The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-11
SHANKLlN AND CLEVELAND.
The Editor still Firm in His Faith in
the President.

! Assuming that the editor of the Courier
| was an applicant for the 7consulate-gen-
eral at Berlin and disappointed at not
! receiving ii, the esteemed Journal, and,
| indeed. all of our local contemporaries,
! have TeprOached President Cleveland for
! comforting the appointment upon Mr..
! Charles De Kay of New York. Since
! the Inauguration ingenious stories have
| occasionally been sent out from Wash
/ ington assOciating Mr.. Shanklin with one
/ federal position or another as if it were
a perfectly understood fact that he was
! determined upon getting an office of
| some kind and that the president was
| considering what it should be. In every
! case the Imagination of the newspaper
correspondents was given free reign and
! later intelligence generally disclosed that
there was nothing in the story. Al
though the spirit of these articles has
been invariably friendly, for which Mr..
Shanklin is especially grateful to his pro-
| fessional brethren, their frequency and
the persistence with which some of them
have returned again and again TO the
subject have not always been agreeable
At the risk of seeming to thrust per-
sonal affairs before the public the Courier
wishes to say once for all that Mr.. Shank
lin has never been an applicant for any
federal appointment A few letters from
| personal friends, written of their own
vOlition and without his knowledge, may
be found in the state department and
Senator Voorhees, and Mr.. Taylor have
spoken to the president in his behalf
But Mr. Shanklin has never applied either
in person or by letter for any office nor
has the president ignored Mr.. Shanklin.
While he has been offered no place that
he could accept Mr. Shanklin has had
refusal ie11 n fS
| and the confidence thus shown by the
president was none the less appreciated
because they were declined. The presi-
dent has undoubtedly followed his own
best Judgment in all Of the federal ap-
pointments. and, speaking for Mr.. Shank
lin, the Courier assures its local con-
temporaTles, while he is duly grateful for
their friendly interest, he neither feels
himself an object of sympathy nor.
victim Of ingra titude. Mr.. Shanklin re-
Gently had a personal interview Of the
most cordial nature with the president
during which neither OF them made any al
fusion whatever to the Berlin consulate
general or any other appointment.
The Courier has lost none of its conf
dence in Grover Cleveland because he
did not offer its editor an office that was
acceptable. We were for him against the
field from the time he left the presi-
Dental office at the close of his first
term until he assumed it again on the
were to do over we should be for him
again, because while we regret his
finacial views he never deceived his party
or his country concerning them One
need not agree with a man in every
thing in order to respect him. The act
Of grand heroism which stands out holder
than any other thing in Grover CleVe-
lands career was the declaration upon
the silver question which he knew to be
in opposition to the views Of a large ma
jority of his party and which he made
at a time when no public eXigency re-
quired il of him. The whole country felt
that he was expressing his honest opinion
although ne knew the act might cost
him the presidency. To carp about office
and personal disappointments in the pres
ence of this and other proofs that his
career affords of his fitness for the high
station to which his countrymen have
twice elected him is to proclaim ones
self that most undressing of all char
acters, a sorehead The Courier begs
leave to say that Mr.. Shanklin does not
belong TO that class.-Evansville Courier