Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-08-17

II is noticed, as il it were "a fault, that re-
publican discussions of the issues TO be de-
ciIed 10y the coming campaign do not turn
much upon civil service reform or temperance.
That is right No intelligent man will vote
for Grover Cleveland as ii civil service re-
former or as a temperance reformer against
Benjamin Harrison. But number of men
who think they are or who lrauduIeuuY pro-
TESS 10 be civil service reGormers or temper
auce rcforIuers will vote for Mr.. Cleveland, or
so vote as to aid him, knowing that either
respect he deserves no support, because under
their various DISCUSSES and shams they are
free traders, or else are persons who sell
themselves Tor money, Tor place, or Tor the
satisfaction of Inflated vanity.
MIR. Cleyciuuu has done more than any
other presi lent since Martin Van Buren, to
debauch and degrade the civil service. This
statement is made with full knowledge of the
disgracetui dUugs after An ireW johnson lost
his repubilcuu.sm and las deceuct. He did
ali that he cuu.d TO make the public service
dishOnOred but he had not much time, lie had
not an organized democratic party 10 reward,
and he had not Well-advaHced and DrOms-
ing reform TO break down. Pierce aud
Buchanan were openly the tools of the spOIs
politicians, but there was no reform in their
day To defeat or destroy. Van Buren, prOsti-
tuled the public service To the uses of the
party in power; reform under republican
presidents from even ISIS TO 1881 dId
something 10 lit II OUT OF uegreda-
lion; aud now MIR. Cleveland has made
its abuses more sham -less aud more corrupt
than ever Ii anN man honestly thinks the
condition Of the civil service more important
than the protection OF American cILIZ-ns in
their industries or in Their right of suffrage,
and has enough intelligence to support any
reform whatever, he viii vote for Mr.. Hurri-
son. The shams and frauds, who pretend to
be e VII service reiOrmers when they are only
free traders, Will sJuIJifY and disgrace them
selves by accepting Mr. Cleveland, with all
the decentralization of the public service ne
has caused, and with all the hypocrisy which
has made The very name OF reform OdiOus.
Not essentially different is the case as to
temperance. NO Que step IA the direction of
reform has ever been taken by the democratic
party during ali he fifty Years of its control
caIly where any step of temperance reform
has achieved a success during all that time
10 has either ueeTOppused %. the whole demo-
cratic party or has triunphed by non Iartis-
an combination IN which the democratic or
gauizattou had no part, and which split the
fin temperance reform, during the thirty years
which have elapsed since tie republican par
" became strong, has been effected without
the aid of a great majority OF its voters. Not
one genuine step OF progress in temper
snce reform has ever been opposed bv the
held that the temperance question could be
wisely met Only by action IN the
different states, in accordance with
the popular Will 10 those States and that
il bad no right q national organization TO
Drescribe trra meut which the people of all
the states al Ike should adopt regardless of
local preferences or necessities To tie party
fn each stale the national party has left the
choice of measures to meet the situation in
thai state. and in most of the states all! the
actual reform effected during the last thirty
years has hess supported by the republican