Show THE PRESIDENT AND REFORM Murmurs are occasionally heard concerning con-cerning the Presidents appointments or nonappointment Sometimes they como from within sometimes from without but they are heard ever and anon The latest complaint about the Presidents appointments appoint-ments that comes from without is from the Now York Times upon the case of Captain Bacon Upon the face of tho matter as reported in the telegrams it looks as though the request for the resignation resig-nation of Captain Bacon had been for political purposes and without regard to an improvement in the revenue service But the Times denunciation of tho matter does not count for such aR that paper is an ultraRepublican journal and has never shown any grout zeal for good government govern-ment at any time Its present bitter onslaught on-slaught is made because it has long been waiting for something to turn up that it might vent its its spleen upon the President Pres-ident and the Democratic Administration Tho Republicans have ono grave and serious ground for complaint against the Administration which is that it has made BO few blunders that they have nothing much to complain of Tho appointment of Higgins has had to do double duty and that night and day The mistakes of the Administration are made prominent promi-nent and important because of their rarity that is the cause and that alone Some = complaint is coming from the Democratic Dem-ocratic ranks on account of tho manner in which tho Administration has acted in the matter of appointments to office The Hon Horatio Seymour thinks the Civil Service Commission is in danger of becoming be-coming a greater abuse that the spoils system Tho duties of that Commission aio clearly defined by law and what necessity there is that its members should all be in sympathy with the party in power is very hard to see The time of the President of tho United States should be too valuable to bo always occupied with making appointments appointments which if made in conformity with the desires de-sires of Con ressmenis merely time spent in rewarding party workers If politics and the aim of government in America have come to mean a scramble for office that places may be had for those who 1 cannot otherwise gain a livelihood then it makes little difference which party is j in power for plunder knows no part I But such is not the case and the Democratic Demo-cratic party in ifs platform has declared 1 for higher and nobler ends and Mr Cleveland I Cleve-land and his Cabinet are striving to attain I at-tain them and oveIJ Democrat who cares I for his country and believes tho principles I of Democracy the best calculated to secura to every citizen his rights and to I j make his country happy and prosjxjrous should sustain the Administration in iL i I honest endeavors after reform If it is j unconstitutional to appoint mon to office J j i under the rules of the Civil Service j law so it is i to appoint thorn j i at the solicitation of Congressmen and Senators who claim the right to bestow as patronage the Federal offices within I their States and districts while tho first < method will secure better men for the offices That exGovernor Seymour does not choose to endorse the Administration by refusing to express an opinion concerning con-cerning his approval or disapproval of Mr Clevelands course tells against Governor i Seymour and not against President Cleveland Cleve-land |