National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-07-15
TILE REVELATION.

The skies are bright. There is not n
cloud stamping its offensive presence upon
the horizon of civil service. The President
has secured from Civil Service Order No. l
all that he originally intended to accom-
plish. He is satisfied with the results and
is unchanged in view or purpose, and hence
is serene and complacent. This is well. But
how differently the people, and especially
those who held office under the Administra-
ton at the time of the illumination of that
order, viewed it from their standpoint. 1t
was pity that its character and import
should have been so widely misapprehend-
ed, for it summarily crushed out some ten
or dozen of the most efficient, Jealous and
useful Republican organizations in the
country, known as State Republican asso-
Citations at the National Capital. They fell
rs grain before the reaper and were gath
cred into oblivious inactivity. 1t now ap-
pears that they were all sacrificed without
n cause and to needless timidity on the
part of the members holding positions in
the several Departments. 1t was pitful
surrender.
The President now assures General
YOUNG, of Ohio, rs he reveals TO reporter,
and he to the world, that when he issued
the order he had but three objects i'll view,
and so far as they were concerned he still
adhered to them:
First TO prevent ofiice-hoders from attend
tending nominating conventions rs delegates,
| or in any way taking part in their manipula-
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under any circumstances, judge of any el c.
| tion and third, that no Otlice.holder should
be compelled to contribute any part of his
salary for electioncering purposes All of
these points he still adheres to, and he does
so because he believes it to be right aud the
only course to pursue in order to promote, as
far as possible, the purity rs well rs the free
dom of elections and TO free the parties from
the domineering methods too frequently
adopted by the dominant party, through their
| oilico-holding friends, for the furtherance OF
personal aud sectional feelings but the Presi-
dent said positively that he did not originally
intend and does not hold now, that the order
was in the least a disqualiier for any Officer
under the Government to donate rOlluitdrill
dly portion of his salary to aid the party tC
which his sympathies aud featy belonged
and further, he said that he considered it the
patriotic duty of any man who held an Office
under the Government If lie was capable O
his services for that purpose, and if he was
writer and could write for the press, he woult
consider IL his duty to do SO, using his pen IA
well as his tongue for the benefit Of his party
but that if lie declined to contribute Oithe
money, voice or pen toward the support 0
his party, it would not in any way interfere
with his position in the Government.
Thus made clear, there is no occasion TO
trepdaton on the part of subordinate Off
cials, for what the President would inhibi
is just what the Republican associations a
Washington have never been guilty OF, an,
now these associations can lift their droop
ing heads without fear and trembling. Tn
order, MS explained, does not interfere wit
any OF the legitimate rights aud duties q
citizenship connected with Office ut Wash
ingtOn. No one here has any purpose I
enter the delegated service or manipulat
conventions. None seek TO be judges u
elections. Neither will any submit 10 b
compelled TO contribute of their means fc
political purposes, while all stand read
to freely give as they are able to pre-
mote the best interests of the countI
by securing the success of Republican prir
, ciples at the ballot-boX. In view of thi
! revelation there is no obstacle in the way
reorganizing the several State association
and bringing them into active service. Ohi
Iowa, and Maine should lead of, US the
States are subject TO early roll-cal at III
ballot-box, and then let New York, Penn
, sylyania, aud the other States follow earl
in putting themselves into n state Of offer
. siye aud defensive political warfare.