New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-06-09
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
VIII.
VIII.
LETTER FROM GAIL HAMILTON.

peTNTNfFNTs-HR. STILLWEILS CASE.
=. me EDITOR Of The Tribune.
SIR: There is still athrd class of dametric oppo-
.it;cns through which We must beat down the col
puns of the newspapers in our mwearied search for
The trnth: Inconsistencies not malignant like the
first class. not of grave import like the seconds
slight. sometimes comical yet helping to vail the
truth Of facts and Completing the puzzle in which
We i've and move and have our being.
For instance. there seems to have entered since
The 4th Of March new element into our polity, in
deteminate hut incessant. intangible but ubiQuit-
ous ineffective vet powerful, unsubstantial as
Nilton's death-what seemed his head, the likeness
of kngly crown had on, and men called 1t Stanley
Matthews When this phenomenon first met our
eyes in the rural districts il seemed bigger than
mans hand wrestling bis Congressional chair from
Mr. Banning and nesting in modest corners of the
reform newspapers as Mrs. Hayess brother Josephs
vifes husband: but like the Eastern genii unsealed
from their bottle. il doomed up as we gazed, and
strobe forth over the whole country Our Govern
mcnt which had hitherto existed in three depart
ments speedily took on a sort of fourth estate and
divided itself into the legislative, the executive, the
iudiclal. and Stanley Matthews There was an
angry buzz in South Carolina; Stanley Matthews
had been poking his stick into the nest.
There was scratching behind the arras IN
Louisiana Stanley Matthews had been scatter
lnW ratsDA2t anu sugar utll' pttihtIN oNoNN4'if
found his way into the Senate sweetly but securely
hedced up with roses; Stanley Matthews's head
popped up on the Senate side of the hedge. The
Southern Democrats sat sucking their thumbs
in SUSPICIOUS silence, while their Northern
brethren were their desks to count out
The electoral votes and 10 Stanley Matthews was DIS
tributng contingent nuts and candy in sealed cans
There was jar and hitch in the approaching extra
session of Congress; Stanley Matthews was tusgihg
az the brakes SO did this Little Busy Bee Improve
Each Shining Hour till an admlrlng nation came 10
put him in the same relation TO the President that
the old dvines considered Satan to bear to the Al
mighty. not equal in original power. but making
ND for il by an internal activity" As Stanley
Matthews had never been incorporated into the
Constitution and lacked the antiquity of common
law some people began 50 grow FESTIVE DeSpotlsm
tempered by assassination may be good enough form
Of government for Russia. but many American
citizens demurred at forsaking the pOty of the
fathers and forming themselves into Republic
tempered with by Stanley Matthews. Parliamentary
government has its drawbacks but even the
chronic grHmblers were hardly prepared to abolish
Congress and establish Patriarchy under the
Federal Headshp of this Complete Letter-Wntor
Our Constitution is the work of human reason and
therefore liable 10 error: but here and there may be
fouud aman who would be 10th TO the grand
old words: 1--WE the people of the United states, III
order 10 form more perfect union, establish Justlce
insure domestic tranquility provide Tor the common
defense promote the general welfare and secure the
blessings Of liberty 10 ourselves and our postenty,
do ordain and establish tins Constitution Tor the
Unred States of America and 10 substitute there
for. 4" l. Stanley Matthew'S desire 10 say that can
assure you. the people, In the strongest possible
manner Of my great desire TO have my sisters nus
bands sisters husband DO right ard 10 say further
him and his views have the most complete conf
dence that such viii be the case"
Not so our newspapers. They gamboed under his
yoke as game s0nely as If their necks had been
originally curved for that wearing Object to the
Chamberlain letter Not tbeyl IL was only that
amoe-hill was magnifed into mountainous proper |
tionsr AS prominent Republican Mr. Matthews
had perfect night TO make any suggestion IN the
premises he saw lit, without leading Gov. Chamber
lain or anybody else to regard President Hayes
administration as complicated thereby UnqMs-
tionably; only why does the same journal, a Iew
DAYS after. when Stanley Matthews had been nomi-
mated for Senator. declare that his selection " III
yolved a special tribute TO President Hayes, and an
emphatie Endorsement of his reconciliation policy
Mr. Matthews standing ia such intimate personal
relations with the President, and being so promi-
neatly identified with the new policy that ms re-
lection might have looked ike distrust on The part
Of his own Slater What sort Of political
prestidi citation : il that makes Stanley Matthews
at one moment such Samese twin TO the President
that reject him il dstrust the President ana at
another moment entirely divorced from the
President that to suspect the slightest complication
betweenthen is a mere phantom OF the imagination
First upon the heel tap Then upon the toe;
Wheel abont and tmn about-but which position
faces the truth when the Jig ie upT
STANLEY Matthews Worried About the Extra
Session i. the pathetic headline with which one Of
our Boston Reformers leads al It's Geographic dis
patches Il strangely negIects to bulletin the exact
degree of his worriment, and left ~ painful
suspense A. W whether he only IN The first stage
of irritation or the last stage Of insomnia. But
word of the wise men Of Boston is sufficient. A
grateful country viii instantly muiIie IT'S Il o'clock
bells bury is drvcways IN tan, and feed out TO
STANLEY Matthews celery by day and chloral by
night 10 soo.he his agitated nerves. grateful
country. do sayi Boston alone. apparently could
Gull from her newspaper Offices nurses enough TO
take him through brain fever and crave OK Heaven
DO higher boon. What Is an Extra Session thot II
should stand in the way Of Stanley Matthew's
peace Of mindi Extra Sessions grow N every bush,
bat here is Century Plant-pcrAaps, considering
the occult and continuous character of it, processes
we might more properly call II Night-Bio0mine
Serie~-upOn whose like We may never look again.
II has taken tins Republic hundred years To- Flower
in Stanley Matthews and shall rude CoNeressmcn
scatter , tender petals at their first biossoinugf
No. Ifthe soldiers want money. there are plenty
Of bankers in Nev-YoEk 10 discount their pay
vouchers and 500 are a. good as I0o Tor the vaga-
bonds. ia .ime of peace. No. Laws NAV stretch and
ulbiers resign asd the discharged soldiers truGge
home afoot. bat when our eyes shall be turned to
lb.tI f,r tho last ft, fa- SIN ia heaven let their