The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-07-27

ly and plainly the reasons why the pres
ent method Of differing the civil service
of the United States has proved o failure
and especially he emphasizes in his let
ter upon the steps of decay which have
taken place. He says that at first the
evils of the system did not all come TO
life that at first the President appointed
and then gradually members Of Congress
began to interfere. So that finally the
system has become q system of interter'
ence by members of Congress with the
appointing power, and the appointing
power is used by members of Congress
to secure their elections, and the patron.
age of the Federal power is prostituted
for other evil purposes.
Now this is not a whit stronger than the
resolution of the Republican convention
four years ago, upon which platform
General Grant accepted the nomination.
Now, is Mr. Hayes any stronger than
General Grant? Can Rutherford b.
Hayes drive his party an inch where
General Grant has failed to drive them
an inch Can he coax them where Grant
has failed to persuade them2 Will his
influence be any weigh'ier in Washing
ton City than Grants has been2
He stands in every respect upon the
same platform that Grant was elected
upon four years ago. What did Grant
do? He tried to carry out his platform.
More than once he recommended to Con-
gress the adoption Of rules and regula-
tions which would have the effect of dis
associating the civil service from politics.
At first members of Congress leaned to-
ward Grant and the platform of their
party, and made pretense of carrying it
into effect, but they ended by starving
out the Civil Service Commissioners, and
for more than two years past there has
been no Civil Service Commission, and
there has been no attempt to carry out
the pledge that the Republican party
made at its convention at Philadelphia
in favor of the reformation of the civil
service.
Now, my fellow citizens, learn from
this at least as much as the Indian learn
ed when he was cheated. A white man
cheated him, and he was very mad but
he did not say great deal about it. The
white man tried to cheat him again. The
Indian said: "White man cheat me
once, his fault White man cheat me
twice, my fault" (Laughter,)
know that the party of which | have
been a follower so long did promise this
people four years ago that they would re-
form this evil. They put it in black and
white in their platform. The man they
put in the Presidency tried to fulfill the
pledge, and the party in Congress refust d
to follow him. Now am like the Indi-
an. Cheat me twice and it is my fault.
| was cheated once, and it was not my
fault. When Oliver P. Nor on, in the
Senate of the United States, in strict con-
demnation of the attempts to reform the
civil service Ofthis country, said that the
civil service of the United states was the
best in the world, he simply was engaged
in defrauding-there is no other word
that applies-the people Of the United
States who had put him and his into
power on the pledge made in their plat
form ratified by their candidates, that
they would reform this American Civil
Service of which he boasted.
There is another circumstance in con-
nectIon with this letter of Hayess which
is little astonishing. Af'er saying he
was fully in accord with the resolutions
of the convention, which fully indorses
ULYSSES S. Grant, both in foreign and do
mestic management, and after setting out
in full his approval of the civil service
reform promised in one of the resolutions
he goes on to say that as security that he
will not cheat anybody in this matter
he voluntarily declines to run twice. If
he is elected it is to be distinctly under
stood that he is not to be candidate for
reelection.
Judge Hoadly here went on to state
that he attributed this portion of the let
ter to the advice of Carl SChurz. This
pledge was precisely what was contained
in the platform adopted at the Cincin
natl convention four years ago.
The Republican party had not pledged
themselves now any stronger in favor of
resumption than they did four years ago.
They anticipated then in very short
time the resumption of specie payments.
What did they do? They demonetized
silver For further particulars it was
only necessary to look at the CONNER
cial any day for thirty days back. They
made gold more dear and silver more
cheap by little trick that was put into
the Revised Statutes. The only kind of
money when the speaker was boy was
this kind, that the Republican Congress
had left for others to bring back-the
only kind of money that made Demo-
cratic music. (Applause.l
Judge Hoadly, after eulogizing Cover
nor Tilden as the punisher of robbers
and rings, concluded as follows;
There are thousands upon thousands
in the Republican party who just as ear
nestly desire change in the methods Of
government as do you Democrats, just
exactly. There are thousandsupon thou
sands who are utterly dissatisfied with
what is past, and are not willing to trust
in promises for the future. Those men
are not all going to vote for Tilden.-
Some of them will be alienated by the
vituperation, the lies that will be told Of
Tilden for the next ninety days. Some
of them will be alienated by the fear that
the colored man will be imposed upon
them by Democratic administrati' n.-
Some Of them will be alienated by the
fear that the Democracy will not prove
in its management of this country to be
a party of economy. l do not take dis
couragement from the fact that men who
l know are in sympathy with the princi-
Piles advocate are many of them not 60
ing to vote with the ticket and the party
that propose to vote for at the next elec-
ten. Not at all. There are enough of
us, thank God, to dig up the old rotten
tree and cast it into the fire. (Cheers.)
And that being so, all that is to be done
for the future is for Governor Tilden to
manage this government in the spirit Of
religious conservation to its duties, and
the high trust to which he will be called |
of which he spoke the other day at Sara
toga-all that is to be done is for Thos. |
A. Hendricks, that wise, pure, noble
minded gentlemen-I speak whereof
know in this case)-all that to be done
for those two men, and for the men who
stand by them, to bind themselves to
work, not in the spirit in which Ulysses