The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-17
REeARDTNG sPOILs.

RE0A1sOA1No Ok OAA@O.
In recent issue of the New York
World, the leading Democratic paper of
that city, there appeared an exhaustive
editorial on the subject of civil service
reform, in which It was proclaimed that
a new departure in this direction is in
dispensible 10 the permanence Of Amer
lean institutions, and that the people will
demand speedy 'change" in what it is
pleased 10 denominate the "spoils sys-
tenn" Although one of the striking
features Of general Hancock's letter Of
acceptance is his conspicuous silence on
this subject, the World processes TO be
privy 10 the Democratic candidates views
regarding IL, and vouchsafes the inform
alton that after years Of careful study of
this problem, his mind has become
tlnged with gloom and dark forbOdings
regarding "a popular protracted indiffer-
ence to the evils of our existing system"
OF all the monumental assumptions of
virtue with which the country has been
RECALLED by the Democracy during the
present eventful canvass. this latest man.
ifesto is, by overwhelming odds, the
most thoroughly refreshing, and realizes
more fully the popular conception of
what Mr.. Squeers would term "rich-
ness" than anything we have as yet
heard or seen. The versatility of the
average Democratic editor and politi-
clan has ever commanded the unbound
ed admiration of an appreciative public,
but when the chief of the New York
World and the new Daniel who has
lately came To Judgment at Governors
Island, lit up their voices like the proph.
ct crying IN the wilderness, and assert
the Necessity Of uprootIng the spoils
system" a pulseless world may well
stand aghast, and await with breathless
interest the next development Of Demo
cratic cheek.
Now, let Us see how the party of these
selfconstituted reformers stands ON this
question. To commence at the begin
ming, IL Is well authenticated fact tina
the immortal Democratic maxim-"TC
the victors belong the spoils" was the Ut
tcrance'of Andrew Jackson, for whom
the old gag has It, thousands of Demo
Gratis In the impenetrable strongholds o
that party, are still voting, and who's
memory is cherished by the great IN
terrified as the patron saint of the or
ganization which lifted him to power
His policy met with the most unanimOu
endorsement at the hands of his party
and his Democratic successors carried
TO such length that no measure {
ability could ever atone in federal o
hce-holder for the inhibited heresy {
subscribing 70 a political faith at var
ance with the tenants of the "mo'
straitest sect' of orthodox Democracy.
But, to come down to later period
the history OF the party, aud to bring I
our aid such facts IS every reader of Il
present time Is familiar with, VIC haN
only to note rs an inktsnce of the ten
per of the Democracy on this questio
their action when they came into pow
in congress, in dismissing from position
that were acceptably filed by maine
soldiers who became disabled in the d
tense Of their country, scores of Cover
ment employees at the United States CAP
toll. at Washington, and supplying the
with raw recruits from the rebel m
Democratic ranks. Again, in order tn
there may be no mistake as to the stan
ing of the party In the matter of civ
service reform, IL is boldly proclaim,
by the journals and leading speakers
that organization, that their solution
this problem is to put 100000 Repub
cans out of Office and put l00,0 900 Dem
Gratis in. Nothing, we fancy. could
more TO the point or more thorough
explicit than this declaration of prin,
Piles that was checred to the echo wit
in the walls Of our court house not me
than three weeks ago.
And now, with all these facts befS
him-with the deafening clamor of
party that has grown sick with the
ferred hopes OF twenty years, does G.
eral Hancock-giving him credit
sincerity In defining his views, and I
World for truthfully reporting then
lay the fiaitering junction to his soul Il
In the event of his election, he col
stay the furnished horde that would
seige him night and day and dcml
the price Of their votes in favor o
changer" Does any man of aver
Intelligence claim that an execut
utterly unacquaInted with civil affs
could distribute the colossal patrons
Of 100000 federal Offices and maint
the efficiency Of the public service in
or any of its manifold departmer
Let our readers calculate, II q
please, the disastrous results of a CID
sweep Of all the competent emplo
who now carry ON the vast machin
Of the government and Substitution
as many new ones whose only qualii
lions are = consuming and eternal b
ger for office and an ambition for pol
cal preferment- 1t Is now twenty-se
years since all the ofaces were dspen
anew, and since the accession Of ]
coin when the secession Of the south
tailed the patronage and the out-br
OF the civil war rendered il inexpedi
10 practice party prescription aga
Democratic oface-holders who were L
to the Union. there has been no gen
change, The present incumbents b
long familiarity with their duties 1
become proficient in their dischs