The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-03-19
LAWYER JACKSON APPOINTED IN HIS
PLACE!
How Are You Civil Service Reform ?
This is Haverstick's Rooster

ration of Lew Weber as model city
marshal, talked wildly about 'bawdy
houses tin stars, blazing breasts,
'pimps,' huge sticks" ''revolvers,
public crib tool - " toady
brass butt,ned coat, ''unwary mem
Der, gamblers, "crochety men, 'one
horse wagon shop, odd rut, etc. etc,
and they wondered what was the mat
ter with the editor Some thought he
wa, bilious, others said he was drunk, and
still Others insisted that it was cramp,
cholir or something Of that sart-but the
matter wa. Immediately accounted for on
turning To the Geographic page, where,
in very obscure and out-ot-the-way
place in small type, without any head line
e. call attention to it, it was announced
that William Jackson had been nominated
t. ,he L. $ Senate, by the President, for
appointment as post master at Rock Isl
and This explained the cause Of that
column of nasty abuse, illtcmper, msrep-
rcscntatiou and talsehold When man
is kicked out Of office by his own friends
why shoudn he abuse every respectable
Democrat he can think OF? If Mr.. Haw
les becomes satisfied Of the trcachcry and
uurcliahiIity 81 Iiaycr>tjck and takes him
by the uape ot his neck and the seat 81 his
unmenhonab!e- and pitches him. heels
over head out of the post office, why
shouldn't HayrrStick ven, a column Of his
nasty trash upon Bailey Davenport, VIM.
Bell and b. II. kimball, and express his
preference for Lew Webber over either Of
them There's no law prevent it?
81. must Vent his illJemper upon -'me-
u1.y Who can cnlare j, with greater
cguminlity than Bailey Davenport, Vii
liam Bell and g. H. kimbal? 1t will
only cause, in them, 81 smile of contempt
and it will to the author Of that column of
ytuperation 50 much good that no one, in
lis peculiarly exaspcra;ed condition, could
have the hard-heartedness 70 deny him
all the consolation he can derive from it.
As To the appointment of VIM. Jackson
as postmaster for Rock lsland-that Is a
surprise True he has done a great deal
Of dirty work for the party-some OF it
very dirty neither is he distinguished for
his popularity among the people in fact
we doubt II he Is the sort Of man to please
anybody. OF make popularity for either
Hawley or Grant lie lacks the amiable
and genial ways required for that part Of
the business But we suppose he will
have little To d. with the management Of
the office lie Is member Of the law
firm Of Sweeney & jackson, and would rot
abandon that business for the post Office
Probably he will have little u DO with the
Office, except 10 draw his pay, as was the
case with Haverstlck-rh less the better,
with either OF them If Postmaster Jack
son will leave Capt Nckowu to run the
machine the people will get along well
enough
Bur what a commentary this case is,
upon Grant hcasted civil service reform
How Haverstick has pulled and praised
the virtues and beauties of civil service
reform a. understood. established and
practiced by Grant There was nothing
like it under the sun No man could be
removed except for cause, if he could
pass examination and even in case Of re
moval the most competent clerk was en-
titled 70 the place Now, We want to
know why is this thusly2 Couldn't Hav-
erstick pass examination? We reckon
they did take the trouble to examine him.
Was he guilty Of any malteasanee, mis-
feasance or any other teasance? Probably
not Why. then, Is the Little Blonde
kicked OUT Answer me that, George
/ William Curtis, and We advocates of the
beauties of Civil Service Reform as illus
trated by | sele~s Grant and John Haw
ley.
J. S.-Since the above was writer
Cap Haverstick has showed us a tele
gram from the =. O Department saying
that Mr. Elawley claimed the right to con
troll the appointment in his own residence
and that there was no charge Of incfficien
cy or iucompetency or any othei
charge made against him. This i
as we supposed Mr. Ilawlcy ha
made the change wholly on persona
grounds, Of course, and the man who get
it gets a siuecure-a nice thing to have
But was there ever a more ludicrous exhi
bition Of the hypocrisy of Grant Admin
tration in pretending to be in favor of Civ
4 il Service Reform Grants Administra
j ton turns out a soldier from the post Office
and puts in a man who we have bee
e told, claimed, during the war. that if h
p was drafted the British government
a would protect him-and then the Admin
e istration telegraphs to the turned-out so
i der that no charge has been preferre
e against him and that he is not remove
d tor either 'incOmpetency or ineficiency |!
That Messrs. Grant and Hawley's styl
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