The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-28 00:00:00

ItrEILIONETIISIIIRE.

There is some likelihood that Mr. Holland will be
opposed for Merionethshire, despite the great strength
of the Liberals in that county. Colonel Tottenham, or
Mr. Wynn, Lord Wenborough's second son, will pro-
bably be chosen by the Conservatives. Mr. Holland,
now the only Liberal candidate, has issued his address.
He promises his support to Mr. Gladstone, and is
strongly in favour of legislative action on those subjects
which the Government has undertaken to deal with
next session. The difficulties of the land question in
Ireland must be boldly and promptly confronted, and
he will give his support to any measure which will
deal in an equitable spirit with this pressing subject.
Mr. Holland is in favour of a sytitem of national edu-
cation, and of some plan to check the vice of intem-
perance by reducing the granting of licences to the
narrowest possible limit. To the Ballot he will give
his warmest support •, but he holds that if the Church
in Wales be disestablished, the same measure ought
to be accorded to England.

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to the district, the incumbent must be rec_ommeu_ded
by its Representative for the time being-WV—eV
gress, if a friend to the Administration, and faithful
public officers, supporters of the Administration, arc
frequently removed to make vacant places for the
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friends of the new member, who in their turn are
similarly dealt with on any change occurring in the
representation. When the name comes before the
Senate, the only question asked is whether the
nominee is acceptable to the member of Congress
concerned. Such influence acts directly on the elec-
tion of a Congressman, the understanding being that
if the election be secured certain appointments will
go to his supporters. This brings a demoralising
pressure by the members on the appointing power,
who, being dependent upon Congressfor Legislative
support, dare not resist it. Thus the Legislators
become personally indebted to the Executive, and
the Executive is repaid by support in the Legisla-
ture.

In some Departments Senator TRUMBULL
was informed that credit accounts had been kept,
the Congressman having a certain number of ap-
pointments credited to his account, those filled at
his dictation being debited against him, as if the
posts actually belonged to the member. So firmly
was the custom established that it had now almost
the force of law, which nothing less than a statute
could remove. The system worked evil in every
way. First, in its demoralizing effect on the Execu-
tive and the Legislative branches of the Govern-
ment; second, in its appointing persons to office for
reasons wholly apart from their fitness to per-
form its duties; third, in unsettling the service by
frequent changes, and inducing the office-holder
not to qualify for a post out of which he must soon be
ousted, but use his short time in extracting from it
every cent he can with impunity ; fourth, in creat-
ing a worthless class of hangers-on and politicians
whose only, object in life is to dip their hands as
deep as they can into the National Treasury ; and
lastly, in clogging both the Executive and the Legis-
lature with unnecessary labour, the life of a Senator
being that of a hunted hare, safe from his office-
seeking pursuer nowhere, not even in bed. If the
Senator be a Grand Seignor, a lord in the land, an
aristocrat of high degree, he has certainly to pay for
such great dignity in a way not at all to Senator
TRUMBULL'S taste, from which infliction he would
that he could and will, if he can, be relieved. To
give an instance of what a department has to go
through we take the figures of Collector GRINNELL,
of the New Y( rk Custom-house. lie had 460 ap-
pointments to make, many of them poor enough,
but such is the extraordinary-brr-.ed -gm:term-ea-I,y
office-seeking that the animal runs to any hole,
seemingly without regard to what it is, or where it
leads, sufficient that ;t is a hole, burrowing being its
nature. For these appointments there were 18,243
applicaws ; 163 wt bestowed up ,n those recom-
mended by Congressmee, an 1 198 upon the r, com-
mendation of persons of high political standing._
Although Mr. TaumnuLL's bill may be taken as "a
step in the right direction, it is not calculated to
remove the evil ; nnr indeed would that of Mr.
JENCKES wholly do flo,for it is not sufficiently compre-
hensive. The days of innocent Republicanism and
of rural simplicity in the United States have passed
away for ever, and a new order of things prevails.
This fact the members do not appear adequately to
appreciate, the country having grown too rapidly
for their minds to keep pace with the change. The
Republic now is at the head of nations as the most
populous, wealthy, and united of any highly civilized
community. The plan which answered in the simple,
unpretending days of yore is unsuitable for a very
rich, very powerful, very extensive society, replete
with temptation and full of intrigue. A few offices,
exercising a comparatively small control, differs
vastly from the enormous Government machine now
run by the United States ; and a change is as neces-
sary in its working as would be the case if a fishing
smack could develope into a Cunard steamer. Nor
do the circumstances necessitate only officering with
trained and qualified persona, for there are other
reasons as clearly marked. A President is a man
possessing the same average ability and powers
performing his duties now, as in the early days of
the Republic. His Executive capacity cannot 1 e
increased by anything the nation can do; but while
it does not give him an atom more brain. or energy
to execute the work, it gives him ten times more
work to perform— indeed, labour beyond a man's
scope. Of all his troubles the appointment to office
is the greatest; and further than selecting the chief
officers of State, and promoting and rewarding, the
PRESIDENT should be relieved from the burden of

this duty. Nor is it only beyond the limits of any
man's effective performance, but the possession of
such a vast control involves a danger to the Re-
public itself. Human nature is the same in Wash-

ington, as in London, Paris, Vienna, or Berlin •:
and although the great soldiers of the Republic
nett celebrated Gene_
t
have displayed a surprising modesty and modera-
tion, times may change.
_RESIDTET,s chair may wish oP e ex
ral placed in the
remain there, and freely use these offices to effect his
purpose. ANDREW JOHNSON plainly said that he,
even he, ANDY JOHNSON, could, had he wished, have
made himself a perpetual ruler in the land through
the control of his immense patronage. Now, if
ANDREW JOHNSON could have done that, what might
not a much beloved and very successful soldier do
with the same patronage while also controlling ihe
army ? Americans are too apt to treat this danger
with contempt, as if it only remained for a delega-
tion of citizens to take the usurper by the collar and
fling him into the Potomac, a confidence which, in
truth, increases the danger. We do not suppose that
such a law-abiding people as the Americans could in
any degree lightly fall a prey ; but it is possible,
and indeed made possible, by this unscrupulous office-
seeking, and by the great power which the un-
bounded patronage gives to the PRESIDENT. Senator
TRUMBULL would return to the letter of a Constitu-
tion framed for other days, and throw all back into
the untrammelled hands of the Executive, wrench-
ing that power from those of a Congress which has
appropriated what did not belong to it ; while we
would remove such a power alike from the Execu-
tive and from 'he Legislature ; making the Civil
Service of the United States what the Military and
Naval Services are, a profession for gentlemen spe-
cially educated for the duties of each branch.

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