Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-11-26
Cleveland dissatisfied.
New York Journal

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Having succeeded in defeating the
party which has thrice made him its
nominee and twice the President oi
the nation, having cheerfully aided to
re-establish that system of tariff tax.
alton which he habitually describes
as robbery, and to enthrone in power
those agencies which he picturesque
| ly denominated 1.-The communism oi
pelf," President Cleveland remains
unsatisfied. He glares about for new
words of infamy to conquer, new
ways of stultifying himself and de-
monstrating the hollowness and hyp-
ocrisy of his constant claim to homes
ty and conviction. He seems to have
found his opportunity in the Civil
Service reform law.
Pledged to tariff reform, Cleveland
aided in the election of Mckinley.
Pledged time and again to ma inte-
nance of Civil Service reform, in letter
and in spirit, he has eyer since the
election been a party to scandalous,
through petty, preversion of it to the
ends of personal and partisan spite.
Friday the Postmaster of Spring
field, ILL.,, was dismissed because of
his activity in Bryan's support. For
our own part, we do not believe that
any man holding a public office
should be debarred from eXertion of
his political rights unless he has ne
elected the duties of his Office. No
such allegation is made in this case.
But if partisan activity be made a
cause for removal from office it must
be partisan activity on either side.
The Postmaster of Chicago was
active in support of Mckinley. Why
does his Springfield brother go and
he stay? The Collector of the Port
of San Francisco travelled all over
the Central West making bitter
speeches against Bryan, but the
Cleveland theory of Civil Service re-
form does not molest him. No Fede-
raj office holder who fought Demo
cracy has suffered, none who upheld
its cause is safe.
In Kentucky there wages faction
al war within the Democracy-Sena-
tor Blackburn seeks reelection.
Secretary Carlisle, who betrayed his
party as readily as he deserted his
convictions, wants his seat. By one
of those brilliant exhibitions of nepo-
tism for which the reform admins
trations of Grover Cleveland are
famous, Carlisle's son serves at COM
Portable pay as Chief Clerk of the
Treasury Department, and has sup
ervision of appointments to and re-
movals from office. Since election he
has made repeated removals of
friends of Senator Blackburn, replac-
ing them by partisans of his father
The execrable perversion of a power
which under the Civil Service law he
ought not to possess, he has carried
even to the point of removing a wo-
map for no cause save her friendship
for his fathers political opponent.
To this scandaious and abominable
utilization of the public service for
the qualification of private malice
Grover Cleveland is a party. His
order would check it instantly. His
frown would put an end to 1t. But
his favor, which the project clearly
enjoys, will doubtless lead to com
plete generalization of the public
service.
Out of Office Cleveland will go with
out the favor of Democrats, for he
has betrayed and assassinated Demo
cracy. As a mugwump he will have
little standing, for he has violated
the cardinal precept of mugwumpery
Civil Service reform. The Repub-
licans will scarcely admire him, for
even the British spurned Benedict
Arnold. Contemned, despised and
hated, he will carry with him into
obscurity but one consolation-an
all sufficient one, may be, to one of
his gross nature-he retires rich.