The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-03-30


Democrat office holders for good cause.
and for 10 cause except that they we're
Democrats, might in every way be ex.
peiittd.
There is much in this character rele-
vaLt t, this particular feature OF this
controversy, which should like TO
read, hut do not des re 10 take the
time t. do it. will. however. read the
closing paragraph, which l commend to
those who aided in the enac ment the
law "f 1857, and SO soon after psriici-
It'd in the enactment of The Law OF
1859 Concluding passage on that
suhjPct, Nj. Blaine saws:
Casliog eff all political disguises and
personal pretenses-
And why sh' uld we not do tbat2 We
ought t, do it here; we ought to do it
now, so that we may understand this
mat er. precisely ss it is
Casting of al political di-guises and
personal pretenses. the simple truth re
inains that the tenure of-office law WIS
enacted est President johnson should
remove Republican cffice holders too
rapillv; and it was practically repealed
! or President Graz should not remove
Democratic Office holders rapidly enough
BY reading an amendment by LOGAN
10 the Tenure or-Office Law in 1869, to
declare al tffices except U S. Judges,
vscant on the 30h Of June, 1869, be
showed that President GRANT vas not
making removals fast enough to suit
JoNN A. LOGAN Yet GRANT, before the
| Tenure-of Office act was amended, ,ssus-
pen,ied $50 off ,ias in seven weeks.
LoetN wanted to give GRANT an oppor.
tunity to kick them all out without rea.
son or even without submitting the nom
| nations to the Seuate. CLEVELAND sus-
pended 634 in eight months.
In regard to the position the EDMUNDs
resolution would place the Executive he
says:
He is asked to furnish to the Senate
papers touching suspension from Of
dee He knows, and the head Of the
/ Department that nds them here kno ws,
that those papers contain no fact upon
which the Elk culive has acted They
we'll know that the administration must
be mlsfepresented here, that 1t must be
misunderstood here, asd misunderstood
by toe entire country. or else the Execu.
live must follow those papers into the
recesses OF your committee room, bring
Ing, as that committee suggested TO Mr.
| Spencer, such witnesses as they wanted
TO examine, and there create what the
Senator from Ohio denounces as courts
OF assiz9 In every commiitee-room of
the Senate. The misfortune would be
that in every single instance Of the forty
or fifty committees to Co nsider these
nominations the court would be COM
posed OF eight TO seven!
where is the Pres dent Of the United
States p asks the American citizen
when be treads these streets Over
before the Committee on the Judiciary
prosecuting John Jones to get him out
OF office as marshal. "Where is the Sec
retary of the TreasuryP" Over before
the committee on Finance, with his sub
ordinates and witnesses making o police
court OF that Committee 10 establish q
reasonable cause for the suspension o.
Bill Wight as collector in West Virgin.
Ia "Where is the Postmaster General p
asks the American citiz'n as he walks
these streets. Echo answ wers where, as
my friend (Mr. Voorhees) suggests.
Over before the Committee ON Postofi
ces and Post.roads of the Senate trying
Ito prove uv wisnesscs ho hae snsassaaef]
hat Sam Johnson, who was postmaster
at some place in the Uoited States, ought
to he removed for larceny or some other
sort Of rascality; for drunkenness. or
even because he is rerverting he pos
ton he bolds and antaeoniz'ng the ad :
minisllation under which te holds it. So
would the committee by the resolution
prostitute every feature of the Executive
Department of this Government into
called up,n, exemined. held here or sent
mack TO the discharge o. their appropri
a'e functions at the pleasure OF the Sen.
ate Mr.. President, that will not do
That will not do?
When P:esi ent Cleveland assumed
the finctions Of the office of Chief Ex-
ecutive OF this government do not be-
| eve there is citizen in the land who
had any reason whatever to doubt or did
doub tlst be came to the discharge of
the du'ies Of that Office determined. at
far as in him lav, to devrts conservative
patriotic application I, the discharge o.
mis- obligations. l believe speak within
bounds when say that this whole coun-
try knew that the one crest idea of ser
vice TO the country in an acceptable man
ner ia the high capacity in which it had
selected him for that service was bis
first, his only aspirstlon. l would fail
to express my own candid conviction
now il I 6i l not say that looking back
over the long line of predecessors in
that office, and confronting as be may
the issues presented here, he will be The
last to be first n surrendeline lis high
prerogative.. TIE Senate may continue /,
as message indicates, to ply him and
his various subordinate Drpslt tnents
with barassine and embarrassing appli-
cations and issues. 1t may defeat every
nomination. 1t may ASSERT. arbitraril,
or Otherwise, its forms Of assault upon
every prerogative granted nv the Con-
stitution OF the country. But mistake
that man if be does not stand firmly 10
his post, IN .intaining, as it is his sworn
duty under the stltution Of his coun.
try 10 maintain, everv preroga.ive of his
high oftica, and tranemit it unimpaired
to bis success,rs Lise Alpiae's oak ON
Alpine peak amid Alpine storm: "Tbe
stronger she blows the tirmer she roots
mi"
Resolutions of Respect OF Somcr.
ten Lodge, No. 354 f. u A. M.
March, l9, 1885
The following resolutions we're adopt
ed:
WHEREAS There has been an alarm