St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-29
RE CONSIDERABLE.

RE CONSIDEtSAT E.
President Cleveland is entitled to re-
ceive from all the members of his party
much more consideration than some of
them are giving him at present. Sena-
tors aud representatives complain that
he keeps them at arms length and is
inaccessible to them. Others, in the
ranks, mainly those who are seeking his
signature to commissions for themselves
entitilng them to the emoluments of
office. think he does not show that in
terest lii their cases which their serv-
ices to the party demand. Still Others
who are not candidates but still fOndly
believe that the mission of party, its
chiefeSt mission. is to put out hostile
incumbents and install the faithful.
criticiSe the slowneSS with which changes
in office are made.
We have had our own pet grievances
because the president did not write n
message calling congress together with
the same pen which wrote his inaugural,
and before the ink had dried on it. We
think that in advising the framing of
the w l,on bill on its tender lines for
the poor infants he yielded more to their
opportunities and to a mistaken idea of
the amount of exposure to the blasts OF
competition which they could stand
without contracting pneumonia than
was needed, and, coming way down to
the matter of poStoffices and such, we do
think that Mr.. BiSseIl is also too tender
with lot Of fellows who were appoint
ed to office solely because they were the
most offensive ana efficient partisans in
their locality, and without a single
thought to their fitness.
Bat when this is all weighed AMI ac-
counted it seems to us that there is in
the other side of the scale very much
that is forgotten or ignored and to
which the President is entitled before
Judgment is passed. We do not now
recall that i'll the campaign of 1892 Dem
ocrats proclaimed as one of the things
they proposed, if given power, was to
fill the federal offices; there was no
announcement in platform or press or
from the huStings that I've want off,
ees." Our recollection is that we con-
cerned ourselves about larger affairs.
We talked TO the people about the enor-
nifty OF taxing all the people to give
greater profits to few. We denounced
a form of taxation designed to let few
get richer at the expense of all. We
talked about the trusts and ,monopolies
that had spawned in this policy and we
pointed out how this Socialistic policy
was bringing forth fruit after its kind
in the schemes of the Populists and
other socialists.
Now.if the president, elected by votes
given in response to such talk, went into
Office impressed with the idea that we
meant what we said and that those things
about which we did not talk were triv-
ial and unimportant. relatively, we are
not in position to fault him. Ii we de-
clared ourselves as favoring such Il re-
form Of the civil service, the vital part
OF which is that tenure of Office depends
on good service, and not on political
activity or belongings, we can't complain
with very good grace if the president
take us at our word and act accordingly.
But, aside from all this, there is that
in the position of the president which
should command sympathy and support
and the suppression of complaint, even
If justly grounded. He had hardly as
sumed office before financial panic
which had been forming during years
of vicious financial Legislation and in
the speculation it engendered, broke on
the country. Because or this bad legis-
latioG the finances of the nation became
involved and the solvency of our cur
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enough to demand and command the
earnest and close attention of the exec
utive and his couuSelorS. In seeking a
repeal of part of the legislation which
produced this condition he found d.
Vided counsels in our party producing a
prolonged struggle, with the inevitable
result of division and encouragement.
Then the problem of redeeming the
promises of rectification of the tariff
iniquities presented the same obstacle
Of a divided party. sections of which
had become corrupted by their share in
the fruits of the system Of spoliation.
The actual debate on the bill and its
progress in committee of the whole.
where the men ilnbued with the spirit
of '92 have made their fight against the
concessions made to assure the passing
some bill, only proves that the danger
was overestimated, but danger passed
is always less formidable i'll appearance
than danger approached.
Then, too, there came as a heritage
among the other evils of which his adj
ministration was the residuary legatee,
the pestiferouS Hawaiian muddle, in
which conscience and sense of right
impelled to the performance of an UNI
pleasant duty, and, we may add. an I'M
popular one. Pressed hard by all these
great questions, themselves sufficient to
absorb the time and earnest thought of
the administration, it is not to be WON
dered at if appointments to Office seem
trivial matters that can well dance at
tendance on the greater ones, nor, as
the visits of senators and congressman
are mostly on account Of applications
for Office, that the president might feel
that they were themselves giving and
were asking of him time that the nation
al interests demanded for graver ques-
tions. We believe that the president is
entitled to the consideration which this
view OF his responsibilities presents,
and, if he does not get it from the i'm
patient ones intent on Office, we believe
that it will be accorded him by the
everyday people of the land.
WHO is running the criminal court of
general jurisdiction in this county, any,
how? The Pioneer Press or judges
learned in the law and chosen by the