Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-25

ID. Long of Massachusetts, contributes u
noticeable article to the new Republican
weekly, the state, of Boston. We quote
from it as follows
The Republican party in Congress has
an opportunity by no means dsadvan-
tage0us. In the House it is powerful
minority, falling very little short of the
other side in numbers. In the Senate it is
a majority. In its ranks it counts some
of the foremost and strongest minds in
the country. and Is called to meet perhaps
less strength than usual in those arrayed
against 1t. Ia spite of the defeat of last
fall 1t Is in closer sympathy with control
ling public sentiment, and il more repre-
sentative of it on all the leading issues of
the day than its antagonist which, with
every allowance for the education of
twenty-five years, comes back to power
necessarily dragging in lis train II good
many of the antique ana picturesque Fal-
stai1iHn squad. IL is hardly denied that if
the administration is to rise To the stand
ard which it aud its trunpet"rs have set
mp for it, il must dO 50 IN conflict with the
body OF its party in Congress and by the
aid of the Lody of the Republican party.
The national financial mechanism 50 mar
VelluuaiN successful, the rebuilding OF the
navy somewhat advanced and further
provided tor, the continuation of the
banking system, the humane Indian poll
Cy, the increased efficiency and CheapueSs
of the postal service, the cause of nation
al education, the bankrupt bill, the re-
ductiun OF expenses and debt are all sub
Stautially Republican measures, and their
fate will stlll depend on Republican sup
port. With regard to the civil service re-
form, wrought by the Republican party
into law, the danger to it comes, as was
predicted before the election, from its
not having had time To become crystalliz-
ed into our national system sufficiently to
hnsl hn Sfl At .l At fi..s
and from the irrepressible hunger OF the
Democratic party To possess itself of the
spells. Whatever President CleNeland's
good intentions, it is already apparent
that, outside of the civil service law
which affects about One-tenth Of the office
holders the doctrine Of giving the spells
to the victors is going ON 10 its cUnsum-
nation, Il few brilliant exceptions no more
proving the contrary than bankrupt
proves his solVency by preterring and pay
ing IL full one or two creditors and letting
all the rest 20 bare. And i'll ali kindness
in no spirit of retOrt, it ought IN warning
to he said to the friends Of civil service
reform that in their natural aud eager
prize To Vlndicate tic AiUGWUnp-D"mu
cratic alliance and lis result, tlt picoeu
President, they are BENG drlWH IutJ IN
directly Yindlcdtlnr m lntlsIo1 Of I'll
fundamental principles oi tina reform f-
self and into RAISING Il destructive publ,
no principle of 1t thH has not been owe.
and over again Outgt Led in rt~c,. Wu.Ch.
had they occurred under II Il 'publica. ,,u
ministraiOn, would nave turuct every
club III their organization mo 70 shrek
ing gatling gun. And vet no prptc-
comes from them rs Il body 1T tine II gran
use of the offices to reward the worker
and strikers, at the removal without goo
cause of deserving officials, at tie de-
struction of the beginning of stability /,
our consular service, at the employment
even of Jail birds and COnVicls in places
of public trust, at the tricky evtt~Iuns re-
sorted to under the very shadow of the
departments in order to beat the civil ser
vice statute, ut the retention of Higgins,
or at the subtler rot which is creeping
into the editorials of their own journals.
and into the apologies of their tdherents.
to the effect that on the whole the places
should at least be divided between the
parties and even that it is no matter who
fills the petty offices. What becomes of
that foundation plank of merit and com
potency, which is to be ascertained by
test and is to he supcratNely lndepend-
ent OF party bias, if the basis is To be one
of partiZanship in whatever proportion
Even within the sacred precincts of the
civil service law, there is pillng mp, whcth-
er with the Presidents knowledge or not,
Il pitiful scatlolding of evasiOns and vic
lations of its provisions, of which every
telegraphic despatch brings an item. he
civil service cause Is one OF integral I'M
portance. In my judgment it is i'll criti-
cal case. 1t behooves its friends to take
care that under the glamour Of its main
tenance in some few notable instances, 1t
is not in its entirety meantime honey
cOmbed and moth eaten SO that when
little later the doors are opened and the
company are assembled, they VIII gaze
only upon handful of dust. There is
no heart, nor is there even the profession
of any, in the Democratic party in sup
port of this cause Ur of the law existing
in its behalf The doubtful constitution
ality of that law is liable at any time to
he the club which in their hands will
knock it on the head. We do President
Cleveland the justice to believe that that
refuge will not be resorted to while he Is
President but look out, if his lieutenant
succeeds him. His flag is Il broom.
The Republican party is big enough and
glorious enough and possesses enough OF
the confidence of the country, to leave its
past to the test of history-to let its lum-
hering antagonist gorge on the spells of
Office, turning within into volcano of in
ternal raging fires and to assume its nor
NAL function of careful and prudent at
tenlion to the economical and political
questions of the day Watching and pro
tectIng the business interests Of the Cuul-
try with which it is 50 closely allied
promoting the rights of labor and OF man
to which its birth was cOnSecrated, faith
iUl to the cause of education, equal rights
and human progress making stable in
legislation wherever IT is now weak, not
only the cause of civil service reform but
every other reform; cooperating with
the administration, though II he not ITS
own, wherever il is right, and fighting II
wherever wrong and thus dong Is rs
sure to win back its supremacy rs intelli-
geuce to rule, or patriotism to triumph.
An intelligent people Will not forget
which party in the past has best promot-
ed the great interests of the country, or
in the present gives the best earnest of
sincere devotion to progress and reform.
"Templeton' writes from Boston to the
Hartford Comm COurdHt II had much
to do with Mrs. Stoves and IIawthorne's
manuscripts in their later novels Mrs.
Stoves was handsome, plain, and appar-
emily dashed off with vigor; Hawthorne's,
carefully and closely written in every part,
and altogether without interlineation.
Mrs. Stoves was not careful, and though
she did not interline a great deal, it was