The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-09-09

son holds the position Of Inspector at New Orleans
while son-in-law is q clerk in the Custom House.
turning Board, is Special Deputy Collector at New
Orleans, at a salary of s., 600 per annum, and his
son his father-naw and his brother-in-law all hold
important places under the Government Louis NJ.
kenner, colored member Of the Returning Board,
is Deputy Naval Officer at New Orleans, salary
of s., 500 per mum, while two of his brothers hold
subordinate positions. Casanave, the remaining
member of the board strange as 1t may seem, has
never been rewarded with Office, though his
brother holds the position of United States store
keeper at New Orleans. Bur, in justice
heavy Judgment had been rendered against him for
counsel fees he had agreed to pay for his defense
member of the Returning Board, and when after an
execution had been levied upon his property for the
on and of the u 5 he to Nv
for financial relief, touchingly reminding them
OF the services he had rendered in counting the vote
OF his State, and their obligation to befriend him.
the required amount was contributed; and Casanave
sent home with an unburdened mind. 1 need not
say that the honors and emolunents heaped upon
these men, through whose official action the admin
lstrauon mounted to power, would have been in
snlt 70 political decency and vile caricature Of civil
service reform If there had been well-founded
suspicion as to their integrity. must add that Gov
Packard was finally rewarded for his disgraceful
career in Louisiana by the best consulate in Europe,
and Mr. Stoughton made Minister to Russia, as a re-
ward, undoubtedly, for his services In carrying the
State for the President in defiance of "clerica
rors;" while the ringeader of the gang of visiting
statesmen who went to New Orleans sin the interest
Ct Ct fair COUNT was made Secretary of the United
But the civil servce of the new administration has
snppied stll further Illustrations Mr. Filley, pol
ltican and intiguer of bad repute, reappointed
Postmaster at st. Louis. Gen. Babcock continued
to bask in the sunshine of executive approval The
office Of Consul General at Frankfort the Main
was treated personal perquisite by bestowng it
upon his private secretary A Kentucky lawyer and
partisan was made Judge Of the Supreme Court OF
the United States for timely services rendered in the
Cincinnati Convention, in securing the nomination
in
Louisiana The offer of the English mission to the
Pennsylvania delegation in Congress was papable
disregard of ciyil-service reform the President
himself had defined it, and so the offer Of the
German mission to the delegation from Illinois.
He has allowed his First Assistant Postmaster
General to send out blanks through the mails
to members Of Congress, to be filed by them
with the names OF such persons as they may fit
to recommend for office, just as If he had made
timed. give him credit for the removal of Mr.
Arthur from the New York Custom House, for the
excellent reason that he had made it .a center Of
partisan political management, and that 1t was nec
essary in order that the Office may be honestly ad-
ministered' These reasons were reinforced by
Secretary Sherman, who said to the Collector that
"gross abuses of administration have continued and
increased during your incumbency;n that "persons
little or no Service that the ~ expenses of your
office have increased willis its receipts have diInin-
ished and that "bribes, or gratuities in the shape
of bribes, have been received by your subordnates
in several branches of the Custom House, and you
have in no case supported the effort to correct these
abuses"
But Notwithstanding these grave charges the re-
moval of Mr.. Arthur was only made after great and
inexcusable delay, and was then accompanied by the
offer to him Of the Paris Consulate, being evident
maneuyer of the President to keep both sides of
the civil-service question. must also give the
President due credit for removing Mr.. Cornell from
the office of Surveyor account of his defiance of
the cvil-servce order. He did this in the face of
Senator Conkhngs denunciation of the adminstra-
ton, and his insolent remark that ssreform is the
last refuge of a scoundrel" But when Mr..
