The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-02


men ten per cent? A voice: "No."']
A little item about this, perhaps, yeu do
not understand: These men, near the
close ofthe session. with the exception OF
those in the printing department, have q
months holiday every year without any
reduction of pay. That is comfortable,
isn't it2 [Laughter] Yoa would not
object TO having q month to 60 of to the
seaside or TO the Centennial, or some
where else. if your wages could 60 on
smoothly Perhaps you would think the
public service would be crippled if that
was TO be denied you. Laughter.
say to show that there was no inius.
tice done to these men. They were well
paid; better paid for like work than any
other class of men in the United States,
dJ not mean 10 say they were all idlers
A great many ofthe men and women em
ployed in these departments faithfully
and diligently discharged their duties
and earned their salaries, but when did
these heads ofthe departments reduce the
number? We cut them down twelve
hundred and fifty, and the Senate, after
a great deal of wrangling, finally consen-
tedto dispense with six hundred and
fifty. Now why didn't they find that out
a little earlierP Why was that six hund-
red and fifty kept there year after year
whose services were not needed and
whose salaries you and have had to
oay with the taxes exacted from us2
When has the head of single depart
ment dispensed with single loafer about
his premises? -.- + '.-'.e
Why, thereisa strange system existing
at Washington. Governor Hayes con-
templates it with perfect horror! Mem.
bers of Congress control the executiveap
pointments. There is not one of those
Senators and Members of Congress that
have such horror for it. They are crying
that it is the best civil service in the
world, and every one of them has from
500 to 5000 of his political dependents
and proteges in Office [applausel all oyer
the country. That explains all this OPP
position in the Senate. 1t is not because
the service will be crippled. This is false.
That House has not made single reduc-
ton that would necessarily cripple the
public service. There is no truth in that
charge whatever.
There is no question about it-these
supernumeraties around those offices
control legislation and official patronage.
We should have done a great deal more.
We reduced the expenditures $50 000 900
We should have reduced them S50,0OO,-
900. | will not 60 into that. You know
the long struggle we had. Unless we had
consented to abate something ofour de-
mand, we should be in Congress still, bat
ting and quarreling with the Senate
about retrenchment. What / have said
is sufficient to show you that the obstac
les in the way of retrenchment lie with
the Republican party-the powerful lead
ers of the party, There is great, ur-
gent need of retrenchment in the expen-
dimres of the Government, No nation
can get back to resumption, to restora-
ton of its credit when it is in debt, ex-
cept by retrenching expenditures. 1t is
the first step for a nation, as it is with an
individual if in debt, to cut down expen-
ditures and saye enough Of revenues to
prepare for recovery. ->.
But these gentlemen say they will re-
form themselves. General Garfield says:
I'VE will punish our own rascals !" Not
very fast. Laughter,] Not very severely.
Can you trust them to do it? NOT
Governor Hayes will come in there if he
comes at all, which God forbid. TAP
Dlause. / have no doubt that he is a
nan of honest purpose; l know him well,
and respect him-a man of exemplary
character; of that sort of quiescent tenn
Derament that don't care to be quarreling
With anybody-has never disturbed any
body aggressively. As Governor of our
)wn State. very respectable; he signs all
he commissions ofnotaries public, have
no doubt with firmness and distinctpess.
Laughter.] l have no doubt he goes
around to the benevolent institutions pc
and looks through them all
amiably and kindly. Governor Hayes
come in contact with the lords of the Sc
nate Why, what is it? He stand up
and say to Logan, to Morton and to Conk-
ling and Cameron, "Get out Of the way
clear out from the department and let
honest men cone imp Governor Hayes
cannot get his Cabinet officers except
with the approva! of Logan and Morton
and Cameron and that class of men.
Applause. He take hold of these mon
sters of corruption and LAY then Why,
they would laugh him to scorn. General
Grant, with all his prestige, came there
with plan of civil service reform, and
great many of the Democrats of the land
we're taken in-Eaton and Curtiss, that
class of men. They defed him and he
submitted. Is Governor Hayes greater
man than Grant? God knows he is a
better mani mean man that would
punish fraud if he had the power. | have
no question of that whatever. Reform
Why, a set of pickpockets,
thieves and scoundlers get together and
say LET us select our own leaders; elect
him and he will reform-we will reform
punish our own rascals, that
S the idea Now, let Governor Hayes
say to these dishonest men "quitW What
will be the answer2 Do you suppose
Logan and Morton will permit their men
whom they know to be dishonest to be
Ii missedP 1t is impossible for man
lDl6SS n6 HAS BOJ Ill6 aggressive duouI
lim and the will that disregards the per-
,onal or political afinities or obligations,
lnless he should be like Samuel j. Til
len of New York Prolonged applause
We have an example instructive in sa-
,red history. When the Divine Reform
or went into the temple and found there
he changers of money sitting and trad
ng in oxen, profaning the temple, what
lid he do? Leave them to reform them
selves to choose their own leader and
punish their own rascals2 Not at all, for
,he tables would remain there still, and
he abomination would have continued,
out he made scourge of small cords and
1rove them out o. the temple saying:
This house of our Father you have
made a den of thieves" Applause.
That meant reform. So when Tilden
shall be inaugurated President of the
United States he will make p scourge Of
small cords and drive these profane men
from the temple of our nation, who have
made it den of thieves, and disgraced
this temple of our fathers, and that will