New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-11
STILL TREMENDOUSLY ACTIVE.
THE PRESIDENTS ORDER APPEARS TO
BE DEAD LETTER.
DEMOCRATIC OFFICIALS KEEP RIGHT ON MAX
ING CAMPAIGN SPEECHES WITH Mr..

lBY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUNE
| Washington oct. l0-Mcmbers OF President C.eye-
| land's Cabinet who are in Washington are annoyed
by publications which show that many oiiiceno.ders
| are engaged in making Democratic campaign
speeches and otherwise conducting themselves with
'pernlclous activity In violation Of the order OF
| July A. 1885, which still stands unrevoked. 1t Is
barely possible that Secretaries Carlisle. Herbert and
Hoke Smith do reflect the views of their master
In regard to Civil Service reform, despite the fact
their constant and gross violations ana eVasions
Of the spirit II not the letter OF the Civil Service
law since they took office in the present Adminlsra-
ton have not been checked or rebuked even II
| noticed by him. although they have been the sub
fec, Of frequent and harsh criticism by the friends
and advocates OF REFORM irrespective or party IL
| is stoutiy denied by Administration partisans that
President Cleveland has even minated his dis
pleasure on account OF the obtrusive craftsmanship
u Secretaries. Assistant Secretaries. heads or bu-
reaus and their deputies, to say nothing of an
army Of chiefs OF division and other small fry In the
pending campaign and the latter are encouraged 10
continue In course which must be regarded as
Highly reprehensb.e by SO devoted champion OF re-
form as Grover Cleveland processes to be- According
to a Washington dispatch published In The New
York Times OF to-day:
II Is asserted upon what may be accepted as un-
questioned authority that the President has issued no
general order anything that can be construed
into an order against the participation OF Federal
ofccholders In CAMPAIGN work
II Is inferred that the 'uniutStlOneI duhiOi4ty
for this assertion is the Secretary OF the treasury
for the dispatch continues:
one report had it that Secretary Thurber brought
word from Gray Gables that speechmakng BY Adj
mnistraton officers must he stopped. and that here
after there should be no engagements by Cabinet
officers their assistants - make campaign
Cabinet officer called upon by Secretary Thprber
while he here says that the Presidents private
secretary did not 10 the subject, nor ala ne
speak OF the President as expressing any concern
about the political acts of his subordlrates.
The same dispatch refers to the order of 1856, and
says that according to President Cevelands inter-
pretation the order designed to prevent office
holders from becoming Subject the criticism
that offices to which they had been appointed
sufficiently large 10 afford them employ
ment and their appearance on the stump would
suggest the possibility that II their Offices could get
along without them. 1t would be possible and eco
nomica dispense with the Offices they held, and so
save the money paid to hem in salaries This Is
Ingenious but neither ingenious nor true, for IN
his Letter of November &C. 1855 President Cleveland.
among other things said:
do think hat such ofici al can enter as
business A political campaign. and consenting to
long list OF engagements to address political meet
ings. M such ENGAGEMENTS. without neglectng ms
duty II he holds ar oth1e worth having nor WITHOUT
taking with him in the canvass his ohical power
anG Influence. Therefore. this course Is condemned
The last clause OF the first sentence together with
last sentence clearly defined the Presidents
views and the conduct OF offlcehoders In this cam
paign Is in fiat violation OF the order he Issued to
seen M to modify or revoke. Assistant Secretary
McAdoo for example. has made engagemen;s to de;
liver campaign speeches and carry mis- onclal
power AMI influence into Delaware New-Jersey
and New-Yor In behalf Of the Democratic party.
Deputy Commissioner Bell. OF the Pension Bureau
is already doing tn hing In Illinois. on SAL
urlay. rcordlng t. special dispatch to The ST.
Louis Republic" !e addressed large and enthu-
siastlc crowd OF voters Oney IN that state. This
Will be cheering news TO the tens or thousands 9t
deserving applicants for pensions whose cases await
adiulcation VIII also be the news that the other
Deputy Conmissioner OF the Pension bureau Mr
NIrpny is engaged In making Democratic campaign
speeches In Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
Tho private secretary Of the Secretary or the
Treasury has gore 70 his home in Kentucky IT Is
understood to take part In the campaign there 1t
may be remembered that large number OF Govern
mont employees IN Washington who hall from that
State went homo t. assist ". G. r. Breckenridge In
his campaign for denomination II is pretty safe
to say that they did not lose their pay for the time
they wcr" absent. did the Treasury employees |
" no are members Of the Grand Army Of the Repub-
l.c AMI who attended tn. National Ercampment at |
piftsb.rg except in cases where time was due 10 |
them on account ~ their annual leaves OF absence.
which the Secretary Of the Treasury has no author
i;y 20 curtGi.