National Republican., 1880-07-06
SWEEP TIE DEPARTMENTS.

SWEEP THE DEPARTMENTS.
The appointment of democrats to posi-
ton in the departments has failed to pro-
pitiate that party 1t is more abusive then
ever of the fraudulent administration, as
they are pleased to call President HAYES
and his cabinet ministers who have been for
three years trucking to democratic favor
by giving TO democrats positions that right
fully belong to union soldiers or straight
out republicans. There is no term too vile
now for them to apply to this administra-
tion, and the democratic interlopers who
have been smuggled into republican posi-
tions are becoming bold in traducing and
abusing the republican party. They have
their places, and they mean to keep them.
They are told by the democratic organs
that the administration dare not turn them
out, and they become insOlent and defiant.
Perhaps the administration will moekly
submit to these insults, but we do not be
lieve it. If it should, then it richly de-
serves all the abuse and insults it receives.
There are signs, however, that these demo
cratic squatters upon the republican do
main are not rs safe rs their meters to in
science may think. The war department
has already commenced the wedding pro
cess with purpose, it is to be hoped, that
will put on vigor and thoroughness to an
extent that will find that department with
out an enemy to republican principles on
its payroll before President HAYES shall
reach the end of his term.
1t is to be hoped that the example of the
war department will be followed by the
treasury department, where there are nest
ling many o stalwart and defiant democrat
who draws his subsistence from q hand
that he despscs and contemns. Let every
democrat in that department have his
ticket of leave, for he is sadly out of place
in the makeup of a republican administra-
ton. He may have been put there in the
interest of conciliation, but that having
signally failed and the republican party
being called upon now to confront solid
democratic south as the fruit of that ill
conceived policy, there is no longer any call
for concession to propitiate the southern
element. The south is crystallized in solid
democratic concretion, and q republican
administration is not called upon to billet
the members of that party any longer on
the republican subsistence chest. Let the
line be drawn and process OF
vigorous publication come upon the
treasury department, where there is urgent
need of it, If we mean to defeat the enemy
in this contest we must not subsist his
soldiers The republican cause the hopes
of General GARFIELD and the future well
fare of the country all demand that the de-
partments shall no longer afford a hiding
place for the enemy. The pcsloilice de-
partment is not exempt from these unpro.
pitious influences upon the republican
prospect, and it is to he sincerely hoped
that when the change Of its head from q
pronounced democrat to a stalwart republi-
can shall occur that the democratic hidcrs
in that department may find employment
elsewhere.
OF the interior department there is little
hope. The republican cause is seriously
handicapped by a want Of sterling republi-
can principle in its administration. 1t is
numbered up with ciyl-service theories and
nonsense and the debris of broken political
fifth to an extent that lorbids the hope that
it will ever be brought into honest and up
right political condition under its present
management. The republican cause in this
contest will draw butittle aid and comfort
from that branch of the public service. 1t
is Joined to the distractions, incongruities,
inconsistencies and uncertainties that form
its makeup, and there is not force enough
in the head Of the egoyomment TO straighten
out its kinks, follies and inquitics during
its present official term The republican
marty need not look for reform or succor
from that quarter, even though General
GRANT was not tnOmin0ted-lOr it is not pos.
sible under the existing impcdments OF
civil service, a manifest lack Of political
principles and the ruling spirit Of personal
hates and maliguities, to gather figs from
thislles or to bring pure and efficient ropub-
liaan forces from such q combination. 1t
might be different, and il would be, nc
doubt, if the secretary would only visit
among his Indian wards until after the
election and leave his department in charge
Of his clear-headed, straightforward and
consistent assistant with full power to act
rs his sound Judgment shall dictate.
1t is the duty Of every faithful republican
at this time to beset the administration tC
aid in the pending contest by clearing all
the departments Of the enemies of the re,
publican cause, II is poor encouragement
to labor for the overthrow Of a party which
is in part fed and supported from the re
publican crib, II is, therefore, the duty OF
the president aud his cabinet ministers, one
aud all, to do so much for republicansm as
to purify the avenues Of power from the