The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-07-19
The Spirit of the Eastern Press.

The New York Tribune and Times Of yes
terday join hands and make a labored effort
to induce the stalwarts at Albany to abandon
Mr.. Conkling. The Tribune appeals TO them
to show their sympathy for the President and
the Times threatens them with popular indig-
nation, if not assassination. The men who
have refused brides, off ces and about every
corrupting thing known to Albany politics
will hardly be blown away from their position
by a little cheap newspaper gas.-Binehamp-
ton Daily Republican, July 9.
OF course this grave charge is as untounded
as it is Infamous. The most expert %investi-
CATION has failed to connect a single soul with
the assassination except the miserable wretch
who pulled the trigger. General Arthur has
borne himself during this delicate crisis with
the greatest propriety, and yet he has not es-
capped threats that should Garfield die his fate
will be melted out to himself. He even has
to be under guard within the National Capt.
tai itself. The stalwarts are, as they have a
right to be, highly indignant at the base and
sense .ess charges preferred against them.
The unavoidable effect will be to widen the
breach in the Republican party and to post
pone indefinitely the day OF party reconcilia-
tion.-Syracuse Courier (Dem.) July I.
The course of some of the republican pa
pers towards Vice. President Arthur is thor
oughly disgusting. While partisanly speaking
it is wholly a republican matte, in a larger
sense it concerns the whole people. The
wretched impudence and bad taste of this can
be appreciated even in this moment of excite
ment. Instead of a~llaying the excitement
and they are the leading journals of the par
ty- help to keep it alive and to put murder
Gus ideas into the hands of other lunatics.-
Clecelaad Plain Dealer.
There is among the leading men and the
leading pnblic journals of the country, of all
parties scarcely Il voice that dissents from the
opinion that the spoils system is the original
cause of whatever of disturbance we are now
experiencing in the executive department of
the Federal Government. The dissentients,
few in number, are represented by the New
York Tribune, which declares that the Presi-
dent MUST henceforth "hedge himselfin with
ceremonials, soldiers andlotiicial restrictionsl!"
and by the Rochester Democrat which calls
upon Secretary Blaine to indulge Gin the EN-
ploylnent ola strong guard for the protection
of his person! What is wanted is not .'cere-
monials,' or ~s'oficial restrictions or "sol-
diers,'' or ''guards," for the President and his
secretaries, but heroic treatment: business
principles, business rules and business capaci-
ity for the civil service of the government :
the entire divorcementand removal of that ser
vice from the functions of the chief executive
and his advisers; and it its lodgment in some
department or bureau so far remoerd from
the approach and the influence Of the war pol
iticians, the office mendicant. and the party
organ, that fitness will be the only passport
to p%referment and public soodthe only end to
subserve.-Rochestcr Union and Adrertiser.
Garfield's martyrdom should be the sigma
for prompt and vigorous reform in the civil
service. Congress should take hold of The
matter in earnest at the earliest moment in
the next session. Whenever any abuse runs
into asSassination it can no longer be tolera-
ted without national disgrace and criminal
connivance. Democrats and Republicans
should unite in devising and establishing a
permanent remedy against the spoils system.
Mr.. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, who is
regarded as one of the falrest members Oh
the Democratic Southern side of Congress,
has taken the lead for his party in the fol-
lowing utterance:
"Fhe most solemn duty of the next Con-
gress will be to establish a tenure Of civil Of
flee upon some permanent basis. 1t will
never do to permit the whole otfic holding
force of the Government to be subject to re-
noval every year, with every possible change
Of the Administration. The country is toe
large. Our institutions will not stand it.
Our institutions may not be able TO stand the
strain If President Garfield dies, he will
have been murdered by the spoils system. foI
the man Guitteau is evidently craZed by greed
for Office
This is the earnest expression of an opinion
upon which all intelligent and patriotic mem.
bers Of Congress, of whatever political com.
pleXlon, should unite without further DELAY
Chicago Tribune (Rep.l
SENATOR'S SALARIES.