Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1886-06-18

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that all persons discharged from the
postofice in the last year by the post
master were political scoundrels and
scalawagsY'
Mr. Compton Not all Of them"
Mr.. Fiudlay-"I understood you to
say that all of them were"
Mr. Compromises all Of them
never intended to say So"
Mr.. Findlay-"How many Of tbcm?'
But Mr.. Compton, declining to an-
swer the question. went on to assert that
it had been sought to convict Veasey 4
violation of the civil service rule because
he had removed lot of men who we're
unfit to hold Office under any admins
tratiou, aud 10 collision with whom last
fall his distinguished colleague had
sought to defclt the regular Democratic
ticket in Baltimore. They were unfit
ted to hold office, and he knew and his
colleague knew that these men, in con-
nection with the officials of the custom
house in Baltimore, had run Republican
politics in Maryland by every means
within their reach ever since the party
had been in power. 1t was a strange
sound to come from the lips of gentle
man elected to Congress as a Democrat
TO charge, as his colleague had done,
that the purpose aud object of Mr.. Yea
zey in making these removals had been
to institute and create a partisan force
in the postofIice. He was ready to say
to bis colleague here now, that if it was
an organization of competent, honest,
efficient and faithful officers, who had
rendered to the government its full and
complete due, and when the primaries
would come they would be found exer-
clsng the privilege only of free Ameri-
can citizens, and not of partisans. APP
plause on the Democratic side aud de-
risive laughter. from the Republicans.
When the postoffice under Democratic
administration sought, as had been done
by the custom house under RepubIi-
can administration, to control the poll
tics Of Maryland, he would be with his
colleague fer turning the rascals out
Turning the rascals out! Whence
sprang this new horn zeal of his COL
league and other Democrats for retain
lug the radicals in Office? For 20 years
his colleague and all Democrats had |
made the welkin ring with the declara-
ton that if the power came into the
hands of the Democratic party they
would use it to turn the rascals out.
Mr. Fiudlay suggested that turning
the rascals out was one thing and max
ing clean sweep was another.
Mr. Compton said that in spite Of
these declarations it seemed to be the
policy of his colleague to want to keep
the rascals in. He Compton, was
as earnestly in favor of an honest ad-
of the civil service as his
colleague dared to be, and his colleague
p.acw il.
II don't know it," remarked Mr..
Findlay laconically.
IL have a record as an honest official /
in my state" remarked Mr. Compton
angrily.
Mr.. Findlay-"I make no person
al charges"
Mr.. Compton-"You cannot do it;
you amt going to do it here or else
where Laughter. If the gentleman
is ready to let his declaration go to the
Democracy of Maryland and be tried on
it, am ready to meet the issue" Gap
plausc on the Democratic side
Mr.. Findlay-"And am before tie
Democracy of Maryland, but not the
spurious Democracy. We have a real
Democracy in Maryland AMI we have a
spurious Democracy that has corrupted
and debauched the franchise of our state
and has made, through the agency of
the President here, recommendation of
men who owe their offices to such inhu-
ences as have made the name of civil
service reform stink by the character of
the appointments made | am in favor
of civil service reform, not SWIVEL service
reform, but genuine civil service reform,
and say that whenever the day comes
that it shall be recognized as the policy
of the country that every four years
100, 900 offices are to be put up for sale
and knocked down to the highest bidder
though this country has stood every
strain and trial, that strain will be too
great; for the Union will be confronted
with the most dangerous enemy that has
ever assailed its peace or threatened its
integrity (Applause.)
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