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Show j THE FIGHT. The Republican Senators have for a long time been endeavoring to get up a i fight with the President overiis appoint- ! ments. At last they seem to have got it. They have been seeking this fight j merely for the purpose of making politi cal capital out of it, and for no other pur-! pur-! pose. So far as civil-service reform is j concerned they do not care a single par ticle. The Senate has the confirming power, it is true, but they have not the power of dictators, and it is that which they are claiming. The fight bids fair to become a contest between co-ordinate powers of the Government, and whatever may be the right of the Senate to demand various documents from the different De-- De-- partments, the Senate can never coerce the President. If he shall forbid the heads of the diff?rent.T)epartments to let j any papers out of their possession, how j can the Senate force the heads of these j Departments to comply with their demands? The 'present contest may be j -long and bitter ,and in this contest it is ! the duty of every Democrat to stand by , his party colors. The Republicans were ; in power so long, and they used this power ! so insolently, that they have come to think they own the American Govern-! Govern-! ment and that every one who does not . thumb up or thumb down when their Simon says so is guilty of treason. It is high time they were taught differently. The Republican party has been the party of high ideas and moral ground, and while they have venerated the Constitution, Constitu-tion, still their veneration has been very lukewarm but solely for the reason that the Constitution - fell so far . short of their, high standard i of excellence. Now the Republican ; Senators are donning their pure white j vestures, and as they are seen from afar ' they look like the vestal virgins of ancient j " Rome. They have been looking for a pretext here and a pretext there upon j which to make issue with the President, j and they have sought this pretext for the sake of breaking down the Presi-j Presi-j dent's work of reform, for they plainly see that every reform he introduces is a condemnation of the methods and doings of their party, and well they know that success of the President's reforms means the success of the party which elected him. The President may have ; " made some bad. appointments and may ! have suspended some good officers, but for these things themselves the Republi- cans do not care. In presence of the fight which the Republican Senators are about to make upon the President, it is !well for the Democratic party to sink all minor differences and to stand solidly for the President and show the Republicans j that their hopes of support from dissensions dissen-sions in the Democratic party have been visionary and 'without foundation. Let the fight come, and let it be fought to the bitter end-j--, |