The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1881-07-30

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vine origin, right, etc. Perhaps the
Doctors peculiar ideas onthis subject
may be in part due to the fact that
he belongs to that branch of the
Episcopal Church known as high
Churchmen or extreme Journalists.
DIR. Crummel, however, is a man of
whom the Negro race may be justly
proud His great ability and purity
of life atone an hundred fold Tor any
peculiar political opinions. The
music at this Church was simply
grand. To say that l was delighted
entranced, would but family express
my feelings. The choir consists of
quartette, Mr.. Girls. Mckinney,
basso; Mrs. Lena Mckinney, his wife,
soprano; Miss Mcpherson, contralto,
and Mr.. Tompkins tenor. | shall go
again. BERT.
July Give have again been
subjected to another period of exas-
perating suspense in regard to the
President. All sorts of rumors have
prevailed, and there is a feeling on
the street, Notwithstanding the ia
vorable bulletins, that the condition
of the President is more serious than
the physicians are willing to admit.
Last night false rumor that the
President was dying created deep
sensation. The physicians, however,
could have no motive for giving
other than the true condition Of the
President Ex-senator Conkling
called at the White House yesterday,
and expressed great pleasure at the
favorable turn in the Presidents con-
dition. Crowds Of anxious people
still congregate about the White
House, seeking the least hint from
the sick room Of our stricken Presi-
dents condition. The one senti-
ment of every heart is deep, fervent
hope for the recovery of the great
sufferer.
The attempt to take the life of the
President has evoked flood of sug
gestions and criticisms on the con :
duct of our civil service. Some fa-
natical editors and some politicians
who have succeeded in getting good
fat offices with patronage to dispense,
want to make it a penal otfense for a
man to seek minor office in the
Government service. 1t is all right,
according to their idea, for distin-
guished men to seek the high Offices
within the gift of the people, but for
one belonging to that humble but
more numerous class known as the
people, to seek an Office in the gift
of those whom they have elevated to
power, is criminal. The Critic, of
this city, in an able editorial on this
subject, states the facts in the case
pretty flearly in the following:
''As to office seeking, 1t is really
the main spring of politics in this
country. Men desire Office, because
to serve the public in an official ca
pacity is both honorable and profit
able. The genius of our system is
the theory that every Office within
the public gift is open to the aspira-
tion of every constitutionally quail
| fed citizen. When men are elected
to the Presidency OF appointed to the
Cabinet, it is as much part of their
| duty to attend to the personnel OF
the Government or of their respect
i've departments as it is to sign laws
or other public documents. No other
scheme could be devised that would
be republican in form or fact. The
Government is simply an employer.
Every citizen has an equal right to
seek employment under the Govern
ment, and every officer vested with
the appointing power stands charged
with the duty of patiently hearing
and decently considering the appli-
cation of every citizen who may
choose to assert his constitu tional
right to apply. The reason why all
the Dormanbeaton and Georgewil-
hamcurt;s nostrums of "Civil Service
Rules" and that sort of thing gener-
ally, do not meet public approval and
executive adoption, is because they
are in theory and effect alike-alien
to every tenet of our system of Gov
ernment, and always will be till our
democracy becomes aristocracy and
our Republic monarchy"
The present system is no doubt in
need of Improvement. The Presi-
dent is subjected to much response
bility in the matter of appointments
The responsibility might be distribu
ted by giving to Cabinet officers the
appointment of the chief officers in
their departments, and to the heads
of bureaus the appointment of theil
subordinates, all of course being sub
iect to revision and correction by the
President. The villain Guiteau is no
product of our civil service. No
every man that has held an offic'
and lost it, not every one that ha
sought an office and found it not, i
to be rated as an outcast with murde
in his heart. To believe some of tn
papers one would think Guiteau
type Of the average office holder
Guiteau is the product of his bruta
instincts and indulgences. 1t is non
sense to be drawing civil service les
sons from exceptional brutes.
BERT.