Iron County register., 1892-08-04
HARRIsON's RECORD.
Men and Measures Of the Present
Administration.

Men and Measures Of the Present
Administration.
Depew's Bold Challenge to the Democ-
racy-The Appointment Of Clark
son Dudley's BLOCKS
| Compiled from the Chicago Timesl
| PART 1.
| In his speech at Minneapolis placing
in nomination the candidate of his
choice. Chauncev NJ. Depew said:
1.-THE unequaled and unexampled story of re-
| publicanism in its progress and in its achieve
| ments stands unique in the record OF parties in
governments which are free. But we live in
| practical times, facing practical issues, which
affect the business, the wages, the labor and the
| prosperity of to-day. The campaign will be won
or lost not upon the bad record Of James K Polk,
| or of Franklin Pierce, or Of James Buchanan;
not upon the good record of Lincoln. or of Grant,
or of Arthur, or of Hayes. or OF Garfield It
will be won or lost upon the policy, foreign and
domestic. the industrial measures and the ad
| n1inistrative acts of the administration Of Ben
| iamin Harrison. Whoever receives the nomina-
| ton of this convention will run upon the judg-
ment of the people, as to whether they have been
more prosperous and more happy, whether the
country has been in a better condition at home
| and stood more honorably abroad under these
| last four years of Harrison and republican ad-
| ministration than during the preceding four
years Of Cleveland and democratic govern
| ment-"
1t is bold challenge and will be ac-
cepted by the democracy. 1t was not
an admission in which the speaker gave
voice to wish. He recorded fact
which exists despite his party's effort
| to maintain supremacy by tanning the
flame of sectionalism. 1t is the logic
of events. For since four years of a
democratic administration disclosed the
| hypocritical pharisaism which depicted
the democracy of Tilden and Cleveland
as seeking the dismemberment of the
republic and the pensioning of ''rebel
soldiers the Tourgees of the postwar
! period have lost their opportunity.
While republican organs are voicing
querulous complaints at the promi-
nence in democratic councils of men
formerly allied with the opposition on
issues long since settled, there is no
| potency in the alarm cries of carpet
| baggers plundering states under cover
| of patriotism. Mr.. Depew admitted
what he would as partisan have glad
ly concealed. The issues of to-day are
those raised by the administration of
| Benjamin Harrison. 1t is to be deter
mined by the people whether they
have been more prosperous and more
happy, whether the country has been
| in better condition at home and stood
more honorably abroad under these last
four years of Harrison and republican
| administration than during the preced-
ing four years of Cleveland and demo-
cratic government"
In common with other ambitious
statesmen of his party Benjamin Harri-
son as candidate affirmed his earnest
| desire for such reform of the civil serv-
| ice as would remove abuses that had
| grown up under all administrations.
Immediately upon his Inauguration Mr..
| Harrison appointed as the chief heads
man of his administration the most no
| torious manipulation of patronage
known in the party. 1t was the con-
slant boast of the partisan press that
Mr.. Clar1son had broken the record OF
dismissals and appointments. There
was no pretense of demonstrating the
unftness of persons removed. There
was absolutely no respect paid to exist
| ing laws, nor to the spirit of reform
| which had actuated the preceding adj
ministration. The offices were needed
! as rewards for partisan services, and
| these were promises to be kept, because
| they were to be redeemed without cost
/ to the unlearned economist in the white
/ house.
And there was logic in the selection
! of Clarkson for this work. The head of
| the post office department had received
| his position as the direct result of a
| bargain and sale of official position
prior to the election. Mr.. Wanamaker
was rich merchant who had achieved
| wealth and longed for a social position
it had not gained for him. He could
count his millions made in retail trade,
but the doors of aristocrats who never
sold less than the full piece were closed
against him. He could run a Sunday
school, and was accorded recognition
within the edifice dedicated to its USE
But when outside its walls he was SIM
ply the retail draper, with money at
command and no social position among
the patricians of the Quaker city. The
secretaryship had been bestowed as
reward for cash in hand. What more
natural than that the entire department
should be made use of in the admins
tration of practical politics?
When, therefore, the republican con-
vention commends 1.-The spirit and evil
dence of reform in the civil service and
the wise and consistent enforcement by
the republican party of the laws regn-
lating the same" attention is invited
to the fact that in the administration of
the post office department every rule
has been violated, every law disregard
ed. 1t was the testimony of delegate
at Minneapolis that he held list of
nearly two hundred Off ceholders sitting
as delegates in the convention to record
the will of their patron. 1t was noto-
rious that the administration had
secured control of the delegations from
southern states by the free use of
patronage. More than four thousand
oficeholders thronged the lobbies of
Minneapolis hotels and the convention
hall to influence action in behalf of the
dispenser of official rewards for par
tisan and factional service. In every
state the officebolder was active in eau
Gus and convention. The spirit and
evidence of reform" was only notable
by its absence.
Dudley's Blocks of Five.
During the campaign of 1888 Col. Dud-
ley wrote letter advising the s'bunch-
ing of voters in blocks of FIVE" 1t was
proved by conclusive evidence that Col.
Dudley wrote and sent the letter. His
handwriting was identified by promi-
nent repuhlicans of Indiana who were