Show I CLEVELAND AND REFORM j The C ood Work Already Performed by a Democratic Administration Admin-istration Take the Interior Department In the General Land Office a substantial check has been given to the vast fraudulent entry business and the rights of the settlers in tho indemnity lands have been asserted In the Indian office the illegal career of the I cattle barons in occupying Indian lands and fencing the nublic domain has been broneht I I to an end I tho pension office there are i fewer employes spending their time in politics poli-tics and more of them working for the disabled dis-abled veterans than over before There was never before a time in the history of the office when it worked so rapidly and efficiently as i does now and all that the Republican I organs can say in reply to this is that a man whom tho President appointed a pension j avointed agent took the responsibility of employing I nn exConfederate as his chief clerk I the Navy Department two great re forms have been instituted Mr Whitney in employing men to protect the interests of the Government in the four cruisers now uncompleted and to acquire the very best posafijle information before beginning tho nexfi four commends itself to every intel ligent man in the country ever only thing the Republican newspapers can do is to beg for sympathy for Koaohs discharged employes The efficiency with which the Navy Department supported the State Department De-partment at Panama nnd at Gnynqnil is creditable to it In the I I WAn DEPARTMENT i There is a feeling that merit instead of in fluence is to determine promotions of officers I offi-cers and justice and the public good are to determine details such as have not prevailed prevaled I there for many years Mr Lincoln was an excellent Secretary and would have accomplished accom-plished more in the direction of reform if I President Arthur had not had so many friends President Cleveland has no friends I in his mind when the public interest is in any way involved I the Department of Justice it is already I apparent that there is an AttorneyGeneral who devotes his entire mind to protecting the interests of his client the government I We have had AttorneyGenerals who looked out for everybody except the government It is in the I POSTOFPICH DEPABTMENT I That tho greatest reform has been in progress i i pro-gress Forty or fifty thousand dollars a year was saved on the contracts for official envelopes I en-velopes About 30000 30 was saved on con tracts for printing postage stamps Leases 1 of premises for long terms of years at exor I bitant rentals procured evidently for pecu mary or political considerations have been declared invalid in accordance with an nnin i i ion by the Attorney General WhatPostmas i ter General have we had lately who would have sacrificed the opportunity of dis opporuty tributing 400000 among the owners of American steamship lines not owerR promote the efficiency of the efciecy postal service but simply to add to the gains of the owners Mr Vilas did that and the result i owers not only are the mails carried as well as ever but to Cuba and Central and South America the mails are carried more expeditiously than ever before because instead of an all water route a part rail and part water route has i been substituted Out of nearly 500 presi dential postmasters who have been ap pointed it has been learued that one or ap were bad appointments and toT to-T UNSPEAKABLE DISGUST i Of the Republican organs these have Republcan organ tese been promptly revoked Out of the twentyfive I hundred fourthclass postmasters appointed since Mr Stevenson succeeded Ie Hay it I has been found foud necessary to revoke the 1 necesar an pointments of five So much for the departments Is there i any Republican so hidebound in his politi hs i cal poli prejudices that as he looks over this re look cord he will continue to feel alarm lest the Democratic party will ruin the part wl country bankrupt the treasury pay the rebel debt j i disgrace itself abroad reverse the political results of the war revere plical resuts wa or any of the other I things not only that campaign speakers speaker pre dicted but that many simpleminded Re may simplemded i pubhicans land Plain really Dealer feared 17th a year agoClPle |