Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1888-11-30
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Friday Morning. November 80, 1888.
WHAT WILL MIR. HARRISON no,

Friday Morning....N November 80, 1888.
WHAT WILL MR. HARRISON Dor
This is the leading question of the hour
and particularly with the efficeholder, Win
Mr.. Harrison bend in blind obedience to the
letter and spirit of the civil service reform
law, make no removals of Democratic in
cumbents except for cause, allowing them
TO serve out their full official terms, or will
he make "a clean sweep" us his honored
grandfather, Gen. Harrison, was doing at
the time Of his death and in accordance
with the advice of Mr.. Clay? Will he be
intensely partisan in his views and actions,
or will he rise 10 higher level of states
manship and look only TO the welfare of
the country? VIII he have independence
of spirit and place before the country a
policy entirely his own, or will he become
the mere instrument OF the leading and de
signing politicians Of his partys
II is not difficult 10 answer these ques
TONS We believe that when Mr.. Harrison
becomes President he will do just what his
party demands of him. The policy of his
party will be his policy-their will will be his
will and as his party through its legitimate
leaders, requests him to act, he will act. 1t
is very amusing to read through the press
OF Gen. Harrison's firmness, his self-pos-
session, his lefty aims and unselfsh pur-
poses" but when he is President he will
obey the mandates of his party all the same.
No party OF later years has ever succeeded
in standing out against the doctrine of the
Pa7ty that eleotsd i4in, President Glove.
land attempted TO run his administrator
Independent of the wishes OF his party and
the result of the experiment has hurried his
downfall
We care not what the press and close
friends may say of the aims and purposes
of President Harrison, when he reaches
Washington he will act in accordance with
the influences representing the sentimen,
OF the party that elected him. II party sen.
timent shall be that civil service reform
must be thrown to the winds and that "a
clean sweep" of the Democratic offlcehold-
ers shall be made, this sentiment acting
through the party representatives and lead.
ers will compel President Harrison to aci
accordingly. He may entertain the most
beautiful theories about civil service reform
but they will have to go under before the
imperative demands of the party that ele
waited him to SO high and honored position
In this very connection the following in.
terview with Senator Farrell, of Illinois
will tend to illustrate this assertion Being
asked his opinion of the civil service reform
law, the Senator thus replied:
81 am now and have always been op
posed to the theory of the civil service law.
The government is going to be admins.
tered by one party or the other. believe
the party which is in power ought to fill the
places with its own men, who are actively
in sympathy with its doctrines aud pur.
poses and who want to see its administra.
ton succeed"
"His ability as a Republican politician
you would make the fundamental test ~
Yes, sir. and you may say so in italics
Would you turn out those employees who
have come into the government service
through civil service examinations and put
Republicans in their places ?"
YES. am in favor of turning them all
out"
What about federal appointees in Chi.
cago"
81 will favor none but able Republicans
do not expect President Harrison will
send to the Senate anyone that oppose
There is no reason why he should"
Senator Farrell represents Republican
sentiment on the question of civil service
reform and he with the balance of the Re-
publican Senators will go TO Washington
with the determination that every Demo.
crat holding Office shall be displaced and
Republicans appointed. They will con.
tend that President Harrison is In office ia
give official sanction to whatever the Re.
publican party through its managers, repre-.
sentatives and leaders may demand TO have
done
There need be no speculation about it
lie will do what his party requires him to
do He will act as the influences that made
him President shall direct that he shall act
He will be the servant of Senators and Rep
resenatives and politicians high and low
to do their bidding. We believe that Mr.
Harrison is thoroughly a party man and u.
such, whatever the party shall desire or re-
quest him to do concerning the removal o.
Democrats from Office, that Mr.. Harrison
will do because he is the servant of tn.
party 10 do the party will.