Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-08-12
DETESTABLE WARFARE.
Exposure of q sample Lot of Republfca
and New York "Tribune Falsehoods.

Exposure of q sample Lot Of Republfcaa
and New York "Tribune I" Falsehoeds.
Nothing could be more detestably
mean than those efforts to break down
| Civil-Service reform simply because the
administration of it is in Democratic
hands which consist of gross misrepre-
sentation of every thing done and at
tempted. The New York Tribune con-
tanned an article on ''nullifying the Civil
Service law" which hardly contained
q 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 course OF
Democratic officials to nullify the law
is shown by their method of reorgan-
ling 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: 1.-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 specimen.
The Democratic Officials, " meaning
tuc oIlISClo, oo NV W
or reorgahize the examining boards.
That is done by the Civil-Service Com
mission at Washington. 1t has entire
control of the machinery of examina-
tons. The constitution of the examin-
ing boards here and in other cities
| which the Tribune criticises was deter
mined by the Republican commission
| of which Mr.. Eaton was the head, and
was not 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 APP
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 deputies" establishing
a rule for the first time that such
officers shall not serve in that capacity.
After utterly misrepresenting this
matter OF organizing examining boards
the Tribune says: 1.-The new Civil
| Service Commission not only winked
at but openly abetted this method OF
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 its
officers and the commission has speci-
fically put a stop to the practice, al
ways possible before, of having private
secretaries and special deputies serve
as the officers of the board. AS to
the eligible list and appointing officers,
the abuse came in under the Republic
an commission, and the present corn
mission is the first to propose making
the rules forbid the appointing officers
to have access to the list of eligiblns.
In short, this commission is fighting
against abuses which it inherited and
which sprang up under the law before
the Democrats came into Office. The
only purpose of reckless misrepresenta-
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 too
easily exposed to be effective.-N. Y.
Times.