Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-04-19

professions Of entertaining within
his own individual person the super
excellent qualities which a fastidions
Nature withholis from the physical
economy Of the American politician
and then. in top-loftical and GIN
gerly fashion sets himself up as q
censor and gratuitous instructor Of
the very class whom he SO loftily de-
spises cannot consistently blame any
body but himself, if, when his own
aspirations toward public station are
suddenly brought to grief he gets
hoo,ed ut and blackguarded by the
Pariahs upon whom and whose in
tents and purposes hs has poured
the sweet scented walls Of his rose
water disapprobation and hence it
is that We regard it ~ . matter Of
course and thing to be expected
that the New York World. which i.
. vain and sinful scoffer, should take
it upon itself to worry aud towsle
aud poke the crooked sticks of fur
mp the erect and unbending verte-
bral column Of that pink Of propri
ETY., Mr.. George William Curtis !:
and we are therefore prepared TO
find that ccaperon OF the smirking
Miss Nancy of Civil Service Reform
treated ~ follows in the columns of
THAT uiireyenera.e sheet: The VJrid
says oi M. Curtis:
d" He wass respected as i gentle
man of pure private morals, as y
pretty after dinner orator. rs q writer
who received Difference from poiiti
Cal associates because they consid-
erei him q scholar. and from his as
sociate iiftssaf-nrs because they fan
ciel he hal u standing among politi
Clans. Being the e,litor OF a popular
and widely circulated pictorial
weekly newspaper capable of being
made power IL politics by its clever
caricatnres. Mr.. Curtis was worth
cultivating by the Administrations
So they mounted him on - civil SER
vice reform" like a gaily dressed
child on u hobby horse, aud took
pains to make hi II think that be was
q very important persouage. They
amused themselves by PLAYING on his
we'll known ambition to make figure
in public life. Daring the long pc
rioi when it was given out every Few |
weeks that Secretary Fish was soon
to resign, the Washington CORES
ponlents were inspired from so.ne |
source to telegraph to their newspA |
pers In various parts of the country |
the name of Mr.. Curtis a. one of the |
persons Thought Of by the President
~ Mr.. Fish's successor. The An
thors of this f.ttering dupery of
course laughed in their sleeves. bnt |
their unsophi~ticated victim took it !
all in good earnest. So throughout
the Presidential canvass Mr.. Curtis
newspaper divided its political pages
between pictorial scurrility and edi
torial dignity. the scurrility being
surprisingly coarse and clever and
the dignity elegantly feeble. Nast's
lous caricaturss were more |
effective than all the documents il
saed during the campaign bnt the
editor whose name had been trump
eted in the press ~ . probable Sec
Rotary of State could not descend to
the same scurrilous level In the
part of his journal which he did not
merely direct. but write, lie was
c .reful to preserve the conscious dig
nifty of budding Cabinet officer.
This Offset to the scurrilous carica-
lures was like the pretended civil
service reform rs an Offset to Grants
Without pursuing this
study of motives, it is evil
dent that poor Mr.. Curtis was crrelly
dipped. 1t became apparent. early
in March, that Mr.. Fish is not to re
tire, that Mr.. Curtis has no possible
CHI ,nce of filling high office and
l., all of sudden. the scales fall
from his eyes and he is convinced
that General Grant has no more re
rious t.iought of CARRYING ont the
civil service reform than he has of
George William Curtis Sec
re..sry Of State"
This must be a mistake. It can
not be that one so infinitely nicer
and more genteel than the mob Of
office seekers could have q Thought
Of holding any office involving more
Of political contamination than that