Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-24
Fso- ne SIEaIy Register.
The DEPARTMENTS
And Those Beyond tsils Palss of
Civil Service Reform.
TIE Church That President CleYe-
land viii Attend.
Who Vice President Hendricks viii
be Entertained by---Wash-
ingtGn Society.
A NEW DRAMATIC ARTIST, ETC.
Rr,;slyr CORRESPONDENCE

The effect Of Clevelands election on
many department employees, is similar to
that produced by thunder on milk, they
have turned, but Notwithstanding this graft,
fyipg phenomenon, there are still certain
classes that have placed themselves beyond
the protective pale Of Civil Service reform,
and it is needless to add that these very
classes are loudest in the assertion that Mr.
Cleveland dare not put them out tor teal OF
arousing a storm of reproach from his
party, which has always claimed staunch
allegiance to this particular law, framed By
a Democratic Senator. (Pendlston, ofOhioC,
and passed By q Democratic House. MIR.
Cley eland will, as he has already asserted,
manfully defend and protect the rights OF
proper and competent clerks in the employ
of the government, but there are mauy e
branches that must he Topped, before the
reform law can be observed in its truest
sense. During the last and many former
presidential campaigns since the RePuolE
cans came into power, clerks IN the depart
meuts have taken the stump, sometimes for
the entire canvass, never presenting them
selves at the office to which they were &C
credited until the final result was being de-
clared, although they never failed to draw
their salaries with praiSeworthy regularity,
and were supposed TO render an
equivalent to the nation by whom they were
paid. In the ewes of the Republican party
this is approved, for their cold idea Of the
workings Of governmental machinery seems
to consist in keeping themselves in a ring
that divide the spoilS according to the
amount Of trickery exercised. Blu this is
not the idea of a man whose motto Is, Pub
lie office is o public trust-not private, as
certain eminent politicians, who will be
carefully packed in rosemary and thyme
after the fourth Of March, would have led us
to believe.
A large proportion of clerks nov &C
credited to the South, which has a legal
right 10 a certain number of offices, have
never seen the States from which the claim
to hail. Men registered in the department
books as having been appointed from Ala
bama, 90 to Ohio to vote, while Arkansas
clerks come from every other State but the
one they represent.
Then comes another class who owe their
position to what is technically termed in
huence." Those composing it are, 1t IS IN
necessary to say Of the feminine gender,
and a disgrace to the sex. They visit the
office when they feel so inclined, take a va
cation when agreeable to themselves, pay
out in some instances their entire salary tor
elegantly furnished apartments, and are
able TO dress e~xtrayagantly on means not
visible to the naked eve. Side by side with
these creatures pure women must serve that
their children NAV have bread, and inno-
cent girls who come from far Oft States to
earn their a in the world. Surprising
eyery one as pure as themselves, have been
damned e~terually in public opinion by being
seen on the avenues IN company with Wo-
men next to whom they have worked re day
long, and whom thew suppose-rnost natur,
ally, toto Re what they ought because OF
the position they occupy. 1t is a fruitful
! subject for thought to men now serving
Their %couptr, hat some Gsy, when they are
cut off and their wives md daughters forced
to toll for bread in public oa@;"oeS that have
been granted them as reward for services
rendered By their patriotic dead, that they
may stand the chance of spending their days
al a neighboring desk to some creature
whom they viii blush to name. 10 the
Democratic party the multitude OF pure wo-
men in Office and in the country at large
will look, and will not look in vain, to bring
about a reform and advancement III
their rights, in their truest, best
sense a reform to which the
Republican party has ever turned o deaf
ear. Now and then, at mighty intervals, a
woman whose notorious career has at last
found its way into the newspapers, IS DIS
charged for immortality, but only then, be-
cause they no longer dare brave the righte-
Gus indignation Of public opinion By retain
inc her. There are some men, who have
received as reward for a number OF votes
iurnished-often those of deluded working
men-fat Offices for themselves and taml-
" connections, their wives in some IN
stances draw salaries Of twelve hundred
collars per annum, but are seldom seen at
the Office except to get their pay, as they
keen in connection with this little financial
scheme, a boapdiug house that claims the
major part of their attention. For any man
knows that making chicken salad out OF
veal, and manufacturing other illusioIsry
dishes is as much as oneable bodied female
can attend to.
The State department forms the most
amusing study; under Republican regime II
has groTnt to be thoroughly English. The
Young men say "Daunch Ye Knaw," and
II saw" with exquisite intonstion, they
wear clothes that out English the Eng
Iish, and only vouchsafe America, as q
country, sufficient recognition to draw then
wages. Beyond this they have no connection
with il, and entertain q supreme disdain for
ANYTHING American. Now to bring about 6
reform, q given amount Of brainsin the sub
iects to be reformed is necessary, and o
this commodity q certain proportion o
State department young men seem to be in
nocent, though they all claim to be diplo
mats, even though their sole right to thu
title consists in the fact that they tie up pa
pers or lick stamps in the august halls o
foreign affairs.
II isexpected that Mr.. Cleveland viii at
tend the New York Avenue Presbyterian