Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1882-01-06

doubts are entertained of his reelection. The
indications thus far are favorable to busy and
harmonious session.
Gen. Hill on Civil Service Reform.
Here is what Senator !. Ben. Hill says OF
.'Civil service REFORM" as carried out by
the party of "great moral IDEAS" The
following is an extrat from his recent
speech in the Senate:
The Senator from Ohio took occasion to
remind US that the late President Of the
United States was the victim of corrupt
civil service in this country. What every
body says is so, and therefore it is not
necessary for me to discuss it. But, sir.
the President was scarcely laid away in
his final resting-place, the people of the
United States everywhere were still weep
ing for his departure. when in the midst
Of their very sobs Federal judge was
soiling his ermlne by inditing letter to
the successor of that very President who
succeeded by reason of that very corrupt
civil service, appealing to him to make an
appointment for the express purpose of
aiding coalition to control State cleo
ton, and the choice language of that judge
was that the President should make the
appointment "to cement our coalition"
For what purpose was the coalition SIM
ply to secure Republican officers in the
State. The Senator read that much, but
stopped there He did net tell the Senate
as he might have done, that that very
President to whom the letter was addressed
with the weeds of mourning all around
him, with the sobs Of the country sill
echoing from every nook and corner Of
the land, sat down and made the very ap-
pointment that that judge designated for
the purpose of "cemeuting our coalition"
and that President, as soon as he made
that appointment for the express purpose
of "cemen'ing our COALITION" turned right
round before the ink OIL the commission
ped in the very same ink. to write
learned disquisition or homily upon civil
service reform to be inserted in his mes
sage to Congress. That is the way We
tr at civil service reform in this country.
Do you blame The President for that I
Has he net right from his own exper-
fence TO assume that everybody in this
country who talks about civil service re-
form Is simpy playing with the people
Why, sir, are there not scores of men now
listening, TO me uho sat in their seats in
this verv Chamber and heard read from
that very desk official communications
from former President and his Secretary
of the Treasury, insisting upon the re-
moval of this very President from the Gus
tom-house in New York, upon the ground
that he had made it the headquarters OF
political party, spd that bis removal was
absolutely necessary to secure an honest
administration OF affairs in that public
officef Was it not publicly given to the
country2 And yet that very man who
was removed from the custom house in
New York, upon the ground tina, the
honest administration of the civil service
required his removal, that very man the
next year was nominated by that very
party for the second office in the gift Of
the people, and the very men who asked for
his removal supported his election, took
the stump for him. And that is civil
service reform! And all the crowd Of
civil service reform, and who have been
at it for years, voted for that very man for
Vice President. What do you think of
tbat2
Well, is anybody surprised that when
that President made his nomination to
the Senate for the purpose of "cementing
our coalition" in Virginia his party
friends should all have supported that
nomination when every one of them holds
an Office here due to that very coalition 7
Do not half this Senate absolutely hold
Office in this body which they never could
have obtained except for that coalition
Do we not know that five years ago i'm
mense clamor was raised in this country
about certaia frauds upon the ballot, upon
the popular will in different States of the
Union-returning-bo board frauds-by which
the charge was made) the Presidency it
III
body know that every man, high and low
black and white, who was charged with
connection with those frauds, received an
Office from that very administration which
obtained the Presidency by these frauds 2
Did not hear, did not other members of
the Senate hear, witnesses come before
committee of this body, and the testimony
was printed and spread before the body,
in which the witnesses testified and admit
ted under oath that they had committed
deliberate perjury for the express purpose
ofsecuring Offices and helping their party 2
And does not everybody know that men
who did secure the offices, and,
as far as I know hold them to this day,
hold them now7 I have not heard OF
their removal yet; they certainly held
them up to the end Of the last administers
ton.
Mayor White on Compton.
Mayor White, according to recent in
terview, holds the fol!owine opinion in
regard to the next Treasurer of the State ::
.Nn one has vet been named against