New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-04

=, cities if the cities elect improper men to exc
cute SRs about Civil Service reform in the cam
va ssThe Republican party should take firm stand
l.. favor of Civil Service reform. and more than
that shomd mean %na' qaa gay sye eSS
~ I think, that the pretences of the Demo-
cratic party favor of Civil Service reform are tho
msrest sham. l think that President Cleveland,
hang fully committed to the principle, is standing
nm against his party as best he can to promote Civil
Seryce reforms but there are thousands of removals
beng accomplished OF which he OF necessity. Is ID
.nt,re Ignorance. was told in Washington by one
who is eognizant of the facts that there have been
over 500 removals in the railway mail service alone
w,thout cause and without the pretence Of cause.
and no one will maintain that the changes were
made to improve the efficiency of the service.
I 1ssks sO IN the s"e Albany Post Office IS an
other illustration of what is going on all
through the country in as quiet sot way
Tnemocratic policy to be careful about attracting
nubhc attention and adverse criticism on the one
hand but on the other to drive out of place all
those in subordinate offices who have no means of
redress and no means of reaching the public with
the story of the methods of their removals. Inc
President of course, can have little or no kn0wl-
edge of the thousands of such Instances where
Democratic politicians are giving the lie direct to
all his public professions BY common consent the
higher administrative offices should be filed by
men in sympathy with the Administration, and
NAV of right be changed when the Administration
changes but the people of this country have done
a great deal of thinking on this subject OF Clyll
Service reform lately, and the time has gone. by
when great political party can pretend publicly
old officials who are. faithful and
capable and then on the sneak turn out the boys
who carry the mails and the girls in the depart
ments because they have no political influence 10
keep them in their places In many instances, too.
veterans of the war, / learn. have beeu turned out
to make places for henchmen. The people of this
country owe it the soldiers to take care of them
and other things being equal. the people intend
and the laws provide that the soldiers should be
preferred for positions In the public service" ,
Have you any opinion as to the probable result
of the fall election in the State ~
''As to general results, while have no means OF
judging other than what have already mentioned,
still / see no cause for encouragement. The Re
publican party is now more homogeneous
than it has been of recent years,
and the outcome of the election, think, is almost
exclusively dependent on the character OF the
nominees. Patronage has been a source of weak
ness to any party in this State and while Republi-
cans are becoming soliditied on account OF the
absence of those things which have hitherto
divided them, the Democratic party is becoming
demoralized through the disappointment that has
Overtaken the great majority of its many Office
seekers and the dissatisfaction, If not disgust,
which has fallen upon those who are rot office
seekers at the demonstrated holowness of the pro-
LESSONS of their party"