St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16
Public Opinion.
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BIER of the civil service commission,
has sized up the opposition to the re-
forms as accurately as any one. "The
objection tn the civil service rules" he
says, "cOmes from politicians whose
occupation has been to find employ
ment for political workers i'll their con
gressiOual districts men whom the
politicians themselves would not en-
ploy as otficesweerers." The OccuPa-
ton of the Office brokers is gone, and
1.-the public business is rapidly getting
into the hands of capable, intelligent
men, Boston Herald.
THEY LEARN TOO LATE.
Buddensiek, the mud-mortar, tum-
ble-dOwn house manslaughterer, says
he will become n craving maniac" if
this thing of attempting to punish him
continues, and sit will kill his family"
etc, etc. He should have thought of
that while he was at the villainy which
carried death into other families. He
was like that Maryland fellow who was
so terribly Inundated by being pub
licly logged" for beating his wife. He
held that flOgging a white man was an
intOlerahle indignity. although he was
brute enough to whip II white woman
(his wife), who was in delicate health.
How sensitive some of these scOundrels
become when they feel the lash of the
law = Philadelphia Ledger.
SAN FRANCISCO JUSTICE"
NJ. II. De Young, the editor and pro-
prietOr of the San Francisco Chronicle,
who was shot and serio lsly wounded
last November by Adolph Spreckels,
son of Claus Spreckels, the sugar king,
will be inclined, one would think, to
construct IA new system of ethics on
the subject of firearms now that young
Spreckels has been acquitted of the
charge of attempted murder. De
YOung's brother was shot dead some
years ago and the perpetrator of that
murder was also acquitted. The
grounds upon which these cowardly
shooters escape justice is some kind Of
insanity abroad on the western coast
which makes men strangers to a realiz
ing sense that they are really commit
ting murder when they shoot their en-.
emies down. A few old fashioned YER
diets and some hangman's days might
possibly sharpen up the sense of what
murder is. The impression in San
Francisco is that the Spreckels verdict
was bought.-[Springfeld Republican.
DIFFERS WITH SENATOR HOAR.
The president, having been declared
to be the elected president of the ma
ton for four years from the 4th of
March last, would be false to American
citizenship and patriotic duty if he did
not continue in office and discharge all
the high responsibilities of his place
with conscientious fidelity to his con
victioDs of duty. And i'll our .judg
ment, which we regret to find differs
from the Judgment of Senator HOar, he
is not "bOund" either "tO give Meade
his commission" or ''tO step out of the
presidential chair" We rejoice that
he has so signally rebuked the methods
of the COpiah county democrats and of
all democrats who have committed
similar crimes, and, as we said at the
time, we believe this act of IA demo
cratic president will be more etfectual
in preventing similar crimes in the flu
ture than anything that a republican
administration would have been able
to do. Furthermore, in our Judgment,
it is doubtful whether the republican
party can be built up and inspired for
future victories and good works by
sneering criticism of any right action
of the PRESIDENT Boston Advertiser.