The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-02-23
MR.. CLEVELAEU'S WAY OF DOING
THINGS.

MR.. CLEVELAEUS WAY OF DOING
THINGS.
Recently there has been great
shaking up OF party ingredients and
an elimination &c some extent OF party
traditions. MIR. Cleveland's intma-
ton OF his appointment OF Judge
Gresham has been he prolific text OF
the newspaper comments on the sub
ject.
There are evidently two notable
things about the party that the course
Of events have made very prominent:
First trat in the tate triumph OF the
Democratic party the Marcy idea,
falsely attributed to General jackson,
! that to the victor belong the spoils IS
! fast yielding to the higher motive OF
party usefulness 1t Will be remem
berad that in MIR. Cleveland hJmer
administration he was ayefse to the
recognition OF this spOils principle ana
that his independence in Ignoring 1t
!
Senator Black burn of Kentucky and
al that ilk of spoilsmen. His admin
istration in this respect then WAS ten
! tative, but his re election with all the
opposition OF this class OF politicians
! has given him assurance that the
Democratic party is marching up TO y
| 4 -, 81 Of rint and
while the distribution of offices under
federal patronage is still recognized
as belonging as a general thing to
lhO.e who contributed to the victory,
| it is by NJ means the
absolute rule required by the
party. In other words that civil
service reform must be the leading
idea of the administration. Mr.. Cieve-
land is sustained in this by the higher
thought of the party which has ar
rived at the success and personal dis
intereateduess Of the Democratic ad
ministratiOn as paramount u reward
of party workers.
The other principle to which we al
Jude follows as u logical sequence OF
the independence Of action of the eX-
-cutive which is inuor-ed by u large
n ajority of patriotic Democrats. Mr..
Cleveland feels that he is now sus-
tanned in tho policy mrked out by
his former administration, and he Il
surrounding himself with II cabinet
best adapted to ensure the success OF
his Democratic Administrations. IL
Gen II. II Lee, at any time after
the battle OF Gettys burg, had resigned
his command in the army Of the Con-
federacy and declared his adhesion to
the Union cause it would have been
folly in the Federal government not
to have given him command OF the
| UuiOn forces. There could have been
| no man mere informed of the weak
moss of the COnfederacy than Gen. Lee,
combined with that his great genius
as military commander, every man
in the North, from MIR. Lincoln down
to u private in the ranks would have
recognized and Iully understood that
General Lee was the man to restore
the Union. Perhaps it will be indig-
nantly denied that this is a suppose
bic case. That may be true, but still
it is an hypothesis upon which we
may learn wisdom. Juuge Gresham
knows every weak point in the amor
!. of the Republican party. He recog-
nzes the injury hat the radical meas
ures OF the Mckinley tariff has done
/ the country aud he has declared his
reputation of the Republican party
and his allegiance to the principles OF
The Democracy. Endowed as he is
with "a force of intellect and an incor-
ruptible integrity, what wiser selec
ton could Mr.. Cleveland have made
than that of Judge Gresham to give
most intimate aud confidential couu-
lei to the Democratic party in the
difficulties it has before ii? We may,
therefore, conclude tnat while Mr..
Cleveland will favor the appointment
of Democrats to Office, that he is going
to exercise his patronage for the best
interests OF the party and as q consr-
quehce the best interests of the coun-
try.