, 1876-10-01
PROFESSION AND PRACTICE.

working out their themes upon ent1ieAy o1A-
ferent methods. The Democratic method ls
Ioud pretense the Republican method Is
ouiet but earnest and practical work 1ne
home politics of every community ofterR
fair basis Of comparison, for the reform
which the country needs is not more an I'M
in the system for organizing the
service of the General Government than the
elevation of local politics. To elect Presl-
dent heartily in favor Of Clv1-Service reform
will not help the States, counties, and cities
in their municipal governments, unless that
election likewise places better order OF men
in control of local politics, and dismisses for
good and all the hummer element that nus
attached itself to parties within the Last te"
wears. The sincerity and capacity for re-
form in either party may be best testeo'
therefore. bv the character of the men VINO
are put forward as its representatives IN
Congressional, Legislative, and municipal
Offices Let us take the politics OF chicago
and Cook County as q sample of the respect
i've merits of the Republican and Democraue
organizations as Reformers
The City Of Chicago, under the dominion
Of local clique, composed amost exclusively
of men who act with the Democratic party III
the interest Of sT11DEs and Reform" was
made almost bankrupt during an administra-
ton of about two years and half oy an un-
interrupted course Of extravaganza and pun
der. The credit Of the city was SO seriously
imnaired that money could not be borrowed
temporarily, either at home or abroad Inc
Denartments we're overrun with greedy bum
| mars and b1rnncles. The Council was noto-
rousIv corrupt. Ballot-box stufdng, on
| large scale and with almost unexampleo e1-
frontery, was practiced for the hrst tlme III
| this community The taxes were not col
lected and the vicious classes ran r1ot. Ihe
condition of affairs YVES SO desperate that the
Republican party organized as such to take
| chorpa of municipal affairs for the first tune
| in many years. In something like four
months complete revolution has been &C
complished under the Republican admins
tration of the city affairs. Asystematic plan
of retrencl4ment was inaugurated, which Is
almost completed. and which will save the tax
navers or proprietors OF the city about ~ per
cent of the expenditures laid out by the pre-
cedine Administration. Large numbers OF
the city employees who were left unpaid have
haan na;d for tie services rendered Some
of the floating debt unproV1ded tor has oeen
discharged. The credit of the city has been
so far restored that the Treasury warrants OF
the city drawn against the tax-levy OF 1876
are already quoted at premium. Com
mercial business has been improved BY the
restoration Of confidence in the management
Of the corporation, and there is not
property-owner or businessman IN chicago
who does not feel easier and more hopeful.
This. we think, may be called genuine anc
= nractical reform, end it has been accom'
nlished under the auspices Of The Repub'
lican party, and by the displacement OF th*
!, men who act with the Democratic party.
The Democratic party Of Cook County
I which has been loudest in its professions o
: a desire for reform, recently had simlla
opportunity for putting those profession
: into practice, and failed The necessity TO
4 sending intelligent and competent men t.
r the State Legislature was never NOR
apparent than now. Cook County wa
: never 80 much in need Of Legislative hell
AZ now. The embarrassments and compnca
+ions Of our revenue and tax laws are sue
+ that there are some SO, 600, 900 due the city
which will be lost forever unless the Legs
9 1ature shall come to our assistance. In
g collection of taxes will be inpeded as muc
s IN the future as in the past unless the Law
II are Strengthened out and simplited- In
l. work demands skill, knowledge of law, vii
E inqness to work, and personal 1ntegrlt.
% Cook County's interests demand especial
that the twenty-one Representatives az
II seven Senators sent to Springfield shall be
q a character to command respect and exc
e large influence in the Legislature. Known
d al this, the Democrats Of Cook County m
TO IN convention last Saturday and nominate
IL the most scurvy set of fellows ever named
ar connection with Legislative pos1tons,-
r notablv inefficient and scandnlous that eV'
a. +ha orpan of !" TuDEN and Reform prompt
SO renudiates the whole batch, with TWO
N threa exceptions, and demands that t
m namocratic Central Committee shall ia
It's the EyASsEs, H1cHE1s, KEARNEgs, DELANEY
LIB Sections, ESzENBAcHERs, and the res1' oy
Rn collar and breeches and toss them oV
m board. We hope for the sake OF
ne community, since the Democrats necessar
SO elect some Of the Legislators on the MINOR
III n1an. that the Democratic Committee y
IFS follow this advice. But what shall we
10 Of the Democratic pretense OF re1orn
OK when it is thus put to the test?
"e 4 political body is the sum OF Its com
nent parts; no better and no worse All
n obscure and disgraeeful fellows whom
m Democrats nominated for the Leg1slat
te from Cook County are vigorous shr1ekers
In "TupKs and Reform" All the men
rn- made up the Convention which put these
10 lows in nomination never tire IN howl
tha TuDrs and Reform" AL the bal!ot- =.
tho suffers and rogues who have been swann
"a the people at the polls and plunder'ng
ter public treasury in city and county are uni
CIV mons for TuDEN and Reform. Il no
,en nations were to be made this fall for the
mn offices and Council, there is no doubt
md the selections of the '' TnDEN and ke1or
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