Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-16
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
Brennan's Sarcasm Upon the Administra-
tons Chief Virtue Personnel
of the Reformers.
John brennan, al Ardnbor, August 7.

John brennan, at Andnbon, Aagsa7.
The first reason for believing that Ben Harri-
son will certainly be elected Is this. Tho people
OF this country did not trust the democratic
party upon Its merits. Grover Cleveland Is nos
In Office because you wished to change, or wish
ed to turn the government over tothe democratc
party, but because 1t was given out and many
people believed tive had our pharisces In poll
ties, men that were pnrcr than the rest OF US,
men that wanted Civil Service reform. Lots OF
these men honestly believed that Mr.. Cleveland
was so much better than the democratic party and
the people had been ruled by the republican party
so long that in 1884 we turned aside from the
grandest political thinker of the age In which nc
lives; he who is crossing the ocean tonight.
Need name him? Great applause and deafeil-
ing checrs.) The people OF this nation In an hour
of political madness turned aside from James q.
Blaine, the grandest political thinker OF the age
In which lie lives; the grandest living specimen
OF an American. And they turned aside from
the gallant Responsibilities Logan. Great ap-
planse and checrs) They went to the jail yard
at Buffalo for II president. The reason they
went to Buffalo for n president was that this
man was better and prlrer than the democratic
party. But now, gentlemen, three years and a
half of democratic administration has practically
tested this SANITY gentleman, Cleveland, and
even the mugwumps have Dissolved that he Is
not the god they had painted him, but clay, com
mon clay, like the balance Of us; or beef, II you
will: 800 pounds of Buffalo beef. Great laughter)
was considering this man whom the democrats
have set up; the mugwumps, when they pray,
don't say the Lords prayer, or any OF the old
forms of prayer to which we are accustomed,
but have been for years accustomed to kneel
down and pray to their god, Grover Cleveland.
When they had measured and weighed this
prophet then 1t is they take him by the ordinary
| standards by which men are measured and they
| have discovered that he Is not god. They seek
| to invest him with attributes OF which he IL ut
terly incapable upon the same principle that
superttious people put potatoes In the stocking
| for the cure of rheumatism. They have invested
him with supposed qualities, of virtues Of which
the good gentleman is utterly incapable. Some
| of you may remember of reading the speeches at
a st. Louis convention, one OF the most elegant
orators in the country, gentleman by the name
| of Daniel DOughcrty-a Frenchman OF course
was selected to make the appearance for ayOir-
dupois and he made his comparison. Now com.
PARSONS are said to be Odous, but the compari.
son i'll which Daniel entered Is exceedingly
odious. His comparison made Mr.. Cleveland
one Of the "hlg four" The FIRST Of the "blg four
was George Washington; the second, Thomas
jefferson the third, Andrew Jackson and the
fourth Oh! ye gods Great laughtcrD
"Dcpartcd spirits of the mighty dead,
We who at Marathon and Leur.ra bled!"
Oh! your souls must snickcr-if souls can smile,
at the comparison he made. quote the langl,ag,
of Mr.. DOughcrty: patriotic IA Washington
wise as IeHerson, hlare as Jackson" Patriotic
D., as WashingtAlr-GCar Washington, who b,
the common consent Of American people Ia,
been held to DO "FirSt In peace, first in war ant
foremost In the hearts Of his countrymcn; :
Washington, around whom the bleeding Cont
nentals left their foot prints in the SHOWS ut Val
ley Forge; Washington who crossed the Della
ware and knocked the lining out Of the HeSsian
and the BritisherS George Washington and
t GrQvgr Ceselalld! Great latghter) GeOrg
J., Washington who led the forces which establishe,
the independence of this country. Grove
Cleveland also died, died by proxy In the perso
of a substitute. UaughterD Patriotic as Wash
ingtOn! A young man who, in the full ygor q
life when the armed fNrces VI treason assaile
this c0Natry .tuns into II boarding hOuse-"rh
Terrapn Imnch"-at Buffalo and hired sub
y stitute. George Washington and Grover Clev,
ie and!-!!-!!! Naughtcr) Wise as jefferson
=, Certainly! Thomas Jefferson who wrote til
sc Declaration of Independence. Mr.. Clevelaa
W will bear to Jefferson about the same eanparlsO
ie that one of his base Vuta messages will bear
er the poGiaraton Of Independence. Andre
C. jackson and Grover Cleveland! He will be;
ly Just the same comparison to Andrew JackSQ
IL that the cutting of a hangman's rGa,a IN ia
IT. yard will bear to the battle VI New Orleans.
