New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-26
,rrnors AND FULFILMENT.


The Civil Service Commission IN It's vigorous
efforts 70 secure the enforcement OF the law
is acting upon the presumption that the Ad-
miniStration will sustain its course ana auopo
Ire recommendations The confidence which
= n,actcal reformer like Commissioner RooSe-
volt exnresses in the Presidents determination
70 fpfl not merely his own, but his partys
hedges. is grounded upon experience. lie De
lieveS the President to be sincere in his pro-
fessions of sympathy for Civil Service reform,
and knows that no obstacles have been raised
to the enforcement of the law
Wbv should a Republican Administration
,+temnt to violate the pledges which the party
itself has made to the country in two National
nlatforms? The Civil Service law was passed
bv Republican Congress and carried into
effect by a Republican Admin stratlon. IL
has been taken up by two National Conventions
and sanctioned as one of the fundamental prin-
cipes of Republican policy. President liar
Ri in accepting his nomination subscribed 70
tbis explicit declaration of the convention re-
snecting the Civil Service law and the obllga-
tions of a National Administration to enforce
it without fear hypocrisy or shufiling
The men who abandoned the Republican party In
1874 and continue 10 adhere TO the Democratic parry
have deserted not only the cause OF honest govern
ment OF sound finances, OF freedom ana purity vi 'no
balot Int especially have deserted tho cause OF re-
torrr IN the civil Service We will not fail to keep
our nlcdres because they have broken therS, or be
causc their candidate has broken his We therefore
repeat our declaration of 1884, 10 wit:
The reform of the Civil Service auspiciously be-
yun under the Republican Administration, should DC
comnlcted by the further extension OF tho reform sys
h., lou M all
the service to which it is applicable. The spirit ana
nnrnose OF the reform should be observed In all TX
ccutive appolntments and all laws at variance with
the object of existing reform legislation should DO to
pcaled to the end that the dangers TO free ins''u'o
which Turk in the power of official patronage may DO
wisely and effectively avoided
Commissioner Roosevelt vouches 1or tne
Presidents faithfulness to the pledges made
and reaffirmed in the most uncompromslng
terms by the party which nominated him. Inc
Commissioner declares that he and his asso-
ciates are thoroughly in earnest in carrying OUT
the law. and that the Administration is neither
hampering nor interfering with their operations
They went to Indianapolis and found that three
Republican clerks had been illegally and I'M
properly appointed, and the Postmaster was
compelled to dismiss them and to appoint three
Democrats in their places. In Troy they dlS-
covered Irregularities in the appointment oil
several Republican clerks, who had been al
lowed to evade examinations required by law
They forced the Postmaster to order new
examination. In Milwaukee, where Demo-
cratic Postmaster has been displaying for
several years cynical contempt for the law and
openly violating it with the guilty connivance
of the local examiners, they have recommended
Nsummary action, and a successor will be i'm
mediately appointed. Every recommendation
made by the Commissioners has met with the
hearty approval of the President. This is
Commissioner Rooseyelt's testimony, and it
ought to convince the country that the pledges
made by the Republican National Convention
are fulfilled in good faith by the AdminiStra-
ton.