Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1885 — An “Irreconcilable” Silenced. [ARTICLE]

An “Irreconcilable” Silenced.

The wail of the New York Tribune over the breaking up by President Cleveland of “the best Consular service the country has ever had” is thus effectually silenced by the New York Evening Post: Investigation shows that in the short period between Garfield’s inauguration and his assassination Mr. Blaine made no less than thirty-seven changes in the Consulates, discharging a full fifth of the men whom he found in office, and doing it in almost every case to pay off personal and political debts. “President Arthur made few changes in Consular appointments,” continues the Tribune. The record shows that ninety-seven of the consuls whom Mr. Cleveland found in office were appointed to their posts by President Arthur, and that a large proportion of these appointments were those of new men, replacing incumbents who had been removed solely to make room for personal and political friends of the administration. Mr. Cleveland “has turned out consuls by the score,” goes on the Tribune. The truth is that the whole number of new consuls appointed to date is only forty, as against thirty-seven during a similar period in 1881. The whole number of consuls is now considerably larger than it was four years ago, so that Mr. Cleveland has actually made a smaller number of changes proportionally than Mr. Garfield when Blaine was “premier.” Senator Beck’s Sentiments. Senator Beck is a sound philosopher. In speaking of the administration today to your correspondent, he said: “I am not going to quarrel with the President or the administration simply because my special friends or favorites are not appointed to office. That would be childish and absured.. I have stood by my party in defeat and battled for its principles for twenty-four years, and I am certainly not going to oppose the first Democratic administration we have had in all that time, simply because the men I recommend for office are not appointed. When I split or oppose the administration it will be on a question where some important principle is involved, and not on a question of patronage. I have not had any patronage to bestow since I have been in Congress—nearly sixteen years—and as I have stood it that long I guess I can stand it the balance of my time in official life, if it is necessary. If, in the judgment of the President, other Kentucky Democrats are more fit and deserving to hold office than those I indorse, I have not a word to say. I believe he is an honest and conscientious man, and tries his best to fill the offices solely for the public good. I know he has a hard time enough to do this, and I shall be the last man to throw any obstacle in his way, even if T do not get a friend appointed during tis entire administration.— Louisville Courier-Journal. A crank tariff paper, comparing the commercial policies of America and England, says: “An industrial people ean learn the lessons of peace and industry from their ledgers under a high tariff grist as effectually as under free trade. ” And so they can. But what lessons are to be drawn from the ledgers of the protected manufacturers of every variety who, for the past three years, have been passing through a season of lockouts, strikes, depression, and bankruptcy?— Chicago Times. The Republican papers appear to have suddenly suspended their abuse of the rebel brigadiers. This is probably due to consideration for the feelings of that distinguished Confederate Brigadier, Mr. Wise, whom the Republicans have just nominated for Governor of Virginia at the dictation of the late “Gen. Lee’s right-hand man,” Gen. Mahone