The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-02-11
"A Disagreeable Reminder.

Senator Hill, of Georgia, who-not-
withstandinc the epithelial excrescence
on his under lip, manages to maintain
all his old fiuency of utterance-com-
mitted an objectionable breach of eti-
quette in the Senate the other day.
This is a sort of era of good-feeling, but
the Georgian either forgot it, or didn't
care for it, for he turned himself loose
on some of the Republican leaders with
a power of invective that drove one of
them Senator Sherman) out of the
chamber, and made them all feel I'M
comfortable. Civil-service Reform was
up--and Civil-service Reform is SUBJ
ject on which the Republican leaders
and teachers assume an uncommon
amount of Standardization. They in
vented it ten years ago, and they have
been challenging the public admiration
for their devotion to it every day and
every hour since. And yet, says Sena-
tor Hill, ''while the country was weep
ing over the tragic fate of the late Pres
ident, Federal Judge was soiling his
ermine by inditing a letter to the sue
cessor of that President, appealing to
him to make an appointment for the
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Virginia to control the State election.
The President, to whom the letter was
addressed, while yet the mourning sobs
of the people were echoing round him,
sat down and made the very appoint
ment which that Judge had des-
ignated-and then, perhaps, with
the same ink, had written
homily on Civil-service Reform in
his message to Congress" This is
one illustration of the sincere and pas
sionate devotion of the Republican lead
ers to the project of lifting the public
service out of party politics. Another is
found in the brief but instructive history
of late Collector of the Port at New
York-dismissed from office for neglect
of duty and implied dishonesty in Office;
nominated for Vice-President, supported
by the persons who had dismissed him
(Mr. Hayes and Secretary Sherman),
and now promoted to the Presidency.
Still another case: Ibid not everybody
know that every man, high or low, black
or white, charged with connection with
the Returning Board frauds of 1876, re-
ceived office from the Administration,
which obtained the Presidency by virtue
of those frauds?'' This" said the
Georgia Senator, els Ciyil-Service Re-
form as practieed by the Republican
party"
Nobody answered the Georgia SEN
ator, for the very good reason that no
body could. The Republican leaders
writhed under his exposure of what they
imagined were unnoticed and forgotten
hypocrisies; and that was all they could
do. Senator Hill does not believe that
the Civil Service will be reformed, or
that there is any intention to reform it
and it must be admitted that the re-
peated and deliberate violations of every
principle of it by those who assume to be
the special advocates and custodians of
it are a sufficient warrant for his skepti-
cism.- st. Louis Republican.
Naturally the first thing the Re-
publicans think of, now that their tenn
porary restoration to power in Congress
is complete, is to pull down the bars
that keep them away from the Treasury.
The right of unrestricted appropriations
is the one right without (which power
would be meaningless to them. They
want no obstructing walls between them
and the Treasury.-S Louis Republican.
The Cashier of Brooklyn savings
bank-a man seventy years old-has
just had to apply to the courts to have
his son, forty-four years old, and his
grandson, 3 twenty-four years old. shut
up as Migrants. They are drunkards
beyond reformation, on whom all re-
fOrmatOrY efforts have proved usalass.