Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-11-16
INSULTING The CIVIL SERVICE.
The Present Administrations Con
tempt for the Law Which 1t
Promised to Support.
A Discharged Democratic Clerk Re-
veals the Methods Pursued in the
Agricultural Bureau.

The following letters, which would
never have seen the light but for a
Democratic newspaper, explain them
selves:
washington, d. c., Aug. %, 1885,
Hon. j. M. Rusk, Secretary of Agri-
culture-Dear Sir: respectfully sub
nit the following statement which
hope you will duly consider:
81 was turned out Of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture by you, on the
demand of H. Clay Evans, who now
represents the Third Congressional
district in Tennessee (the district in
which 1 live), for the reason that l
am Democrat, and for no other
reason under the sun. You did
not have the courage and manli>
ness to say that was the reason, but
you resort to the dirty devices and
subterfuges of the groveling spoils
politician to accomplish your dirty
work, though you deceive no one.
Mr.. Evans gains nothing by my
dismissal, unless he can fill my place
with one of his Republican constitu-
ents, and that he can't do unless he
violates the Civil Service law, which
he, l have no doubt, is perfectly
willing to do, but which he can't do
without your help. If you help him
you become party to the deception
and fraud, or you become his dupe.
president Harrison, judging from
his public utterances, is honestly for
the enforcement of the Civil Service
law. He even goes further and
promises more than that. He said
that fidelity and efficiency was the
only sure tenure of Office, and that
no one should be turned out of Office
without notice of the charges brought
against him, nor without an oppor-
tunity to disprOve the same. You
have in my case and others violated
both of the above wholesome rules,
ridden over them rough shod, to
help dirty spoils politician turn a
Democrat out of Office, thereby prov
ing that my great offense, in your
estimation, was that of being g Demo
crat.
"The Civil Service law does not
prevent you from turning employees
of your Department out of office, but
it prohibits discrimination by you on
political grounds, You surely CAM
claim that you have not violated
this clause of the law, for every shot
of yours, so far as l know, has hit &
Democrat. This may be good party
politics of "spoils party" but yor
certainly can't have the hardihoOd
to claim that it is good morals. You
took an oath when you entered upor
the duties of your high position t.
support the Constitution of the Unit
ed States, and to administer the law
without favor or affection. Can yol
claim that you have complied will
that obligation?
81 suppose under some littl
twinge of conscience Gf you still
possess that silent monitor) 70,
promised Congressman j. d. Richard
son, of Tennessee, that you woul
investigate the cause of my dismissal
and see that justice was done in IN,
case. l have never heard of an
effort on your part to comply wit
that promise, nor do l suppose thu
ever will. You are hunting proc
not to do me justice, but to sustai
your action in my case and to hel
II. c. Evans.
81 think you will live to find OF
that the Republican majority in II
present Congress will not have thing
entirely their own way. Democrat
members will not allow you an
Others like you 10 disregard and III
over the rights of Democrats und,
the law, without calling you to a
count for your dirty partisan worl
You found but a small sprinkle
Democrats in your Department wht
you took charge, and you hay
never failed upon any preteXt, an
to make the preteXt yourself, to tul
them out, and when you failed
trump up an excuse, all you had
10 was to call on that swift witnes
Dodge, and he was always ready
help you.
1.-The creation of State Correspo
dents wasobitterly opposed by N
Dodge; upon the ground that the
were entirely useless, he alreaC
having correspondents enough in Il
counties. How is it now that bod,
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