Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-29
VIRGIkIA C0MPLIMENTED BEYOND EX-
PECTATIORS.

fcGlAliUhS,
We are now frankly told that
"Civil Service Reform" is not to be
practiced in Virginia. Who is
donkey enough to believe it is to
be practiced anywhere. Read the
confidential letter of the Vile-aSs
of the p. o. Department, and there
learn that Virginia and Ohio come
first because elections in these
states take place this fall.
AS we said before, Virginia loves
this honorable distinction.
If Grover Gle veland were q
national president instead of a
national fraud he would himself
resent the cowardly suggestions
that proceed from about three
sncaks of his departments.
A little truth will answer the
cabinet liars.
There has never been an Office. hold
er removed by the readiuster party
in Virginia, nor at the request of a
readjuSter or republican senator.
There was not a removal by Presi.
dent Arthur or his cabinet. 1t was
only when terms expired or vacan-
cies were occasioned by death or
change of domicil that appoint
ments were made.
Here in the county of Shenan-
dOah, where Mr.. Vile ass has at
tempted to do so much, there has
not been a removal of any United
States officer in five years, and this,
Notwithstanding a large majority of
the pOstmasters were and are DEM
ocrats. That Yile-ass has been
lied to we have no doubt. But he
is in position to learn. He has ex-
hibited himself in the very way the
Southerner expected a Northern
democrat TO appear-just as they
all did during the war-liars and
traitors to both sides. Of the
"ofiensive partizans" Vile.ass has
found in this section, no one can be
pointed to except the men who
were appointed by Grant because
they were Union men and could
take the modified oath. In one
instance a man was taken from
another district, another voting
place, anotherpOst Office community
and made postmaster as carpet
Dagger, when every mail getter
but four had petitioned for a resi-
dent postmaster; and of these
four, one confessed himself per
sonal enemy, another has refused
to be reconstructed even to the ex-
tent of taking the voters oath, and
the other two we're influenced by
these two. In another case, the
U. S. Statues have been violated
by appointing a wife whose hus-
band was an applicant because the
husbands fitness would not stand
the test. In no single instan ce
has the most aggressive partizan"
on the democratic side failed of ap.
pOir tment in place of the offensive
partizan" removed. These are
glittering generalities and seem to
come late. We shall have lots Of
specifications and details hereafter.
We have desired Just what has
been done so that our people might
know the real inside Of Northern
so-called democracy is just what it
was from 1861 to 1865.
In treating these matters here
after Mr.. Manning's non-partizan
appOintees, Shepherd, Scott & Co.
will be incidentally referred to-.
The Scape-GOat carried many sins
into the Wilderness, but Tweed
didn't quite get away with all those
of his Buffalo bower when convey
ed in chains to the New York peni-
Tertiary.
Vile-ass has had his opportunity.
Manning has had his. The illegit-
innate husband of Maria, and the
first hangman president has had
and used his. 1t remains to be
seen how far the Republican Sen.
ate is composed of men. Virgin
ians will not seek the associations
Of any but men. Turn on the
steam.