Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-24
Especial Telegram 10 the Globe. 1


of Kentucky, says: The late elections
were protest against the dry-rot of hoary
office holding, by which the honors and
emoluments of office were regarded as
perquisites; revival under a different
form of government of the divine right of
kings. This Jefferson foresaw and de-
nounced when ne advocated with so much
warmth and persistency, frequent elections
and change of rulers. Some of the evils
Of this theory of the Republican being the
divine party are the gross thefts of the pub
lie moneys, the shameless jobs in public
expenditures, the multiplication of use
less Offices. the sinking of the navy, the
destruction of our commercial ma
rine, the robbery and increasing
evil Of pensions, robbing labor for privi-
lodged non producing classes. the creation
and fostering of vast corporations, the
illegal and growing use of the public
moneys, property and navy, and other con-
veyances by public officers, and the un-
equal taxes by which labor is saddled with
almost all the burden Of civil rule. These
are he issues decided By the late elections.
cratic party, but of Democracy in its yer
fec. and best sense. the rule of the people,
The one promi4e15 idea, then, which
sums up all the Issues Of policy, is civil
service reform. The experience of the
country is that 10 measure short Of the
power of appointment can reach this evil.
The evil is that Offices are made and
off al oil Nv tba Of
pointm ent and removal to subserve tie
personal interests of their superiors to
sustain the powers that be. The evil is
not that the appointing power is ignorant
Of the qualification OF the appointees, but
that the only qualification of worth is
party service. Any competitive exami-
nation. then. is useless. What is needed
Is that radical change Of the source of
appointment of the whole civil service
corps shoald be made. The appointments
should be by others than the
president, and the tenure should
be Tor the time of good
behavior. The corollary, then, from the
late elections is that no party is triumph
ant; that it is not in favor Of any party, as
such. but first, in favor Of posting the gov
ernmental books 10 see how we stand, and
then warned by experience, to apply hon
estly such means as will secure US in an
honest. economical and patriotic admins
tration of government which the people
have again and again defended by pen and
the ballot, and which ring masters, cor
ruptionists and cyclists will be forced to
respect"
SUMMARY PROCEEDING.
The suddenness with which Capt. Hop
kins has been dismissed from the navy has
created general surprise and much
unfavorable comment. The captain, who
attained his present rank only few
months ago, ana vino had been in the navy
thirty years, was very promptly convicted
day Or two ago by court martial of hav-
ing abandoned his post as commander of
the Pensacola navy yard, without leave on
the approach of yellow fever. Instead
of telegraphing for q leave of absence, he
merely announced 10 Acting Secretary of
the Navy Walker that he was going, land he
went. His defense was that he did not
run away from fear Of the fever, but that
he was in poor health and had
a surgeon sick leave, and went
home to Ohio three weeks before
the fever appeared in Pensacola. 1t is not
disputed that the abandonment of his post
without permission was serious offense,
and that in man of his age and rank it
was a much more serious infraction of
discipline than it could have been had he
been q young lieutenant. But the day
after it was announced that the findings
of the court had been transmitted to the
secretary, it is announced that the secre
tary has approved the findings. The presi
dent has approved them and Capt. Hop
kns has been notified of his dismissal
YELLOWSTONE PARK HOTELS.
Mr.. Hobart, chief engineer of the North
ern Pacific railway, is here in the in
terest of the company now forming
to supply the Yellowstone national park
with hotels. He says that depredations
have been committed in the park to such
an extent that if it were not handed over
to the care of company it would in a
very few years cease to be worth visiting.
The park is now we'll supplied with elk,
blacltailed deer and Rocky mountain
sheep running in large herds. and at the
rate at which these animals have been
slaughtered lately they would be exter-
minated IN two years Mr.. Hobart's com
pany is allowed, under the contract with
the interior department, to kill such game
as is needed for supplying the hotels, but
he desires to have the privilege withdrawn,
so that none of the game other than ami
mails with claws shall be killed. There
need be no restriction on trout fishing, as
the streams are so full that there is not the
slightest danger of their being fshed out.
WASHINGTON, Nov. pa special census
bulletin just issued contains table of
statistics compiled from the census re-
turns of 1880, relating to all manufactur
ing industries except gas in each of the
states and territories. This table shows
that there were in the United States $685.
$40 establishments employing 2,025,275
males above sixteen years of age, 531, 1853
females above the age of fifteen and
1898 children and youths; that $3.50,