The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-10
SECRETARY cox INDICATED.

Grants Attack on the Civil Service Reform
Rebuked-A Handsome VindctatiOn of the
Late Secretary of tee Interior.
From the NetO HaUen Palladium
The following is the letter which has been
presented to ex-Secretary Cox by the gentlemen
to whose meeting we recently referred. 1t
speaks for itself, and its sentiments will, we
believe, meet hearty response throughout the
county,
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Nov. 4, 1870
Sr:-As public servant retiring from a most i'm
portant Office in the Government of the United
States, you have right to know whether your fell
low ctizens approve the manner in which you have
adminlstered your t4St ad your reasons Tor re-
States, though most of US are personally unknown
to you, may properly address you on the occasion OF
National Government For ourselves only, and not
in any representative Character yet confident tnat
we express the thought and feeling OF thousands
who, like ourselves, are habltuay observant OF puO-
lie affairs, we say to you well done! We approve
introduce into the Department of the Inte-
ror, and with the same heartiness
department when you found yourself obstructed in
prosecuting the great reformation to which you had
retirement IRON oflce the warm approval and the
best wishes Of thousands of patriotic men, who have
citizens in the welbeing and doing of the republic.
In our Judgment, no quC ston now pending is more
important to the future welbeing and wel-dOing OF
the republic than the question Of that reformation
which you have attempted in the Department of
the interior, ana WnCn ought 10 De carried unCOl-
promisngly through the entire civil service OF the
country. The question whether all offices the
gift OF the President and of the heads OF depart
ments shall be distributed as ''spols" by one part
nersbp OF men who trade IN politics or by another
perhaps little less corrupt and perhaps little
moIe-when it becomes. as 1t sometimes does be.
come, the only question between two great politi-
eel parties sn insignificant ba,o in COM
business of the Government shall be conducted on
business principles, or on PRINCIPLES winch would
bring any business man TO bankruptcy in twelve
month. This question OF reforming the manner OF
appointments and the tenure of office In the cigll
service is really nothing less than the question
whether the people shall be served or ruled-served
by competent and experienced men, or ruled by party
managers and political tricksters. The laying of
asst ssmeBts holders enforced by threats Of
dismissal from Office, is nothing else than compelling
men TO purchase their of1ices with OrDeS. While
regret the circumstance which induced you to resign
your Office, we confident that the with
which you are thus hOnorably lden5ned will prevail,
and that the honest and patriotic people will soon
take tEs question out OF the hands OF political
managers, and save the country by demanding a
thorough reform OF the civil service
Very respectfully, your iellow-ctzens and friends,
Theodore ID. Woolsey Edwin HarwOOd,
Leonard Bacon, Joshua Colt
Alex. T.. TWiniug, A. Won SIeinWehr,
George II Day, James ID. Dana,
Thomas A IhacheT, Noah Porter,
r. S. Fellowes, A. i. Train,
W. A. Norton, Simeon L. Baldwin,
Edward Butler, James H1dley,
e. S. lyman, Timothy Dwight,
W. p. Trowbridge, George f. Fisher,
j. I. Gardner, VIM. w Bpardnan
Daniel @. Gilman, II, Il. Harrison,
Ezra G. Read, Henry T. Blake,
George j. Brush, VIM ID. Whitney,
R Whitney, S ID. Pardee,
Lewis X. Packard, II. A. Newton,
John HOlltster, B. SOlman.
Francis Bacon, VIM IL. Brewer,
Morris Tyler, A. Van Name,
George II Watrous, Eli W. Blake,
Henry Carnam, A c. Nerrlll
]. w. Terry II. w. Day.