Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-07-06
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i''cc" A Republican Statesman.

NJ, The Pittsburg Dispatch, Il Republican
Journal, challenges the Republicanism
oi Assistant Postmaster General Clark
son, who IL to be made postmaster gen
y eral when the shuttle is made In the
cabinet that is 10 be caused 10y Attorney
General Miller's promotion to the SUI
preme bench. Mr.. Clarkson was the
right hand man of Quay in managing
Harrison's campaign, and what he does
not think he knows about grcasing
political machinery Is not much He
has been very expeditions handler of
the official guilotne since he has been
made executioner in the postof,ice de-
partment, and the daily record he makes
Is punctuated with marks of admiration
in the Washington dispatches,
Mr.. Clarkson, the Diputch tells us,
has lately declared in New York that
the election was for the purpose of put
ting Republicans in office, and that
nothing gives him greater pleasure than
! to make room for Republican Office
holders. This is the conception of what
the election was held for, which was To
ipyhe looked for from Mr.. Clarkson, and
A lso from his chief Wanamaker who
council got their Office as the reward of
election labors and cash and they
Comm he excused for thinking that such
O'clock the grandest results and the highest
aims Of the election.
Unfortunately, however, for u Re
publican statesman of Mr.. Clarkson's
ardor and frankness, the Republican
convention which nominated Harrison
thought proper to declare in favor of
that civil service reform which seeks the
abolition of the official guillotinc "to
the end that the dangers to free institu-
tions which lurk in the power of official
patronage may be wisely and effectively
avoided"
Says the Dispatch This statement
of Republican doctrine in contrast with
the principle of political action laid down
by the first assistant postmaster general,
proves conclusiyely that Mr.. Clarkson
is no longer Republican He has cast
aside the civil service reform principles
suthoritatively avowed and adopted by
the Republican national organization i'm
order TO rank himself among the pro-
fessed spoilsmen. Having thus dis
avowed Republican principles, his own
rule of action debars him from holding
Office. His first duty, according TO his
own statement, is Ia kick himself out. -
The logic of the Dispatch seems to he
good but inasmuch as Mr.. Clarkson is
obviously high official in the Republi-
can party, there clearly is something
wrong about II. The defect is in the
premise declaringt that the decapitation
Of oficeholders, because they are Demo-
Gratis, Is hostile to Republican doctrine :;
or else In the statement that Republican
doctrine and practice go hand in hand.
~ the doctrine was clearly enunciated
N the platform, and il as clearly
spurDed In the administration. we are
clearly advised that the doctrine was
only for election uses, aud is no value
after the game has been played. Mr..
Clarkson clearly need not kick himself
out, and clearly will not if any such
performance was begun the emptyinp
would b. general.
There Is nothing bothering the Re-
publican official mind in the distribu-
q: tton Of the offices save the scarcity of
Democratic heads among the office
holders. They complain now that
Caeveland cut out only about a third OF