The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-03-30
Breech Widening Between the "One
DOilars' and ssTen Dellar''
Democrats.

recreation, Assistant Secretary Meikel-
john will be Acting Secretary Of War.
The department has had no important
news from Gen. Otis this week, but un-
less the Filipinos respond promptly to
the procl amation of the Philippine Com.
calling upon them to lay down
their arms, there will be important news
from him in q few days, as it is known
that he has everything ready to make an
attack upon the headquarters of Aguin-
aldo.
A committee of citizens called on Sec.
retary Long to request that Admiral
Dewey be ordered home in time to par.
ticipate in the big peace jubilee to be
held in Washington the latter part of
May. Secretary Long told them he
would submit their request to President
Mckinley when he returned to Wash.
ington, but intimated that, owing to
Dewey's being member of the Philip
pine Commission, he would be unable
to leave his post in time.
March promises to be the banner
month in the amount of customs duties
received under the Dingley tariff, pres.
ent estimates being that the receipts will
exceed $21 ,OOO, ,OOO for the month. Notl,-
ing could more certainly indicate the
prosperity of the country, as the present
high duties make imported goods lux.
uries, and only prosperous people buy
luxuries.
Chairman Proctor, of the Civil Service
Commission, is doubtless sorry that he
tried to tackle Gen. Grosvenor in Civil
Service discussion. He could not have
enjoyed the answer Gen. Grosvenor
made to his charge that abuses said to
have existed in the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing were all committed by those
appointed outside of Civil Service rules.
Gen. Grosvenor said: "This is the only
point made in the gentleman's deliver.
ance, and my answer to it is very simple;
it would suggest itself to anyboy with
capacity enough to stand q non-compe.
tive examination for the position of law
clerk in lumber-yard. Here is q syr.
tenn of administration which went into
effect in the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing certainly long before the be.
ginning of this administrations ex-
act date I cannot give-and long Enough
to have become assimilated to the provi-
sions Of this wonderful system of purifi-
cation and merit, and yet at this late
date the Chairman of the Civil Service
Commission comes before the public
and admits the allegations of wrong do.
ing and outrage existing in the bureau,
and admits that he knows the men by
name, can identify them absolutely, and
connect them with the Irregularities
proven in the investigation, and yet they
are there; they are in the bureau, and
the Chief is there, and Mr.. Proctor is at
the head of the Civil Service Commits
sion. Now, there need be nothing else
said. There is the very proof Of the ut
ter vsluelessness OF this whole system
In order to get rid of these men there
must be q lawsuit begun and finally
tried upon charges preferred, and copy
to be furnished, and judgment of ous,
ter rendered upon full proof resolving all
doubts in favor of the accused and COM
pelling the government to prove its
charges beyond q reasonable doubt. In
order to avoid the impossibility of this
al m ;ui isk votiou kh oso v,nov, avo oo~ks~.oJ
in Office, and 90 it makes no difference
to the force of my argument where they
came from. The crime is not in their
coming; it is in their staying. The fault
of the orga nization of the Bureau of DIV
il Service was not in its its coming, it is
in its stay ing"
It is the opinion of shrewd political
observers that the correspondence be-
tween Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Belmont, pres
ident of Oroker's Democrats who bolted
in '96 and have failed to publicly an.
nounce since then, that thev will sup.
port the Chicago platform if it be re.
adopted next year, out of the Democrat
ic party, will result in accentuating the
line between the dollar Democrats and
the ten dollar Democrats, as the silver
and gold Democrats are now called, and
is increasing the certainty of Republi.
can success. A prominent New York
Democrat said of Mr.. Brysn's letter
ut IL perhaps play to the galleries
an old Bryan trick-a bid for the con.
tinued support of the South and West
BY this oct of voluntary antagonism to
the East. It seems to me clumsy per.
Torrance and how 1t will make the Ne.
braska man friends anywhere ID hard to
underytand. He could have sent cour-
teous declination without any insulting
allusion; nobody but the most fanatical
will commend his action"
Brisadisr Gen. Oorbin, who - Adju-
tant General Of the army was ON duty
oightoen hours 4 dav durinR thu var