Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-07-26

A Masterly Address BY the Democratic Mem
bsrs of the Few York Legislature to tn
People Of that stats.
The adjournment sine die of th,
New York Legislature was fol
lowed by the subjoinsd luminoul
address to the people of that State
subscribed by the Democratic
members of that body:
The discords and quarrels In the
Republican majority have sepa
rated US from QUE homes and busi-
ness for nearly two hundred days
The chief cause Of this uncalled fol
detention was quarrel with the
President of the United States on
one side and the Vlce.Presi.
dent and two Senators from
this State on the other. The
source Of this discord was the
question of official patronage or the
spoils of Office. The Collie ,tor OF
the Port of New York was forced
to resign, in the midst of his term,
from u place where he was serving
with general acceptance to the pub
lie and appointed to q place ab road
uncalied for by bis friends or by
the public and In which he has no
experience. This change, against
which the merchants of New York
protested In large numbers, was
made In total disregard OF every
snnounced principle of Civil Ser
vice reform and was not called for
by any principle of political duty
or interest Of the public service.
The purpose of the act eemed to be
to reward th h,se who had been Der.
eonally successful In securing the
Presidential nomination, aud to
punish those who had resisted a
leading member aud members of
the National Republican Conven-
tton, claiming the right
OF the term of executive
service for the previous Presi.
dent. The unseemly quarrel at
Chicago in the summer OF 1880 was
transferred to Washington after
the Presidential election at the
close of the same year. The same
strife has been continued with
more bitterness at Albany, through
the whole present session OF the
Legislature. It com mmenced with
great vehemence at the Senatorial
election in January, when third
class candidate was nominated and
elected over q hrst-class competit-
or for the first Office In the gift of
the Legislature, and hardly sec ond
to any office in the gift of the peo-
pie Of the State. The Office thus
Oiled after great strife was vacated
by voluntary resignation and when
1t had only been held for less than
one.f0urth of the first year of the
fall six years constitutional term
Of service. The man who inspired
this resignation was the senior
Senator of the State, who had been
three times elected to the United
States Senate by one party Of the
State, whose longer service he now
refused, and simply owing to the
fact Of the nomination to the SEN
ate Of one of the chief offender who
bad opposed his am bition aud
wishes at Chicago and elsewhere.
The useless resignation of these two
men has lost the State not only
large amount of money, but, what
ls more valuable, its honor, dignity
and self respect. Two factions,
by the vulgar but ex.
pressive names of "Stai..
warts" and "Half- Breedsn have
governed the Senate, Assem- bly,,
Repu blican party and State
throughout the whole session. The
4 tnimSmsg2QEattc mmsg2 2gttc members have many
peal to the people. but by force Of
and In defiance OF public
opinion and ia denial of the Oppor-
lunity of q timely public judgm ent
u pom the fact OF leaving the State
without Its constitutional repre-
sentation in the higher branch of
Congress, the Republican msjority
refused to leave the ohOice OF the
succession to the people Of the
State. These demands of the DEM
ocratic minority, that an appeal be
made to the people, we're met by
the insulting declaration, that u
possible choice of Democratic
senator in Congress would be u
public calamity to the State, and
this, after just electing Thomas y.
Piatt a. q successor to Francis Ker.
nan, and after following this sue.
cession with the choice Of u man
named Warren Miller, q member
of the present and previous House
OF Representatives, where he was
only conspicuous aud notorious AS
the direct and personal beneficiary
OF one OF the worst monopolies Ia
the country, and where he has sup.
ported that monopoly by bis voice
and influence, end with the threat
that other public interests should
suffer If bis special interests In
wood pulp and the manufacture Of
paper were not protected. The
most distinguished and acceptable
men of the party not In public
place, apart from ConkIing. but In
cludIng men like Fish, Wheeler,
Curtis, Rogers, and others who
have served the State with ability,
have had to give place to two men
elected to Congress, and their nom-
ination made an excuse for passing
a law to Hi the vacancies made by
their election, and for no other
reason. These special elections,
thas provoked, will be untimely as
they are unnecessary and sxpen.
sivs. The whole material discus.
sion at Albany resolves itself into
three most disereditsble oonciu-
sions: First-A mistrust of the
people of the State on the part of
the Republican majority in the
Legislature. Secehd-A quarrel
over the spoils of Office in two or
three Republican factions, with a
practical contempt for every prin-
oiple belonging TO what is known
aud re00gnizsd as OWL Service
Reform. Third-That abuse OF
power, from its long use aud mis-
use, until two of the least capable
para~ua n a uo hnan "A ra Un from TN a