Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07

Mr.. l.. ID. INGERsoLL, q Washing
ton correspondent well known to the
COURIER readers as "Linkensale," has
been an ardent supporter of the Pres
idents policy, but he writes thus to
the Register:
THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
This is the headquarters of civil
service reform, par excellence and
with capital letters. Yet there has
been appointed an Assistant Secreta-
ry who is notoriously incompetent,
mere clerk put in q place where q
statesman belongs. There has been
named o Solicitor who is clever
young man, but q mere law student
and the place is one of vast impOr-
lance which requires an able and ex-
perienced lawyer to fill il well The
Senate ought 10 reject both Of these
men; must do SO or make civil SER
vice reform q burlesque and most gro-
tesque sham. If 1.-THE of what is
said against the new Indian Commits
sioner is true, he ought to be reject
ed out of hand but of this know
nothing.
1t thus happens that the methods of
the Administration which are SO dis
tasteful to the republicans, are most
of all illustrated in the Interior De-
partment. There let the Senatorial
axe fall. Let these men, who surely
ought to be rejected, be rejected at
once. The President cannot find
fault with the rejection of such men,
nor will such action be subject to the
objection of partisanship, for the men
all happen to be republicans. But
that action will be tantamount to q
vote of want of confluence in Carl
Schurz, and he will be forced by q
sense Of propriety to step down and
out Of a Cabinet position. That alone
would have q powerful influence, al
most irresistible, in bringing the re-
publican party of the nation again in
to harmony, SO intense and universal
has become the unpopularity of Mr..
Schurz.e
And thus, in brief, is the plan now
largely considered by which to inau-
gurate blessed policy, demanded by
the best interests of the nation-the
policy of republican pacification.--
With Carl Schurtz out of the Cabinet
the disliked methods Of the Admins
tration are at once gone, for he is
their author, their guide, philosopher
and friend. 1t is potently demanded
that he be permitted to stand no long
er completely blockading the way 10
successful republican pacification, 10
q successful republican administra-
ton.
trust may be excused for saying
that / personally take no part in the
war that 10 being made ON kCarl
Schurz. l have been his devoted
friend for many years, and hold his
genius and character in the highest
estimation. But am bound to ad-
NIT that his Assistant Secretary and
Solicitor are great and inexcusable
plumbers. l am also bound to say
that when one man stands in tho way
Of republican pacification at time
like this, when that pacification must
come or the government be delivered
over substancialy into the hand Of
Bourbon Democracy. he must be re-
moved out OF the way. That must be
done or the Republic must meet with
a dark and terrible calamity. 1t is,
therefore, q time for all republicans
70 speak out, and for the public men
Oh the party to act, not in . spirit Of
Dravado, but with that manly, fcar-
less spirit appropriate to men repre-
senting the principles upon which the
country has twice been saved and
which cannot now be overturned ak.
cept ON the ruins of the political
organization in which the best homes
of civilization and of human prorress
are necessarily centered.
LINKENsALF.