The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-10-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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wAsnINoroN. D. G. Sept. 90.


WASHINGTON, d. c.. Sept. 90.
Editor Democrat
A good many Republican papers, no.
tably the Cincinnati Gasetie, edited by
the truly good Deacon Smith, are just
now trying to impress the discharged
soldiers from the Federal army that
they will not be appointed to Gle. kships
in the Depa tmcnts here and to other
civil offices when General Hancock is
elected. The Ga>etie has done great
deal Of heavy lying Ia sustain its posi-
ton, and il has s,Rbbornly refused to
retr,lct its lies when driven to the wall.
Now the fact is that no soldier ever has
received or ever viii receive an appoint
ment to a clerkship or to any other
office in the Departments here in Wash
ingson hy the Republican party simply
because he is a capable oR3 meritoriouS
discharged soldier from Tie Uaioa Aymg.
Such places are always given TO pay oil
some political debts incurred in the
election of some member of Congress ;
shameless ,rork similar To tie yuseality
performed By Nalisoa H-eis, Of Re-
far7,iag Board ie5amy, Yet section
lT5# Of the Revised Statutes expressly
enacts that meritorious and capable SOL
diers, disabled in the service, ''SLan b
preferred for appointments to cirij
Offices :" With that reckless defiance
of all law which has become charac.
teristic of the Republican party, no at.
tention Is now or ever has been paid 10
this solemn statute enactment. I could
enumerate scores of similar violations
of the law by Republican ofiice-holder
when the law stands in the way of un
scrupulous partisan work. No honest
Republican doubts bnt what section
1851 of the Revised Statutes will bC
observed, rs well IS all the other part.
of the law, when Gen. Hancock be
comes President. When Gen. Gran
was President, during both his terms
his total disregard of all law was noto
.rious when it stood in the way OF tn,
thieves and rascals that he kept il
office.
There is no basis whatever for the
unwarrantable assertion that Gen
Hancock will violate the law in order
to give the "cold shoulder" to his olt
comrades of the Union Army. Tn,
very opposite is the case, and the lying
Gazette well knows the fact-as do all
other Republican papers.
Immense numbers of lying letters are
sent from this city every day to locaI
Republican paPers-written by some o.
the 10000 Government employees hero
whe are trembling with fear lest they
may lose their fat sinecure offices wher
Hancock is elected President Now /
have all my life been Il Republican q
never voted with the Democrats) anC
have voted with the Republicans unit
1 can do SO no longer for party thai
uPholds fraud and corruption; that now
has no principles except public plumber
and that IS wholly in the hands of rich
men and of powerful corporations. and
always acting against the interests q
the poor man Carl Schulz presides
over the Department of the Interior by
the favor Of de facto Hayes and in con
sideration of the Ohio German vote.
which he claims to have delivered tC
Hayes in 1876. Schurz claims that
"Civil Service Reform" governs all his
appointments. And not long ago
read IN the best Democratic daily paper
IN Boston that Civil Service Reform
in its purest form" was practiced in
Schurz's Interior Department. Now ii
IS well known here by the employees o.
that Department that "CiviI Service
Reform" is only very thin disguise
for the very worst practices Of the mucI
abused ':spoils system" Schurz vii
have ''Civil Service Examination,
and will appoint packed examiniD:
committee. All the operations are Sc
cret. It is special favor TO get
chance to be examined by the commit
tee. Then, if Sshurz does not get hi
own satellites into Office, he simply ap
oints them as other men do. Schur
is a fraud as well as a known tramp
he never succeeded at anything excep
in selling the German vote Of Ohio t.
Hayes