The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-24
Roosevelt Saves Ills Pclt.

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Roosevelt Saves lis Pcit.
The Gladstone fact Is announced that the
Hon. THEODORE ROOSEVELT OF DaRota.
oyster Boy. and the rest Of the world. VIII
uncouple himself from the Civil Service
Commission on or before the day when the
Hon. BENJAMIN HARRISON rides TO the Cap
itol with a Democrat. Mr.. ROOSEVELT
doesn't declare explicitly that life on the
Civil Service Commission has ceased TO nave
charms for him since the fact has been
established that his constant butt, tho non.
JOHN WASAMAKER. Is to DO put PACK
behind the Bargain Counter. Yet we may
assume without indiscretion that without
WASAMAKER there would be little to cheer
the dun and lonesome life OF such O Clvii
Service Commissioner as Mr.. ROOSEVELT is.
Our esteemed Washington contemporary.
the Hon. FRANK HATToS, is an enemy Ola
| different sort. He seems to hate Mr.. RoosE-
WELT because he hates civil service reform.
| Now civil service reform Is q snivelling hum
| bug. but Mr.. ROOSEVELT is . good and
hearty person. He may be cholerio and
rash at times, but he Is frank aud
omen fighter and hater. such as the
Hon. FRANK HArToN likes and ought
to like. In saying this We take 1t for
granted that Mr.. HArroN likes himself.
So does Mr.. WANAMAKER, but Mr.. WANA-
MAKER Is eccentric and isolated In that
opinion. That Mr.. WANAMAKEn should OBJ
iect to Mr. ROOSEVELT and Mr.. ROOSEVELT
should have an all-wool and yard-wide
CONTEMPT for Mr.. WANAMAKER Is emlnently
fitting, and, in ruct. inevitable. Mr.. EoosE-
WELT Is honest even In what some OF his
friends may regard as his errors; civil
service reform. for instance. He Is type
OF a bold, bluiY, hot.headed. chivniric per-
sonnge, sound. sane. iinpulsive. fierce
always for what he deems to be the right.
stumbling into the wrong occasionally or
oftener through certain tendency to mis-
take his own hasty conclusions for the
includible Nnt OF tho fatcs. but always
worthy of respect because always animated
with high and unsellsh purpose.
Mr., WANAMAKER has been Mr.. RoosE-
yE1T's chief enemy during the HARRISON
Administration. Civil service reform under
the most favorable and pigeon-livered Ad-
ninistration Is O squaring OF the circle and
Il triumphant demonstration OF the fact, II
fact it be, that two and two make baker
dozen. Gen. HARRISON is civil service
rcformcr, bred in Indiana: that is TO say. q
cat among the mice. But Gen. HARRISON
ia not a petty. timid. or dishonest person.
He will do for civil service reform what he
Is obliged to do by law. No more. except in
SO far as it may be conceivable that good
politics might be in that move.
We congratulate Mr.. ROOSEVELT on his ap-
preaching release. A Civil Service Commits.
sioner under a Democratic Administration is
| bn civil Snryirn not
should be and will be obcyed as strictly
under one Administration as another. But
although that measure Is the work Of q
Democrat and was passed in moment oil
hilarity by Democratic votes. there must
always be q palpable contradiction between
the aristocratic civil service reform ideG
and the practical and popular democratic
idea. II Democratic Congress and {
Democratic President do their duty. there
will be no more United States Civil Service
Commissioners. In that event. there will
,, be diminution Of hypocrisy and an increase
OF the efficiency OF the Federal civil service
As to our young friend, Mr.. RoosE
WELT, his withdrawal from IN essential.
!. false public position to the delights o
!, private independence is to be welcomed
i. Whether he chooses to pursue Office in Ney
York or tho not more elusive mountain
, sheep among the crags and peaks OF tn
new West. which is making his party so il
: Just ut present. he will have fun. and he wi
:, get somewhere. whether right or left. Til
= Republican party Of New York has no
prospered under the coatless Chemungite
:, the Hon. j. SLoAT FAssETT. Mr. Roosevelt
is needed here. Who else should be the chic
>. departcr OF new departure. We submit
y the following Republican ticket for 1894:
= For Governor SITN GIBBS {
de T'irteent'.
:, For Lieutenant Governor - TpEoDoRC
:. RoosEvELrUs OF Oyster Bay.
ut ma hnva war