Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-07-11

perry customer. Tho talc which
Packard has told about the method b,
EEsss'psM~SN5aHHNSO'
orship or Lot Ina, the N.sceptior
which was praotised upon the conGd
ing Garfield, the double-dealing by
which Pitkin suffered, the mysterious
trick by means of which Boxer rc,
signed without knowing it--sil these
things prove that the President has
great skill in political chicanery. His
declarations and practice in regard tc
civil service reform are noat specimens
Of his ability in making promises and
avoiding their performance. His
pledges Of non -partisanship in appoint
ments and immunity from remova
during good behavior were made and
rcpestcd until tho people actually pu,
faith In them but he was not long in
power before he modified his origina
opinions so far as to say that mar
who had hold a Federal Office for cigh,
years should be considered as entitled
to no further government patronage
This rule is simply the old one for the
distribution Of spoils every tour years
modified by doubling the length of the
Office holders term 1t is merely the
old theory Of rotation with new ap
plication. Such principle is directly
opposed to the so-called reform con.
templated by such men as Scburz and
Eaton, which aims at erecting the
Office. holders Of the country into o
permanent class, with life tenures,
and modelling the civil service of the
republic alter the systems Of bureau.
cracy in voguein the Old World, where
political aristocracy is the natural re-
suit Of social aristocracy. AS many Of
the best places under the Government
are in the possession Of men who have
held them throughout both terms Of
General Grant, and not a few are oc.
cupied by old appointees Of Lincoln,
the President probably thought that
his eight-year rule would put oil the
plunder at his disposal which he would
require in carrying on his political
schemes for change of base but il
seems he was mistaken, and new
modification Of his views on the sub
ject of the proper duration of an
officials term of public service has
been announced. If the Washington
correspondent of the Eveniag Post 10 to
be believed--and he sometimes deviates
into truth-Mr. Hayes now asserts
that foreign ministers and consuls
oughtnot to bc allowed to serve abroad
more than four years. AT the end of
that time they should, in his opinion,
be willing 10 return to their own
country, and he is determined that
none of the gentlemen sent on diplo-
matte or commercial service by General
Grant shall be exposed beyond the
period of forty.eight months to the
Establishments of principalities and
powers in Europe or elsewhere. His
reasons for this sapient conclusion are
not given, but they may bc imagined.
We have had some representatives
abroad who became 80 enamored OF
he institutions and customs of other
peoples that they acquired contempt
or the institutions and customs of
America. They grew old in Italy or
England or Holland, and their children
we're born and bred in those countries.
md untitled forrepublican life. They
became 30 accustomed To- courts that
hey lost the full stature of American
citizenship and were dwarfed into mere
lunkeys. With the example of such
Unfortunate men before him Mr.. Hayes
s determined to rescue oil their asso-
'iates or successors from danger. He
,robably thinks that 1t will be safe to
xpose even q native Of Ohio for q
'eriod longer than will suffice to give
lin taste Of foreign life without OBJ
iterating the SAVIOR Of Cincinnati pork |
nd whiskey. How sad II would be
o have the gushing Pennsylvania |
,oet return 10 us from Russia con-
umer OF tallow candles, or the sanity |
Maynard retire from Constantinople
With q caravan of Circassian and
ieorgian damsels on his train, or the
imple minded Pierrepont quit London
With all bis aspirates as well as his
'spirations mingled in hopeless con-
usion Perish the thought Let
hese and the other titanic sons of the
New World, when wearied with their
'ontact with old social habits and old |
systems, come back to touch |
heir native earth and be renewed and |
trengthencd with republican vigor.
Mr.. Hayes doubtless looks at the mat
or in this light; but We suppose the
,ivil.service reformers will not fail to |
impress upon him the fact that the
onger a man serves in a foreign coun.
ry, mastering its customs, language
md policy, the filter ho will be to rep
escnt his Government there. After
hcy wrestle with him for a while in
'rayerful argument and find that his
moral jacket has, SO to speak, slipped
'ver his shoulders, and that they are
Exhausted and beaten, they must posi-
ly have enough Of vigor left to say
omething to the purpose concerning
heir pious but oily antagonist.--Nec
York World.
PAcKARD's LAsr.-Mr. Packard Of
'ew Orleans was besiegedby aswarm
{ newspaper reporters in Cincinnati,
ut they all succeeded in extracting
othing from him save that his trip
North has no political Significance