" Of
Mr. Cleveland's recent actions-and there. i
certainly some reason for believing that our
contemporary speaks by authority--Mr. Clcvc-
land has laid down for himself and his Ad-
ministra,on programme that will startlc some
of the most active and influential of the party
leaders TO whom he owes his election. They
are already good deal bcwildcrcd but this
Interpretation Of his actions, to wit that he
politicians, exchanging the alliance of "thc de-
grading machine combination in Ncw-lork''
for that of the Democrats Of the Western
States with whom he and his lMugwump and
Anti snapper supporters lean associate with
out being ashamed of their company" will
perhaps open their eyes. Leaving aside the
question how large or how formidable a party
he would find at his back when the process
Of cutting loose is completed, and his support
consists only Of men whom tho Mugwumps are
not ashamed to associate with, the programme
involves an entire revolution in the methods,
tho policies and not impIobably the principles.
such as they are, Of the party which elected
him. That it involves a breach Of faith will
not be considered of importance. For nothing
was more certain from the hour of Mr.. Glove
lands nomination than that somebody would
be cheated. The conditions were such-and
TIE TRIBUNE more than once directed atten-
ton to the fact during the campaign-that the
election of Mr.. Cleveland must necessarily and
inevitably be followed by a breach of faith
with one or the other Of the two factions which
only with great difficulty and self-restraint were
holding their hands from each others thrOats
while the election was pending. Each faction
was gambling on the chance of the other being
the victim. II our contemporary interpreter
ton of "the true significance Of Mr. Clcvc-
lands recent acts is correct it is the pro-
fessonaI politicians, "the degrading machine
combinations" who are the losers.
The logical consequence, OF course, is that
Mr. Cleveland will run party without pro-
fessonal politicians and without Il machine.
lie will be the party. Whether the Democratic
party, which is nothing if not machine Or
ganizatiOn. will abandon its machine and let
Mr.. Cleveland run it is another question.
Moreover there may be difficulties in the way
of working tremendously with the Western
allies whose responsibility is vOuched for by
our contemporary, the men with whom we
can be associated without being ashamed OF
their company 1t was the Populst alliance
that rendered Mr. Cleveland the greatest ser
vice in the West And that party favors free
silver. as well as Free Trade, besides advocat-
ing variety of views which MIR. Cleveland
and his Eastern friends consider the rankest
sort Of political heresies. IL the appointment
of Judge Gresham is intended as recognition
OF that party-whch it may well be. he having
been its fav0rite candidate for President-the
question at once arises how far the new Adj
ministration is willing to go in the direction Of
the Popullst doctrines other than Free Trade
in order to shake off 1.-THE degrading machine
combination and cement an alliance with
those =" with whom we can associate without
being ashamed of their company" The cx-
pertinent which Mr.. Cleveland is about trying
If our contemporary correctly interprets its
/" full slgniiicance'-wil no doubt prove in
teiesting. And we certainly wish him success
m it. We can hardly imagine moro pleasing