Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18
END,oOTTs ORDER.
The War Departments Turned Over to tn
Spells System.

Inc war department. Turned over to the
sPoiis System.
Not content with prostituting the
State, the Interior, the Postal. the
Navy and the Attorney Generals de-
partments to the service of partizan
and ''pernicious activity" the Admin
istration has now turned over the War
Department to the spois system by The
issue of the following circular:
ORDNANCE OFFICE. WAR DEPARTMENT..
WAsHIsGyoB, D. @, Sept "a 1870 TIE
Concentrating Officers of III. Hoti6Hal ArDaories
at Spring field and Rock Isfcnd and Of tie listed
States AysenGIs at Nss0 YorA, West Troy, PAID
de{phia. Boston and Benicid: While arsenals
and the armories are not intended TO be oon-
verted into political machines. two political
parties in this country are recognized. II is
therefore ordered hereafter in employing or dis
charging employees OF any and all grades, other
things being equal and qualifications sarsfac-
tory, Democrats will be favored, the object
being to divide the force in the different grades
gradually between Democrats and Republic
ans. The rule will apply to women and chIl-
dren as well as men, and will be strictly en-
forced A. V. BESET. Chief OF Ordnance
The Secretary OF War is Civil
Service reform mugwump. He was
appointed to his position in recogni-
ton of his kind and as concession to
Civil-Service reform. He has been
and is still their special represents
tive. He is the only out-and-out mug
wump in the Cabinet, and George
William Curtis himself has not been
more devotedly worshiped by them
than Secretary Endicott. Holding such
a position, it would not have been con-
sistent for him to join the President
and the other members of the Cabinet
in making a money contribution to the
Democratic campaign fund-an excep-
ton which was not without its COM
pensations to his near and thrifty New
England soul. The circular printed
above. however, shows that he has got
in his work all the same. Though not
belonging to the horde of Office
holders who with zeal born Of bene-
fits received and fostered by hope of
fayors yet to come stand ready to aid
with money" this fine old mugwump
Salem gentleman of immaculate linen,
austere Puritan virtue and exalted
mugwump morality, has gone down
deeper into partisan filth and come up
nastier than any OF his associates.
This circular stamps him as guilty of a
political trick no predecessor of his
has ever attempted before. As IA con-
cession to the spirit of reform he has
officially ordered that none but Demo-
Gratis shall be employed in the arSenals
and armories of the United States!
He has turned the hitherto non-politi-
factories for Cleveland! He has re-
moved every obstacle and opened their
doors vide to the spoilsmen and given
them carte blanche to GUST old eXper-
fenced workmen. He has literally
made the army political machine
and opened the way to its demoraliza-
ton. In his eagerneSs 10 help the Adj
ministr alton he has not even spared
women and children! Even the hide
bound Democratic New York World is
compelled to declare its establishment
in these words:
This is impartial, but it is not reform. 1t
may be magnanimous but II IS not mugwump-
ian. The men, women and children employed
in the armorieS have nothing to do with pol
itics, and politics should have nothing to do
with them. Secretary EnSicott can henceforth
Ge regarded only as broken Idol by tho Brah
min caste OF politicians in Massachusetts,"
The mugwump Secretary of War did
not soil his fingers with Doodle contri-
buttons to Brice's campaign fund, but
he has made compensation for his fail
ure In this direction by the meanest
and most despicable campaign trick
that has yet been played by any one
engaged in the attempt to secure the
election Of Grover Cleveland. 1t should
make even German or Higgins envious.
Tribune.