The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-08-29

e OF nominations 80 pF0dueed2 A zoo,
Is tree cannot bring forth corrupt fruit
'e neither can corrupt tree bring fnrtl
u good fruit. BY their fruits ye shal
: know them.
e CONCERNING GREELEY HIMSELF.
The inferenees L have drawn i'm ref
n erence TO this subject, from the man
: ner Of his nomination, from the char
Il acter of his support, and from his owl
= declarations Of his intended policy, ar
: not eontradieted but confirmed BY hh
history and character as apublic man
n l wish To speak OF Mr.. Greeley As
: man, with all possible respect. HI
> has many generous qualities, beDevO
: lent impulses, large ideas, and nobl,
/, aims. But he has, from the begin
I ming. been 4 pOliticial-nOt merely 5
: partisan, but 4 party manipulator.
, He was bred in the school OF New
York politics. His associations have
, been with party managers, whose re
, lance for success has been upon the
/, influence Of patronage, and he sees
+ nothing ignoble or injurious in paying
the devotion OF y friend with tie
, emOluments of an Office. He has been
accustomed to discriminate between
men, as to character, by the sole cir
cumstanee Of their personal relatiou
to himself. The first article OF his
belief is, all Greeley men are
gOOd-all Others, the opposite. The
result, can not illustrate better than
by relating an unrepOrted interviews.
About a week after the Cincinnati
convention, | was called upon in. my
office by \ agentleman Of pleasing ad-
dress, who gave his name rs Cook,
and his Office, l know not how truly.
as correspondent of the New York
Tribune. He said he had been trav-
cling through Indiana, Illinois, and
into Missouri, and bore evidence that
the water had not entirely agreed
with him. He was, in fact, slightly
stimulated 10 the point OF commune
cativenesS, but not Of inebriatiOn. He
had called to inquire, he said, what
the boys were going 10 do about the
nomination OF old Horace. l told
him / answered for bat one, land could
not support him. He then delivered
quite a eulOgy upon his favOritp, whom
lie afIectiOnately designated rs old
Horace, and characterized him as an
honest, square-tOed man. l admitted
his integrity, but thought his assOcia-
tiODs were bad. eyes" said my in
terviewer, ''he is an honest, squar-
tOed man, but there is a mystery
about him, and that is just this eV-
cry intimate friend he has is q d-d
rascal"
Certainly Horace Greeley, while in
the Republican ranks, among the nu-
merOus reforms which he has advO-
Gated, has never signaliZed himself as
a ref0rmer OF the civil service. What
can We expect of him as the head and
leader of the Democratic party? VIII
he receive inspiration in that diree-
ton from this element in the cOali-
| ton? Has the Democratic party re-
solved on a reform which must neees-
sarily deprive it Of the promised bene-
fits and rewards Of its political sue
cess Has it resolved to die for the
/ benefit of the country, or is It only
"playing 'pOssum ?p The true an
sWer is found in the application Ofthe
/ famous distich of old Rabelais:
The Devil was sick, the Devil monk
when Devil got well, the devil monk was
he"
GEN. GRANT AND CIVIL SERVICE RE
PORN fl.
Under Gen. Grant we have reason
for better hope. He has been the
| first Of all Presidents 10 call attention
to the subject, and by formal recon-
mendation has committed himself to
la reform of the civil service. He has
actually initiated 1t by the formation
of commission to recommend fixed
rules to guide in appointments. The
competitive examination, however
ridicuIed, and although superficial, is,
nevertheless, a beginning, and in the
right direction. ] lament that the
efforts of Gov. Cox, while Secretary
Of the Interior, 10 put the system into
complete effect, were HOt supported
J by the President with more Zeal and
! frmuess- He WAS cOmpelled, it seems,
/ to sue umb To the politicians, showing
the strength of the phaianx which de-
fends the evil. But, notwithstanding
/ this, am not without hope that a
good work has been well begun; and
that the little that has bren done is
/ the earnest Of what We niay expect
hereafter TO be accomplished under the
same auspices. No change is desirable,
unless il is one for the better. The
/ Dents may be numerous and disagree
able, but there is no occasion for dis
placing them merely to give places IN
] the brother-in-law OF some one else.
/ It may be- only making room for fresh
swarms, more ravenOus and destrue-
| tive. We may brush away flies tO be
prosecuted by mosquitoes, loeusts, and
other vertnin. The thing % he done Is
/ to stop blood sucking; not To ex-
change blood suckers.
REVENUE REFORM. It
One of the chief impulses which had
excited among Republicans dissatis-
/ faction with Republican administra-
tion, and led to the cali OF the Cin-
! einnati conventions, was q conviction
of the necessity Of revenues reform,
based upon tie belief that our tariff
upon imports and our internal revenue
/ laws were framed rather upon n
4 scheme for promoting certain favored
Investments OF capital than upon the
idea of raising tine requisite revenue
/ for the uses OF the government with
the least burden TO the people The
i call for that convention embraced that
reform a. one of the leading objects Of
the convention, and every person as
a reauiSite To membership Was reqair-
ed, by his signature, to attest his al
hesiOn To its principle. ID ....
! What our system was, when the
agitation for its reform COM
meneed, is best described In the ian-
guage Of distinguished British ecOu-
Omist, William Newmarch, ESD, ia
ran address delivered last year, at
LEEDS. England, before The National
Association for the Promotion OfasSJ-
cial Science, and Published IA the Hn-
nual volume of Its transactions.
He said: "When the war came To
an end, the people OF the Uaited states
found themselves harassed on all sldes
by ; revenue system which Tor NM
uteness Of interference, for extrav2-
gance OF assessment, tor obstruction
and irritation, for eOnfuslont contra
ldietiOn and cOnstraint IS DeyOnd any
we'll authenticated precedent ln any
age, in any country, or among any
race. The fiscal expedients 10 Wnlen
Mr.. Pitt was driven in this country
By famine, rebellion. nutinyi ahd
war, and tire general inability OF our
1 then gpOpulatiOn Of ten millions u
bear the chief burden Of a EuroPean
contest, were simplicity and modefla-
: ton Itself com pared with the tnternalr
! State, and municipal revenue systeill
prevailing in the United states ~
1866. And not only was the reye-
nue. system bad as machine I0r rals.
ing money for the public service, pa
there bad grown up alongside lt net
work OF protective duties which every
where sacrificed, the, millions q un'
seen consumers TO the apparent pros
perfty ofa few conspicuous nsanuiae
7 tnrers and eIamOroas interests-' 5-l
| Mr. David Wells bad been sppol y.
! ed by Mr.. Lincoln q Special Com ~ Is
7 siOuer, whose duty under the Jaw "a
: Z 10 make a thorough Investigation o
tlie subject and report sneh impfoYs e
4 ments as facts and experience sh9ni'
: suggest. This duty he discharge
] with thOrOughness which has eArne
j Tor him a wide reputation as q eafeiu
: and philosophical observer aDd = pro
Z found and practical thinser- IN iOl
4 tunately his conclusions and recon-
: mendations eOnfIiefed with the thee
] ries Of the philosopher OF the Ne,
4 York TriBeB7e, whose columns assa1 !
! ed him most sbamefullJ win Ih
z epiths. Of y hireliDg Of foreign ingei
y est5. and finally succeeded IN qrlVih
Y MIN from Office and official iniluene'
u There was hut little to be hope
T, from the Democratic party OF Den'
Enr ala NFnnmFfn the