The Portland daily press., 1877-08-08

young you Ion pay game of this sort on the Republic
Sant and yfibt WI te tne oounden duty Of the Presi
uenC anu OaOnet 10 remove from office every treach-
erous Cameronian in the State who contrjbntes to
sn sIcn results and & to ll their places with different
the best policy even In politics."
We, who are yet in the gall of Renunlic.n
bitterness and the bonds OF political iniouity
need special Divine Revelation to explain how
1t is going to teach this. The Reformers do
not accuse the "henchmen" of any treachery
against the President except cursing him with
ms granted prayer. The President orders them
it is the Presidents bounden dutv to remove
them from office also! The different class of
men he IS to put in Is of course men who will
save the Republican party in Pennsylvania.
AGAIN an Alabama gentleman ''who ex-
presses forcibly the sentiments of the best class
OF Southern Republicans" addresses the Presi-
dent: 10 be true to your policy of pacifcaton
aud reform, you must be true to the friends of
that policy. The retention an office of those who
are aHdtterent TO The success Of your policy or an
absolute impediment to its success BY reason or
hostility to it or want of acceptability to the
people, can only result in its failure
But II politics are to be absolutely divorced
from once, what have the opinions of a Gus
toms CLERK regarding national policy to do
with adding up figures at his desk?
"As soon as Secretary Sherman returns from
ms Northern trip the question of suspendine
Eoiiectors Arthur of New YORK, and Tuition Of
Philadelphia will be brought before the Cabi-
net for consideration" Both of these collec-
Tors then were OF course found guilty of mall
teasance in office by the Investigating Commit
tees. On the contrary, so late as June "an
impression seemed to prevail among officials at
the treasury Department that Collector Tuition
OF Philadelphia had been successful in institute
ing many reforms thus far during his admins
tlon. Even his predecessor was an honest
aud in many respects efficient officer, but
lacked that experience and tact in the transac-
ton or public business which Mr.. Tntton has
brought to the position" Collector Arthur, SO
iar from being censured by his inquisitors was
deputed to form the committees which were to
carry out their suggestions. Reform. tact. ex.
perience why then are these officials to be
suspended? Oh! Some members of the Cabi-
net are OF the opinion that these officials are
Got IN sympathy with the Presidents CIVIL
Service Rules, and that they ought to be dis
placed by men in active and hearty accord with
the administration on this point"
30, after all, the felt want of this shrink
Ing, sensitive Administration is sympathy"
Ihe hnal fitness" for office is elective affinity.
IL IS not enough that man have honesty,
ability, tact and experience; the competitive
examination must ask him, as the exhorters
used to ask the convicted" in the old-fash-
lfned country revivals, ''how do you feel in your
mlndY The Administration can call into its
closet councils man who fought against the
country and voted against the party; harmony
In little matters like State Sovereignty is not
essential; but unless one heartily and actively
contempla the spectacle of an Administra-
ton turning outa faithful and capable clerk,
because his brother-in-law, or his cousin han,
pens also to be faithful and capable clerk, he
snali not so much as preside over a Custom
House. BY all means let us have ''sympathy.'
Secretary Schurz advocates the suspension
OF both of1clais on the ground that they repre-
sent the bad element in politics,
Mr.. Schurz believes that the men who ridcul.
the residents rule are not the right person to
make 1t a success"
In the competitive examinations which ara TO
determine fitness for office, will Mr.. Schurz tsll
US what is to Do the standard of the badness of
tne element which the competitor represents,
and OF the degree in which he represents Ii?
we can easily tell whether man knows the
multiplication table, the German dynasties,
the genealogies of David, but how shall we find
oao wnetner ne represents the good or the bad
element in politics? "Ridicule'' is the only
test mentioned by Mr.. Schurz in this dispatch.
Naughty collectors. Have they been laughing
at Mr.; Schurz? Have they been nudging each
other? Do they have sadden coughing-fit
when the good Secretary comes in? Away with
them! These are solemn times. What ia
there to laugh about, especially now that the
Rales nave decided to have it out with your
wlfes father but not TO hunt for nepotism un-.
der the bones OF your great-grandfather? No.
