The daily gazette., 1882-04-24

THE THREE PRINCIPLES OF TIE
REPUBLICAN, PARTY.-According to
the understanding of one of lis great.
est lights the once great and popular
Republican parry has now but three
principles. The Hon. Wayne McVea2h
says SO, and he ranks among the ablest
of its so-called statesmen. In speech
before the Civil Service Reform AGso.
citation, of Philadelphia, on the evening
of the 18th of April, Mr.. MoVeagb,
lale United States Attorney General,
portrayed the principles OF the Repub-
lican party thus. He said
President Hayes did me the honor
to consult me fully upon his famous
Civil Service Reform order, and jn
part was its author. The difficulty
with civil service reform under The
Hayes administ alton was due to the
fact that unscrupulous men in the
parry had been gully of questionable
acts in the South. When the question
came up of their reward, President
Hayes allowed himself to be over DC
suadsd aud give office TO the desperate
adventurers OF Louisiana and Fiorids.
From that moment confidence in the
sincerity Of his motive was losL. re-
gar1ed his famous order as lopg and
wise step toward reform; but, as a
matter OF fact, the closing days of his
| administration saw The effort of Sher-
man to nominate himself for the Presi-
depcy by the aid, in part at least, of
the Treasury Department.
"Sihce the fatal result Of Guiteau's
bullet, every one has learned what
President A,thur is. Men do not
change their cha acters at maturity.
Whst Arthur was in the custom -house
at Now Yo.k he is in the White House
at Washington. He is kindly WELL
disposed gentleman, of many friend
ships. My own relations with him
has always been friendly. But it is
useless to deny that President Hayes
failed IN CT ucial tests. 1t is tie san
with President Arthur.
"My parry has but three principles
and l am earnestly and vigorously Oh
posed 10 every one of them. Its first
principle is the spoils system; | ain
opposed to that. The ouly other
principle of The party, that can dis
cover, is the repud alton of The Stae
debt of Virginia; l am opposed to that.
SO, am Republican under Difficult.
ties, and we ale all of US becoming So.
You are surprised at not gettiug "A
response to your communication To
President Arthur. But he has al ways
done what you are censuring tonight.
IL is in accord with every act of bis
career up to the day Guiteau fred his
pistol-on which day he was at ALBANY
in a political struggle, from which he
was recalled by the sound of that pis-
tol. de always was for the boss sys-
TEN. The boss system is a graded
system. going up from the drinking
saloon through the different official
ranks TO Presidents aud Cabinet off
GERS. Those men to-day rest on tho
spoils system. They need the depre.
dation and decentralization of the civil
service. Their entire political strue-
ture depends upon it. You might as
well expect saloons to be converted bv
temperance tracts as to expect these
men to give in to civil service reform
The only way is 10 overwhelm them
with votes. You must supplant them
with other and better men.
'Look at Tho awful humiliation
through which Malone and his asso.
ciates are dragging the State of Vir-
gina. Every citizen must be ashamed
OF the spectacle. The Republicans arc
prostituting the national treasury to
enable certain portion of the peonle
OF virginia to force another portion to
repudiate her debt. If we could
charge that crime upon the party re-
s2onsiole for the rebellion, if we could
charge 1T upon the Bourbon Demo.
cracy, it would be some relief. Rnt II
is being done by the party which
masquerades under the oame or
Abraham Lincoln" "
My party has but three principles
and find myself vigorously opposed
to every one of them," says Mr.. Mac
Veagh. After that why should anv
admrer of Garfield and sincere friend
of Civil Service Reform in Delaware
hold further alliance with the Radica,
party' Mr.. MacVeagh is held IN the
ranks of the organization, it is well
known, only by the fees and emolu-
ments he receives and the promise of
the candidacy of Governor of Penn.
sylvanla on his own terms, and Is per.
| mltted 10 characertize the marty aa be