Cornell, at Conkfng's dictation, was nomi-
MS for Nf Noxr-U Uo-l- 'I..A
was known to be in alliance with the Tammany wing
of the Democratic party, Mr.. Sherman entered the
canvass and earnestly advocated his election; SO did
Secretary Evarts while the President himself caused
statement to be made in the newspapers that if he
were in New York he would cordially give Mr.. Cor
wrote to Appraiser butcher 60 cordially approve of
your taking pa tin the Cornell and Hoskins campaign
and will do all in my power to favor their election
I have no objection to the Government employees
making contributions to the fund So pitiful game
OF fast and loose is more deesable than the absence
OF any pretense OF principle or consistency, and
rorciby illustrates the omnipotent foulness Of this
administration. Every feature of the cfvi-servce
order OF three yea ago, every phase and simitude
of the reform, is openly dregarded, and everywhere
treated with contempt. So completely, in fact, has
the civil service become the football of schem-
ing party managers and fashioned itself into the old
warp and woof of Grantsnn, that in the late Chicago
Convention the Committee Resolutions halting be-
fore the accusing party record, repeatedly voted
down the proposition to allude in any way to the
subject When the convention afterward was COM
n
chusets delegate, the resolution offered according
to George William Curtis, twas pared into the ut
most possible harmlessness," and then practically
biotted out by the nomination of for the sec
ond place on the ticket whose management of the
New York Custom House had been the beau ideal Of
the spoils system, aud insult to the administra
ton which aferward crouched at his feet in atone
ment for the only decided spasm of virtue which had
exercised its conscience. If anything wanting
to round out and beautify these closing acts of the
convention, it the keen irony embodied In the
| hungry and wolhsh inquiry Of the patriot Flanne-
ece and and If poltos tact a9s 1Ig
he made absolutely certain, 1t is that re-
form, after life of great travail and sorrow, at
last in its grave; while you all know that Gen. Gar
field himself in his letter of acceptance, has preached
| its funeral and written its epitaph.
This, gentlemen, is the record CT the Republican
party since the close of the and the settlement Of
the questions it involved. This is the total Of
| its promised achievements in the work of "reform
within the party;'' and it shows how entirely safe
Secretary Schurz is in predicting that the millennium
will not follow the election of the Republican ticket
have spread out before you its reiterated profess
sons and promises Sand the unfailing violation of
them which has followed the night the day; and 1
ask any fair-ninded Republican to give me single
reason, or a respectable pretert, for believing
that the long delayed work will be accomplished ii
violated its pledges made in 1865. 1t proved equally
false to those made in 1872 1t has deantly Knocked
alive the hope of many Republicans, and
now as the climax of its unrebuked recre-
ancy, it even musters the courage to disayow the
stock professions which have so long masked it
real character If any honest man is still inclined tt
trust it, point him to these danger signals all along
its pathway, beckoning to beware By its fruits il
must be Judged and if SO it will be nailed to the
pillory by an overwhelming popular verdict. The
Republican leaders understand this perfectly; and
hence at the very threshold of this canvass find
them resortng to the old game which they played
skilifully in 1872 and 1876 They asking us t.
excuse or condone their multiplied acts of misgov
ernment for the last twelve years, on the score o
what the party did during the war; and they insist
with their old-tme vehemence, upon the total de
prayity of the Democratic party and the exhaust!es
saving grace of their The keynote of the can
vass struck by the Republican candidate fo
Governor in his opening speech at indianapolis. HI
gave Us to understand that, should Gen Hancoc
be elected, Utah, with her poiygamy, woult
be admitted State, and thus give tn
party two Senators; that the Indian Tel
with two more Senators; that Texas would be d
vided into five States and thus give the party eigt
additional Senator'S; that the Judges Of the 81
preme Court of the United States would be duplca
ed, and three-fourths Of them selected from th
South; that then the reconstruction acts and const
tutional amendments would all be pronounced III
constitutional and void; and finally, that we shoul
be saddled with the rebel debt and rebel pension
and be compelled to pay the value of the slaves
put back into slavery. This brilliant unfurling
! the bloody shirt" at the opening Of the canvas
l by a gentleman of Mr.. Porter's coolness and pr,
verbal moderation, seems little remarkable, an
' suggests the suspicion that his picture Of Dem
cratic diabolisn may have been painted with pei
q Gil bequeathed by the late Senator Morton. NJ
Porter says this is no fancy sketch, no picture
. the imagination, but sober danger, whiC
? may, before we know it, become an appalliI
one" If he really believes this, his friends shou
q = provide him with guardian or responsible commi
tee to take charge of his person and estate nste,
of trying to make him Governor. If he does not b
. ieve it, but is simply seeking party advantage
!. base appeal to popular ignorance, he is dem
. gogue of very considerable promise, and should
. rebuked by the people according to his deserts.
y this is the Republican argument, and Mr.. Porter
Il only one of the many leaders who giving
d voice. When Secretary Sherman was in Maine
|, told his audience that "questons of money, labc
and properly sank into nsignfcance in the
"a of the great sectional ISSUE" Senator Hoor as
have seen treats the Democratic party to-day, unit
n under famous Union General, as imbued with t
same reasonable purpose and spirit which animat
d the revolt against the Government in 1861. Ev
e Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, lends himself to t
I same madness. These ideas will shape and inspi