The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-12

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com nulsion Of forced position I
which he had been driven by his ow
political friends. This Houte land b
this be meant the Democrat mi
Iority) had already rudely TUNED n
I. back on Que OF the principal reform
in the currency Of the country, recon
meDded by the President, and, as
that had not been enough, il is no,
proposed 10 knock fiom under him tn
very foundation stone Of his p9litica
creed aud public success. If it We,
not 80 serious a subject a man nigh
sit down snd laugh at this old pa I,
preserving its sue essiou in tradi ioi
and name, IL not in policy and princi
pes, through half a century OF con,
1ict and varying fortune, fighting
battles for twenty-five years, only tc
lose them wi bout one break in the
long chain Of revenes; and then al
iast all this long, this postponement,
disappointment and mo tifcation and
deieat, when party victory had
brushed aside the black cloud OF dis
aster and revealed the silver lining u
IT'S ravished gaze, whether intoxicf ted
by the spectacle or made from excess
OF JOY, the grand old party un-
equal TO The task of deliberate
contemplation OF its own splendid
achievements, ssked TO be dismi sed in
the very moment Of its triumph and
on the very spot where ii had achieved
II. 1t had voted down an honest dol.
lar, and it now proposed TO tear a way
safeguard 10 the most valuable law
on the statute book. Let no gentle
man deceive himself. The gentleman
from Indiana (Mr. Holman) in re-
tponse TO a question a few days AGO.
had said that the object OF the amend
ment was TO deal out even.handed
justice and the gentleman from Hi.
nois Mr.. Springer had still more
plainly let the House know that IL
was intended to give partiran in
stead OF nonpsrtisan Sc vice. That
me effect Of the amendment requiring
the cert tication OF the full list of eli.
gibles TO the appointing power would
be to give a partisan, aud not a non.
pattlean service, was not mere mat
ter OF con- ectural speculation, bat il
was a matter OF experience demon.
strated. boosted OF, Rloaed over by a
baltimore postmaster. This inGen-
lous young man bad got the whole |
list OF eligiDles into his HANDS.
A voice -"What is hep"
Mr.. Findlay-He Is a Democrat. He
was a Democrat in office. He was
appointed by thepresant President of
he United States. That fixes bis
Democracy, ! suppose; though that is
question OF some doubt. Laughter
md applause. He got the list of
into his own hands, and what
Use did he make OF it2 According to
lis own statement before an examiner
u the Civil $ ryiCe Commission, who
vas in Baltimore, he made such good
lse OF 1t that in less space than a year
he had turned out every Republican
n that office and had put Democrat
his place, without missing fire once.
While Mr.. Findlay was delivering
S speech, members from both sid "a c
the House crowded around him. and
IS las sentence was received with a
lrst OF mingled Kisses and applause v
the app ause being partly intended il
I the sen linens expressed by Mr.. d
udlsy, and partly in appreciation of Il
Q action Of the Baltimore post Is
aster. 81
Turning defantly toward the Demo.
l'ic side, Mr.. Findlay exclaimed; n
When you applaud the effect of this Il
then you mean to say RI
A. the oertiiication ofall the eligibes 81
II result in what you have applaud. e'
Then you mean TO cay that The OF
Iect OF this amendment il 10 give a rs
Ttlsan and n non partisan service. m
,piaud Just az long as you please. OF
i,her hi'ses nor applause will deter IN
from the discharge of what con. by
err duty" Applause m
ir. Findlay then continued to ne. Oh
W the action OF the Baltimore post 81
ster. This Ingenious young man. W.
said, with the aid of more exput VI
nipulators still, had violated the an an
and the rules of the Civil w
vice Commission, and still n'
sted that If he had only been no no
red a little longer in his place WI
would have turned over a Demo- an an
lc civil service reform postofIice m .Di
Iis successor. Laughter and an en'
Use, There was not man in the ssV'
Use who did not know what the i'S
ct OF the provision would be. The -
blishment Of civil service reform ou
England had had its origin in The sio
vt Of tie Commons against aPl
appointments by the arts. pre- ple
aoy. That state of affairs WV
its exact counterpart in o,1,
erica. There were no dukes or sal'
quises here, but there was their aPp
I counterpart in the shape Of DO. ~
Al ward FOUNDERS aud heelers. 'hS ~
lHh America hsd no aristoclacy 1
IN appointed to flee, il had sort zee
'udsl system. II had one tenant pom
'piie, aud the whole syttem lun- cns
down to the lemote, depend. anu
No man could get an Off e un. io..
he had been recommended by NJ
of thote politicians who had Thu
fol OF the machine. Now, he tarli
d, which was the more Democratic half
Ia two-the sy,t-m which per s'at'
'd every man aud woman in the erat
try TO apply for oilice, and, If III
fl d to fl / II, TO get into office $3.50
Influence or without influence. Tor
e system und,r which he could apr
,et into flee unless he came bow-
and b'ggirg g under the wing of In
political scCuudrel to whom he WI,
under such obligations as must H.
lls We y manhood to the bone. onH
.lause S S"I
/. Compton MIDI said that the 80
'ssult his colleague had made on end
ste postmaster At b ltimore was Anne
ldeserved as any one man had FRYE
maze on sn thsT. Who wasihat of A
laster2 He was the peer Of the Or
eman from Maryland (Mr. Find Sepa
" any other gentleman in this cific
or anywhere as a man of chsrac- Sal
I'd intelligence and a Democrat. ate q
Civil Service Commi sion had on N
II by every effort and by every 1870
S It could employ to show that 10th
d violat, d the law of that ser. from
b cause he hal removed from said
lot OF pol teal alswags and a that
unpliucipled scoundrels-as,. Fran
nj his nnl IL uofY aie -, 1,.l Z rt,t