New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-15

slit ltions of the State solely for the purpose
and a means for distributing spos." This
is unblushing etfrontery. When the Democrats
of Ohio elected the now-fOrgOtten Governor
Bishop and carried the Legislature their first
and almost only business was to pass laws re-
organizing the State institutions in order that
they might fill the places Of experienced and
competent superintendent, teachers and
nurses with Democratic partsans This per-
formance largely contributed to the overthrow
of the party at the following elections. What
the Republicans did when they were restored
to power was to remedy as far as possible the
mischief Democrats had done and restore
the State charities to their old condition of
efficiency. There is another hypocritcal reso-
luton of the same sort aimed at appointments
i'll the punitive institutions, which must have
provoked horse laughs from the committee
that prepared it, when they remembered how
their party, in its eager hunt for spoils during
It's late brief lease of power, actually dismissed
the guards in the pententiary and the teachers
Ill the reform schools to get places for Demo-
cratic politicians:
we next hit upon a resolution " in favor of a
civil service reform whereby offices shall be held
| to be a public trust to be administered for the
pubic good, not spOilS to be en- Dyed rs the re-
ward of partisan zeal or service" This is
good, but 1t comes from II bad quarter. Tho
Democratic party invented the spOils system
| IN the time OF their patron saint, Andrew Jack
son. They have never done a solitary public
act since to abolish or reform that system On
| the contrary, they have never failed when in
power to use the Offices precisely as they now
| say they should not be used, ls the reward of
partisan zeal or service" When they got con-
| troll of Congress they even went so far in their
| shameless greed for Office as to turn ont one
| armed and One-legged soldiers to make room
| for able-bodicd Democratic politicians. Still
| another piece OF glaring Inconsistency is en-
countered in this absurd platform. The inter-
| ference of the General Government is invoked
to control the railroads and prevent them from
making unjust discriminating charges This
from il party which sacrificed patriotism to its
theories OF State Rights in sol and has ever
since denounced every measure for STRENGTHEN
ing the power and extending the functions of
the National Government, is an exhibition of
cheek which would be amusing if it were not so
characteristic.
Only at the extreme end of the document do
we find anything that is honest and significant
OF the real purposes Of the Democracy Care
| fully suSarcd with phrases about "e0nitv =
| public burdens" and ENCOURAGEMENT of nro-
! dnctlvc industry is the old Democratic nos
| trun, so bitter to the taste of American work
! ngmcn, of tarill for revenue. 50 devoted are
| the Democratic doctors to this noStrum and 50
determined to force it upon the people that
! even with the loss of thousands of votes among
the mechanics and miners of Ohio staring them
in the face as the certain consequence of their
| folly, they could not refrain from Shining il
into the Columbus platform. The iron-work,rs
ana coal diggers of the Mahoning, Hooking and
Scloto Valleys, and the skilful artisans of
Cleveland, Akron, Cincinnati, Springfield and
score OF other busy manufacturing towns. will
have their say in November about this latest
blow at the protective system.