New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-31
reforming WITH SPEED.

The pulotine goes merri!y. Democrats say.
Their satisfaction is intense when they learn
that in ONLY one department seventy official
heads were cut of in single day. Men VINO
have been faithful in the service for many
years. even through the previous Denoc'a'ic
and several Republican Administrations, are
invited to leave, in many cases Tor no dis
coyerable reason except that a hard working
Democrat wants a place. who is friend or
relative of some man of power, or has rendered
signal campaign service. or has compiled
biography Of Mr. Cleveland. or in some other
such way has established " claims" Some
times il is TRYING H. lind a really valuable pub
lie servant OF long experience removed bu'
in most cases il was to be expected that the
President would provide for his friends.
Ii i, creditable to him that there is less cant
! about this Administration than there was eight
years ago. Papers pnpoItng to prove offensive
pa lti.anship are no longer asked or filed There
is not even the slightest pretcncc OF reason
for change. in nearly all cases except that the
man who has been doing the work Is Kepub-
lican and the man who wants to get pay Tor
it is Democrat. 1t is really much better Tor
the country and far moie creditable 10 MI
Cleveland. that there should be no false pre-
tencc about the matter When he was Prcsi-
dent before he did NOT help himself or his
party in the least by encouraging attempts to
blacken the character of those who held Office
Ii is better in every way that the Presidents
own friends are permitted to recognize the fact
that the public offices have generally been filled
BY honest and capable men, and that they are
not obliged to keep up the lying cry, Turn
the rascals ont ~ when they want place Fer
themselves. Sometimes it seems as II Put
the rascals in - would be a better slogan at
present. In not a few cases President Cleve-
land has bluudered-no doubt much to his own
chagrin. lie may justly plead that he is
crowded to death by applications, and mlsln-
formed most outlageOusy by leaders OF his
own party whom he should be able TO trust
| No doubt he wants TO select men who will re-
fleet credit upon his Administration, but he
also finds that he must propiiiatc certain Sen
ators. Considering the rush for office, and the
pressure which has made him and his Secre
taries look haggard already, it is not aStOnlsh-
ing that he has made some appointments which
| have nothing except partlsanship 10 excuse
them and some which nothing can excuse.
It is suspected by many and already suggested
publicly by some of the silver extremists, that
the President is laboring to placltc with
especial favOrs some of the Senators who are
in ,siton to thwart the policy he wishes to
pursue. But apart from occasional errors in
choice the President makes a grave mistake
if he supposes that his influence with spoils-
hunting Senators is stronger after he has gorged
them with fayOrs than it was before Graft
tude in politics was long ago defined as lively
sense of favOrs to come.
Reports current in Administration circles in
dictate that the President now believes that an
extra session must begin in September OF
October. in order to get the work of tariff
manufacture under way before the session
usually begins. 1t is q question whether he
will find the sort of Congress he has to deal
with sufficiently capable to save time in that
way. Nor is it by any means certain that the
contemplated extra session will spend a tenth
as much time in discussing the tariff, during
the fall months when money is apt to be close.
as it will spend in contendng about free silver
coinage. and State bank issues, and other
monetary schemes.