The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-08-07
DETEsTABLE WARFARE.
Exposure OF q sample Lot of Republican
and Now York "Tribuns F" Faisehoods.

Exposure OF q sample Lot of Republican
and New York "Tribuno 1" Faisehoods.
Nothing could be more detestably
mean than those efforts to break down
Civil-Service reform simply because the
administration of II is in Democratic
hands which consist Of gross misreprc-
sentation of every thing done and at
tempted. The Now York Tribune con-
tanned an article on "nullifying the Civil
Service law" which hardly contained
a truthful statement or fair inference
from beginning to end, and the writer
was probably aware of that fact. 1t be-
gins by saying that the "coursc" of
Democratic officials to nullify the law
is "shown by their method of reorgan-
izing the examining boards" After
stating-what is not true-that the
rules forbid the appointing officer from
having access to The list Of eligibles, It
says: "The first thing the Democratic
officials did was to reorganize the eX-
amining boards and to have their
private secretaries and chief deputies
made the chairmen and secretaries.
This will do for a specimen.
The Democratic "oflicials," +" meaning
the appointing officers, do not organize
or reorgahize the examining Loards.
That is done by the Civil-Service Com
mission at Washington. 1t has entire
control of the machinery of examina.
tions. The constitution of the cxamin.
ing boards here and in other cities
which the Tribune criticiscs was deter
mined by the Republican commission
of which Mr.. Eaton was the head, and
was not a revolution of the existing
practice when the Democrats came into
Office" but was precisely the practice
always pursued. The members of the
board in the custom house here are ap.
pointed, not by Mr. Hedden, as this
reckless writer says, but by the COM
mission on the nomination of the Col
lector, Surveyor and Naval Officer, and
the present board was appointed by the
Eaton commission. The chairmen and
secretaries are not "made" by the
democratic officials" but by the com
mission on the nomination of the mem
bers of the board itself, and the present
commission has refused to confirm
these where they are "private secre-
taries and chief deputes,n. establishing Q
| Iulc Iol tHC HISO IliIc tlldb SUCu
officers shall not serve in that capacity.
After utterly misrepresenting thi,
matter of organizing examining boards
the Tribune says: "The new Civil
Service Commission not only winked
at but openly abetted this method o
evading the law. 1t changed the reg
ulations to permit Collector Hedden to
oust the old officers of the examining
board" This though Collector He'd.
den has nothing directly to do with
constituting the board or choosing it.
officers and the commission has speci
iically put stop to the practice, al
ways possible before, of having private
secretaries and special deputies serve
as the officers of the board. As t.
the eligible list and appointing officers
the abuse came in under the Republic.
an commission, and the present com
mission is the first to propose making
the rules forbid the appointing officer.
to have access to the list of eligibles
In short, this commission is fighting
against abuses which it inherited anc
which sprang up under the law before
the Democrats came into office. Th,
only purpose of reckless misreprcsenta
tons of this kind is to discredit the re
form itself and help to break it down
1t is a mean kind OF warfare. but to-
easily exposed to be etfective.-M Y
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