The record-union., 1893-04-20
tons.
Special to the REcoRp-uN1ox.


SAN FRANCISCO, April 19.-The Ctrom-
icle will tomorrow print an extended
interview with Hon. Whitelaw Reid, who
is stopping at Milibrae, the summer home
of d. O. Mills. In response to a ques-
ton what he thought about President
Cleveland's appointments, Mr.. Reid said:
"In the main l fancy he is doing the
best he can. Some of them are excel
lent" In regard to the appointment of
Senator Eustis as EN- bassador to France,
he said: 81 doubt if the President could
have made a better choice if he had
searched his party through"
Mr.. Reid commends President Cleve-
lands course in raising the rank of the
English and French Ministers to EN-
bassadors, and says that the change is
more desirable for business than social
reasons. An ambassador can transact
his country's business much more speed
lily than can Minister.
With regard to the hauling down of the
American flag at Honolulu, Mr.. Reid
thinks that President Cleveland wishes
to conduct negotiations with the Hawa-
ian Islands while they were free from
restraint, together with the natural decree
that the acquisition of the islands shall
appear in history as the work of his Ad-
ministration.
Speaking of the announcement that
President Cleveland would not appoint
men to the same offices they formerly
held under him, Mr.. Reid said he could
not believe ts95 MIR. Cleveland had made
any such yiiiculous rule. "Why, lay it
Gown 81 a general rule, he will uniformly
deprive the country of the services OF
those members of his party best trained
Co serve it. A private citizen who should
conduct his business on that theory
would be thought to need a guardian"
"What do you think of the general
work OF the Administration ?'' was
asked.
General work? There isn't any. The
two great questions are tariff and silver,
and so far as we can know nothing has
been done with either, and there is no in
tention to touch either until about a
fourth of the Presidents term has run
out. Before the election we were told
the Mckinley tariff was a eliminating
atrocity of class legislation, a most gigan-
tic robbery of laboring men and the poor
in the interest of few of the rich. Well,
the Democrats are in power, and they
prefer to let the robbery 90 steadily on.
Unless an extra session is called, it must
go through half the time any way, since
the making of new tariff of new princi-
pies in complicated business and takes
time. Meanwhile the business of the
country is being kept uncertain and
unsettled by impending change. The
financial situation is kept equally uncer-
tain by the silver question and will be
until those who have been given power
get courage enough to use it. Among all
the wonderful things we will show visit
ing foreigners at the Columbian EXPOSE
ton this year, we shall show them moth
ing quite so astonishing as this: A plu-
rality of the American people electing a
President declare they are being robbed.
Their President takes power and waits
nearly year before lifting finger to
stop the robbery. That is the way the
Administration is putting Itself on exhi-
bition in this Columbian year"
Mr.. Reid leaves on Thursday for Port
land, Or, and after short trip through
the Puget Sound country will return to
New York