Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-17
TWO MONTHS-THE RESULT

| New y ork Tribune.
The highest compliment that TIC
democrats have ever paid or ever can
pay TO the republican party, they are
paving now in the pretended adop-
ton Of republican politics and prin-
| ciples as ihei" o II. To do this is not
easy or pleasant for them. Men Of
any self respect find it unspcakably
Illuminating to admit that they have
been lying like cOwardly scoundrels
in every political campaign for years.
Yet The dc nocrats have 10 do that or
| do worse.
Here i the monthly debt statement.
There is hardly a Democratic editor
| who can p int il. or Democratic ora
tor who can read or quote il without
proving Ia It his assertions about the
finance for years past have been as iGll
of untruti., as an egg Is of meat. he
| has been asserting that there WAS an
| enormous surplus, which ought 10 be
! spent i'll the clcaring-oil debt. Mr..
Hendricks and Mr.. Randall unblush-
inglv said it WAS 5000, 100000 or more
| Every official statement of Manning,
the Democratic secretary of he treas
| ury, tells them that they have been ly-
| ing The Democratic orator and cdi-
tor. persisted for years in his assert
ing that the Republican statements
were crooked and fraudulent; that
they were cunuin9ly devised to ell
| zeal the truth and 10 hide the robbery
of the poodle by Republicans. Mr..
ManniHg's statements, comparing dol
lar for dollar and cent for rent with
those of his predecessor, using the
very same items and differing only in
the arrangement of them, prove that
| these assertions were only a pack ui
fal>ehOUds. II i not pleasant to AID
init all this, but the Democratic AL
ministration Is forced to do that. or
else 10 let the treasury become bank
rupt in the first year of the Demo
cratic rule, and the latter would be Ia
tai to all chances o: keeping office.
When a Democrat has 10 forfeit either
his chance of keeping office, or hi rep
utaiion for honesty and his scllre-
speci. there is 10 doubt which he will
give up.
The civil service reform convicts
the Democrats of untruth every hogr.
Thav would abandon The policy and
abolish the system if they dared. but
that would cost them defeat. A.
tempting 10 pay some sort of respect
To II, they invo.uniarily prove ihat
they are uutru;hiuI when they call
thr Republican officials ''rascals." and
assert tina: the public service had been
crowded with incompeteniS. II the
old officials were really raScalS-if. in
fact, any accusation whatever of in
competency. however timsy. could hc
established against them-they could
he Put out at once iii strict accordance
With civil service rules. Not a single
one has vet been 50 removed, cXscpt
in Il very few cases where charges had
been investigated. and removal virtu-
ally decided upon. by the previous re-
publican administration. Hundreds
of men have been turned out whose
uprightness and efficiency have been
Off cialN admitted. in order to make
room for persons i'll harmony
with The new administration, but no
rascals have been found to remove,
and no incompetentS. Nearly one
hundred thousand persons still retain
office. after democratic admintStra-
ton has had the power 10 remove them
for two months. because no fault can
be found with them.
The net result of two months under
Democratic rule is TO prove that the
Democratic party gained Office by per-
-isteut. stupcndous, monumental false
hood Republicans await the dcvel-
opments of the next two months with
serene satisfaction.