Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-06-04

ue"ocrat demands office, reform heads him
on. "hen one comes who has friends at
court civil service reform is but nebulous
ghost though which the properly recon-
mended democrats walks unharmed. Think
OF 1t my true friend of civil service. Out OF
nIty-iour appointments Commissioner Black
got nfty-two democrats. ALI others two.
rmty.two out of possible fffy-four
why! the prize target at Creedmore can
snow no such shooting. Nevertheless those
true democrats, Randall and Holman, pro-
pose to amend the law and take in the other
two-the two lost sheep.
The civil service mortgage will he lifted
beIore the term is out there will not be re-
publican in office. Their places will be filed.
NOT by you, my democratic brother, who
rushed TO Washington early in the full flush
OF exuberant hope; but by some democratic
brother who has not defled himself by work,
ana has graduated from high school.
Inc second mortgage on the administration
Will not be lifted 1t was given to the East
ern fnanciers and the title was well looked
up do not complain of this, and vet feel
sympathetic.
1t moves the coolest heart TO see the West
ern ana Southern democracy, which through
good report and evil report-mostly throug
evil report-have struggled for four and
twenty years for an administration, to find
itself put OFT in the very hour of victory by
oy mere equity of redemption. And yet
there are ear marks, straw berry marks of the
democracy, about the administration after
all. They have been for fifteen months in
power. Fifteen of the best months have
iapsed, ard what record of achievement
stands to the credit of the administration?
1t has ruined and broken up the business of
oil rra 81.
and ten, once the greatest shipbuilder in the
United States, and has accepted the Dolphin
l believe that is all
The secretary of state has managed the
nshery question on so broad an international
scale that we are still in the suds. You, who
know the close knowledge which MIR. Blaine
had OF these affairs can judge what condition
he would have had things in by> this time.
The secretary Of war has so skilhully pre-
sided over the destinies of this unfortified
country that during all these troublous times
there has been no strike of the department
clerks. The secretary of the navy, empow-
cred fifteen months ago by the republicans
Of the last Congress, assisted by a minority
of democrats, to build four war ships, has
thus far not yet completed even the specifica-
tions or plans of one them. Two years are
likely to lapse before stroke of work can
be done on either of them. 1t is true that
he tried to break down the Dolphin, but as
he did not succeed cannot put that on the
list of his achievements.
The postmaster general, in the interest of
the mail service, has issued justly celebrat-
ed, though confidential circular, on the ways
and means of proving that new postal crime
offensive partizanship-and has refused
American shipping the encouragement voted
it nv no tU hausps Of CouUrasa
The secretary of the interior, in addition
to the slight aid he was able to give the
solicitor general, has done considerable to
prevent General Sparks, his land commits
sioner, from upsetting all the land titles In
the far West.
The attorney general, with the powerful
assistance of his able solicitor general, has
so managed the Pan-Electric as to occupy the
attention of all the people for nearly year
The secretary of the treasury has fol-
lowed the course of his predecessors and so
deserved well of his country.
The democratic House has forty majority.
What great list of achiev ements has it placed
on its record after six months of session?
Some voice better equipped than mine must
take up the wOndrous tale We republicans
helped them at the outset to change the
rules so that they might have full power,
ana never once nave we tnWarteu tnelr
action by parliamentary tactics or dilatory
moneuvres. A democratic House and a
democratic administration, and both in
power for fifteen months The newest of
new brooms and not even a back entry swept
out yet!
And yet am not partisan enough to blame
the democratic party for this outcome.
blame the people who put them in power,
They knew what they were. After they had
been bed ridden for twenty-four years it was
folly to expect from them anything athletic.
The whole generation of their statesmen
have spent their lives in obstruction. They
cannot blaze the pathway of the future.
You must permit me to repeat in closing
what | have often said even if do so at the
expense of seeming tedious If you want
progressive work done you must have re-
course to the republican party. No doubt
that party has its faults, its unwisdoms. its
mistakes but the men of progress, the men
who believe in better future, who are will
ing to take the responsibility of doing some
thing, are their, and their is no salvation
without their aid