Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1885 — HON. D. W. VOORHEES. [ARTICLE]

HON. D. W. VOORHEES.

The Indiana Senator Believes tlie President Is Doing the Wise Tiling. Senator Yoorhees, being interviewed at Washington, gave frank expression to the following views: The distribution of patronage is - not the proper subject upon which to break with an administration. Dishonesty in office or the ad ministration of the Government upon false principles of legislation can alone justify a leader of a party in rushing into opposition. Itis, in my opinion, highly impolitic for any one who fails to get an office to cry out that the party is lost and then fall to railing against the administration. Mr. Cleveland has’not given. me all I asked for by any means. For instance, I was very anxious that Mr. McDonald should be in the Cabinet, and 1 worked hard to secure that result, but I told Mr. Cleveland that it after maturely considering all I had said upon the subject he did not see his wav to act m harmony with our Indiana views and desires, it would not be fatal to us. It is Mr. Cleveland’s administration, not mine. It is for him to look on every side, and perhaps his appointments are wiser than those I might suggest to him. To the men who are before the country accusing the administration of moving slowly, it ought to be sumcient answer that the Democratic party takes possession of a Government which has been lor twenty-live years in the hands of the Republicans, and that the Senate is still Republican. If the administration w r ent to work with reokless rapidity in making changes the members of it would prove thereby their unfitness for their places. I refuse to discuss any such proposition as that Mr. Cleveland may prove disloyal to his party or the principles upon which they elected him. My confidence in his integrity is absolute. ■A. more conscientious President in his sense of defy n- ver crossed the threshold of the White - House.