Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10

and again in his private conversations ar
gued, that system of some kind might be
adopted. 1t is more than two years since he
and I were riding tneether ON . railroad
train, and he argued that he could have
system of some sort of competitive examin-
alton for department clerks and Custom
House officers, and could have men put in
the service for life or during good
behavior, to be retired in their old
age upon half pay. Why, said /, General,
saa buildlns Rseple up @0"ia Special body % Of men
dangerous to our liberties or to our politics
establishing. as it were, kind of aristoc-
racy. Yes, know they would say so; but
cannot they say the same of the army and
navy, and say true,' said he. There are
men in the service for life to be retired upon
half pay; yet nobody finds fault with the
officers of the army and navy for interfering
with politics. 1t is a matter OF pride with
them to attend to their own business and
not interfere with ordinary political affairs;
but they reserve the right to vote So Cen
eral Grant argued for half an hour, in all
sincerity and eernestness, in favor of civil
service reform, for, said he, it takes SO much
of the time of Government officials to be
answering the claims of the people for office.
Why, every man who wants one of these
&C, 900 ofices-and there are probably twenty
to each office-thinks he may see the Presi-
dent if he gets to Washington. There is no
use telling him to go to the Secretary of the
Navy, or Army, or Treasury, or Foreign AT
fairs; if he cannot get what he wants he
thinks he may go to the White House, and
would take all the time of the President if
he would let him. The President argued
that some system that would get rid of this
was essential, but the great trouble of civil
service reform lies in this: Congress has
usurped powers that belong to the Execu-
| tive Senators and Representatives claim
the right to appoint these officers, and a
! Senator would resent it if the President,
without asking him, were to make appoint
ments in his State, and Representatives in
| Congress would resent it and feel wronged
if the President should 60 and appoint a
and Assessors that you used to have around
here, without asking that Congressman. Yet
the Congressman, by the Constitution, has
no more to do with it than the child unborn,
or the child of Frenchman, unless his ad-
vic be asked. Still. Congress has practical
ly usurped this. 1t is conflict between the
Legislative and Executive departments of
the Government-the President on the one
side and Congress on the other-whether it
be Democratic or Republican Congress; /;
and that is one reason why we have not seen
all Republicans right on The matter of civil
service reform. Is anything better to be ex-
pected by turning out Gen. Grant, who has
resolutely taken hold of this matter and ap-
pointed an able Commission? You know
Joseph Medill is an honest man, if there is
UuG W Uc 1OuHu3 anu VIC Suluh bO away
| from here. know man is often abused
| in his own locality, but we off on one side
| think he is one of the best men
among them. 1 say the Commission
was composed of such men. General
Grant is in favor of civil service reform, and
I ask is it worth while to turn out General
Grant and his Cabinet SO that Horace Gree
ley and John Cochrane may rule the civil
service? These men say that it is not right
to turn men out for political reasons. Are
you SO innocent as to suppose that should
Horace Greeley become President he would
not turn out any of these $4,000 officers for
political reasons? If he should not, what
an infinite howl of disappointment and de-
| spair would go up from the Democratic party;
yes, and from these Liberal Republicans.
Oh, let us believe in simplicity that all
| these Liberal Republicans, if they should
carry the election, would beg Greeley not
to appoint any of them to office-[applause1
that they would hasten to Washington and
tell Greeley, Don't turn out the Republi-
can Postmaster in our town; he is capable
man, and I know no reason for turning him
out except that he is a Republican, and
should feel sorry, under the circumstances,
to take his place. Is it likely that they will
| talk in that way Do the Democrats expect
that there will be turning out of office hold.
ers for their sake? They have asked Greeley
| the question good many times, and he re
sponded to it when he said, DO you think a
man would invite his neighbors to help him
| raise house, and then kick them out after he
had got the house built as much as to say
Help me to get the house built and / viii
give you good feed Is Horace Greeley
Go to New York, if you think misrepresen
him; spend fortnight there among thost
| who have known him all his life long, anC
they will tell you that more credulous, abl,
man does not exist in that State-one NOR,
likely to be imposed upon by bad men. Lool
OF :, u6oe l..
many Republicans, among the rest of tn,
men in that city, are among his supporter
and warmest friends, and he is the friend o
them also. Everybody knows this then.
have in my mind specially man who coult
not borrow SO of you tomorrow morpips
| who has been twice recommended by Horace
Greeley, and been put into a responsible
place in the Custom House, and that maj
has cost him S14, 600 for breaches of trust"
The Governor then alluded to the thick
headed obstinacy of the Democratic party il
| seeking to overthrow, by alliance with bolt
ing Republicans, that Government which
had detied the utmost efforts of the united
rebel horde in the field. Their politica
Vaccinations aud traitorous wire pulling
| would prove just as inefficient to DESTROY thu
country. He dealt with some of Mr. Gree
ley's very absurd doctrines relative to seces
sion, and, speaking of the philosophers ad
| vocacy of kindness to rebels, held that tn,
Republican party had been most generous
in dealing with these same rebels, ant
quoted General Grants words at Appo
mattoX.
"That was not the spirit of hate, but o
the most extreme kindness. Every one o
them might have been hung, but even tn
leaders were allowed to escape, although
not allowed to vote for few years. Ther
was not rebel who by law was not permit
ted to vote, though about 800 hundred rebel
were deprived of the privilege of holdin
office, and that was what troubled Mr.. Gree
+ ley most of anything. If that was what tn
! South wanted, that disability should be a
: lowed to rest, for it would not be decent t
bring Davis, Toombs, and the rest into tn
United States Senate before the grass ha
fairly overgrown the graves of the Unio
with the rebels if they had shaken hand
! with tie blacks and Union men at th
, South
. Dealing with the question of local sci
: government, the speaker said:
: "They said that local elf-government wa
) sufficient to carry out the Constitution;
II amendments and protect the people; br
J, local selfgovernment brought about tn
war, kept 1000, 900 of slaves in bondage an
e destroyed the liberty of speech in the Soutl
and the people declared that local self go
v eminent should not wrong the people. q
d would keep to the very letter of the Const
d tuition as it is now, which gave Congre:
l. power to enforce the amendments. 1t ws
) the duty of Congress to protect the rights
J. the people against local self government,
/, it sought to to deprive them of their right
J. If the Democrats got into power they woul
: repeal the laws passed under the amend
t ments, for they were still fighting for til
f contest of slavery and the rebellion.
J. "He did not care to discuss the infamor
ISLANDERS that have been poured out over tt
= land for the past few weeks against Hem
i Wilson, for he was one of the purest men {
i the land. Colfax and Boutwell, were alt
d free from connection with the Credit Mobile