Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-07-12
How to Reform the Service

To the EfifOy If fhS Graphir--wss not Carl
Fall e Is75. when Rutherfori b. Hayes was chosen
Govern.r at Ohio over Bill AIlens II he so paid
partisans- snd how can these BE- xpacte to maintain
political ORGANIZATIONS and spend money for orators
and new papers they are not allowed TO take part
New York, july o RURAL.
IT is understood that Mr. Carl SchurZ was
paid, and very properly, for his services In
that important campaign. But the point OF
our correspondent Is well taken. There is a
TO conduct political campaigns, and that
machinery costs money. George William
Curtis, Mr.. Carl Schurz himself, Horace
White aud the other Civil Service refOrmers
are quite justified in everything they saw
against our present Civil Service, aud are
doing public service in demanding a refOr-
nation N the administration OF our Govern
ment. The business OF the public should be
done on business principles, and to effectth
stubborn fight remains yet To BE- fought.
1et IN the party contest IL il necessary that
some one should foot the bills. This is the
real problem. If the Government would
agree To print the tickets, and the state au-
thori-ies would allow the use of their school
houses IN the evening for political gather
tDgs, a considerable expense in politician
camIa igHs would be materially reduced.
Politicians are quite right in looking with
suspicion upon the efforts to totally change
our Civil service without some provision
being made To cheaper the cost of political
cOntests.-TN y. Graphic.
AS regards the reference to Mr.. Schurz in
the above, we may state on unquestiOnabIe
authority that ne did not receive anu COM
penSatiOn for his services; not even his ex-
penSes. Heidi not expect, nor would he &C
cept, any pay.
On the other point raised. IL is rather a per
picking problem how the requisite and legiti-
mate expenses Of carrying on political cam
paigns are to he met If office holders are not
To be assessed for the purpose; bat after all it
Will only result in putting the Gins and
"outs' on the same footing, and will to that
extent serve In give the popular will freer
exercise than when the money contributions
of the officials are thrown into the scale TO
help carry the elections.
1t is reported that Capt. Tyson, formerly of
the POlaris, has bought a vessel aud expects
to start on preliminary expedition towards
the north pole some time this month, to plant
colony at or near Disco, on the Greenland
coast. This will be done with the hope or
expectation that Congress at its next session
will authorize a government expedition to
make another effort to reach the pole In 1873
The opposition to squandering the money OF
the government In further adventures OF this
Kind Il becoming quite marked in many
respectable quarters. The New York Journal
OF Commerce comments TO the attention of
congressman who will be called upon to
vote for an appropriation, the narrative of
Capt Halls last expedition, which virtually
admits that human science, courage and
endurance reached about their climax in
that endeavor and fell back baffied. II they
then doubt the impracticsbility of raising
the American flag a. the north pole, let them
read Payers New Lands within the Arctic
Circle" being a record of the discoveries of
the Austrian ship Tegethof In the same
years when the luckless Polaris was on her
quest; also the report, when published, of
the last British Expedition. These, the Jour
mad thinks, will corrOborate the conclusion
10 which the most experienced Arctic navi-
gators have now arrived-that the OBSTACLES
between (abouf) latitude 50 degrees and the
pole are practically insuperable, and that to
fight against them longer is foolhardy and
useless.