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Show IS THE PRESIDENT A DEMOCRAT? . t ; t : 1 The following appeared in the New ' York Sun of November 28th:. I To the Editor of the Sun: i i . Sib: As a life-long Democrat, who voted it for Grover Cleveland both for the offioe of ? ' 1 : Governor of the State of New York and Jot I '' that of President of the United States, I - beg leave to dissent from your statement i . that "as long as the President appoints . Democrats and not Republicans his party is i not going to quarrel with him." I take s ' ' issue with Mr. Cleveland, because his whole course since bis induction into his present i I office shows unmistakably that he is not a j,; Democrat. Not being a Democrat, he , ji , cannot reasonably be expected to recoBT- f '' nize the binding force of the principles, the v i history, and the traditions of the Democratic . i( party. i . ( To pass from generalities to particulars, ! : J I he has failed to effect the reforms which I, ' :v i in common with thousands of others, ex- i y pected at his hands. He has made no ap- ! ' ': preciable reduction of the grand army of ; i ; j office holders, numbering not less than 110,- 000, myriads of whom were put in their ' '? places for the sole purpose of keeping the ; ; " Republican party in power. He has frittered i ; ; away his time in concocting new devices, f ; under the name of civil service reform, to i - ; keep in office the rascals whom he was f -,: ; elected to turn out. Ue has spent several f - . i weeks in depriving that honest, capable, and j ' faithful Democrat, George H. Sterling, of ! j i : ( the petty offioe of a weigher in the Custom I till House to which he had been appointed in ; ' strict conformity with the law of ConeTciss. , : ! j and the rules framed pursuant to its provi- i ' ' sions. For the first time in the history of j j the country I trust for the last time in the I ' ; history of the country he has issued his f imperial rescript, forbidding his fellow ! . citizens, not exoepting the members of Con- ! - gross, from entering his presence. ; ! For all these reasons, and for others too I ; I numerous to mention, 1 sought to rebuke j ' him by advocating the nomination and the j ; election of that sterling Democrat, David B, I ; : HilL to the offioe of Governor. Further- l ' ! more, I voted thtf entire Tammany ticket I , for county and municipal officers. What I ? have done in the past I shall do in the ! ' ' 5 . future, without any variableness or even j , shadow of turning, so long as Grover Cleve-! j : . : v land shall retain his present office. -; I j We take it that there is no doubt of the j f ; President's Democrac'; likewise, there is . ; no doubt but that "A County Democrat" t i8 a thorough spoilsman, and in all likeli- I i s 'j hood believes that the profouudest maxim L i oI free government that was ever uttered I ) I is the famous Jacksonian one, "To the j" H victors belong the spoils." " A County j , Democrat" makes many charges' against j ' j 'h President, but they are more grumb- I ; j in8 than anything else. It is pure non- j sense to-talk about the President issuing I f an "imperial rescript," and if any Amer- I f ican citizen has any legitimate business j '' with the President, the President can be :;: seen at any time, if not otherwise en- !! gaged. , : j If the President has retained many ' Republicans in office, he has done no more than the party pledged itself to do : ; when it favored civil-3ervice reform. Mr. I Cleveland has scarcely frittered away his i ' lji ; . time in devising new methods, "under ; the name of civil-service reform, to keep 1 in office the rascals whom he was elected I : to turn out." If "A County Democrat" will prove any Federal office holder a ras- , j cal, be his politics Republican or be they . ;!.' I Democratic, he may be certain that. Mr. I ' : Cleveland will turn him out. The politics I ' : ;! ! of Mr. Cleveland when Governor must I : H , have been known to this Democrat, and " f Vet there was no complaint about his t I I Democracy while he was Governor. And I ; j ; as President he has pursued the Bame ' j ! policy that he pursued as Governor. 1 I "A County Democrat" takes issue with i I j the President because he has not turned all the "rascals" out, which is but a complaint because Mr. Cleveland has not f ! j divided the "spoils." If we were going I , ' . t to take issue with the President on I ; jl his Democracy, we should take issue with Uj' him for his departure from the Chicago j I;' platform in the matter of appointments for Utah. In Utah the President has j j i: j made appointments for the friends of 5 j , politicians in tlie East, when the party I I : ! ' I pledged itself to the true Democratic doc- f ' ! ; trine that "the select ion of Federal officers t ; for the Territories should be restricted to ( 2 citizbns previously resident; therein. " ; ( J j Utah, thus far, has been treated according j ; : f; j to the good old Jacksonian theory, and it I ; i j seems to give satisfaction all around, es- 1 ; ; : i lecially to the Democrats of Michigan, I . M '( l Missouri and Indiana. . . f . |