The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1872-11-24

deviate from the civil-servicc rules in APP |
pointing to Office in csse Of vacancies.
To adhere strictly to these rules would |
nscessitate the appointment Of Assistant !
Secretary Richardson 10 the position Of |
Of the treasury when Boutwell, !
goes into the senate, and Bancroft Davis TO I
be secretary of state when Fish goes
abroad ms minister, as !, is
thought he will, and the sp- !
poin,mnet OF jaime. 5. Benedict I
to succeed Mr.. Connolly as surveyor of
the port Of New York, whose deputy be
COW is. Grants sincerity in this matter
will ere long be thoroughly tested, and I
am of opinion that in the main he will
stick TO the rules which he has advocated.
Grant is sharp, smsr. and clever, and this
eivil.service reform j. cute plan to rid
himself 10 $ great sl,sni If the power of
The politicians to whom be de,ermind four
years ago 10 give the cold shoulder. but
ere be WAS scsrce in the preside entail chair
he required ;5sir aid, and in selecting from
among them, be 90; the worst Of the lot as
his advisers With the civil-service rules
in force, the employees Of the government!
would no longer be dependent upon the
breath Of the members or senators that
got them their positions, and naturally
enough they would support Grant for re-
nomination, as his reelection would con-
tinue them in place. Thus instead of
each senator and member welding a GER
tain amount of power through the patron
age which is accorded them the president
/ attracts TO himself all the gratitude and
/ self-in,eres,ed devotion formerly given to
/ the senator. and members by those in
office and who are kept in by the action of
Grant in enforcing the civil-service rules.
The outs and the politicians will in all
probability combine sgains. the ins who
will be backed by the power and means of
| the administration, and the monied inter-
ests Of the country. This is the pro-
gramme for the succession as l view it.
Just now Cameron swears that he will
bend the president to do his bidding, and so
things stand but just this much, anybody
who thinks that civil.service reform, as
/ advocated by Grant, is done in the pub
lie interest even though it have that
effect. does no, know Ulysses.
/ CESTRALIzATIoS.
The Radical journals are already fore
shadowing the centrslizing schemes Of
their party. The postal telegraph as re-
commended by Postmaster General Cres-
well has been urged by the Chronicle
the Grant organ, as being "benihcent
measure. To-day it advocates the passage
Of Congers bill introduced last session for
the better protection of emigrsnis, which
is nothing more than an electioneering
machine, differing from the freedmen bu-
reau only in the color of those who are to
be manipulated. 'Harper's Weekly, the
editor of which, Geo. W. Curtis, is per-
sonsl friend Of Grant, claims that educa-
,ion is political duty; that the govern
ment must inaugurate a system Of COM
pulsory education and turn schoo. master.
The Chronicle also endorses this idea Of
turning our school system into political
machine, and thus place the expenditure
Of millions yearly in the hand. Of the Re.
publican party 20 be used for party pur-
poses. TIE Radicals think tina, in the
elec.io OF Grant they drove the nail
home, and are determined to clinch it dur
ing The next four years. 1t would seem q,
il they did no! purpose 10 lie. the grass
grow under their fee, by their haste to &c.
to work.
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