The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-10-27
rHOmAN RESIGNS
And Cleveland Accepts with Tary
and Thanks I. -s,l
WAsHINGros, October %. The follow
Is correspondence:
UNITED STATES

/ SIR: respectfully referring 70 d SoiA-
versation had with you on March 10TH
in which / expressed wish to be re-
lieved of my duties as g member of the
United States Civil Service Commission.
and also TO the apparent fact that IL was
not then your pleasure to consider my
request, have now the honor 10 ten
tder formally my resignation and earn
testly- beg your consideration OF the
same. aud its accep anee. While thus
/ asking release from so honorable trust,
desire 10 record my qualification
over the proved praeticability ane
remedial effectiveness of the reform
procedure. Tried veterans in the pol
itical warfare, view, with amazement,
the facIle, though radical, departure
from the familiar methods OF the spolls
4 system of distributing patronage. sire
/ nuous and sincere argument, and also
deliberate peryersion, marx the oppoSi-
ton Of the difi rent groups OF the an
tagonists, and y eC it must be concluded
/ by q minority of the political leaders
in either party it is in accord with the
Pendleton law, Il its original enactment
and emphatic endorsement by q suDse-
qUent congress and honest legislative
expresSiOnS,i and not the CO.
| ercion of moral coWardice by
popular sentiment. nor partisan
! iegerdemaiu. In the great task OF
administrative reform, which you have
undertaken, in accordance with personal
and party pledges, the people will give
| aid. 1t has been nay pleasure, within
/ the last two months TO visit quite q
number of States and Territories of this
Union and it was my good fortune 10
meet with many OF their citizens. 1t Is
/ - 20 hof ho
I fde in the unequiYocal intention of the
| President TO sustain the merit system
in the civil sergice.- They had con-
/ demned the evils of the former methods;
long experience had made their know
ledge accurate. They welcomed the
Inauguration Of the new, the distinctive
features of reform, appealed to
typicallY American sentiment,
which recommends and advances
merit; with the precise details
Of the new procedure their
acquaintance was not so intimate. To
this they are fast succeeding, and the
result viii be cordial approval. The
inception and maintenance of great re-
forms are with the people. l believe
the fundamental idea of civil service re-
form l. characteristics nf American
thought. Popular hesitation over ae-
cept2tion of statutory details suggests
merely safe conservatism. In the in
itial stages of this reform, there was q
response throughout the nation. Poll
teal contests assumed a new tone. Old
time methods of corruption were dis
Outraged and bOSsism was grappled
with fresh Yigour. The improve
ment is yet marked. If vicious elements
still seek ObtrusiOn into the elections
the chances OF their success have been
lessened. The reform spirit is militant,
and advances towards complete sue
cess; corruption BY official patronage
has been removed. With the lmpart
ing OF a purer life TO official circles, the
power OF the private purse to purchase
political hOnors viii be less dangerous.
Public apprec alton of the fact that this
reform does not trench upon partisan
ship, came late. 1t was studiously
maintained that the civil service was to
be composed of men who should abjure
certain rights OF citizenship. With
| the gradual but inevitable REPUTATION of
this false view, the outlines of the re-
form at last stood forth in clearness.
Il is a reform which views the civil SER
vice as a vast business agency. In bust.
ness which is not political it enforces no
tests of party.
With confident trust in the success of
your administration, am
Your obedient servant,
LEI oY d. THoMAN.
To the President:
EXECUTIVE MANSION
WAsHINGToN, October oath.
To Hon. Leroy D. Thoman, Grill Service
Commissioner.
Ny Dear S.r: L have received your
letter rendering your resignation as a
member of the Civil Service Commits
sion. which is in furtherance of an in
clination expressed by you very soon
after my Inauguration as President.
The resignation thus rendered is hereby
accepted, to take effect the 1st day
OF November next. [ congratulate you
upon the fact that in the Office
which you relinquish you have been
able, by sincere and earnest, work, and
by steady devotion, to the cause of
which you have had charge, to do so
much in the interest of good govern
meut and improved political methods.
Yours sincerely.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
An Associated Press reporter called
this evening upon Commissioner Tho
man, who, replying to a question as to
his future inteE.4ons, said: 81 will not
be idle moment. l have some private
business matters which will occupy my
attention for short time, and then /
expect to resume the practice of law"
It is said Judge Thoman has under
consideration a proposition from
large corporation in New York City.
His only reply to a question on this
r,Oi1t NOS. az do not foaI at Iiharkv IN
say anything on that subject at pres
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