Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1892 — Cleveland Against Bureaucracy. [ARTICLE]

Cleveland Against Bureaucracy.

Do the people of this country wish to go on with no more control over their officeholders than they have now? If they do they will support Harrison, who stands for less control over officeholders by the people; for more control over the people by the officeholders. His supporters will not deny that he represents this. After his record, culminating in the packing of the Minneapolis convention with his officeholders, it is undeniable. The Democratic party has always striven to make officeholders servants, not masters, of the people. And for this Mr. Cleveland has striven in his work for civil-service reform, which, however various the methods employed, always had the same object—that of bringing the enormous and rapidly increasing body of officeholders in subjection to the people. These officers in the Federal civil service alone are now numbered by the hundred thousand, and every year adds to their number. Under the Harrison system they became trained politicians, and the whole object of their training is to enable them to get the better of the people; to prevent a free expression of the will of the people; to substitute for it an expression of the will of the offlcsholders. No evil of our politics is more crying than this. Unless we can reform this we can hope for no permanent reform

elsewhere. Popular government and bossism by Federal bureaucrats are not compatible, and one or the other must cease to exist.