The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-07-30

end that. in Presidential contests
1.-THE great business and other inter
ests of the country may not be plac-
J ed in fear and trembling, lest an un.
scrupulous minority should succeed
lin sitting the wishes of the majority
In accordance with the spirit ol
the last resolution of the Chicago
platform, measures should be taken
at once to remedy this great evil.
FOREIGN IMMIGRATION.
/ Under our liberal institutions the
subjects and citizens of every nation
have been welcomed to home in
our midst, and on a compliance with
our laws to cooperation in our
Government. While it is the policy
of the Republican party to encour-
age the oppressed of other nations
and offer them facilities for becom-
ing useful and intelligent citizens in
the legal definition of the term, the
party has never contemplated the
admission of class Of servile people
who are not only unable to compre-
hend our institutions, but indispos-
ed to become a part of our national
family or to embrace any higher
civilization than their own. To
admit such immigrants would be
only to threw retarding element
into the very path of our progress.
Our legislation should be amply
protective against this danger, and
if not sufficiently so now should be
made so to the full extent allowed
by our treaties with friendly
powers.
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
The subject of civil service ad-
ministration is problem that has
occupied the earnest thought of
statesmen for a number ofyears past
and the records will show that to-
ward Its solution many results of a
valuable and comprehensive char
acter have been attained by the Re-
publican party since its accession
to power. In the partisan warfare
made upon the latter with the view
of weakening it in the public con-
fidence a great deal has been alleged
in connection with the abuse of the
civil service, the party making the
indiscrimiEate charges seeming to
have entirely forgotten that it was
under the full sway of the Demo
cratic organization that the motto,
!" To the victors belong the spoils,"
became cardinal article in the
Democratic creed.
With the determination to elevate
our governmental administration to
a standard of justice, excellence and
public morality, the Republican
party has sedulously endeavored to i
lay the foundation of a system which
shall reach the highest perfection
under the plastic hand of time and
accommodating experience. The prob
lem is one of far greater intricacy
than appears upon It's superficial
consideration, and embraces the sub
questions of how to avoid the abus-
es possible to the lodgment of an
immense number of appointments
in the hands of the Executive of
how to give encouragement to and
provoke emulation in the various
employees, in order that
they may strive for proficiency and
rest their hopes of advancement
upon the attributes of official merit,
good conduct and exemplary hon.
esty and how best to avoid the
evils of creating a privileged class
in the Government service, who, in
imitation of European prototypes,
may gradually lose all proficiency
ind value in the belief that they
possess a life-calling, only to be
aiken away in case of some flagrant
lbuse.
The thinking, earnest men OF the
Republican party have made no
mere wordy demonstration upon
his subject; but they have endeav-
,red to quietly perform that which
heir opponents are constantly prom
sing without performing. Under
rule the result has been
hat, without engrafting any of the
features of the Euro
,ean systems upon our own, there
las been a steady and even rapid {
elevation Of the civil service in all {
fits departments until it can now I
De stated, without fear of successful
contradiction, that the service is
more Just, more efficient and purer
n all of its features, than ever before
'ince the establishment of our Gov
/; and if defects still exist
n our system, the country can safe {
y rely upon the Republican party !
Is the most efficient instrument tor ,
heir removal. :
| am in favor of the highest stand :
lrd of excellence in the administra- /;
ion of the civil service, and will !
end my best efforts to the accom- !,
olishment of the greatest attainable
perfection in this branch of our SER
nee
'HE REMAINING TWIN RELIC OF BAR /.
BARIsM.
The Republican party came into !,
existence in crusade against the !
institutions of slavery |
md polygamy. The first OF these =
las been buried beneath the embers {
# civil war. The party should con- q
inue its efforts until the remaining :
niquity shall disappear from our 4
under the force of faith
ully executed laws.
There are other subjects of impor-
ance which | would gladly touch
lpon did space permit. | limit t
myself to saying that while there t
hould be the most rigid economy of |
administration, there /
hould be no self-defeating parsi-
nony either in our domestic or for t
ign service. Official dishonesty r
hould be promptly and relentlessly 6
punished. Our obligations to the G
defenders of our country should t
lever be forgotten, and the liberal t
iystem of pensions provided by the t
party should not be i'm 8
)eriled by adverse legislation. The
aw establishing a Labor Bureau,
through which the interests of labor