The New York herald., 1872-04-20
wards civil service reform. That Convention pro-
fessedly is In favor OF what the people earnestly de-
sre-civil service reform.

wards civil service reform. That Convention pro-
fessedy s in favor OF what the people earnestly de.
sire-civ service reform.
ROUGH ON s0MEBoDY-No NAMES.
But can IL be believed that the men composing 10
are in earnestp Look at their record, You have
one from New York. You can write your own re-
cord about him. We have one from Pennsylvania
common thief.n il has such men as the man nom
the Northwest who calls Mr.. Sumner a traitor to
the principles OF the party, when he himself made
his first war speech in 1868. 1t Is indeed useless
to enumerate the men on the other side. The
people know them and their record.
THE TYRANNY OF PARTY.
And what are the methods they user They brand
every man who Is earnest for reform, as traitor to
MS ms party. Yes the American man or woman
WSo the wares Sares onsa to lift his auma or her eyes to
nounced as traitor to God and country
alike. My administrative friends remember, beg
you, that no man In the government is too high or
too low TO escape the investigation and the judg-
ment Of the people who have entrusted power to
his hands. But they say by this criticism you inn.
peril the election Of the only man who can be
elected Then, II that be So it is time that 1t is not
q q, principle but man who viii go to the
White House for the next four years; and
In that case the party that was made of
and for principles have no part or lot in such
this man alone who can be elected, then the repub
lcan party In its principles Is in minority and it
ought to get out of the way and let the majority
rule.
''THE ONLY MANI
why, then, the only man ? You are told he was
soldier. million OF men urge their claims
to the White House on equally good ground
Then he was the conqueror Of the rebellion
am making, perhaps, very unpopular statement,
but | think am making true one, when l say
that II there ever was u war fought In the world
that was fought to success in spite Of its generals
want to add that the man who asserts in his
support OF this same candidate for reelection that
because % he conquered s the W Rebellion s p0"St in
suits the common sense Of the people
insults the soldiers who fought behind
them, insults the dead blue coats In their graves.
When the monument Is built that will fifty COM
memorate the hero and conqueror OF this war it
will lift to the clouds, not the figure of a man. but
the statue of a nation. Then 1t Is said he
COLLECTS THE REVENUE
and lowers the taxes and pays the public debt II
imagine from the way this Is talked of
that General Grant collected all the, rev
legislation about taxation himself and that he was
sufficiently magnanmous and generous to draw his
own check and pay the national debt every month
out of his own pocket. But 1t Is the officers of the
county who collect the revenue, and 1t is the people
of the county who pap the public debt and will con-
tinue to pay IT. And again it Is said, "he knows
honest sodier.n good reason, | should
think why he should stick to the work he does
not understand to other hands. But say some
too, "he is only learning what to do; he will DO
better next term. Why, then, not give him life
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STILL STRONG.
But believe that the principles OF the republican
party do not depend upon the election of one man
they are held by the great majority of the people
of this country, and, believing that, l know
they can elect any man they choose to place to the
front. i believe there principles sufficient to
elect the man. Choose the man, then, without
consulting or considering expediency alone
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
They say that this man believes in civil service
REFORM and, therefore, he ought to be the
man for the civil service refOrmers TO
put to the front and support Believes
in civil service reforml That very
Is that what this and his supporters believe in
The man who is in the White House to-day is a sol
der. His methods of thought and work are those
Of soldier. Obeys orders, does he Ay, and en-
forces them, too.
"REMINISCENCES OF GRANT.
1t would be good thing for some of his friends to
remember that his first public act to
strike down the two men who had sup
ported his arms and held up his hands
when they would else have fallen down. The peo
pie say to their representatives In Congress- "Stand
between us and the man who would usurp Illegal
powers in the White House concerning certain
enactments in the South" And the first political
act of this man was to strike down the two men
who had done more to sustain his great fame
and name than all Others and Edwin Stanton
was one of them, and so from that point on. His
first Official act President to call out that a
law that had existed for century should he swept
OFF the statute book, because 1t stood In the way OF
Domingo! Yes, he respected the will Of the people,
but only when friend and foe alike demanded That
he should do SO.
Miss Dickinson then reviewed the deposition o.
Sumner, and concluded by asking why, If Cincin
cinnau were, indeed, as contemplate a politca
party did not allow 1t to die natural DEATH a
least ignore 1t, as they did the Workingmens Con
vention at Columbus, the temperance and womans
suffrage conventions.