Gloucester County Democrat., 1899-10-26
CHAMP CLARK LETTER
Federal Employees Must
Stand and Deliver.
YIELD UP OR BE BOUNCED.
Subscribe Literally to Hanna's
Campaign Fund.
ORDER OF REPUBLICAN LEADERS.

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Mclean Is Hot Foot After Marks
Scalp, and the OmcehoIders Must
Change of Heart In Civil Service
Reform-Hanna Has Become an An
glomaniac Benton McMfIIin an
Honest Reformer-A Relic of BY
gone Days.
Especial Washington letter.
'sStand and deliver was the greet
ing of Robin Hood to travellers in the
pleasant, Ieafy lanes of England in the
long ago. Stand and deliverl' is the
order of Republican managers to all
federal employees in the blessed year of
our Lord and Master 1899. Subscribe
literally to Mark Hanna's campaign
fund OF be bounced" is the command
now ringing through every department
of the national government right at the
very ear of the civil service commits
sioners Down with the dust, or down
with you'll is hint which all Repub-
lican officials from Mr. Secretary Of
State Hay to the spittoon cleaners must
heed or lose their jobs, for one John R.
Mclean is hot foot after Mark scalp
in Ohio, and to lose Ohio, Mark own.
in 1899 means the loss of the country
in 1900, and so the managers make no
bones of demanding a diyvy in broad
day light wonder if the ghost of one
Jay Hubbel never appears to them to
give them pause. His sprite could a
tale unfold that would make each par
ticular hair upon their pates to stand
on end like quilts upon the fretful por
cupine, He squeezed the federal em-
ployees dry, elected Garfield and, hav-
ing served his purpose, was himself
ruthlessly cast aside carelessly as
sucked orange. From his proud position
of autocrat he sank into oblivion as
suddenly as Mr.. McGinty went to the
bottom Of the sea. 1t was tough on Jay.
but it was good for the country. But
in view of this wholesale levy of black
mail ON government employees I rise to
inquire, what has become of that unc
tuous declaration of President Mckinley
in his inaugural that no backward step
must be taken in civil service reform Z {
Echo answers. sWhatf' I fancy that
these employees as they reluctantly
shell out under duress will conclude Ell
ther that the president has experienced
a change of heart or that his. words on
that occasion were used in Pickwick
ian sense
stencil In the Nostrils of Deceney.
In this connection it may not be too
impudent toinquire what the civil serv
ice commission is going to do about it.
If it doesn t take cognizance of this open
and notorious caper of Republican
spoilsmen under its very nose, it will be
discredited thoroughly in the estima
ton of all decent and honest people and
might as well hang up the fiddle and
the bow.
And / hope I am not committing the
crime of leze majesty by asking how
that perfervid apostle of civil service
reform, Governor and Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt, can keep silent when he sees
such outrages committed against his
pet theory without any effort whatever
at concealment. fondly hope that the
governor will recover his speech long
enough to tell us what he thinks Of this
spoils action of the Republican man
ayers. He owes a large portion of his
reputation to the fact that even people
who did not indorse his theory regarded
him as honest and courageous in its adj
vocacy and admired him accordingly.
l confess I was one of those, and dis
like exceedingly to see my hero over
thrown and curtailed Of his fair proper
tions. But if the governor continues to
hold his peace on this subject when he
could catch these sinners hagrante de-
licto he will be compelled to sing small
and to roost low as a civil service re-
former hereafter. He once asked me
why was opposed to civil service re-
form told him that my chief reason
was that it was not honestly enforced; /;
that when Republicans were in power
they used it for Republican ends and
when Democrats were in they used 1t
for Democratic ends He assured me
that he at least would honestly and
fearlessly enforce it in the navy depart
ment, which l believe he did, but it is
high time for him to speak out in meet
ing if he would preserve his reputation
for courage, honesty and consistency.
Hanna an AngIomaniac.
Marcus A. Hanna has returned from
Europe an ultra Anglomaniac, which
must give Hon. John Hay, secretary of
state, a bad case of heart failure every
time he thinks Of it, for the ink was
scarcely dry on Colonel Hay s wonder
full letter to Colonel Dick before Mark
landed on our shores declaring that
ssthe English government is fully as
good as ours. Now, if that's true.
then what the deuce did we carry on
the Revolutionary war for at such a
cost of life and blood and treasured It's
really pity that Mark could not have
been in Boston about 125 years ago and
explained to those tea rioters what asses
they were. If Mark had been IN the
Virginia house of burgesses, perhaps
Patrick Henry would never have de-
livered that great lyric speech, which
still stirs the blood like strains OF mar
tial music. But Mark is, after all, oniy
acting and speaking after his KIND.
Alexander Hamilton declared the gov
ernment of king, lords and commons tC
be the best ever devised by the wit Of
man. And do not the Republicans, one
and all, regard Hamilton as the found
er of their school of politics. Mark was
doing his best to voice Alexander s
idea, but he is not so deft in the use of
language as the West Indian adven-
turer who was the first. imperialist on
this continent. So Mark fell below the
great original. but he did the best he
could. Even the Washington Post, a
thick and thin Mckinley shouter, in
Inmates to Mark that he would have
done better to have kept his mouth shut
mot that Mark was SO far wrong, but
because his untimely declaration may
render nugatory the eloquent and mel
iifluous sentences of Colonel Hay in
denying to Colonel Dick the existence
Of q secret Anglo American treaty, conn
pact. alliance OF understanding ! take
it, therefore, that Marks sin, from a
goldIue point of view. consists entirely
ID being found orlt Rnt. while neither
the spixituaI nor legal adviser Of Mark.
T feel constrained to nlake this excuse