The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-03-27
no sutlsr crsvlsd behind the fragile
bEeastNorka Of Civil Service reform.


After the election the Democrats expected
70 get in and the Republicans to get out.
But new genus had come about OF late
years-a class Of political philosophers
who believed that non.partisanship was q
pAnacea for all the evils that afflicted the
republic, men who dscried the operation
Of the American system, as they called It,
POLITICAL RgSusHs,
This new party had been recruited from
the Republican party. II there was any
genuine Civil Service retormsr who had
deserted the ranks Of the Democracy his
tory did not record his name. (LAughter) J
The neuter gender, Mr.. Ingalls, said, was
not popular eitheFsin nature or in science
finale and female created he them"
But there was third sax-if that could
be called sex which had nons-resulEng
sometimes from the caprice Of
natare, at others from accident or
malevolnent design, possessing the
vices OF both and the virtues OF neither,
Laughter, Unable either to bsgst or to
bear, possessing neither feCundity or vir-
ility, endowed with the GoutempEo Of men
and the deTlslon' Of women-doomed to
sterility, isolation and extinction, Laugh
dBut, " said Mr., ingalls,, "thsy have two
tunctions-they sing ialsetto Great
Laughter and they are usually selected
as the guardians OF the seraglios OF 0rien.
tai despots, Great Laughter,
MUaWuMPs sELE ESTEEM.
To come from figure to fact he con-
tinued, this third party had distinguished
itself by singing in ialsetto phrases OF
Civil Service Reform, and had been re-.
lected IS the guardian OF the conscience
Of the National Government, He was
not here to impugn the good faith, patriot
ism or the many extraordinary qualities OF
the President OF the United States. The
President was the sphynx Of American
politics. 1t was said that he was q tatalist.
Certainly, whether Grover Cleveland was
a very great or q very small man, he was
very extraordinary man. His career for
bade any other conclusion. The Democratic
party was not wanting when the C0nven.
don was held at Chicago in many g eat
and lllustrlous names, men who had led
the forlorn hope In its darkest days, men
for whose character, achievements and
history, not only that organic alton but the
country had the prOfoundest admiration
and respect, There was Thurman and
Bayard aud Hendricks and Tilden and
others, perhaps not less worthy but less
illustrlous, upon whom the mantle OF that
great distinction might properly have
fallen.
THE RISE OF CLEVELAND.
But Grover Cleveland, the man who at
the mature age Of IS, abandoned a liberal
and honored profession that he might be.
come Sheriff Of an interior county, was
selected for that position, and who in a
little more than year ago he entered the
Senate chamber and subsequently took
tho oath OF Office. On this platform he
encountered an audience not one.
twentieth part Of which had ever seen
him, and the greater part part OF whom
two years before did not know him even
by name, and who was even at that
moment practically unacquainted with
the leaders Of his own party In the Senate,
The rise OF Napoleon was sudden, start
ling, dazzling. Many other soldiers Of
fortune had sprung from obsCurlty to
fame, but no illustration OF an elevation
from an obsCurity 20 profound 10 q height
sO=brilliant and dazzling was recorded In
history as the selection OF Grover Cleve.
land 10 be the Chief Magistrate Of sixty
millions OF people. II when he was in.
augurated he had determined that the
functions OF the government should be ex.
erCissd by men Of his own party the
nation would have been content, and
hereon was founded the justification that
the msjority Of the Senate could use In
demanding that no action shSuld be taken
in connection with the proposed removals
from Office until there had been satislac.
tory assurances that no injustice had been
done.
ILLUMINATED" DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
After commenting on the number ol
tourth.Class postmasters removed, Mr.. In.
gals continuing said this number did not
include the many who had resigned OF
whose term Of office expired. And this
was in but in one department. How
many in other departments, including
the illuminated" Department Of Justice
llaughter) was unknown, therefore the
friends Of administration should be con
soled.
Mr.. Ingalls, then read and commented
on q List Of names Ot persons appointed by
the present administration who, according
TO the published statements, were convict
ed felons, having served various terms II
the penitentiary OF different states. ThI
statements he read, Mr.. Ingalls, said, werl
all from Democratic newspapers. One o
the appolntees, Mr.. Ingalls, said, had beer
in the penitentiary Of three States. "HI
was q variegated aud diversified patriot
No pent up Utica contracts his powers.
TIE "PrERopAcrYL" PARTY.
After referring to Mr.. Wilson's applica
tion Of the word "protoplasmic" 70 thI
Democratic party and Mr.. Voorhees, crit
cism Of Il, Mr. ingalls, said, "Geologistl
have found in the rocks illustrations Of q
being that occupied in the Transition
from the fish to the bird This Is al
extinct creature called by geologists the
ptsrodactyl, or winged reptile, which iB
lizard with feathers on Its paws and feath'
ers on its tail. II appears 10 me that {
political system that illustrates In its prac
tluaI operations the appointment by the
same administration 81 Eugene HigginE
and Dorman B. Eaton, can properly be
regarded as In the transition epoch, ant
characterised as the pterodRctyl In politics
[Great laughter. Like that animal Il Il
equally adapted to wadlng and dabblinl
| ID the slime aud mud Of partisan politics
and soaring aloit with loud cries In thl
Rlittering aud opaleseent eppyTean o
Utvil Service Reform. Great laughter ant
applause on the floor and In the galleries.
AtANNIN G's CONDITION.
The Secretary Somewhat lmpfOved-wha
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