The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-08-31
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There Is no one Of the geass homo, /,
tho, at once, il 10 be despised and
hunned as the anivelling hypocrite in
eligion or politics. He professas in-
enae interest and devotion TO q cause
II principle, but when his profession Of
devotion Is put to a practical test. he Is
itterly destitute Of ell moral atrongth
,r ability to 60 counter to his mercen-
Try interests or his preiadioes. The
attention of the oountry FOR some
time has bean called TO the subject Of q
reform in the civil service, and many
devotees have come forward MI over
the country raising their voice ia It's
favor and going TO all manner of ex-
tremea on this subject.
No man in oil tho country has been
louder aud more boisterous in his
declarations in favor Of this reform
than George William Curtis of Harpers
Weekly. In season and out Of season,
his voice has been heard above the din
Of voices Of thoae who scramble for
che spoila of eisise sahjset 20 aiseribn--
ton by the leaders Of the Republican
party. George William has gone so
far as to ring threats in the ears Of the
leaders Of the Republican party to the
effect that his loud and potential voice
would be heard against the Republican
party 10 future elections, unless that
party adopted bic notions of civil SER
vice reform. He has even gone to the
extreme Of saying that as between q
decent, honest Democrat, and an indie
cent, dishonest Republican, he would
be compelled to choose the former as
against the latter for an Office. He
has been too goedy, goody good "a
support any man for office unless he
be nice, tidy, moral and, in fact, in
possession Of all those qualities that SC
adorn and enoble any public official,
The country knows him only as man
who has persistently attempted TO show
that his standard of official and politi.
cal conduct Is on far higher plano than
that of his fellows. But what do We
see ! In an article oi the current issue
Of Karper's Weekiy, we find George
William treating Of the forth coming
guberna.orial election ia Massachusetts
in which he5oreshadowa 'the spirit and
purpose" Of the Republican party of
that state 70 be the one object OF the
defeat Of Butler. Butlerism is.said to
be the sole issue. Massachusetts, Re-
publicans are exhOrted to support any
Republican as against Butler.
A candidate may be- adverse to the
voter on the temperance question, or
upon tho question Of. civil service re-
form; be may be too weak or too
strong upon the tariff or the repeal Of
the internal revenue laws. He may
be in favor Of conducting the Tewkabu
~ institution in the same scandalons
way that Butler found 1t. He may he
in favor of : prOhigase expenditure Of
the commonwealth money, but with
all these objections dangling 20 the
character Of the Republican candidate,
George William tells the Republican
voters Of the Bay State that the only
issue, the only question Is, Shall Butler
be Governorl and then nnhesitatingly
tells the Republicans of that state that
with all these faults they should not
hesitate to vote for such a man as
against Butler. It matters not if the
Republican candidate should be one
who would tan human skins at Tewks-
bury and sell them in the market, be
should be supported by oil loyal Re-
pu6licans.
And this is the kind of man George
William Curtis Is, who has been howl
ing for good government, honest
officials, decent public servants, moral
men in public places, civil service re-
forms, etc. Out upon all such snivel-
ing. cantiDg, puritanical bypocrites.
The sooner the public learns how to
properly estimate the weight and worth
Of such men, that much sooner may we
hope to see an actual bona .tide reform
OF the civil service.