The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-09-08

| l. quite common for the DOorkeeper to
say, 1 cannot give Pennsylvania. for
example, 50 many places and the del
egatiOn, Or rather the Pennsylvania
democratic members. get together and
after grave deliberation, or light and
agile ''scrimmage, or more frequently
the casting of lots, the II emb RS Tor
whom the sOEteS leap forth, not from
helmet, but from Gilapidated plug hat
announce to the DoOrkeeper the names
which are TO be put down for a Gov
ernment stipend. The appointing Off
GERS, to fulfill schemes of their own. or
to show favori:ism TO particular friends
are compelled TO resort to all kinds OF
tricks and subterfuges, such, for in
stance, as placing on the rolls rs frou
one State persons really residents of
another One of FitzhUgh's difficult
ties arose from trying 10 play these
tricks and getting canght at it, and
the Postmaster was subject TO great
complaint in the first part of the session
because he had taken his subordinates
too largely from one State.
1t will be observed from this manner
of making the appointments the whol-,
democratic party, through the great
body of its most freshly chosen repre-
sentatives, has been displaying itself.
, Mistakes in the system or III the de
tails of its administration cannot be
shifted upon individuals, for the great
body of the democracy has been en-
gagged in tie work.
! III regard to the administration OF
the offices great deal might be written.
Much of the delay in getting the House
in working order, by which in the first
two months of the session not solid
weeks work was accomplished, is
attributed TO the greenness and iueffi
cheney of the officers. In no depart
nent was the work well done. Ere
quent blunders were made i'll keeping
the record, so that members for the
| first time in many years felt compelled
to listen each morning to the reading
of the Journal. The assistant door
keepers could not find the members
when on the floor, and persons sending
in cards sometimes had to wait hours
| for an answer. This trouble could
have been avoided by retaining for n
time some of the old dOorkeepers.
Members could not get a report or bill
from the document room without great
trouble and delay. They were stitied
and made sick by bad ventilation be
cause of an inexperienced engineer.
The Sergeant alarms in one instance
put a reputable citizen under arrest as
a witness without authority or warrant.
Blunders-Rot to use q hhsssssl; hhsassEsslh; term term
have been common in all the branches
of service, and it is only few days since
one of Clerk Adams's subordin6tes en-
rolled bill which had been passed by
both Houses, an important bill OH
straw bidding, in such manner as to
render the action of Congress null and
void.
Thus much in relation to the general
manner of ''reform" appointments and
administration as exhibited by the
democratic party through it's represen-
tatives in the House. Specific state
ments are always TO be preferred to
generalities, and the facts and records
quoted below will command attention,
which need not therefore be invited.
They afford material for extensive gen
civilizations. which readers will not fail
to make. They afford food for thought
grayer and more earnest than need be
expended upon a merely partisan ex-
hibit of facts. The patriot, the honest
politician, and the real reformer may
we'll pause to consider whet Ter any
more of the same kind of "reform is
necessary" or desirable, or likely to be
advantageous to the country.
One OF the most striking facts shown
by the record is the utter adherence
, which the democratic party, through
; |
UEiOn soldiers and the love of those
who bore arms against tine Republic
: No prUtestations of loyalty viii! stand
against such a record of Union soldiers
dismissed and rebel soldiers appointed.
On this point little need be said. The
list of names shall tell their own story
? The column on the left hand csntains
the names of employees discharged,
and the column on the right those APP
pointed. The Union soldiers discharg-
E ed have their names printed in small
capital letters. The names Of confed
crates appointed are in italics. A star
. designates the Union soldiers who
s were disabled by wounds received in
I the service:
: OFFICERS REMOVED AND APPOINTED BY TIIE
DEMOCRATIC HOUSE.
In the Clerks ODIee.
!, OFFICERS REMOVED. OFFICERS APPoIS' d
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