New-York tribune., 1884-01-15

Service Reform
Again The Post:
The result will preclude much Democratic talk about
the latter virtue (Cdl Service Refor for some time to
come We can devote ourselves to the tariff without
reserve
Again The Post:
The thing for Mr. PAYNE to 10 TO decline the sena
torshp pcrcmptorily The di,repuahle elements which
compelled his nomination have foisted upon his should
ers the disgrace they sought to inct On Mr. Pendoton
lie should not it, The distance between unenyiabe
success and honorable defeat is only to he brdged by
prompt his part to serve the purposes OF the
men who have outraged his party
The Bu0dlO COurier said:
Those VINO compasscd the defeat Of Mr PendletOn
made pretencc OF attacking him for MS active agency
in bringing about Civil Service Reform and have 81
managed things that the result seems to put the ONO
Democracy squarcly in opposition to that measure
The Democrats Of the rest Of the country may
be paroncd they 10 the conclusion that the man
acrmcnt Of the Democracy I'm that State i IN bad hands
and that ay hprs of cmryi"g ohio "eI' Jul are ra'"
The Ncr- IUqRy Ledger, one of the Oldest
and abicst Democratic newspapers OF Indiana,
says OF lIr. Payne:
1t Is unfortunate for the Democracy that he cham
ploncd by llc Standard oil monopoly, the most gigantic
corporation i'm the United states 1t Is also unfortunate
that hc was chosen George H. Pcndcton who stood
"A, the Democratic representative of Civil Service Reform
and Of honor and dccency in politics It is bunder that
may and likely VIII lose the Democrats the vote OF ONO
and possibly other States in November.
The Indianapolis Sentinel the leading Demo-
cratic paper of Indiana, said:
We hope our Ohio brethren will not feel disappointed If
they fail to hear hundred guns ,alutng the nomination
day in HoOsicrtom.
The Louisville CoW ier-J0WRal said:
Mr. Payne, nomination the result Of the most cor
rip conspiracy ever organized in this country, and was
compa-scd by most extayaent Use Of money known
to the legislative history of any state in the Union.
Other papers harp upon these charges of cor
ruption, which we are disposed to attribute to
the first heat of disappointment, The Cincinnati
Ne,rs Journal and Tire Columbus (OI Times
among the number. The latter heads its ac-
count of the caucus in these words with large
capitals:
Thirty pieces of silver bought Judas scariot, the arch
traitor but it cost the Standard Oil-McLcan faction
much larger bundle to subvert the will Of the people.
Report Of the caucus which elected Henry b. Payne
United States Senator and sold out the Democracy to
the money power.
If anybody is to apologize for such charges as
these, it should be the Democratic papers who
bring them. Ex-senator Thurman declared
that the Democratic clock had been put back
for years, and corruption given a new lcasehOld
in our land" Cor gresham A. j. Warner SAID
there was hardly any hope Of the Democracy
carrying the State next fall"
The point of real significance in all this is that
Democratic papers freely admit that Mr.. PEN
dctons defeat has apparently destroyed the
chances of party success in Ohio this year,
mainly by putting the Democracy in opposition
to Civil Service Reform. They could not easily
do otherwise after ex-senator Thurman's letter
begging that Senator Pcndleton should not be
struck down because he had made "one mis-
take in introducing the Civil Service bill de-
clarng it as his own opinion that the bill ought
to be "amcnded or repealed and vOwing that
anyhow the Republicans now in Office are just
ms liable to be turned out as if tho PendlctOn
bill had never been passed" They struck him
down nevertheless, and for that very reason.
This was a revelation of the feeling of the party
toward Civil Service Reform that voters every
where will remember.