New-York tribune., 1884-01-13
THE DEFEAT OF PENDLETON.
VIEWED FROM A NoN-PARTIsAN STAND.
poRMAN b. EAToN's CRITICISM UPON oHIo's DIS.
REGARD FOR CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.

DORMAN B. FATONS CRITICISM UPON OHIOs Dis
REGARD FOR CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
TBr TELEGRAPH rRrBUsE.l
WASHINGTON Jan. 12.-Beng asked what were
likely to be the effects upon the Civil Service issue
of the defeat of Senator Pendeton, Dorman B.
Eaton SAID he was not in political life and no
judge of Democratic motives or policy. If the de-
feat was not caused by Senator Pendlet0n's reform
policy, then the consequences are manly the loss
to the Senate and the Nation of an able states
man, who had the courage and the con-
science to do his duty manfully. II that policy
defeated him. the event has far
greater significance "The peculiar attitude Of the
people of Ohio on the reform question" he said,
- has long been puzzle to me- They among
the very first for intelligence and sagacity. They
have among them abundance of able men, even
if they fail to get their share of the Offices Up to
this time the reform question in Ohio fingers in the
stage of ridcule and neglect-a stage which it has
passed some time since in the other lead
ing States. A policy which vast
majority of both houses of Congress has approved,
which the leading Democratic members, including
every candidate for Speaker at the present session,
voted for, which the President is successful ly en-
forcing, and which several States are think about
TO adopt considerable part of the people of Ohio,
at least of one party, seem TO regard only as Joke
or a dream. They may be right. even if rather pc
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM POPULAR.
There are" Mr. sEaton continued, more than
sixty Civil Service Reform Associations in the lead
ing States reaching San Francisco 10 Portland.
Among the members in every State are able men OF
both parties, and many powerful journals speak
for them. New associations are constantly being
formed. One has been formed this week in Con-
necticut, with that good free trade Democrat,
David 4. Wells, as chairman of its Executive Com
mittee. While nOn.partIsan in organization and
method these associations not the less consld-
erable political power in several States. Mr.
o. B. Potter, Democratic member from
New-York district lately Republican, who was also
a member of the committee which had charge of
preparing the reform bill which Senator Pendleton
presented Mr.. Morse a Democrat, from Massachu-
setts; Mr. Lyman, Republican, from the same
State: and Mr.. Phelps, Republican from New
Jersey are among the members of the present
House whose elections illustrate the somewhat de-
cisiye influence of the reform element in their
States.
THE MOVEMENT WEAK IN ONO.
"Of these more than sixty associations, only two
are in Ohio and they among the most limited in
membership and activity of anyin the Union. The
Ohio press shows them small favor | cannot tell
why 1t may be that the people of Ohio are too
wise for such folly as Civil Service Reform too
Democratic resolutions to the contrary. Compare
Massachusetts, New-York and Pennsylvania
with Ohio on that issue. Those States
have passed through a kind of crisis.
Whether Ohio is proof against it, or is on the rag
ged edge of it, will not presume to say Take the
State of New York which know best, for an Illus
tratIon 1t has fifteen sixteen such associations.
Its foremost men, of both par les, are i'll them, and
majority of the able journals of the state support
them. thorough trial of the practical methods
of the Civil Service bill in the New-York Post
| Office and Custom House for several years
| has convinced the judgment of her
| people. Within the few months since the
passage of thar BILL during which some wise people
| in Ohio have compassed the defeat of Mr. Pendeton,
the Democratic majority in the NewYork Legis-
| ature have passed reform bill containing all the
provisions of the act OF Congress- WIN others nOre
! stringent in addition. Democratic ,ovsrnor
! signed it, and he has appointed very able COM
! mission of two Democrats and one Republican,
and, it having prepared, he has approved
They They cover the whole Civil Service of thai great
! State Nor is this ALL The late message OF Gov
ernor Cleveland further tells rs that the Democrat
| ic Mayor of the City of NewYork (in the presence
of John Kelly, and may add in the U,.a map9r OK
Mavor of he City of Brooklyn, have each prepared
Civi Service rules, each series governing theoiVh
! Service Of his own city, WHICH are now being en-:
]
| that State to enact a similar law Other states
think are likely to follow these examples very soon
AN iRRECoNCILABLE POLICY.
"If hostility to the spos system really defeated
Senator Pendlcton, do not how the Ohio policy
can be recoAciled with that of the States by which
it is being repudiated. do not say Mr. PendletOn's
enemies are not wiser than all those repudiators of
the old spOls system; merely suggest they are
different As Republican l cannot sec
how party can have one National policy
for Ohio and another for the other doubtful
States where the friends of reform hold the balance
of mower But give the leaders of the Democratic
party credit for knowing how to solve such prom.
| lem | cannot forget that the CIVIL Service bill
was first presented two years ago by Democrats IN
| Republican anxious to tai the responsibility A
Democratic Governor and Democratic Legis-
| ature have been the first TO apply
| its methods TO the Civil Service or
| n State The foremost statesmen OF that party
| Pendleton Bayard, Davis George, Garland, Vest,
| .Jones' Carlisle. Randall. Cox, Morrison, Hewitt
and Springer-vOted for the bill, and at least five OF
| them spoke for 1t. Are such men or the men no
| have made war on PendletOn, because he made war
on the spos system, to be the trusted leaders OF
| party2 Mr.. PendletOn may DO defeated
! Tor the moment, but if his party has
venture to think the fate of administrative reform
does not depend upon his enemies or upon any siugle
If Republicans seem likely TO do most for II in
the future its members have not all the patriotism
of the country They cannot wish more in selfish
spirit than that Mr. Pendcton's enemies shall con-
tinue to drive independent voters into the Repubh-
can camp"
AMERICAN MEAT PRODUCTS.