The clarion., 1886-04-21
This Applies to Thousands.

A Democrat who signs himself Wooster
sherman contributes TO a local paper a
card which j., while it sets forth his own
grievance, applicable to many thousands
of others. The writer says:
u came here last spring with my family
and limited amount of means with the
vain hope that, having been all my life a
consistent, hard working Democrat and an
experienced business man, | might obtain
a respectable position in one Of the Gov
ernment Departments. | applied for the
position Of Chief OF Division in the Treas
ury Department, presenting strong political
and business recommendations from Ex-
Governor Seymour, Acknowledgement
O'Brien, the Watertown IN. " Bank and
other prominent parties in New York
State, with the Endorsement Of Vice Presi-
dent Hendricks and the Iowa Democratic
delegation in Congress and other western
parties. Like many other good Democrats,
| have been disappointed in my applica-
tiOn and have been lite. ally Starved out,
while the hosts of Republicans whom we
have been fighting for years to dislodge
smilingly hold their fat salaried positions
with feeling OF security under protection
OF that greatest of frauds and swindles, the
Civil Service law, so ably and admirably
described by the Hon. George D. Wise
before the Virginia Democratic Assoca-
ton as reported in your columns. | voted
for General jackson in 1882, and for every
regular Democratic nominee for the Presi-
dent ever since, including MIR. Cleveland,
TO whom | d my sons and my sons in
law gave six votes. / have held many
prominent positions in my party in York
State, as Chairman OF my County Com
mittee, a member of the State Committee.
delegate to State Convention and it's nomi-
nee for Presidential Elector, and in my
prosperous days spending my means liber-
ally in its behalf, and, although often in
huencng the appointment of others to
positions under President Buchanan and
Governor Seymour, sought no patronage
for myself, until now, in my advanced
years and straitened circumstances, it is
left for this Administration to refuse me
the small pittance | have vainly sought. y
EDITOR CLARION The above, clipped
from the Cincinnati Enquirer of recent
date, serves to give the reader some idea
of that kind of influence that is arrayed
against President Cleveland in his effort
to enforce the principle of Civil Service
Reform. There is not Democrat in til.
State of Mis-issippi-and for the matter of
that, in the United States-but who is fully
aware of the fact, that Gov. Cleveland was
the only Democrat in the United States
who could have heen elected President
over Blaine in 1884, and it was owing
solely and exclusively 10 The reason, thar
the best men in both the great political
parties-Democratic as we'll as Republi-
can-knew that he was the one man who
would not swerye a hairs breadth from
tl4sr nj LODI If
Reform which he announced in his letter
Of acceptance of the nomination for Presi-
dent.
1t would make but little difference what
the Enquirer" might publish or might
not publish in reference to President
Cleveland and his admin ;stratIon (for il is
known OF all men that this paper is to-day.
the most yenal and corrupt paper, politi-
cally speaking, upon the American Cocti-
nent) but when some of our leading papers
like the CourierJ ournal, Atlanta Consti
tuition and our State papers like the Jack
son Ledger, sneer at The attemps of Presi-
dent Cleveland, in his effol ts to fulfill his
pledges OF Civil Service Reform, it is
enough to make ene-to draw il very mild
wish there was different hand at the
bellows" | undertake to say that there is
not one out OF a thousand subscribers to
these papers tcho does his own thinking and
arho is not after Office Of some kind, either for
himself like the old rooster. Wooster Sher-
man, in the above clipping) or for some
friend. that endorses any thing these papers
say about tie Presidents efforts at reform
ing the Civil Service being failure.
Ii matters not how much old Senator
Vance may get upon hind legs and howl,
and Enstis and Voorhees, rend and paw the
air in their efforts to demoIish the Presi-
dents Civil Service policy, the great mass
of the people in the South generally. and
in this State particularly. are with him all
the same, and more than that-they believe
in him-they have the fullest confidence
in him, aud they will sustain him to the
last in his efforts to give us pure. clean,
and. to great extent, non-partisan adj
ministration-in utter disregard of, and in
total defiance of what these Senators and
newspapers may do and say about il.
G. d. THOMPSON.
Moscow, Miss, April 10th. 1886.