The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-21

what had become or these regulationsf
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the treasury department in regulating
promotion.
Senator Vest said every senator knew
that the regulations to which Senator ALI
SON referred amounted to nothing. When
Schurz was secretary of the interior he had
| made an attempt to pat them in forceand
| they were ostensibly in force now in the
treasury department, yet no democrat
could get-an appointment and the Arst
assistant postmaster general had recently
announced that the offices in that depart
ment were to be used for the benefit of the
republican party and sneered at the idea of
any other system. After President Grant.
had announced his reformatory system in
1871, came his second administration,
based to "a great degree upon the spoils
system. Then came that which distin-
guished senator from New York no longer
in the senate, called the f'Snivel Service
Reform of Father Fraud Hayes"-an adj
ministration whose first act was to reward
with offices yielding $50 900 year men
who for his benefit had stolen the SURFACES
of sovereign states. Senator Vest read a
letter from Casanave, a member of the
Louisiana returning board in 1876 to Pres
ident Hayes, asking to be rewarded for
services in that capacity, and remarked
that the extent of degradation in our poll.
tics was shown by the fact that the man
holding a public position could dare TO adj
dress such q letter to the President Of the
United States; man who had aided in
sitting the voice of the free people of
Louisiana dared, in the capital of the
nation, demand money from the president
for these services-and the money was
paid. Next came President Garfeld's adj
ministration. Garfield in all his public ut
terances had denounced the abuses now
sought to be remedied by legislation: yet
no sooner was he nominated for the presi-
dency than he began correspondence
with Dorsey, secretary of the national re-
publican committee and now chief of the
star route defendants.
A correspondence breathing the spirit of
the s.spoils,, system. the burden of it being
that money must be obtained money
for the demaeratc vote of Indiana and
Dorsey Wes afterwards toasted. by Che geu-
tlemah-Nho was President of the United
States. &C q banquet given at Delmonico's,
and presided over by Gen. Grant, to do him
honor for having CORRUPTED the suffrage of
that great state. 1t has been charged that
the democratic party formerly practised
the system of political assessments, but he
defied the gentleman to produce from the
annals of the democratic party such infa-
NOUS documents as the highwayman's
letter. dated Philadelphia and signed John
Cessna, chairman, and addressed TO office
holders, demanding per cent of their sal
cries and threatening that at the end of
the campaign the list of those who had not
paid would be placed in the hands of the
heads of departments. The senators from
Maine and Iowa lHale and Allison1, now
ssos aIdept for reform, were at that time
members of the republican committee.
and had no rsbuke for 4he authors of this
docnmeftS e p
- Senator Allison said the circular purport.
ed to have been issued by the chairman of
the republican state committee Of Pannsyl
vanis, and had no relation to the congress
sional committee. He had never seen the
letter before. So far as he knew such
docufnspt was unknown in the history of
the Congressional committee, and he
thought it deserved the condemnation of
every nember Of the Republican party
Senator Vest continuing, said the great
eVil ID the civil service now was that the
republican party had come to believe that
the Off ces belonged to them as a mat
ter of right and. ignoring the people, pro-
ceeded to tear each other to pieces about
pat anagt, and ti1fs more than anything
else rad contributed 70 their recent defeat
Replying to Senator Hale's charge that the
whisky interest was the ally of the demo
cratic party, and Senator Shermans state
ment that gthe result of the recent
election II 0hioE was largely
due 90 mat alliance 6enator Vest
said that for the last twenty years the
whisky interest had voted steadily with
the republicans, and their complaint. now
that they were defeated last fall by the
detection of that interest, was admission
on their part that their triumphs were won
by It's aid To show on which side the
liquor influence really is he made COM
parison between the states that voted for
Garfield and those that voted for Hancock
of approximately the same population as
to the nllinoersof liquor dealers, according
to the Internal revenue returns showing.
He said that there were in the Garfield
states 106. 1913 retail liquor dealers and
81, O42 in the Hancock states Inhabited by
the whisky soaking democracy" giving
to the gentlemen on the republican side,
representing OF course the intelligence
and morality and religion and the sobriety
of the country, clear majority of 80, 400
.saloons. Laughter. He denied that tie
'democratic party was held together by the
h0fs of public plumber If the party had
depdaded upon that, 1t would have gone
to pieces long age, aana in 4conc1fsion he
would say to the gentlemen on the other
side of the chamber. You may defeat
us again that is in the hunds of God and