National Republican., 1882-06-27
The History of the Civil-Service Re-
form Fraud.

The History of the Civil-Service Re-
form Fraud.
General Grant had been President but
little more than a year when that dis
tinguished political "Boss," machine
politician" and professional foreigner,
Carl SChurz, who entered the Senate on
the day of Grants first Inauguration, at
tempted to dictate the appointments in
Missouri. He had disrupted the Repub-
hcan party in that State, and demanded
the patronage" for his wing" He
was raging tiger at being refused what
he considered his legitimate prey. lie
was an expert then in what is now
known, in Reform slang, as "the
methods of the machine" He wanted
offices for his heelers" and strikers"
He did not get them. President Grant
refused to recognize his as the regular"
organization, and refused to submit to
his Senatorial dictation." Dethroned
as "Boss," Carl speedily blossomed
forth as q Civil-Service Reformer. At
The next Presidential election he headed
what was called a Liberal Reform move
ment, the liberality of which consisted in
reinforcing the Ku-Klux Democracy and
attempting to smuggle it into power
under disguise. In this, other baffied
Senatorial Republican bosses joined him
with such followers as they could com.
mand. To his standard rallied the syndi-
cate of newspaper cranks headed by
Whitelaw Reid and tailed by Murat
Halstead. Though this Liberal move
ment had the Ku-Klux to kill for it, and
Tammany to stuff ballot-boxes for il, and
the great dailies to lie for it, and although
it had Greeley for its candidate, Civil
Service Reform for its shibboleth, and
Schurz for its leader, it went down
beneath an avalanche of derision which
nothing human could withstand. They
had called OH the people to decide be-
tween them and their Democratic allies,
on the one hand, and Grant and the Re-
publican party on the other. The deci-
sion was overwhelmingly for Grant and
organized Republicanism.
They sought vengeance from the hour
Of Grants second election. They seduced
great party leader from his party allie
glance by inAaming his ambition with
the hope of illegitimate Southern sup
port for the Presidency in 1876. They de-
bauched public opinion through the
Greeley newspapers, which had, for effect.
Rgain put on the Republican uniform,
and actually made the enforcement of the
laws odious at the North. From the
great centers of population they poured
out the most abominable falsehoods
against the great Republican leaders who
had in 1872 humiliated and defeated
lhem, and when 1876 came the party was
iorn with internal dissensions and weak
from the effect on the public mind of the
wholesale and systematic ISLANDERS of
which it had been made the target.
Then there gathered at tine Fifth Ave-
nue. Hotel cabal of shifty political
knayes and Adventures, again headed
by Schurz, to tell the American people
what kind of a man they might, and
what kind they should not, elect as Pres
ident. In reciting who they would not
tolerate they described Mr.. Hayes in
terms most contemptuous and insulting.
Having poised themselves, after the
fashion of the lesser political strikers
whose exploits are confined to wards in
cities, 50 that tn ey could fall on which,
ever side might offer the highest induce
ments, they separated, each one bent on
taking care of hmselfat whatever cost to
his fellows. The struggle of the giants at
Cincinnati resulted in the NOM
ination Of Hayes as the only
escape from defensive campaign.
The enterprising schurz FASTENED to the
candidate and named his price. He was
promptly bought the timid buyer as sin.
cerely believing that only by this trade
could he be elected, as he atterward he.
lieved that only by surrender 20 the
BouTbons could he be inaugurated. Presi
dent Hayes found the sagacious Schurl
and these second mortgages in fullest
accord, and he went through his foul
years on tolerable terms with them both
The only embarrassment he expert
enced arose from the fact that he had
been elected by the Republican party, tc
which his Prime Minister, Mr.. Schurz
and his gushing Bourbon friends were
equally hostile. Mr. Schurz soon relieved
the situation. He formulated "Civil
Service Order No. ], and had il issued
by the President. This order was n blow
NJ the Republican party, which pleased
the Democrats, and "a blow at the regu