n the school lDplys you boys and girls have read
- iipratiuS, he who, with two companions gt,apis
ry the bridge of Rome against the whole army
AL the invader; that WAS tho manner Of man tn
&c Jackson was: lOa perhaps have seen, II "
~ haYe visited the cities, the defendants OF TIN
~ kind of Romans III the shape OF Italian orga
~ grinders with monkey and harp attachmen
nd Grover Cleveland will bear comparison vii
Ill Andrew Jackson as the modern Italian Orga
M grinder of our period will bear comparison
the glorious trinity, lIoratus and his iva COZ
panionS VIVA guarded thu hiidga at Rome, No
| am Distressing af this god who Is so much bett
than the democratic party. II he Is much bett
than the democratic party, tod help the dem
mt cratic party. LI.aughter.l But they tell us
this campaign that we must not indulge in pc
to sonalitcs. Well, I'm delighted that the dem
cratic party has changed its tactics, If it has n
Dla suffered change of heart You all win rel,ci
ass Der its bitter l,Glsantiities 9n Lincoln and
al Grant, and you nj remember how, in 1880, it Z
down upon all tours in the gutter of the count
cl- to assail the character Of Garfield. but now t
democratic party says for It's own reasons, tn
TO we must have II high toned and Il clean en-
paign; there must he no reference, they say,
r q HarrisOn's grandfather or Cleveland's p,
terity; there must be no personalities;
On. must have a perfectly clean campaign, no ref
md ence whatever to the ancestry Of the republic
cIv candidate hecallsG tlta ni.n WHO Is so much b
en, ter than the democratic was put in Office that
might accomplish certain things that the repl
,a, lean party was incapable Of doing. Among
,r,s things that Mr.. Cleveland was expected to
was to reform Civil Service. Well he has be
am reforming Civil Service in splendid shape.
have in my pocket an extract from Frank l.
las. lies Weekly, democratic 1t says: ~
shameful showing Of the Tribune with
!, names and dates and facts sets forth that
appointments of the rcformcr president III
his been directly with the criminal classes" II
the mugwumpS Of this country must 10 tick
tv. over the reform Of Cleveland, Now tn
things are, 81 c,uIse, exceptions; 2ls Is
a great many, but II you will give Mr.. Cleyela
Il little time he will give you some more refo
in the civil service of this government.
ky talk about revenue reform, civil service refo
and economy, but my dear democratic frjeu
1t a it is not revenue reform nor civil serNipe refo
nor y reduction 0f duty on salt under this
this ministrati0n YOU want but a few real nice y
urn penitentiaries. viii give you another little
stance of civil service rcfarm, given in this
,OWt ~ AT example,
There was an old soldier, a One-armed fell
,OOr who kept the ONCE OF transfer agent of the m
at indianapolis for something like fifteen We;
In Well, when this reform administration came
ton power man at indianapolis by the na,a,
we're Bernard COmrOy thought he wGVla limo the OF
that held by that old SGl,igr aud he got recommer
hay ta.s signed by Gov. Gray the licutcnant-soy,
neh or Judge of tie supreme court, the attorney
eral, and several Of the leading democrats
his mugwmnps of Indianapolis, RUNNING TO this eff
lpy- that
"iiaying known Bernard COnrOy for fifty y,