Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-18
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE ON CIVIL
SERVICE REFORM

sage on Civil Service Reform, will probably
make the expected recommendation that mem
bers Of the Cabinet be allowed to have seats
upon the floor of the House of Representa-
tlves, and to participate in debates relative to
their departments He will not argue the
question, for the reason that the arguments
are pretty well known. He will content him
self with recommendations.
Coming from a President whose first dis
tinctiye act was to attempt the utter humilia-
ton and destruction of the Party that elected
him; whose treatment of the office holders of
the Republic was in the manner of detective
who was dealing with so many rogues, desert
ers, confidence men, and smugglers; whose
petty spirit of tyranny and ridiculous self i'm
portance led him to usurp the functions of an
autocrat, and treat those Senators whom him
self and his fellow traitors and marplots, did
not fear with an impoliteness born of igno-
rance, want of culture, and a total lack of the
gentler instincts of true manhood; man who
while pretending to accept as guides and rules
of action the soft, Utopian political vagaries of
a sentimental politician and cockney-bitten
Yankee poetaster, fooled that half guileless
half malignant man milliner with evaslons,
lies and downright, deliberate deceit man
who pretended to be loyal to the civil service
reform consisting of hair-parting, swallow
tailed coats, white neck kites, kids, knowl-
edge of the German and the f)ppish lisp of
college-spoilt, puppyish snob; man who is
sufficiently grandiferous ass to make the tour
he made last Fall with his intrusive wife, his
Tx
Of State and his cornstalk- militia Postmaster
General, such combination of cunning and
ibbering idiocy as this is Just the sort of bas-
tard American to try and set up an admins |
tration lobby within the very portals of the
House of Representatives The fellow would |
,leal with the Congress as if his tenure Of office |
were something pernanent as if he, by the |
Grace of God and Wormleys Restaurant, were
His Majesty, forsooth. Why the man
grows worse and worse Pretty soon we shall |
begin to hear him talk of his super-magnifi-
cent and all-prevailing rights as of something
lnviolable' The first thing we know the
rogue will set his heart on building a jail or
somcthing,-become "a bigger man" than
old Broadhorns' Cabinet officers on the floor
If the House, indeed Suppose that the
House, as the people Of Ohio and California
did, and as the Republicans OF New York did
most emphatically do, repudiaJe him and his
Ministry would the begguls resign. Not if
presidents indicate the nature and direction
# His Majesty's course. He would, instead,
begin to make such trades as in the nature of
worldly minded Congressman might be avail
able and of profit What would he and John
Sherman not concede to perpetuate the Ohio
Regency! Look at EN-: Hayes of Ohio, Presi-
dent: Sherman of Ohio General of the armies;
Sherman Of Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury;
Waite of Ohio, Chief Justice; Noycs of Ohio,
Minister to France; Matthews of Ohio, Am (
bassador General to the Liberal Republic Of
Wormley and Chief of the Diplomatic Corps 5
far treating with the ku klux klan and dis J
seminating the Era of Good Feeling among a
our delu1ed Southern Brethren Cut a Buck 7 7
eye and you bleed an office holder. Is any +
mole now burrowing darllly amid the dust and O
ashes of "Reform" SO hoplessly blind as not \
to see what a vast field for corrupt influence I
would be opened if any President were thus :
~ EtllG llIG IcIrLIFG I'tII-
nent Of the Government! Let this meek and {
smooth tongued Fraud, who will not argue
the question, for the reason that the areu-
ments are pretty well known get this power
full foothold in the House of Representatives :,
and good bye, long good bye, to the power d
and influence of the Senate. Look at the O
British Government and its relations to the Ia
power The Ministry occupy r.
benches in the House Of Commons. They it
have the first right to the floor under the writ IL
ten rules, as well as the common law of Par fc
iamentary action. The House of Lords, so Z
ar as any action on all test measures of =
legislation is concerned, are as if that branch y
If Parliament did not exist The Commons
5 the peoples voice. Nox populi, vox Del est sa
When Mr. Gladstone is voted down the House dc
# Commons is prorogued and dissolved and a III
lew election is held. If he is sustained. he 49,
continues 10 hold his office; if he is defeated ps
le resigns and dissolves his Cabinet. In these Ell
ontests upon the floor of the House Of Com Is
mons the great majority of the members are 90
mere pawns The Ministry on one side e.
nd the Leader Of the Opposition on the other c,
re the chief figures. The House of Lords is