Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-08-03
M>n>mNLL, TGN. July 81,

M\nNIINLL, TEN, July -, iss5,
To The Editor of the Gazette;
| thank you very kindly for tue
space allowed me in your col
umns in n criticism ON what is
alleged by you aud others to be the policy
of the Washington administration, and
the course pursued by Il certain portion
ot the Texas press, TuE GtzErrE among
the number, In defense of the proprlcty
and patriotism of appointing and retain
Ing in office Republicans.
You must pardon me for my frankncsS
IN asking you II you really considered,
thoughttully and logically, the full inn
port of your editorial of the 2Sth, en-.
titled "'rhc Administrations Consistcn.
cy?' Did You stop 10 reflect upon the
attitude In which 1t places you aud those.
who mdorSc your sentiments!
You start out with the assumption that
the administration, in It's appointments
10 office, must be essentially non-parti-
sar that the president, having given
his approval 10 Che civll-Serylcc
act, cannot consistently inquire whether
an applicant Is n Democrat or Republican.
hut must look alone To his qualifications
and illness Tor the place. To enforce
this view, you give quotations from the
act in question which you seem to think
makes this point clear. II seems To me
that II you examine the very quotations
which you adduce they will not bear YOU
out IN your construction of them. Ger
tain 1t Is the Republicans did not so I'M
derStand them, As an evidence OF It the
law has been in operation for two wears.
al III Int a 4
yet Ia learn of single Democrat
that was ever favored with an
Official position of any kind
CT course the law says, that "public en-
ploymcnt will he open to all who demon
Stratc their fitness to enter it," bul does
this forbid the president, when he comes
to consider the claims of asplran,s, from
selecting those persons in harmony with
his administration and its pledge of re-.
FORM In fact, Is this not the primal
ground OF fitness, unless the president as.
Sumcs the position of rHE GAInrrE, that
the public service is as safe, or safer.
with Republicans as Democrats IN otilccy
II Illness means simply capacity to I'M the
place, then every internal revenue col
lector, marshal, postmaster, etc, in Texas
and out OF it,ctc., should take the clerk and
employees of his predecessor, as they are
fully instructed and trained in their rc.
>pectlyc positions.
confess that have never been placed
In possession of the "civil-seryicen law.
and cannot, therefore, discuss its merits
but passages have been given from il by
the press, which are regarded by those,
the most enlightened minds of the conn.
try, as unjust and unconstitutional But
TINS feature of the case is Irrelevant and
foreign TO this discussion, for the reason
that the federal Offices In Texas, To which
! directed attention, are not controlled
as understand, by this. Hut suppose
they We're; is there a federal
officer In the state moi subject Ia removal
as am "offensNc partisany" Can rir &; a.
IEr1E point 20 one that Is not subject Ia
removal under that acty I'm GAzErrr
knows the character ol these men, and Ii
II had forgotten their antecedents, it, at.
iention was directed to The matter In my
prtNionS.communicalion, They partici-
paicd in the Injustice, corrupiions and