The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-19
ENpiCOIT,S ORDER.
The War Department Turned Over to II
Spolls System.

The War Department. Turned Over to the
spoils 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 spols system by the
issue Of the following circular:
ORDNANCE OFTFcR WAR DEPARrMKNT.
WASHINGTON. d. c., Sept "a, 1SSS-2o ne
Commanding officers of IN. National Arno-ies
at Spring feldlnd Rock Lsiasd asd of the listed
Sfctes Aysendls at New YorR, Vest Troy, PAiia-
dSlphil. Boston and Benicid: While nrsenals
and the armories are not intended to be con-
verted into political machines, two political
parses in this country ore recognized. 1t IS
therefore ordered hereafter in employing or DIS
charging employees Of any and oil grades, ether
things being equal and qualifications sAtisfac-
tory. Democrats will be favored, the object
being to divide the force in the d nerent grades
gradually between Democrats and Republic
dren rs 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 Us 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
q 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 a zeal born of bene-
fits received and fostered by hope of
favOrs yet to come stand ready to aid
with money!" this fine old mugwump
Salem gentleman of immaculate linen,
austere Puritan virtue and exalted
nugwump 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 CEN
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-
cal National workshops into vote
factories for Cleveland! He has re-
moved every obstacle and opened their
doors wide to the spoilsmen and given
them carte blanche to GUST old exper-
fenced workmen. He has literally
made the army a political machine
and opened the way to its demoraliza-
ton. In his eagerness 70 help the Adj
ministratiOn 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 1t Is not reform. 1t
may be magnanimous but II Is not mugwump-
ian. The men, women and children employed
in the srmories have nothing TO do with pol
tiles, and politics should have nothing to do
with them. Secretary Eudicott can henceforta
be regarded only q 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.