The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-10-04
MORE OF HA YESS CIVIL SER VICE
REFORM.

Some people may have been fooled
with Hayes and ohn.sherman and Carl
schurz's professions in favor Ct Civil Ser
vice Reform but some were not 30 fool
ed. We are not disappointed in anything
now going ON. The Ohio clerks and Of
ficials at Washington, in the Government
service, are now rolling home to take an
active part in the coming election in this
State. And Of course their pay goes on
all the same. This is only a little more
of Hayes's Civil Service Reform
The claim was, that Hayes is 30 nice a
man, that he had resolved to break the
habit of United States officials leaving
their business to go and control State
and other elections. A dispatch, last
week, referring to meeting of Ohio
clerks at Washington on Tuesday, held
under the authority Of John Sherman,
says:
A committee was appointed to ascer-
tain the counties and townships in which
the various Ohio clerks reside, and in re-
gard to certain counties an effort will be
made to secure the votes of the clerks
residing there, these being the counties
in which the contest over the Legislative
ticket is supposed to be close. In a num-
ber of counties it was agreed that the
votes of the clerks were not needed, as
the Republican majority was quite sutfi-
cient, and it was decided that clerks who
reside in these counties should be re-
quested to contribute o sum equal to at
least the expense of trip home to vote,
for general campaign expenses. 1t was
also agreed that general effort should
be made to raise funds among the clerks
for the use ofthe State campaign.
During the meeting, according to the
New York Evening Post:
General Grosvner, the Speaker of
the Ohio House of Representatives, made
some remarks, in which he said the con-
dition ofaffairs in Ohio was very critical,
that there was grave danger that the
Democrats would carry the State, and
that in this emergency he had been del
egated by the Republican State Commit
tee to come 10 Washington and urge all
citizens of Ohio to go home and vote in
October, and to raise money to defray the
expenses of the campaign; that every Of
fiCeholder ought to 60, and, if not dispo.
sed to do so, ought to contribute literally
to defray the expenses Of those who are
willing to go. Other Speakers followed,
all urging the Importance of every voter
casting his ballot next month.
Attention was called to the fact that
the Presidents order forbids federal Off
GERS from taking an active part in poll
tics, and also that the rule allowing ten
days election leave to government clerks
had been abrogated,
Gen. Smith, Appointment Clerk of the
Treasury, then made brief speech, say
ing that, although the administration
had decided some time ago to stop grant
ing leave of absence for elections, he was
authorized to say now that every clerk
who desired to go home to vote would be
allowed from FIVE to seven days, which
would be charged against him.
This needs no comment, and is about
on par with Civil Service Reform, Illus
trated by Hayes, in appointing to lucra-
tive Federal Offices the sCoundrels in
Florida and Louisiana who stole the
Presidency by forgery and perjury. EO'
cry one of these uillain8 has been perlsiooed
on the Federal Treasury By Hayes. For
downright cant and:hypocrisy old Wells's
creation is hard to beat, especially when
he takes the Civil Service Reform tack.