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


CRAMPS Attack on the Civil Service Reform
Rebuked-A Handsome Vindcintion of the
Late secretary of tue Interior.
From the Neto Haven 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, aud its sentiments will, we
believe, meet hearty response throughout the
country
NEW HAVEN Conn.,, Nov. d. 1870.
Sir:-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 citizens approve the manner in which you have
administered your trust, aAd your reasons for re-
signing it, We therefore, as citizens of the United
States, though most of US are personally unknown
your retirement from the place you have held in the
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 habltualy observant OF puO
lie affairs, we say to you, well done! We approve
introduce into the Department of the Inte-
rior, and with the same heartness
We approve your determination to retire from that
department when you found yourself obstructed in
prosecuting the great reformation to which you had
committed yourself. You carry with you in your
retirement IRON office the warm approval and the
best wishes Of thousands of patriotic men, who have
no interest in pCtics other than their interest
citizens in the welbeing and doing of the republic.
In our Judgment no quc ston now pending is more
important to the future we-oeing and well-dong OF
the republic than the question OF that reformation
which you have attempted in the Department of
the Interior, and which ought to be carried uncom-
promsingy 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 ''spoils" by one part
nersbip OF men who trade IN politics or by another
perhaps little less corrupt and perhaps little
mOIe-when it becomes, as 1t sometimes does he.
come the only question between two great pOit-
col parties s., insignificant n COM n
business OF the Government shall be conducted on
business principles, on PRINCIPLES which would
bring any business man TO bsnkruptcy IN twelve
mr. tic rI1RG RGtin m mann nf
appointments and the tenure OF Office in the ciyll
service is really nothing less than the question
whether the people shall be served or ruled-served
managers ard political tricksters. The laying of
asst ssmeBts office holders enforced by threats
dismissal FROM office, is nothing else than compelling
men TO purchase their ofices With OriDes While we
regret the circumstance which induced you to resign
your Office, we are confident that the cause with
which you thus honorably Identified will prevail,
and that the honest and patriotic people will soon
take tGis question out OF the hands OF political
managers, and save the country by demanding a
thorough reform of the civil service.
Very respectfully, your lellowcitlzens and friends
Theodore D. Woolsey, Edwin HarwOod,
Leonard Bacon, Joshua Colt,
Alex g. Twinmg, A. Won Steiuwehr,
George IL Day, James D. Dana,
Thomas A Ihacher, Noah Porter,
II. s. FelloWes, A. l.. Train,
W. A. Norton, Simeon L. Baldwir,
Edward Butler, James Hldey,
G.. S. Lyman, Timothy Dwight,
". p. TrOwbrdge, George e. Fisher,
j. L. Gardner, VIM. w. Bpardnan,
Daniel G. Gilman, II. Il. Harrison,
Ezra G.. Read, Henry II. Blake,
George j. Brush, VIM ID Whitney,
Eli " hitney, 5. ID. PaTdee,
Lewis X. Packard, II. A. Newton,
John BOLSTER, b. Snuman.
Francis Bacon, VIM, II. Brewer
Morris Tyler, A. Van Name,
George II Watrous, Eli W. Blake,
Henry Carnam, c. Nerrn,
J. W. Terry, H. w. Day.