The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-02
PARTY mANlPULATORS CIVIL
SERVICE REFORM.

President Hayes's civil service
order has fallen like a bomb shell
within the ranks of political parties.
The divorcing of ofiiceholdIng from
political wire pulling is blow which
party managers are unable to en-
dure. These self-constituted in
dispensables to the very life of
oorIlr.,,>;t;As and nf si~L-- -
the nation, these dealers in public
pap, these engineers of public plunder,
see in this reformation of MIR. Hayes
that their studied occupation is gone.
The axe has been laid at the root of q
great evil, and it is proposed to lay
the rank growth of q century PROSTATE.
Hereafter, if to the victors belong the
spoils, spoilers will find it difficult to
again become the victors, for partyism
once separated from civil service be-
comes too popular to be disregard
ed for the future. The contemplation
of government within these United
States, based upon such ideas, is too
novel to lead to a most confidential
conclusion, but when such doctrines
are promulgated and made operative
it becomes the duty of every citizen,
loving country more than he does par
ty, to assist in the achievement Of ends
so much desired. The country has
done itself but little credit, especially
in the last fifteen or twenty years, in
the management of both home and
foreign affairs, and had not a check
been placed upon the manner in which
they have been administered, in all
probability the nation would have sue
cumbed before the weight of q corrupt
and extravagant regime. The STATES
MAN has all the time honestly believed
that affairs could not and would not
have been mended with Mr.. Tilden as
President, for along with his lnaugu-
ration would have come the clamor
of hundred thousand Office
seekers, eagerly intent upon ap-
propriating the places of q hun
dred thousand ofiiceholders; party
lines would have been drawn; the
axe would have fallen each day up
on the necks of thousands; strife
would have resulted, and the country
would probably have been in a more
deplorable condition than when Grant
domineered over it. The Chattanooga
DiSpateh, commenting upon similar
questions, says:
Hayes was a godsend, and was not
sent q moment too soon. We have
probably to-day the cleanest, most re-
spectacle, intelligent and honest civil
service seen since the days of Monroe's
presidency; certainly since the ma
chiuery was demoraiized by William
L. Marcy's rascslly motto, adopted and
enforced by jackson, "To the victors
belong the spoils."
This policy reached its grand climax
under Grant, by whom il was revised
and improved, so as to Hsrsce III.
whole blood royal, aAd i. Is the bal p>
termination Of this theory Of paty
age which Is receiving tae
hearty approval OF the masses.
A gentleman who has lately travelled
through much of the Union tells that
everywhere words of approval are ut
tered in favor Of the man who, regard
less of party obligation, thus serves
the public, and none can doubt thai
the people viii sustain him against
violent party managers in his laudabls
undertaking. The true theory in gov
eminent ought to be that those hold
ing Offices should serve the govern
ment with the same devotion to dut,
that is demanded in private business
There should be no divided service il
anything, for along with it comes inofh
cheney and failure. The system inau
gurated by Mr.. Hayes hould Do rub
in both NATIONAL and state administra
tions.