The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-30

bill WIS under consideration, Senator
George F. Edmunds proposed an amend
ment thereto so that 1t should be provided
by law that all appointments In all the ex-
ecutive departments of the government
" shall be made upon careful and i'm
partial examination of the candidate
therefor by board composed of not less
" than five persons, TO be appointed by the
president, ly and with the advice and
consent of the senate and the most ca
examined shall be selected for such sp-
polntments" The democracy have the
control of the house, and, had they joined
with the republicans, this practical meas
ure of civil service reform might have been
adopt, d and become the law of the land.
or the responsibility for its defeat would
have been thrown upon the president. But
what did the democracy dop Why, every
democratic senator save one who voted on
the question, recorded his vote against it.
Was the democracy possessed of dim
hope that Samut4N). Tilden might be the
next president, and, therefore, 1t was
deemed undesirable TO tie his hands and
destroy democratic victory of all partic-
ular force by providing that only compe-
tent men should hold office in the several
executive departments 1t looks very
much like it, and here we have the demo-
cratic idea of civil service reform-'tuin
republicans out of office so as to make
"room for famishipg democrats"
How in the platform on the currency
question? Here, too, reform is demanded,
aud Tilden is to give Us the reform, but
nowp BY carrying out TO its fullest extent
he New York democratic platform that
there thil be N, step backward in re
.uming specie payments3 Not at all. The
lmmt date and uncy additional repeal of the
resumption act is demanded, and while
saying nothing against initiation, they do
| declare against any contraction of the cur
rency, or any withdrawal Of the legal ten
der circulation. 1t is platform that every
rag-moneyite, like William Allen and the
remainder of the Ohio and Indiana demo.
Gratis, can heartily subscribe to, while pro-
testing against its timidity. 1t means
neither specie resumption nor imitation, and
while an honest hard-money democra,
must slile his convictions in order &c
stand upon it, az in1a;ionist can labor fol-
The indefinite expansion of the currency
the practical reputation of the nations
promises, ard the indefinite postponemeni
of the day for the resumption Of specie
payment, and yet stand squarely on the
platform.
The remainder Of the platform is merely
demagogueism-as, in fact, is the whole o.
it. Ii demands the passage of laws which
shall prevent the immigration of the Chi
nese. 1t proclaims the democracy in favor
| of observance of church and state anC
for free non sectarian, public schools, bu
lays that the states must settle this matter
without troubling the nation with it-tha
is to say, the democrats of a state may
establish religion and divert the public
funds to the support of sectarisn schools
without loosing caste in the party thereby
1t holds to the equality of all citizens be
fore the law, but has not word to Say
IT lative to the manifest disposition of The
pou,hern democracy to resist forcibly any
uch equality. 1t arraigns the republican
priy for not providing, by treaty, for thu
protection of naturalized citizens of tn,
United Sta.es while temporarily visiting
the Country of their birth, while it has, il
fact, SO provided.
IL arraigns the republican party for
large increase Of expenditures and taxa
on, seemingly unmiudtEl of the fact tina
this increase is solely due to re
oellon on the part of portion of thu
dem ocratic party ard its attempt to de
roy the Union. But it reaches the high
f absurdiy when it charges the republi
can party with extravaganza and corrup
ton ia collecting and paying out the pub
lie revenue, when it is fact that the defal
cations in objections under democratl
rule averaged two dollars and nine cents t
every thousand d. liars collected, and
under republican rule, only thirty-fou
cents for every thousand dollars and tina
the democratic defalcations in dsburst
ments were at the rate of nine dollar
and two cents per thousand dollars
only seventy-eight cents per thousand do
ars under republican administrations. TIL
pla form is as smooth as oil and as deceit