Telegram-herald., 1889-07-04

erable ex-senator "laid down the law
that any man who failed TO vote his
/ party ticket was To be held as a de-
serter. His view Of partisan duty is in
teresting enough to be given in his own
| language:
The Democratic party has the best
| political soldiers in the world. The lead
ers look well after the rank and file.
and. as general rule, there is no con-
tention against the party mandate. no
matter what it is. This is as it should
be. No party can live without obedi.
ence 20 its behests and without n com
plete union of all its forces upon all
questions Of party policy"
''Then YOU do not believe in the pres
ent idea Of independence
Not at all. The only independence
there can b. OF any value is by action
inside the organization and obedience to
its DEGREES. No party can long succeed
whose members set up their individual
Judgments against the popular will. and
no man has ever vet been found strong
enough, from the president down. to dis
regard his party's behests and succeed.
The general rule of which / speak is
absolute. l imagine that the present
executive cleveland was then presi-
dent is much stronger man than he
gets credit for; but neither he. nor anv
other man | ever saw, is strong enough
to neglect the fOrceful element of his
party and win. Men who in any politi-
cal affair depend upon discontented re-
cruits from another party are sure to be
disappointed in the end: for men who
straggle from the ranks. either i'm war
or politics, have no standing i'm either
organization and are unreliable in their
action. and consequently without power"
Can civil service succeed"
Civil service in government like this
il not practical. life tenure i'm a civil
Office means n civil pension list. lust as life
service in the army means a military pen
sion list; then again. it is not a good thing
in republic TO grow a large life office
holding class. We need new blood in the
control of the business affairs Of the nation
occasionally. as well as in all other mate
rial concerns This civil service law viii
never be fairly administered by either
party. and therefore both parties are
better OFT without it,
The venerable gentleman evidently
filed the bill rs a party man. As no
one is obliged to accept his opinions Of
different parties, it j. Of interet to read
his reasons for lis own change # rela-
tions. He said:
Il was printer on The Congressional
Globe with Gales & Seaton in 1920. and
went Immediately from their employ 70
edit the leading Democratic paper at
I had two years before that
edited The Dovlestown Democrat. This
~ as when James Monroe was president
In looking back over these intervening
years I find thai have seen aud often
times been part of the successes and
defeats of every political party that has
lived IN this country to any purpose. I
remember the contest between the Fed +
araiists and the Democrats and earfv .
took nay position with the Democrats. 4
party because II was then liberal in its 4
views, broad Ga its ssatesmanship and .
-hampioue,l tine caHse of tire common F..
people
The aristecrafic Federal party was
''sreee,ietl ~ t'se u hizs. rs l1o were f5Iiv
ss conssrvati ard aInaosf A. hixh n
o7H& Thev <fcceede8 onee or twice
my - accident. - that party never