Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-10-03
THE OWL SERVICE LEAGUE.

| Close of the Annual Meeting with a
Banquet-Some OF Those Mt the
Roard-Remarksb by George william
CaEtls'TWhat Charles n. Russell
Said.
BosroN, Oct. 2.3The annual nisetingbf
the National Civil Service Reform league
ended this evening with a dinner given the,
league by the Massachusetts, members at,
the Parker, house, Roger Wolcott, vice
president of the Massachusetts,. league,
presiding, in the absence on account of
illness, of President Henry w. Sprague
Conspicuous at the board were George
William Curtiss, president of the National
league, Charles Theodore Russell, jr., Ar
thur Lord, G. E., P. Wilbur, the Massa-
chusetts civil service commissioner; Charles
j. Bonaparte, president of the Maryland
association; Lucius B. Swift, president of
the Indiana association; William Dudley
Foulke of Indiana, Everett P. Wheeler,
Silas Burt of New York and Sherman
Rogers of Buffalo. AFTER brief speech
by the residing officer, George William
Curtiss said:
tits public duty to hold up to universal ridicule
this huge joke of the spoils system. 1t shows q
healthy condition Of the public mind that
United States senator has been literally roasted
Connection. He belongs g school Of politics H
tina that says AND we w make
toxicate itself, and SO the hope of reform always
rests in the minority. Caesar had his Brutus
Charles his Cromwell and q majority crowned
IS in pac
mind against the spois system, and believe
with Mr.. Mckinley and Mr.. Cleveland that the
ocratic parties are in sympathy with civil service
reform, and the day is surely coming when the
spoils system will Seem incredible to the people
In closing, Mr.. Curtis referred to Theo-
dore Roosevelt as the spirit of reform typi-
fed, youthful, aggressive and indomitable.
Charles T. Russell of the Massachusetts,
association said:
One half of the officehelders in this state have
passed the civil service examination and been
appointed without regard to politics or religious
creeds. The commissioners have had the support
lie officers of the state. The people of Massachu
sets are in favor of this application of the law
have government Of laws and not of men.
William Dudley Foulke of Indiana said:
One of the best evidences of the hold that the
reform has taken on the politics of the country
is found in the fact that $4,000 employees of the
classifications, and the results of a comparison
of the classified system with the spoils system is
formers BELIEVED Harrson Would be- more faith
full to his platform pledges than his predecessor
had been, and though somewhat disappointed
they would not cease to criticise whenever they
saw the law violated or disregarded and should
hold up the same high standard for the present
administration that they did for the last
TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGS.
New Hampshire's population is placed at 375,-
s27, an increase of % ss6 during the past decade
ATTEMPT AT BURGLARY
On Trumbun street Last Evening.
Early last evening an attempt was made
to burglarize the house of Mr.. Peck Sperry,
81 Trumbull street. One of the ladies of
the house in looking out a second-story
window discovered a ladder standing mp
against the house and Immediately gave
alarm. A search was instituted, but no
trace of anyone could be found about the
premises.