The morning times., 1896-12-23

TO the Hutchins Building, corner
of Tenth and ID streets and Penn
syIvania avenue, for twelve years
the office of the Daily Post, where,
on the 26th of December. all the
friends and patrons of The Times
VIII he heartily welcomed.
The news, composition, art, and
press rooms, newspaper delivery
and carriers and newsbDES' quar-
ters VIII remain at their present
location.
The CivI service Law Attacked
Again.
NV, by Saint PAU, the work Of the
Bpunsmc goes lravcly on, aId ii is writ
len ON the racc Of the moon, ana j. tact
that ir ON, through tie halls Of C,rgress,
that the fools are rot al dead yet, and
that some OF them have been elevated into
sne House f Representatives Oh the free
mans f,aput, whic. is lot, we regret to
say, fool proof!
the House who may put on th;s shoe and
find il a :, Cd fit. that we nave not written
these words in malice, but in ecntleness
OF spirit which slouId shame them from
their wrong course and lead them into
Fellowship with Carl Schurz's civil service
saints and the white robcd people who
gather around ard SUPP ort the United
States Cyl Service CommisS'Cn, composed
or Col Proctor, the only really good and
entirely mdefilcd Kcntuckian in Wash
lngton; Judge Harlow, n st. LOUIS saint
like man, whom, strange as 1t nay seem.
you can trust i'll safety; Col. Rice, one Of
the yourglo looking wise mon Of the Eckels
style that came in with Apaar, of New
York-tIand, plausible, high toned, but like
Joey Baes,o o X, dcvilish sly; and Secretary
Doyle. in whom there is 10 guile, and upon
whose slO .aGcrS rests the glohc like weight
of the entire civil service rcforEI cause.
In this spirit-upon the in.palse Of a
yearnirg desire to save the members of
NtlA lAtifNH ~ i4' W. libA hl4D'' anu " iAA 8fDl
learn of the beauties of the civil service
reform law system, or Of the blessings that
1t has conferred upon the government, we
declare and say THAI all the fools are not
dead yet. and that some OF them are now
In Congress. blathering in ignorance and
making Spectacles of themselves, in a
4. Ia
Take, for instance, Mr.. BAKER Of New
Hampshire. In that rapid, decisive, and
reckless manner, so peculiar TO himself,
Mr.. Baker yesterday denounced the civil
service law severely, and said that il
was the practice Of the appointing officers
Of the departments to secure places for
hat these clerks should watch the clerks
Of the opposite party and secure evidence
Of some fault or some trifling shmtco,n-
ng. by which they might be turned out. and
places made for Democrats. IT, said
Mr.. Raker, the chairman OF the Civil
Service Commission does not bclieyc this
1 can furnish him absolute proof. and Will
do this, either during this session or
after my term has expired
Now, We make bold TO say, that Chair.
man Proctor does not believe this state.
ment OF Mr.. Baker, and Tie Times de,
nounces ii as utterly groundless. 1t is not
true that the appointing officers Of Mr.
Cleyeland's administration have empl ~.
ed spoilers to mark Republicans for dis,
misSal; and tits not fact that Republicans
have been dismissed from classified places
In the departmental service because the
were Republicans: and neither is it a fac,
that any Democrat has been appointed he
cause he was a Democrat to any place
made vacant by the dismissal OF a Re.
publican, or in any other way than in stricr
accordance with the civil service law and
rules Thus we make an issue with Mfr
Baker, and demand Of him the eyidenc,
upon which he has made his charge, prou,is.
Ing that. if he can and does sustain il, we
will join with him n denoancng every mar
who has been a party TO the disgraccfu
offeESes charged
Again. Mr.. Baker has asserted, i'm effect
ff not ia so many words. that the classified
service has heen denuded Of Republicans
and that Democrats have been injected
into the departments until they swarm,
therein, uutnumbcring the Republicans
every where. Now, 1T is fact that Mr.
BaEer might have learned---a fact indeed
that. In our opinion, he knows full we'll
that the Republicans in the Pension office
outnumbcr the Democrats in n marked
degrcc-t'lat in about 2,uoo clerks tber,
are only about 300 Democrats; that in
tue State Department nearly everybody is
a Republican: that in the Treasury De
partment, the Republicans greatly pre-.
dominate. and SO on through all the Other
departments. This condition resulted
from the fact that, when the civil service
law was enacted nearly every man and
woman in the departments was :, Repub
hcan, and many thousands OF these pcople