The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-20

i Au16IACttu clblZ6ES ana democrats. out
we will only allow you short breath
ing spell. {Derisive laughter on the
republican side.l
Henderson-Did not your party
pledge itself in favor of the civil
] service law?
Spinola-It said it was in favor of an
honest civil service law. l viii explain
that from democratic standpoint:
it IS the civil service law of Jefferson,
! that when the applicant appeared he
was asked; is he honest is he capable,
is he friend of the constitution THAT
means the democratic party. laugh
/ ter.l There was no necessity for me TO
say that everybody knows it. These
were the civil service qualifications of
the gentlemen who gave us our home,
who created us as an organization,
whose principles we have sought to fol-
low from that day until this, and whose
doctrines we will never abandon. Zap
plause.)
Buchanan, of New Jersey-Did the
gentleman's clarion voice ring out in
behalf of those principles in 1884?
Spinola-NeYer in my life, and what
is more, that ancient and powerful
Organization that sent me here has
time after time, by resolution. de-
nounced that law, and until it changes
front as an humble member If Tam
many hall shall stand here and oppose
this legislation. (Applause.)
Buchanan-Bat the gentleman mis-
understood my question. Did the gem
tlelnan in 1884 protest against the sem
timentS expressed in a letter from one
Grover Cleveland to one George Will
lam Curtis?
Spinola-One Grover Cleveland
wrote letter and the ancient organi-
cation of Tammany hall passed a
resolution against civil service. Let
me inquire do you stand with Senator
ingalls, on the idea of civil service.
He is very wicked republican because
he is opposed to it and in favor of
wiping it out as You would be if you
spoke honestly, because in private con-
versation you all say so.
HenderSon's amendment was re-
iected. to % to so.
Browne, of Indiana, said that he was
not one who believed that the demo-
crat party by reason of the recent cleo
ton was disfrauchised and that it
should not have its proportion of spit
J toon cleaners and sweepeIs ana mes
sengers and clerks and it's fair pro-
: portion of the machinery with which
the government was controlled. If
the election had established principle
in politics every man who was opposed
to the execution of that principle had
been in fairness OstraciZed by the vote
and ought not to be permitted to parti-
, cipale in the government in any official
relation. The policy, if any had been
/ carried out, for it was the
policy endorsed by a majority
l of the American people under the
constitution, but the men who wrote at
} the clerks desks and the thousands of
l women who were employed in the de-
? partments had no more to do with
shaping the policy of the adminiStra-
2 ton than boy who followed the plow
: in the field, or man who at the fur
mace in the shops. 1t was unfair and it
/ was un-American. It was bad policy
to assume that one-half of the Amer
:. lean people bearing the responsibility
s and burdens of American citizenship
e should not be permitted to enjoy some
of the emolumeHts of the small offices
that might be in the gift of the party in
power. If the government established
the policy of Tammany hall, what
! would be the result? The elections
would become a mere scramble for
spoilS. If there was corruption to-day
III national politics las he regretted tC
say there was) it was becaOse of the in
famous greed for the offices. Every
y gentleman knew that half the offices
g under the house of representatives
9 could be abolished and the service
= made more efficient. But it was
not done, because the gentlemen could
/
e the place. He was in favor of pnttins
n the question us ne honest, Is he cap
| able, - hut he would not ask what ART
/ his politics, or is he 45.
C Or is he As years of age-suggestet
q Cummings
;, Browne am not defending TIN
!. civil service machinery, [ am not de
Il Tending the details of civil service rules
e | am attempting to get American pol
q iticS above Tamanny hail politics, ma
chine politics, partisan politics and t.
get the government on a business pRin
10 ciDle. l endorse everything CLEVELAND
II has so well said on this subject d nC
k condemn everything that he and his
I party have done. (Laughter)
- Springer was glad to hear the gentle
10 Coming as he does from the state o
9 the president-elect) giving an assur
e ance that dnring the coming admins
u tration An effort would be made to en-
10 force civil service law, as the news
70 papers had much to say about the cleal
sweep that was to take place after the
n Inauguration of President Harrison
He had heard that stated on everyhanC
L and if the incoming administration
5 did not appease the thousands of hun
l. CRY applicants by making clean SWEEP
after March 4, it would disappOin
y many who were waiting in anxious ex
p pectancy for the good time to come TO
6 the next four years. for it would only
e be four years. If President Harrison
q administered the civil service in thu
y same spirit in which it had been al
miniStered by Mr.. Cleveland. the peo
pie would have no reason to complain
u Browne (signifcantly)-Itw will not bG
administered in the same spirit.
u never thought it would be, retorteG
y Springer. Continuing, he said, that i
it we're not for that cumbersome ant
IL obsolete machinery known as the cleo
+ tOrial college, the democrats would nov
u be rejoicing in great national victory
l. Jackson, of Pennsylvania, suggested
that the republican vote in one-third O
l. the country had been suppressed.
II Springer hope my friend VIII keel
L quiet.
/ Jackson You would like the country
: to keep quiet.
It Springer should think it woulC
3 worry the gentleman while facSS o
4. this kind are brought to his attention
IN on the principles which we submitted
; to the people at the last election
e There was large majority of the PEG
he pie. on the popular vote, who decides
N in favor of the platform of the demo
e cratic party.
I, Lodge, of Massachusetts, referred Il
Ia the declaration of Mr.. Springer tina
Mr.. Cleveland had received maiorit,
70 of the popular vote and said that u
to view of the opportunity whereby tn
Is democrats possessed for increasing
&c Cleveland's majority in the southern
al states. they must feel like Lord Give
IN and wonder at their own moderation
81 in giving him only 100000 majority
Oy Laughter.
Dy Cummings said that the sDeer a
Is New York politics come with an il
n grace from a republican congressma
'e- from Indiana. (BrowRel. The world uT
at derstood the Indiana idea of the spiri
he of civil service reform. 1t had not fol
is oottan that a republican vIee-oresideu
be At a dinner at which leaders {
Id the republican party were pEesen
ng openly boosted of the use {
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