The Globe-republican., 1890-01-29

Special .CorresponAence to the GLOBE b
PERIICAM

! PUBLICAN.
WARRINGTON, D. c., Jan. "a.
Speaker Reed is filling his position
with admirable courage and strength.
He has been called upon several times
recently ITO oppose Ibis will against that
of the entire democratic party In the
house, and he hse-dOne SO. 1t IL related
of Mr.. Mills Of Texas, that when he was
making free trade speech In Connecti-
cut in 1888, a gentleman in the audience
asked him simple political question,
and Mr.. Mills replied: $50, soak your
head" l was forcibly reminded of this
one afternoon recently, when Mr.. Mills
was on the floor of the house, protesting,
waving his hands and shouting at Speak
er Reed, aud that dignified statesman
merely glanced ut the frantic ex-leader
of the house, completely ignored him,
as much rs to say. mills, 20 soak your
|ihead.''
Things are going differently now, from
what they were tive years ago. Then.
the democratic party with confederate
yells, went .csreering over the heads of
everybody. Mills, of Texas, was the
king bee, and his bill was the subject of
conversation and discussion. remem-
Der during the campaign of 1888, farm
er in Wisconsin said: whats all this
row about the Mills bill and the surplus?
If there's surplus in the treasury why
don't the government pay Mills bill and
Aet him 60"
81 always carefully prepare:my speech
es," says Senator ingalls,. IL write a
great deal, and study my subject care
fully. But when am on my feet speak
ing. do not rely wholly upon my notes
but 90 right on ex-tempOre and deliver
a different speech from that which 1 had
prepared. although it is substantially the
same thing Yes, substantially the
same, but Senator ingalls, never appears
to better advantage than when he Is de-
livering some extempore sentence, slow
ly, deliberately, incisively, as a skilled
surgeon probing Il wound. How he
does make the democratic party vince
as he do ctors its political assesses.
Certain republican senators and repre-
have recently been threatened
with political humiliation" unless they
give their endorsements to prominent
These threats come by
mail and by telegraph. Gentlemen in
terested in their friends to such an eX-
tent, should remember that their threats
are likely to have an effect the opposite
Of that which is intended. Surely the
man who threatens cannot expect him.
self to be therefor counted among the
friends of the senator or representative |
whom he has assailed. Friendship |
1Oes not manifest itself with clubs and
dynamite. The small fry, the ward
)ummers, the caucusers of townships.
Ill imagine themselves great men be-
,ause the fool killer overlOOks them. 1t
matters not which party they belong to.
During the last four years, we in Wash
ngtOn saw all the riff-raff of the demo-
'ratic party, coming with smiles and 60
ng with curses of disappointment. The
epublicans who are going crazy over the
'fices. are the small and undeserving
elbows who have magnified themselves.
every year. more and more it appears
hat the Office should seek the man.
IL am civil service refOrmer," says
x-Postmaster General Frank Hatton,
but l am also republican. 1 have no
ispOsition to prosecute the reformers ,
rho believe in the commission, believe 6
examinations uselessly taken, believe ,
, allowing a commissioner to condone
n Offense or crime; but should prefer :
better SYSTEM !
The fact of the matter is, the republic I
IN party in 1883 acted the coward and =
lowed the Pendleton civil service bill y
become law. and nov they are sorry 7
" it. The democrats who were anxious 4
} pass the bill were weeping and wall
g and gnashing their teeth during the Il
1tire Cleveland administration. 1t ben h
its neither party, and hampers both. i,
affords absolutely no protection to the A
erks, foI they can be dismissed at any o
me. without cause. 1t is law framed "
ignorance of the civil service, Graded :,
partisanship, sucked in bigotry and -
lould be repealed. =.
1.-The most practical civil service law
hich l can DEVISE" says General Rose :.
ans, sis the following. Let each con- :.
district be entitled to fair :.
'OpOrtion of the offices. Let the clerks o
appointed for six years. At the end
the six years let the congressman rep
senting that district be notified that a =.
lcancy exists and let him nominate the
d clerk to be retained. or LET him nom. >