The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-09-07
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WANTED" REFORM,
Speech of Hon. George W. Julian,
AT INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 20.
The National Canvass From the Liberal
Standpoint.
I ExTR ACTs.l

II cannot be denied that soon after the
last inauguration civil service became a
more glaring political mockery than ever
before. The enforcement of the rules
framed by the Commission was only an
occasional event, while their suspension
was the order of the day. Governor
Holden, of North Carolina, who was
impeached, convicted and rendered in
capable of holding any Office, was made
Postmaster at the capital of that State
Sharpe, brother-in-law of the President,
was appointed surveyor of the port OF
New York, just rs if no civil service rules
had ever been heard Of Cramer, anoth-
er brotherin-law who had disgraced our
diplomatic service during the previous
Administration, was appointed by the
President, and confirmed by the Senate,
as naval officer at New Orleans. Broth
er-in-law Casey, who had taken on board
a government vessel the Grant members
of the Louisiana Legislature, tc protect
them from arrest, and prevent a majority
of that body flom proceeding to busi'
ness, because the political interests Of
the President demanded this awlessness,
and who stood before the country thatch-
ell with political corruption, was reap
pointed and confirmed as collector fthe
mort of New Orleans. Even George Will
liam Curtis, so long hoping against hope,
and 80 faithfully clinging to the Presi-
dent through thick and thin, was at last
obliged to resign his position in disgust
and to declare that the appointments Of
the President showed IAN utter aban-
donment of both the letter and spirit Of
civil service regulations" About the
same time Peter Cooper wrote a most
earnest and friendly letter to the Presi-
dent, begging him to rescue the city and
State of New York from the Custom
House rogues who had so long disgraced
the civil service and defed the people,
But the President seemed entirely un'
conscious that anything was going amiss.
At the bidding of Senator Morton he re-
moved Captain Brown from the Pension
Agency of Indiana, a wounded soldier
and faithful officer, and appointed i'll
his place General Terrell, whose moral
unitness for he place is too well known
to be characterized When Congress
abolished the government of the District
of Columbia, in order to get rid Of Boss
Shepherd, who stood revealed as dis
graced public swindler, the President
Immediately appointed him one of the
Commissioners of the new District goY
ernment. When the safe burglary Grim
inals were on trial, the machinery of the
District Attorneys Office was employed
to cheat public justice, and the President
pending the trial. made most remarka
ble demonstration on the jury by invi.
ting one of the defendants to join COM
pany of distinguished guests in feast at
the White House. Grantism pure and
simple, finds no better illustration than
in the case of Orville Grant. He asked
his brother to let him know when any
thing under his control should transpire
by which he (Orville) could make some
money. The President thought it right
to crafty him, and proceeded to desig-
nate certain posttraderships which he
might control, not because the incum-
bents of the places were incompetent or
unworthy, but that 0rville should have
the profits, either by levying blackmail
upon them as the price Of their retention
or by removal, ifthey should refuse to be
bled The Department of Justice was
digraCed by continuing in office Attorney
General Williams year and half after
it had been proved that he had appro-
priated the public revenue to the private
Use cf himself and family; and this same
Attorney General was afteward appoint
ed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States The real working
of "the best civil service on the planet"
and "the purest and best Administration
this country has ever had" is made
beautifully manifest in the conviction of
the Secretary of War on his own confess
sion, of making merchandise of the post
traderships under his control, while the
President, who had the knowledge of
his criminal acts four years ago, accepts
his resignation with regret" and with
such surprising promptness as to prevent
his legal conviction of high crimes and
misdemeanors by the Senate, The Pres
ident stood by Secretary Delano in his
disgraCeful performances involving the
management of Indian affairs, till forced
by public opinion to give him up, and
then "vindicated" him by his customary
farewell letter of approval. By one Of
those accidents that have now and then
checkered his Administration, he APP
pointed Bristow as his Secretary Of the
Treasury; and after the work Of hunting
down and bringing to justice the whisky
thieves had been resolved upon by the
new Secretary, and while the brave
words, "Let no guilty man escape" were
winning the plaudits of the people, and
finding their way into party platforms as
tue watChwords of reform, the President
himself was drawing from the Secretary
and his subordinates whatever informa-
ton his high and trusted position could
command relative to his friend Babcock,
and placing in the hands Of his attorneys
for no other apparent purpose than that
of securing his acquittal, and defeating
the execution of the laws he was sworn
to support. According to the sworn test
imony of men of high character, he had
no sooner discovered that Bristow was
the enemy of thieves than he resolved
upon his removal; and although his pur-
pose.was temporarily delayed, it was not
defeated. He seems to have demanded
the head of Bluford Wilson for kindred
reasons The decapitation of Yaryan
was another sacrifice to men who deser-
we'd to be clad in prison stripes Pratt
had to walk the plank because he spoke
friendly word for Yaryan, and was be-
lieved to be an honest man. Dyer was
Obliged TO bite the dust for no reason
known to the public, which will natu
rally infer that his sole offense was his
refusal to prostitute his Office to the use
of the guilty. Henderson was stricken
down for no other discoverable reason
than that the courageous performance of
his officiaI duty threatened to involve
the White House, or such idolized friends
of the President as Gen. BabCock. II
Jewell was not dismissed from the Cabi-
net because he was the friend Of Bristow
aud his ro-wOrkpr in reform then the