Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1886 — Cleveland and the South. [ARTICLE]

Cleveland and the South.

A fair specimen of Southern sentiment about the President: “That man is as blind as a bat,” says the Lynchburg Virginian (Dem.), “who doesn’t see that Cleveland is to-day the strongest man to-day in the Democratic party with the masses of the people; and that he is the only man among them all who would stand a ghost of a chance to be elected President if the election should come on at this time. And it is our opinion that this state of things will be more evident than it is now when the election does occur, two years hence.” And this from the Raleigh (N. C.) News (Dem.): “The truth is that the President is daily growing in the confidence of his party and of the whole people, and deservedly. His administration, conducted as it is in accordance with the principles of Democracy, is proving one of the most acceptable in our history to the whole country.” D. B. Eaton on Civil-Service Reform. Dorman B. Eaton expressed great satisfaction with the progress of the civil-ser-vice reform in an interview to-day, and said he thought that President Cleveland would extend its limits. Ho considered the failure of the attacks of Randall and Vanco on civil-service relorm as proof that the principle is deeply rooted. He said that he thought that Collector Magone would carryout President Cleveland’s ideas, also that the Democrats would nominate Mr. Cleveland in 1888. In regard to his recent controversy with Mr. Oberly in the columns of a New York newspaper, he said: “I have no personal animosity toward Mr. Oberly, and my letter was simply to correct some wrong impressions. I think Mr. Oberly will do first rate; he was new to civil service'*and its workings.” —New York telegram.