Show HIMSELF president cleveland must at length bagi begia lla to eee see the lolly folly of him b tendencies which have led him into the error of retaining republicans in office until their terms should expire under some romantic but impractical theory of civil service reform it will be remembered that the president r rs bently suspended two united states prosecuting attorneys one of these Districts Attorney stone baa has been finally ousted from office but the other district attorney benton bas been reinstated tle the new dorb sun asbe aske why did dia mr air stone have to go and i then goes on to say bay not because be he had been active in th e late cam laign 4 district attorney ey benton who was suspended by pre eident cleveland at the bid bad been active too but be he has been reinstated the difference between stones activity and bentons Sen tons isthan is that while benton had made Demo democratic cratie or speeches stone had spoken for the republicans and against the democrats and it is fo for r that reason that he has finally been removed mr cleveland states in his letter refusing to reinstate this republican that he had attended meetings where speech ea es were made abusing and geuting the and ind that be addressed the them inee mee tings himself and in somewhat theine the same strain str allf 1 again mr cleveland bays that the e administration of the goi go vern ment la is not to be trusted la in places high or low to those who aggressively and constantly endeavor unfairly to destroy the confidence of the people in the party responsible for the administration 4 this ie is well said and with its ut uti terance the idea of a non civil service fades away itis it is plain that when the republican district attorney was retained in office on the principle of divorcing the offices from politics be hp was enot not retained aa as a it w was lacot exacted d from him that be he he should openly espouse although if be he had sp spoken 0 ken for ahe he Deino democratic cratto candidates in ln lie his district in the late campaign be he would have put himself on precisely the fame same plane as district attorney benton and would therefore have kept his place but it is evident that with the inauguration of a democratic ad ministration his tongue was tied not to tu belet loose again until the republicans had driven the democrats out the politics that was driven out from the public ewas all republican politic 01 ohp only way wap in which the civil service can be made nonpartisan non partisan ie Is to the special restrictions that mccleveland Mr Clee Cleveland lanct now puts upon republican officeholders ice holders or to forbid all officeholders from opening their lips on public c questions and when it comes to that what will attempt pt to isay say that t they hey be thus eilent silent air mr cleveland once had a vague of tr trying it but it baa has gis probably vanished from bie big mind by this time the fact is and nothing can ebow show it 4 more plainly than mr Cle relande letter on the store cafe that in thil this country atie he officeholders should be of the party of the administration under a democratic administration the should be in the bands of Peco cratt and under a can tan administration they be held by republicans audi andi curiously eurious ly enough if a few adjectives be dropped from tb the baat paragraph ll 11 4 raph of mr flutter jetter P th ar i f lacework of chii pria principle ciple will be found there is solid as ss thou ghouri gil it bad had been put thereby andrew Andre aja jack c son the of the government ern ment he be says say Is bof to bi trusted in pla placed ces high or low to those who and ceni cant kintly endea endes or to destroy confidence of the people in the party pirty responsible for coch such administration elated stated with leee lees dr cir cu and wath sufficient breadth to lift jilt it ft above aicer ainey of interpretation appears in these words the administration adminis tion odthe of the ie is not tobe to be trusted d I 1 Ig places hibb oi or low to those aho t phaar opposed to the party responsible for this is fair to all clear beyond the possibility of argument and it iff Is the creed for which the democracy vote vote d when they elected grover Cleyel find i let lot us hope that thit henceforth he will live up to it |