Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-06-13

put, when we read your platform, we fine
that you have omitted it. You are il
3 favor of civil service reform. What O
IL! Everybody else has been so. Yo,
say, go listen to the speeches of our grea
men Tor our meaning. l read Senate
I,rumbulPs bill introduced a wear ago
mat makes it penal offense for mem
per OF congress to recommend any person
In the United States to the head of an,
,, /, department, or to the President of tn,
united states, for any office, be he ever Sc
I aecent or honest, And this is JUDI
7 Irumbull's definition of his civil SER
! reform. Now you understand it. shed |
The other day another distimumn
, leader OF the Liberal Republic the first
) went through Kansas, and .oduced the |
time In American politicMn, while at
spectrum. Governor ,1roscope to scan
, Topeka, took up the de made long and
: CIVIL service reforpell like a dead weight
J erudite speech. I do not know anybody
' upon the peoerstand it. So, looking
who can lens, we see the light reflect
through variously. They believe that
ed tMnators have the right to make re-
} lamentations to the President for
offices, and they are glad when they do
make recommendations. Now, there is
a candidate for Vice-President, who gives
spectroscopic analysis of civil service
reform, in which it seems that Judge
Trumbull comes in direct opposition to
his analysis and Interpretation. Where
such two great leaders do not agree, how
do you expect the American people to un-
derstand it +? Judge Trumbull says it
should be a penal offense to recommend.
1 have no personal feeling against him,
and have always respected him, and be-
lieved him to be a man of great purity of
character. And so far as Mr.. Brown is
concerned, l have no reason to believe
that he is not the same sort of man.
Whether they would say as much of me
or not, l cannot tell. l am to look into
their platform, and I find in this import
ant particular, Judge Trumbull gives one
construction, and Mr.. Brown disagrees
with HIM and gives another. Then who
wonders that the people are confused
about it There seems to be no sense or
honesty of purpose in it. So far as |
know, there has always been more civil
service reform about the Republican party
than anywhere else.
Judge Trumbull permitted himself to say
that all the eminent men in the Republi-
can party were going to Cincinnati. You
saw the kind of fellows that went from
Springfield, Bloomington and Chicago
Laughter and applausel, and while will
do them the credit to say that they were
the best element at Cincinnati, 1 will
leave you to judge whether they are any
better than other people. They went
there fer civil service reform, forgetting
that General Grant was the first President
who ever offered to give up all his patron
age as Executive, if by that means the
| civil service could be purified. [Great
| applause He is the only man who ever
brought himself in direct antagonism with
kba 1oo of l.. +1,,&
count. He said "I do sincerely desire
civil service reform, and will cordially CO.
operate with Congress in order to attain
this result" Now, when Grant went
further than any other man in the United
States, and further than any other Presi-
| dent ever went before in this direction,
why is it that these Liberals cannot be
satisfied These fellows who went from
| Springfield and Chicago, Tammany Hall,
and varions other places in the United
States, to Cincinnati, put their own con-
struction upon civil service reform. 1 do
not blame them at all. But how could
you expect these gentlemen ON the out
side to do otherwise than quarrel when
two of their great leaders differ so Gov
ernor Brown said it was the best thing to
recommend officers to the President.
Judge Trumbull said it was the meanest
of all things to do; and these other fel-
lows concluded that the fairest exposition
of the doctrine would be to turn us all out
and turn them all in. [Applause.] Now
that can be understood it means some
thing. There is not Democrat in the
State of Illinois that cannot appreciate
the full force of it. Laughter.
The next thing was another reform.
They must have amnesty for every rebel
in the United States. That is liberal in
deed. But 1 tell these gentlemen that be-
fore we can grant amnesty to the rebels,
it will become our bounden duty to grant
amnesty to these Cincinnati rebels. TAp-
plause and shouts of laughter Amnesty
is not principle; it is simply an act of
question of propriety; of expediency;
fully covered by the Republican platform
of 1865; again modified and made plain
by the Illinois platform of 1872, in this
city to-day. You call it principle. Why
organize a side party upon it? 1t is but
the exercise of charity; you cannot man.
ufacture principle out of it. 1t is a
mere question of eXpediency, and to be
granted to every man in the South when
he shall be willing to come back and be-
have.
This Cincinnati Convention deliberate
ly determined to have revenue reform,
charging upon you and and the people
that we have tariff solely in the interests
of monopolists, with the cry of ''robber, "
"robber," from morning till night. And
so they went to Cincinnati to bring the
tariff to free trade and reform standard,
and to get rid of this terrible monopoly.
And so they met in convention, and, to
show the American people that they were
in dead earnest in this matter, they nom.
mated Horace Greeley Laughter
They said they were opposed to the Ku
Klux laws, which were crushing out the
liberties of the Southern States, and theil
. papers came out and assailed Grant be
cause of these laws. They were determ
ined to abolish the Ku-Klux laws, and
were willing to fight, if needs be, to make
them odious. Now, what did they do.
They nominated Horace Greeley, who
! strenuously advocated every Ku-Klu1
, law, and growleC., and growled continu
ally because President Grant did not xii
more of those people down there who 81
much needed killing.
There had been much corruption il
New York, and Congress was compelled
to pass law protecting the rights O
} American citizens. They took that Law
as an outrage. They say it trample
down the rights of the people. What die
they do? They nominated HoraceGreeley
who demands not only the enforcement
of the act, but growled for six months be
| cause Congress did not pass more strin
gent law. Could any party be more con
; sistent Could any one expect to ge
votes from this party?
This movement has been a frightfu
disappointment; it is delusion. No Re
publican has gone to Cincinnati who wa
not cheated in the expectation he had o
breaking our own party up. They foun'
it impossible to break up the old party
!, They are dissatisfied and unhappy be
nice. They wanted something new. Th
e masses of the men who went there hav
: been imposed upon, and the result is tha
they are ready to-day to turn their back