San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-09-18

not partisan service, tho test Of fitness
for office. Nor were tho visiting
statesmen from the North, who gav(
their attention to tho Florida count
overlooked. Governor Noyes was rap
pointed Minister to France. Genera
Lew Wallace was made Governor ol
New Mexico, and John A. Kassor
Minister TO Austria. d,
Tho facts % to Louisians arc still
worse. Without tho vote Of THU
State Hayes could not be counted in
and the count devolved upon . Re.
turning Board Of precious political
cherubs, of which j. Madison Welll
was President. Their work was done
with internal fidelity TO the Rspubli'
can party and gave further occasion fol
the display Of civil service reform
Until recently Mr.. Wells held the Of
foe of Surveyor Of the port Of New
Orleans, at = salary Of 1850 per an.
mum. One Of his sons, whom Mr.
Hayes recently nominated for the po
sition held by his father, occupied the
place Of Special Deputy Surveyor q
New Orleans, at q salary Of 2,6OO pol
annum. Another son holds the posi-.
tiou of Inspector at New Orleans,
while a son in-law is CLERK 10 the Gus.
tom House. Thomas U. Anderson,
another member Of the Returninine
Board, is Special Deputy Collector .,
New Orleans, at salary Of 5000 per
aunum, and his son, bis father-in.law
and his brother.in-law, oil hold i'm.
portant places under the Government
Louis NJ. Kenner, q colored member ol
the Returning Board, is Deputy Naval
Officer at New Orleans, on salary oi
$500 per annvm, while two Of his
brothers hold subordinate positions.
Casnave. the remaining member ol
the Board, strange as it may seem. has
never been rewarded with an ofica,
though his brother holds the position
of United States Storekeeper at New
Orleans. But in justice to the I'D.
ministration, it should be stated that
after q heavy judgment had been rem
dered against him for counsel fees he
had agreed to pay for his defense
against an indictment for fraudulent
conduct as member Of the Return
ing Board, and when. after an execu.
tion had been levied upon his property
for the satisfaction Of {the judgment,
he came to Washington and appealed
to the President and his Cabinet for
financial relief, very touchingly re.
them of the services he had
rendered in counting the vote Of his
State, and their obligation to befriend
him, the required amount was contrib.
uted, and Casnave sent homo with an
mind. [ need not say
that the honoYs and emolumeuts heap.
ed upon the men, through whose Of
fetal action the Administration
to power, would have been
an insult to political decency and q
vile caricature Of civil service reform
If there had been even a well. founded
suspicion as to their integrity. !
must add that Governor Packard was
finally rewarded for his disgraceful
career in Louisiana by the best con-
sulate in Europe, and Mr.. Stoughtop
made Minister to Russia, as q reward.
undoubtedly. for his services in carry.
ing the State for the President in de-
fiance of clerical errors while the
Of the gang Of visiting
statesmen who went to New Orleans
in the interest Of q fair count" was
made Secretary Of the United States
Treasury F" =
But the civil service Of The new Ad-
has supplied still further
Illustrations. Mr.. Eilley. a politician
and intriguer OF bad repute, was reap
pointed postmaster at st. Louis. Cen
eral Babcock continued to bask in the
Of Executive approval. The
office Of Consul General at Frankfort
on the. Main was treated as q personal
perquisite by bestowing it upon his
Private Secrf tary. A Kentucky law.
yer and partisan was made Judge Of
the Supreme Court Of the United
States for timely services rendered 10
the Cincinnati Convention in securing
the nomination of his chief, and after.
ward in settling the dispute in Louis.
lana. The offer of the English Mis-.
sion to the Pennsylvania delegation in
Congress was palpable disregard OF
civil service reform as the President
himself had defined is, and so was the
offer of the German Mission to the
delegation from Illinois. He has al
lowed bis First Assistant Postmaster
General to send out blanks through
themails to members of Congress, TO
be filed by them with the names of
such persons as they may see fit to rec
for Office. just as if he had
made no public pledge that this prac
tice should be discontinued. give
hun credit for the removal of Mr.. Ar
thur from the New York Custom
House, for the excellent reason that be
had made it "a center of political
and that il was neces-
sary ''in order that the Office may be
honestly administered" These rea-
sons were reinforced by Secretary
Sherman, who said to the Collector
that gross abuses of administration
have continued and increased during
your incumbency;" that "persous have
been regularly paid By you who have
little or no service" that
''the expenses Of your Office have in-
creased while its receipts have denim
ished :" and that "bribes. or gratui-
ties in the shape of bribes. have been