New-York tribune., 1878-03-06

lent trim, along comes the uncultivated Beard,
who must have his ideas also taught
how to. shoot This, the anti-Simmons
| newspapers think to be rather rough on
| Fisk and some Of them are Indignantly and
seriously asking, if a change was to be made
| why Fisk, the able, the accomplished the
honest and the experienced, was not noini-
| mated instead of Beard, who knows nothing
about Custom House business and has every
| thing to learn The goddess Of Civil Ser
vice Reform, they say, if it has goddess
evidently pointed her discriminating and judi
| cial finger ut Fisk, and demanded his appoint
ment. Alas he does not seem to have Deeh
until now so much as thought Of NO COM
mttees went to Washington In behaif OF
| Fisk. No petitions were circulated entIeat-
| ing the President to nominate FISK. MI
merOus as the Republican factions are III Bos-
ton, we have yet to hear of Fisk faction.
| The able and experienced Fisk did well
enough for a Deputy Collector, but nobody
| could be thought of for full blown Col
lectOr except some gentleman who had been
an active Republican politician Hence Col
| lector Beard. Hence Deputy Fisk is deputy
still, as well as fag. Overseer and really the
| head man of the Boston Custom House.
We should not have thought it worth while
| to mention this matter were it not for the TACT
that in most of the public offices OF this Re
public there are Fisks. Sometimes they are
| called deputies, sometimes assistants, some
times clerks sometimes they don't call them
| anything or say anything about them. Ihey
are generally solid old fellows, who have been
toiling away for years in Custom Houses ana
Post Offices and Departments, doing first-rate
work. and building up an excellent reputation
Gn the ofiice) for ability and honesty. The
oddity of it all is, that nobody ever thinks of
promoting them, They grow gray and they
grow bald. They put on spectacles. 1hey De-
come round -shoudered at their desks in the
service Of the United States of America. ihey
survive all sorts of political revolutions. No
new Administration ever ventures to turn
them out. Some of them were appointed so
long ago that it would be necessary to search
the record to find out who appointed them.
They seem to be of no party. They figure IN
no caucus. But capital old public function
aries they arc-these Fisks!
OF course it never was within the bounds OF
possibility that the able Deputy in Boston
| should be made Collector, vice Simmons.
| They went on with their manGuvrngs
and petitionings and manipuatinSs, and
their "seeing" of this man and their
button-hOling of that; but they didn't
say a word about poor Fisk, coniessedly
| the ablest man IN all Massachusetts for the
Collectorship-they thought that they had done
enough for Fisk when they didn't turn him
out to grass in his old age o yes! they
kindly sad that Mr.. Fisk might be Collector
pro TEN. for few days, while Mr. Beard was
getting bis bonds ready We shall believe
much more heartily in the probability OF Civil
Service Reform when we find the honesty,
skill, Intelligence, knowledge and assiduity OF
the Fisks fully recognized, and their posses
sors thought worthy Of promotion, without re-
gard TO political expediency.