Show complaints AGAINST CLEVELAND A GREAT deal of fault has been found with president cleveland by disappointed members of his own party because tie lie has not made a general revolution in the offices in the gift of the government spoils is the parti part motto give us office or give us death I 1 is the watchword of hordes of zealous patriots A great many democrats too who have no personal interests at stake or personal expectations t ions at risk severely criticize the presidents Prebi dente dentIs tardiness in turning out republicans and installing men in harmony with the administration it seems to be taken for granted with them thein that the duties datie of a government office ottice cannot be properly performed unless tile the incumbent holds the same political vie the party in power if this is not their view of the case then they hold the emoluments and advantages of office before me good aud and chuven cence ut of tile the nation wu we are and have bilon be jn of the mat loat lie national executive e bould lie be kuka aided hy by mort abat j ure party igneri al ii ia ti li hou i LO taic coin luit oi puilan vz siu io j A N uy i t all li t ului 1111 ut ll li iao h t ai n h in 1 ti ii aiu ti ail 01 31 mi exta ni d pi ti LI bol i t ajr lo 10 li li oi ciui tiui jt ou 01 A i iii e t Z ilin nii ilu 81 y ij i ir ni i I 1 iuri U iii ot ini j tt I 1 pol A I 1 tic 1 uy i tina u sic ir bihy r amli kii a I 1 ad tu ie dequir an aa 0 ot t the same political faith as his bis chief offensive partisanship is a proper reason lor for the removal ot of a republican official enose place may be filled ailed by a democrat of a different stripe hostility to the administration would of course disqualify a subordinate from serving under it and his displacement would be removal for cause but bat the wholesale discharge of public servants the performance of whose duties has no bearing upon politics and is not affected by the creed of a party is in our opinion unnecessary unjust and really detrimental to tae national welfare cleveland has been accused of pretending to be better than his party reversing the traditions of his bis party and sundry other offenses to tie the pure dethmers Detho democracy ers ey which has been very much disgruntled by his failure to give office to many disappointed disappoint e d applicants in this connection it will not be out of place to give the views of one whose opinion should have weight with democrats in response to a remonstrance from elias shipman and others reprise representing biting the merchants of new haven thomas jefferson wrote as follows washington INGTON july 19 1801 the remonstrance laments that a change in the administration must produce a change in the subordinate officers in other words that it should be deemed necessary for all officers to think with their principal but on whom does this imputation bear on those who have excluded from office every shade of opinion which was not theirs or on those who have been so excluded I 1 lament sincerely that unessential differences of opinion should ever havi hav been deemed sufficient to interdict half the society from frem the rights and blessings blea singa of self government to prescribe them as unworthy of every trust it would have beai to me a circumstance of great relief if I 1 had bad found a moderate participation of office in the hands of the majority I 1 would gladly have left to time and accident to raise them to their just share but their total exclusion calls for prompter corrections I 1 shall correct tue the procedure but that done return with joy to that state of things 1 when tue tile only question concerning ceri ning 1 inz a candidate shall be Is he honest hon est is he capable is he faithful to the constitution the questions with which the com muni caLion closes indicate the proper qualifications of a servant of the republic and when the requisites of a candidate are brought the nearest to these we believe they will come the closest to the requirements of good sense good morals and good government |