The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20
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the Messenger believes n not
besftated to declare that Mckinley Is
a of q shallow and inferior
TYNE. He has wired in and wired out"
often since this country was so ours
ed by his election through the power
of money. He was never elected by
the white voters. Bryan received a
considerably larger white mans vote
than little Mac received. But the Major
is indeed a bad egg" The st. Louis
zplatform-on which Mckinley stood and
received enough white votes with the
negro vote to get in, Hanna's purchases
being counted-had this as TO civil ser
vice, that it shall be thoroughly ano
honestly enforced and extended wner-
ever possible" Again, in his
President Mckinley declared OF it: Il
shall attempt it's enforcement in the
spirit in which 1t was enacted. The
test interests of the country demand
this" And yet this contemplate,
puny demagog has Topped clear over,
and to give offices to 1000 Of his hum
cry and clamorous henchmen he DELHI
,erately violates the law and turns out
democrats duly qualified by law. This
same little summersaulter said IN the
@congress: eff the republican party or
this country is pledged to any one thing
more thar another 1T is to the main
of the civil service law and its
effective execution; not only tina Out
to its enlargement. The republican
party must take no step backward"
Where is this political Lilliputian now?
He is stamping on the law he swore
he would sustain and carry out in the
utmost good faith, and his Man Fri
day, the secretary of h treasury, Is
exposing his own ignorance and inidell-
ty by defending his little chief for his
contemptuous disapproval and repudi-
~ation of the pledges he had made to
the country. The New York Herald,
INDEPENDENT, says that Gin the face
of his deliberate, emphatic and solemn
pledges, he has o struck a blow lat
the civil service which is indefensible,
and admits of no explanation that will
enhance the good name of the party or
the dignity of the president"
To make plain the duplicity and
meanness of little Mckinley, we must
not overlook the foolish speech of Rep
resentative Kerr, who spoke sc plain
Iy as to the true meaning and inward
ness of the civil service republican ad-
vocacy. He declared that the McKin-
ley platform of 1896, was not to be re-
agarded. He farther turned on the light
that President Harrison's real purpose
was to curtail the patronage of the
coed him. Kerr is very happy because
little Mckinley will not stand by
pledges OF platform. This revealer of
plans and disregarder of platforms is
glad democrats will be turned down,
and he says that mo party yer ex-
day of victory And again, "The
present status Of the civil service does
snot reflect an honest effort ito inaugu-
= rate IA genuine reform, but rather a
successful attempt to wrest from the
: republican party the legitimate results
Of ITS victory"
The careful readers of The Messen-
ger in the past will remember how
earnest it was in exposing and oppos-
ing this whole civil service fraud and
deception-a plan borrowed from Great
Britain and wholly un-American n
un-democratic, and really as it now ap-
F., pears, un-republican, for it is spurned
. and despised by the unworthy gang
now in power.