Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1895-05-18

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The administration, while assailed By
the jingoIsts. blamed by every Rspubu-
can orator as responsible for the hard
times, which are now nearly over, hss
steadily pursued its Efforts for reform
Of all the abuses In the government
which had got to be hydra headed during
the long period that the country wa
powerlsas to protect itself against Repub.
loan schemes OF corruption Every
department. at Washington has been
slowly but surely weedsd clear Of incom-
petent and unnecessary clerks.
The most notable reforms have beer
made in the Department OF Agriculture,
not, we judge, because Secretary Morton
Is one whit mora anxious TO serve Bis
country In this way than other members
Of the Cabinet, but from the face that
changes In that department more easil.
gain the ear Of the people The War
and Navy Departments, the Post Office
and, In fact. the entire government, ia
now being conducted on business prlnei-
pies Il Is true this is not popular with
many Democrats, among whom the
present administration is far from being
loved
The latter are the Office seeking and
Office holding class, who think they have
been defrauded BY not having had every
governmental abuse, brought into LIE by
the Republicans, continued for their
benefit. They scot at the civil service
and because 1t was n0Ecarfied ont IN
good faith by Harrison's administration.
think President Cleveland should have
followed Republican presidents, and
while shouting FOR civil service, have
winked at the evasion Of this statute for
the benefit Of taose who helped him into
Office.
It Ia astonishing how many mons
patriotism and political principle de
ponds upon the amount OF governmental
pap that Is granted 10 them. There are
thousands Of Democratic editors In this
country now hollering" at the top Of thoi
voices against Grover Cleveland, for no
earthly reason but because they did not
get some enthusiastically or other petty
governmental position They even
openly admit, II not ia their newspapers,
quite publicly outside them, that this
istheir cause Of opposition to Cleveland.
Do they think that the President OF the
United States has no more serious duty
20 perform but to distribute petty offices
for the benefit Of the people who voted
the Democratic ticket at the last
Presidential election, and now clearly
show that It was not from principle o.
love Of country or party that they did 1t,
but simply from selfish motlyesg
No man who puts self above principle
deserves to be rewarded BY any pol itical
party. We admit that the administration
has doubtless made many mistakes by
retaining Republicans In office and not
replacing them by equally deserving
Democrats, but no President or post
master general could attend TO this
matter without doing so, even " he
oscupied all his time, paid for by the
people, for other purposes, in dealing out
petty offices TO their greedy seekers.
Nevertheless, II the Democratic party
has no other principle than spells It has
outlived Its usefulness and deserves 60
60 BY the board. II It cauuot be main
tanned otherwise then IL is In poor way
indeed and win die q the corruption OF
it's body polite. Yet we do not believe
this and think there Is more patriotic
principle among the old Democracy til,
party Of the people-thsn in ali other
political parties in this country combined