The Wilmingtonian., 1885-03-28
VIII Bayard Explain 2

"There shall be no changes in office ex-
cert for cause. This is what Secretary
Bayard tells the world, 1t is the pronunci-
amento of the Department of State. More
over it is the logical result of the Civil Ser
vice enactment carried through Congress by
Secretary Bayard and the new minister to
Germany, Senator Pendleton.
Minister Lowell, at the Court Of st.
James sent in his resignation because, to use
his own words "the change was unavoida-
bic. cwins te the asccrdaucy fla now party
TO power VIII anybody deny that this is
case in point, or that the spirit Of the Con
gressional enactment of Civil Service Re
form affects only the lower offices, clerk
ships, bridge tenders and country postmas-
terships.
Let it be demanded of the Secretary of
State ifthcre is any virtue in his theory Of
Civil Service Reform that its action be
extended with eyen-handed consistency to
all Offices in the gift of this government, as
all the enactments on our national statute
books should. Let all those offices whose
Ineumbency are affected by the entrance Of
new party into power be retained by the
present holder unless 'cause" is shown fol
other action
Tt appears to us that this, the appointment
of foreign ministers, was the grandest op,
portunity ofall for the practical enunciatiOr
byour grandiloquent and illustrious head o.
the State Department, Secretary BaYard
of the doctrine of reform. But he missed
the opportunity, even though the only caus,
for the change in the British Embassy wal
that a Democratic president had taken tn,
reins of government ! How is it that on
camorous denunciatiors of the old system
the very inceptors of the new, immediatel.
the opportunity is given them, cart
blanche indeed for full demonstration o
the better idea, how is it that these Peck
sniffiian moralzels utterly fail and fall fla
in the test? 5E
1t is not asserted by us that Mr.. Lowell
fitting representative of this country t
the court of St James, or even that he is not
but it is claimed that the only cause fc
1,is ,or,,yal hainr that Of tba aeoo,J,,,,
Of new party to power, Mr. Lowell cannC
be removed, if there be any consistency i
Secretary Bayard's legislation or statesman
ship, as that is tho very mid-centre poil
upon which the idea OF the Civil Servit
Reform enactment hinges. No other que
tlon is brought up against Mr.. Lowell.
the contrary the press of tue two hemisphere
and the people too are unanimous for his i
tention. To use the words of the Phlade
phia Press:
'Mr. LowelPs graceful allusions 70 Pre-,
dent Cleveland and Minister Phelps a
about all that thinking people need to co
vince them that there should have been
change in our representative at the Court
st. James, " and Mr.. Lowell's own words til
the change was unavoidable owing to b
ascendancy of new party to power.
IfMr, BAYARD should by accident pond
quietly over these words dropped from n
Lowell's lips, what a bitter, incisive sdrcas
they would be to an honesG man.
What an empty nostum this quackery
Civil Service Reform is when its Origin
inceptors fear 10 carry out the spirit of it
any logical conclusion. The foreign emb,
sizes are independent of the statute but I
more obscure position OF Squankunvi
postmastership az s25 per Gnnum must
defended from ''heelers" with all the frow
ing majesty os the state department that
convenient Congressional enactment atfor
It's astute Chief