Let Mr. Arthur and Mr.. Tuition instantly and
permanently smooth down their faces, or 90
forth into the world, not with Mr.. Charles
Francis Adams's STAMP of fraud upon their
Dr0ws, because that has taken four years
lodging elsewhere, but branded with Secretary
Schurz, his mark: LHonanae Qui Ritz
And when, hand In hand with wandering
steps and slow, they take their solitary walk
from the Receipt of Customs, if still Mr..
Schurz hear through the summer softuess a
faint gurgle, a low and sudden smother of
sound, why, It's but the water tapping on the
crag, and the long ripple washing in the reedsl
L do not at all understand hat ILL.,
assessments are forbidden to be made upon of
hce-hoders. % the one hand they are repre-.
septed by Mr.. Carl Schurz as "an army of DO
lltical mercenaries living on public piunder;'
on me other, they are put by this order, into
the list OF minors, ipanpers, idiots and women
who are not able to defend their own rights but
must be protected by their superiors Neither
can be quite agreeable to the office-holder, but
both together are impossible. If raising mon
ey for political campaign be proper thing. /
do not SEQ why offi.e-holders should not be-
asked to contribute as well as people who are
not otice-holders. If raising money for a no.
htlcal campaign be an improper thing, do not
see why all those who knowingly spend and
use money 50 raised are not particeps criminis.
In the puolic papers have seen the statement
lterated and reiterated that Mr.. Schurz has
asked and received from the Republican State
Committee Of Pennsylvania 81 800 for making
single political speech thrice in political
campaign. have again and again heard il
stated as fact so current that no one thought
of denyingsit, that Mr.. Schruz habitually, as
regular business, charged, and charged yery
highly for his political speeches.; so that the
Sl, 900 he received in Pennsylvania was not ex-
cepnonal, was but small part of the gross re-
ceipts for all his years of stump-speakina
Where did Mr.. Schurz think this money
came from? Was it any worse for the Repub-
lcan state committee to ask a custom house
otficer to pay five dollars towardsj carrying the
Pennsylvania election, than it was for Mr
Schurz to ask the Republican state committee
VI 800 to put into lhis own pocket? All the par
tlsans, and politicians, and corruptionists that
L know make their. political speeches without
money and without price, and never even
ask to have their expenses paid. They help
along civ l service reform. at least to the ex-
tent that no clerk has to be assessed on their
account, no clerks money goes into their pock-
ets, and ten times what any clerk is even asked
to give goes out of their pockets into the gem
eral fund. 1t is not, I believe, the habit of
political speakers in the United States Of the
grade OF senators or cabinet officers to charge
their party associates for their efforts in a com
mon cause, and as civil service reformer Mr.
Schurz enjoys aud is said to deserve the reputa-
ton OF being alone in the business of selling
his voice at fixed price per hour in aid of the
Republican cause-a cause of which he is so
much more pure, unseltish and patriotic an
apostle than his compeers if we may believe
his Chamber of Commerce speech, that it ia
Only aiter bis own accession to place that the
can get an honest government Mr.. Schurz
has chosen to attack wantonly the feelings and
the pride of native-born Americans BY trayers-
ing the whole country, and for the sum of one
hundred dollars an evening, less or more, de-
nouncng the corraption and depravity of our
government and our people. With what Mr..
sumner would have called "a loose expectora-
ton OF speech he has characterized all office
holders as IAN army of political mercenaries."
But in that army of political mercenaries, the
hrst and highest corps, its Seventh regiment"
is composed, rank and file, private and officer.
of Mr.. Carl Schurz
l attribute no dishonor to Mr.. Schurz. do
rot say that he had not perfect right to de-
mand any sum whatever for his speeches; but
II Mr. William K Kembles assertion is true
that he paid Mr.. Schurz $500 a night for his
speech, Mr.. Schurz is certainly estopped from
characterizing Federal office holders no richer
than himself. as political mercenaries, because
they work for money, and not for love alone
NO one would quarrel with any honest man for
any honest way in which he may earn his bread
and butter but so long as Mr. Schurz puts into
his pocket thousands of dollars, q part of which
he cannot fail to know must have come from
the contributions of office-holders, while the
Secretary of State OF the late corrupt admin
lstration drew out Of his pocket hundreds of
dollars to save the poorer clerks of his depart.
ment from making contributions, it would be
becoming in Mr.. Schurz when next he ad-
dresses the Chamber of Commerce and the
Enl l.A@.