The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02
The Press on the UlsveIand Letter.

Co~Urier-Journal: Governor Clegelaud's
letter, brief as il is, leaves nothing Hnsaid
On the subject which should be said. II he
shall carry ont principles therein enunciated
with the courage, honesty and sturdiness
which have heretofore marked his public
career, applying the same lofty conception
of ststesmanship 70 his other trying duties,
he viii not only establish the Democratic
party firmly in the confidence of the coun-
try, but bis administration will rank in his
tory second in honor and luster to none
which has preceded it.
New York Times: This whole letter is
the plainest and simplest common
sense, and yet it is one of the most
noteworthy political documents OF this
generation, because common sense has for
years been the rarest thing known in the
treatment OF this supreme question. Mr.
Cleveland rises without effort and naturally
to the full height Of his great post, and gives
q new proof that in bis selection the sagscity
OF the people was not at fault.
Philadelphia Times: Tits letter will net
however, bring much comfort TO the men
now IN Office who have made their places re-
cruiting stations for q political party and
who have suddenly been seized with great
admiration for the tenure OF Office portion Of
the civil service reform principle. He serves
notice upon such persons that they will be
expected to go and that without serious or
unnecessary delay. And IL there is to be any
genuine reform of existing methods the Of
Gcisi guillotine can not be set in motion too
quickly. On the other hand, he is no less
positive in bis notice to his own partisans
that claims of party activity and energetic
selfseeking are not the elements he will seek
IN filling vacancies.
Rochester Union-Advertiser: Under this
ruling pretty much every officer under the
Government who does not come within the
letter o. the civil service statute may con-
slider his time up. IL there are any excep-
tons to which is does not apply, they have
yet TO be discovered. President Cleveland
appears to have the correct idea of civil
service reform, and Mr.. George William
Curtis and his associates have done him the
favor to furnish hin q favorable opportunity
to express 1t.
Chicago Herald: No letter from a Presi-
dent in twenty-five years has had the whole
some effect on our politics that this ore will
have IL is a warning and a threat, a prom
ise and q fulhllment, all in one. In 1t the
d~isreputsble and ~tyrsnnical oficeholders,
who have served party and not the people,
may read their doom. The Senate can not
save them. Faithful public officers will see
in il a guarantee of protection and reward.
Chicago News: It should be remarked
that Governor Cleveland uses the word "de-
cent"-a favorite with him, by the way-as
having regard to the manner of displaying
oneself so as to be approved and respected.
When a man is not a decent public servant
In his eye, he means that that man has
made some public exhibition of conduct I'M
becoming q man holding an official trust.
Many officeholders whose names will occur
To the reader without any suggestion from
rs afford conspicuous examples of this sort
of indecency. 1t is to be hoped their fate
will prove q warning to their successors.
Chicago Times: The civil servant who
voluntarily uses his place for party pur-
poses, in disregard not merely of his public
duty, but in contempt of an express Law las,
for example, the Marshal of this judicial
Distri ctl is one whose prompt dismissal il
imperatively demanded by the spirit and