The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-09-07
''The SpOils SYSTEM"
BY JOuN A.CALHOUN.

w no introduced the Spots system ana Wnat uoes
1t mean We notice this question in the last list OF
questions in history, given the School Examiners.
We presume the answer they accepted correct was
Jackson" but that is very superficial 1t is
true that American history has vilainy that does
not in way, the impress of the stubborn in
dvidualiy and stolid ignorance Of Andrew jackson,
but he is not responsible for it ALL There is no name
in American history for which have more thorough
contempt, unless it that Calhoun, and, even his
theories, hopelessly wrong they were and ending
in deluging the nation in blood, had some brain
power behind them. Jackson's ideas were simply
those of an ignorant, preudiced, old man raised by
the passions of the mob to place that he had neither
education talents f but evil his whole i'm
press upon the policy of the government was, we
don't think it fair to pile the whole Spoils SYSTEM
on him. Give the Devil justice once in while.
If there is any cant phrase that has become hope
essly sickening to people of average honesty 1T is
the whining hypocritical howl by the Blaine, rule
ruin, organs over the ''spoils System" and "Civil
Service Reform" Sterne once wrote that while
the cant of hypocrisy might be the worst the cant Of
criticism was the most provoking" He died before
Jim Blaine was born and never heard of Sniye Ser
vice Reform" he would been of different opinion,
and have given the cant of "Civil Service Reform
the first place. Measured by the Jackson "Spoils
SYSTEM standard the public Offices should be the
prizes of the Democratic party, according to the
Blaine howlers of the MacVeagh- Mitchell -Halstead
stripe Of "Civil Service Reformers," they should be
the prize.of the Blaine faction of the Republican
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with Robertson compensation for his sale to the
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cood paara a. po.to ha tis .arr, ,o, ont xuas tho
s.snoiIe syston,,, npro and sImn1e what n trenen-
dous difference it does make whose OK is gored. For
John I. Mitchell to demand csntrol of the Federal
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state over to the Democrats I. "Cjvi, Service Re-
form For ConL,tro 70 oh;oc+ IN tho .nnointmant of
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hab,n, H1 +,otat g. tte sno;1e srsta,,, for which
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bnae ~ s.ry noI,tic,sn and sy.rv newsn,ner ory,n
+bot ,yo.re a R,aine col,or from, Maine IN Oregon
o,a .n .rtto ron,orL tho, No harm, sboud he
.atd oftbe de.d snd when : v.eniny nation stood bv
Tho eids ~ csrs,d,. crave his fsnits were all for
,i,a ana ,o,la 49, Sa.n alnwed to rest had tbe
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orano of atsns,,or IIt... I'll .a,, Tho storr .nd
IT ts idle for us to .brink rom tho facts 1araelds
odministratiop can he summed mn I'm three things
He mad. stanley uottbev, man without con-
science or nrj,cinle Sunrema Judoe becsuse Jay
GouId ordered ~ aud he made Rohertsop Collector
of the port a, No york because be a violated his
pledpe Mt Chicago and he declared tplacabe war on
ConkIiro hocansa R,aina ordareS IL Had he decided
to ba Pre.idant bimsef ba xvouId most Ifkev he iy
inc ys+ Autbfs yos .f,,v,1 Sorv,ce Rsforu - but if
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CopLIino ala tb. roos+ sonss,oss thing talented
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,vosts &C., uC1,, S;oo paforrnar,, IN the state
xvork Cd dow o,d ,,rht 20 ooLo btn ssn,tnr. Curtis
even usinp the columns of arner,s Magazine to ad-
yocste bi s,ec+ion ana xan n bacame certain that
tbere vvsa too roucb bo,astv in tho .gis1sture far
this combination of oreed bvnocrisv and gold to .uc
eaed +bo,, oo,nror,isod ON man wbose orlv c,.,u