Show WILL HE CHANGE President Cleveland and the Recent Election r < i rIfE DE1IOOBATIC LOSSES 1 1 J Will the Pretldent Chance nil Pallejr and Pall Into Line In tbe Mat er of Appointment From OurOwn Correspondent SiT LACE CITY Nov Cth 183t5 From the very latest returns it is very evident that in the elections which have iusbbeen held all over the country the Republicans have made substantia gains all along the line The Demo cractic majority In the House has been reduced from 43 to 25 which must betaken be-taken as a significant snub to President Cleveland for the extraordinary policy he has pursued since he entered the executive chair In many respects that policy has been highhanded and self witedutterly at variance with what might have been expected at the hands of a Democratic President who in the light of past years was supposed to eradicate many evils that had been allowed al-lowed to grow in the country and introduce in-troduce the principles of true Democracy Dem-ocracy peoples rule the rule of all rich and poor lord and laborer priest and layman Instead of thisPresident Cleveland has all along assumed somewhat some-what eratic if not defiant course in his method of administration and this in the teeth of some of the I very best men of his party including i the late Hon Samuel Tilden one of the I shrewdest politicians andablest statesmen states-men of the country It is even said and I presume truly that in many important I im-portant matters of state he has been In the habit of taking action without in any way consulting with his Cabinet Certain app intmcnts would be made and his advisers or at least some of them would be entirely ignorant of the tact until i transpired in a public manner man-ner To such a course the members of the Cabinet would be bound to take ex eptions Those that were slighted I ould scarcely be blamed for taking umbrage Thus there have been rumored disagreements between the President and his Cabinettime and time igain notwithstanding the fact that i hey have held together up to the pres eDt period And not only has this I eaTing existed among the members of he Cabinet but it has extended to influential luential members of the Democratic Party some of whom displeased with the civil service policy of the President lave refused even to call at the White I Souse under any circumstance wbat ever Tae Mayorelect of New York i Jity Abraham S Hewitt is said to lave been one of these men It has been publicly stated over and II ver again that Mr Hewitt and the i President were not on the best of terms and that the chief causa ot the estrangement is the policy pursued by the latter In the matter of appointments appoint-ments and his strict adherence to civil service reform Mr Hewitt and a great many other influential Democrats consider con-sider that civil service reform as car Tied out by the President has been most suicidal to the Democratic party in the recent election Hefore Cleveland was elected and I during the campaign pending the election elec-tion the cry was raised all along the line of Tnrn the rascals out CPVC land has paid little or no attention tc the demand of the paople in this respect re-spect he has allowed thousands of Pc publican officials in every State < < in the Union to remain In ouice nnuer tuecivn service reform humbuc knowing lull well that every such official would lend his iutlucnce against the part in power and the result is as has been evidenced within the last few days a s gnificant snub to the President Furthermore not content with keeping the rascals in he siems in his high ideas in regard to the purity of elections to have thought it his duty to muzzle the few office holders he had appointed by issuing a circular to the effect that any man holding office under the gaernl11elt who dared to take any active part in the recent election would do so at tbe pain of dismissal Was there ever suchjfollv remember when this precious circular was issued It was severely criticised by the Democratic Demo-cratic press and the Republican press realizing the imbecility of the thing of course endorsed it to the letter The latter saw the advantage it would give to tfieir party and smiled accordingly Now that the elections are over with the result that the Republicans have gained a number of seats all along the line it will be in order of course to throw the entire blame upon the President Presi-dent This is scarcely fair I have already al-ready shown that in many particulars his policy has not been in accord with the will of his party lIe has tried to please two parties He has essayed to say good Lord and good devil to Mug wump and Democrat That he was hound to recognize the former in the light of the assistance they rendered I him te something that must be admitted admit-ted by every sane person but that he should neglect the latter at the expense of the former is upon the other hand altogether wrong This the President has been accused of doing To what extent the accusation correct it would be difficult to say Disappointed soreheads I sore-heads of course are ready to say anything any-thing That President Cleveland from I the very beginning has proved himself very stubborn no one can deny Instead In-stead of listening and counselling with men whose hair has grown grey in the arena of politics he seems to have gone upon the principle thalhe knew itall and that his policy was the best This has been his mistake Everybody I has looked upon him not as a keen shrewd politician like Blaine but a man of destiny or something akin to it at least He has done many a thing since he entered the executive chair which tough it might be right in the eyes of many people was all wrong as a matter of policy or as tending to build up the party that had been instrumental inputting in-putting him in the p > sitioa he now occupies oc-cupies For example I remember very well what was said about him when he undertook un-dertook to vet > so manv pension bills The committee on pensions in both house of Congress were highly incensed in-censed at his action in this respect and took great exception to the hiliarty infused into his pension vetoes I have always maintained and do now maintain main-tain that every pension bill be vetoed was the right thing for all bore fraud upon their face Some of them were too outrageous for anything and ought to have made the coa mi tie that recommended their pvisipn think shame Itla aa undoubtedfact now A ever that the Presidents action in the matter of these pension bills has cost the Democratic party during the recent re-cent elections many a vote He was accused of being penny wi e and pound foolish of being no Jricndto the soldier and of taklng canof the small expenditures of mouev Instead of the large He was told that ho had better look after the big Jots ia Usa river and harbor bill Instead of depriving depriv-ing poor soldiers of a paltry 42 per week pension By judicious campaign talk this action of the President in regard to these pensions has cost many vote not perhaps enough to account for all have recently the gains the Republicans cently made but sum sent to accoant for a few The great question nQw is after the elections of tuesday lalt will the President Pres-ident change his policy and endeavor within the next two years to undo what has been done to come more into line with the desires of his party For one I believe he will That he is stubborn as a mule and tenacious ten-acious as a bulldog may be true but he will be a fool if he does not take seriously to heart the lesson that has been administered within the past few days I repeat that he will change his policy and Governor David B Hill of NrW York is evidently of the same opinion In addressing a meeting sometime some-time ago In New Jersey where he ban gone to assist in the election of the Democratic nominee for Governor of that State he said 1 know of no civil service rules said Governor Hill which forbid me talking politics in New Jersey or in New York for that matter etber If there were I am afraid I would be tempted to break them Some of us may complain he continued that the rascals are not being turned out fast enough but all this will come in time and I will warrant war-rant that those who aro criticising at present will be satisfied It is far better bet-ter that our President should be conservative con-servative in this matter These are the words of a genuine Democrat a man that is more talked about at the present time than anybody any-body else as the successor to President Cleveland and a man who may be credited with saying what he believes Governor Hill in a word guarantees that before President Clevelands lerm b I over he mil satisfy the expectations of the Democracy and this perhaps U the most cheering message that has been earned by uny bodv during the recent campaign VAIl t is will cone in time says the Governor of New York Everybody hopes 50 although as the NeW York Su L remarks The time is getting I tnichty short The recent elections have furnished fur-nished many surprises among these being the defeat of Hon W R Morrison < of Illinois the leaders of the freetraders in the House of Representatives Mr Mor neon has been in Congress for sixteen years His t arid bill of last session will remembered as being promptly upon by tbe Randall faction Probably Prob-ably his extreme free trade ideas save had much to do with his defeat as Illinois is a protectionist State and is Republican That Speaker Carlisle is elected is now beyond doubt Many months ago it was rumored in Washington that his fences were all to pieces Some old musty charges against Iim were revived re-vived and these and other causes sem to have had their effect It would be a perfect calamity for tbe Democrats to lose such a man as Mr Carlisle He is a grand lawyer and one of the foremost men in the Democratic ranKs Joint lavise |