The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-04-27
Cleveland Is Casting His Anchor to
the WindWard.
He Is Making Much Hay While His Sun
Shines.
PROFITS BY HARRlsoN's BAD BREAKS
His Appointments if They Do
Not Suit EN-.

nominee himself or transfer the nomlna-
ton to a friend in 1896.
The president is building 10 in the
frmest concrete a party of his own. He
feels that his nomination and election
last year were in spite of the machina-
tions of the leaders of his party, that he
has grown up from conditions and for a
purpose, and that there is no such thing
as wrestling the party control from his
hands. Not alone are his appointments
being made In such a manner as to most
weaken his enemies within the demo-
cratic party and make himself strong, but
he has arranged a programme for the
distribution of the offices which will
leave in his hands some strong weapons
for his own continuation in Office or the
advancement of a friend three years
hence. 1t will only be three short years
from this time till nearly, if not quite, all
of the delegates to the republican and
democratic national conventions will
have been selected, and most of them
will have announced for whom they will
vote.
Grover Cleveland intends to dole out
the patronage in such a slow way as to
leave in his hands a large number of
~consulates, some missions, heads of bu-
reaus and other places to be given out
say during the summer and fall of 1895
and that winter and the following spring.
He believes that President Harrison,
when striving for a denomination, was
put to much unnecessary trouble and
some expense by having no offices left
that if there had been more foresight dis.
played in handling the offices he would
have had no contest at Minneapolis.
While President Cleveland is appar.
emily going right ahead with the reor-
ganization of the federal service and the
preparation Of party measures for the
early session of congress without any re-
gard to his political future and an eye
single to the welfare of the country and
his party there is every reason to believe
that his own future is first in mind. Up
this moment there has not been a single
appointment made for a man who prom.
inently opposed him at Chicago last
June unless the appointee is Mr.. Cleve-
lands friend and has credentials show
ing that he has been tested, or better
still, he is known to be right for the flu.
ture. The president has come to the
logical conclusion that if he can give out
the offices so as to placate his influential
party enemies and at the same time re
ward his friends he will have killed two
birds with one stone and he has lone
this in a number of instances, and in so
doing he has given out the impression in
some quarters that he is simply rewarding
party men without regard to their past
position. Not once has a democrat in
congress who opposed Cleveland at Chi
cago been given an office for a Hill man.
President Cleveland is very perplexing
to his old friends these days. Like Gen.
eral Harrison he has a most unfortunate
way of showing gratitude and apprecia.
ton of friends. There is scarcely a dem
ocrat in Washington who is positive in
his W mind that he has any definite
and absolute influence with the president.
He may pretend to think he can control
an appointment, but he really does not
believe he can he is in doubt. 1t was
just so under Harrison. President Cleve-
land, like his immediate predecessor, is
making many enemies in the senate and
unless he capitulates to certain republi-
can senators who are above partisan bias
in a general way, there will be great
trouble in securing combinations of nom
nations before the end of next winters
session. Here are a few democratic sena-
tors who have in one way or another
been snubbed by President Cleveland,
who cannot get appointments, if at all
with satisfaction, and who are not in &C.
cord with Grover Cleveland in his in
dividual capacity, and who will refuse to
vote for the confirmation of personal ap
pointments if things run a little while
longer as they are 10Y going: Pugh,
Cockrell, Vest, Hill, Murphy, German,
Brice, Gibson, Butler, Blackburn, Call,
Harris, Morgan.