Milford chronicle., 1885-01-09

ity a.. CIE,e Unat but few zEe-----
/ o0Slesale change as was once the
5 fle on the change of administration.
1t the same time it is not the desire
If the people of this country that 81,
distinctive CLASS of per,9c6otsvs u Name, name
holders shON Crowd Gov. Cleveland on
,l,o,,I5 service reform. Gov.
hOi shOui'iF JllOW5:-
go cation, dated December 90
pered with .Pme on behalf Of the National
,,loreaue.. ice Reform League, has been received
That practical reform IN the civil service
Is demanded is abundanily established by TIE
Iact that statute, referred to in your communi-
cation, TO secure such a result has been passed
IN Congress, with the assent Of both politica
parties, and by the further fact that a senti-
ment is generally prevalent among patriotic
people calling for the fair and honest enforce
ment Of the law which has been thus ed.
L regard myself pledged to this because my
conception Of true Democratic faith nd public
duty requires that this and all other statutes
should be in good faith and without evasion
enforced. and because in many utterances
made prior to my election as President, ap-
proved by the party to which belong and
which l have no disposition to disclaim. l
have in effect promised the people that this
should be done
am notunmiudful of the fact to which you
refer, that many of our citizens fear that the
recent party change in the national Executive
may demonstrate that the abuses which have
grown up in the civil service are ineradicable.
L know that they are deeply rooted and that
the spois system has been supposed to be inti-
mately related TO success in the maintenance
I OF party organization, and / am not sure that
I all those who profess to be the friends Of this
reform will stand firmly among its advocates
/ when they tud IL olstucting their way to pat
| rOnage and place. But fully approaching the
trust committed to my charge no such consid-
/ Grafton shall cause relaxation on my part Of
an earnest effort to e force this law.
7 There is a class Of government positions
which are not within the letter Of the civil |
service statute, but which are so disconnected |
with the policy Of an administration that the /
removal therefrom Of present incumbents. in |
my opinion, should not be made during the |
I terms for which they were appointed solely on /
partisan grounds and for the purpose of put |
ting IN their places those Whoa in political ac-
cord with the appointing power. But many now |
holding such pOalt ous have forfeited all lust /
claim to retention, because they have used their
places for party puri oses in disregard Of their
duty TO the people; and because, instead of
being decent public -ervants, they have proved /
themselves offensive partlsans and unscrupu-
lous manipulators of local party management
lhe lessons Of the past should be unlearned !
and such ofici Is as well as their successors
should be taught that efficiency, fitness and de-
voton to public duty are the condit ons OF
their continuance in public place, and that the
quiet and unobtrusiye exercise OF individual
political rights is the reasonable measure Of
their pa ty service.
If were a dressing none but party friends
l oud deem it entrey proper to remind
them that though the coming administi alton is
to be Democratic, duo regard for the peoples
interest does not permit faithful party work to
be always rewarded by appointment to office.
and to say to them that white Democrats NAV
expec all proper consideration, selections for
Office not embraced within the civil service
rules will be based upon sufficient iuquity as
to fitness, instituted by those charged with
that duty, rather than upon persistent impOr-
tunity or self-soicited recommendations on
be af of candidates for appointment.
Yours, very truly GROVER CLEVELAND.