St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-23
One Term Will Be Held Suf-
q fieient for All Govern
y y I, ment Officials.
Minnesota's Swamp Land In
q terests Are Being Neglect
81 10 ed by Gov. Nelson,
And the Pine Land Ring Is
Greatly Delighted Over
V the Matter.
Special to the Globe.

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disposition on the part of many DEM
Ocrats who came on to Washington be-
fore the inauguration with the idea that
they would be appointed to good, fat
Offices on the Monday following that
event, to complain over the slowness of
the administration in making changes.
The same men fear that the president
proposesto allow the present incum-
bents not only to serve out their terms,
but ais CiYe them new leases on their
offices. That this is not the intention Of
Mr.. Cleveland was demonstrated conclu-
sively when he announced that eX-
officehOlders would not be reappointed
to their old Offices.
Rotation in office" is a part Of the
fundamental platform of the Democratic
party, and when Mr. Cleveland declared
his allegiance to it he did not intend
that he will apply the principle only in
dealing with Democrats. AS a matter
OF fact. there is every reason to believe
that in the course of the coming four
years there will be more changes III the
government service than have taken
place in the same length of time for a
great many years. Those who are carp
ing at the slowness of the administra-
ton in making changes have not COM
pared the past two weeks with a COZ
responding length of time in NNfGh,
1885.
Such comparison shows that the ad-
mlnlstration has moved as rapidly and
with the same caution.
Harrison Was Swift.
Four years ago, when President Har-
rison took hold, he at once decapitated
the Democratic officials in the DakOtas,
Montana and Washington, partly be-
cause he thought such action would
strengthen the Republican party in the
approaching elections and partly to get
rid of a crowd of the most annoying
officeSeekerS that ever visited the ma
tional capital. This haste put bad tim
Der in responsible positions, mistake
which Grover Cleveland will not CON-
NIT, even though the entire population
of the territories camp outside the
White house and demand action at
once.
But the great majority of the people
of the country care very little about the
distribution of the places within the
gift of the president. They want to
know something about the aims and
plans of the president and his adj
visers regarding the great problems
now pressing for settlement, and. while
the politicians have been filing applica-
lions and gathering Endorsements, they
have not entirely kept from the public
foot that tho administration has
been looking after matters far removed
from patronage. As matter of fact,
there has never been an administration
commenced with such an array of com
plicatiOuS on hand as the present since
Abraham Lincoln was sworn i'll thirty
two years ago, and the people of the
country are fully aware of the true con-
ditiOn of things and ready and anxious
to applaud wise and satisfactory Solu-
ton of these great questions.
Settling the Hawaiian Matter.
The two weeks past have been de-
voted by the president and his advisers
to the arrangement of matters OF policy
rather than TO the execution of any
particular plan, and the result has been
entirely satisfactory. There is at pres
ent welI-defined policy mapped out
for conduct OF the public business in
every department,aS we'll as for dealing
with those matters that reach above and
beyond any of the divisions of the gov
eminent. Such are two of the legacies
left by the administration that has just
gone out-the financial problem aud the
ill-matured Hawaiian annexation
scheme. The administration has al
ready fixed policy for the settlement
of the latter. and will soon be in equally
90 crOOd r,Ositiop raUa rdinr fha fNrInpr
In the Hawaiian matter the president
and Secretary Gresham have taken the
stand that the people of the United
States demand full and complete infor
nation as to the actual condition of af-
fairs in Hawaii, and to gain this eX-
Congressman James Ii. Blount, of
Georgia, has been sent to Honolulu.
For twenty years Mr.. Blount was a
member of congress, during nearly all
of which period he served with distinc-
ton on the committee on foreign rela-
tions. He is great lawyer, acquainted
with the details of international law as
we'll as the laws of this country, and
altogether an ideal man for the place.
No More Fillibusters.
1t has been reported that President
Cleveland is opposed to annexation,
while Secretary Gresham inclines the
other way. 1t is unnecessary to say
that this and similar reports are en-
tireiy without foundation. Both the
president and his minister of foreign
affairs are determined that the United
States shall not be diSgraced in the
eyes of the world by performance
worse than was suggested i'll the OStend
manifesto or planned by Qultman and
Walker against Cuba and Nicaragua
T. Thnu hnf 4,
nine-tenths of the people of the cOun-
try that this country should go slow in
| this Hawaiian matter, and that it will
| be disgrace not easily atoned for If
| the United States shall rush through
! all annexation scheme prepared i'll the
diving hours of discredited administra-
| ten, in the vain hope that by display
| of Jingoism its mistakes of government
! could be removed from the minds of the
! people.
The administration comedies per-
! fectly with the best sentiment of the
country in holding that, while there
may have been no conspiracy between
| the American minister, Stevens, and
the sugar planters for the downfall of
! the monarchy and the bringing about of
| annexation that would let Claus Speck-
| els and the sugar trust in upon the
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many suspicious things in the affairs,
! that nothing should be done until a care
full and thorough investigation of the
whole transaction has been made. And
| this is exactly why Mr.. Cleveland with
drew the treaty and sent MIR. Blount
half way across the Pacific ocean.
Minnesota swamp Lands.
1t may be that the present state adj
ministi alton of Minnesota has too much
to attend to in forcing lingo gram and
warehouse bills through the legislature
to share any time 10. even consider the
saving of several million dollars worth
of lands 10 the various funds OF the
state, but it is only proper for the peo-
pie 10 know that the interests of Mime
sofa in the settlement Of the swamp
land grant made the state by the gen
eral government are beng grievouSly
neglected When the Harrison admin.
i>lrati0n took hold of the government
four years ago Minnesota had a business
man in the executive chair. and he
promptly sent the attorney general to
Washington to labor with file interior