The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-06
Lone MueMumr's Howl.

our benighted contemporary, the SPRING
held Cass) Republican, seems TO be cast
ing about for slurs On the Presidents re-
cent civil service order but. judging from
its latest effort, with very little success:
IT viii be observed that the exemptions
J from the civil service law do rot enter
| into the Navy Department or the Depart
| nIent OF state. The reason Is that Gov.
1 Long ana Secretary Hay had nothing TO
| ask for Other members OF the Cabinet
| asked for exceptions, but they were con-
/ tent with the operations OF the reform
and declined 10 help weaken il"
! Now, We wonder vino told this laborious
! Nj gygunp that Messrs Elger. Smith.
Hitchcock, Wilson, Gage, ard Griggs i'm
! portuned the President 20 open their way
| TO spoils. waile Messrs. Hay and Long
| stood nobly alOof ard declined to Dartici-
| pate in the disreputable scramble We
can understand that Mr.. Long should be
! provided with a nimbus and a robe of
| light by the appointed organ Of New Eng
land superiority. The Yankees have stood
together ever since the days of witches
QUakerS, Catholics. and other legitimate
material for marks manship. In those
{ ,
but import slaves from Africa and gun
for everybody who didn't subscribe TO
their religious views.
They became earnest abolitiOnists as
soon as they discovered that African
slaves could not be profitably utilized in
their part of the country. and, afterward,
they studiOusly conducted the slave trade
for the Southern States, furnished the
slave traders, the slave drivers, and the
negro tOrturers for the whole country
south Of the Potomac and the Ohio. The
descendants of this class are to-day the
lynchers. the ruffians, and the agitatOrs
Of race issues at the South. As the real |
New Englanders pretend to be better
than others at home so are their desen- |
crates worse than others away from |
home. The complacent Mugwump of |
Massachusetts, who can see no good in |
the South, is merely a different express |
sion OF the ex-overseer and slave trader, |
who perpetrates nine-tenths Of the wick /
edness that furnishes the Springfield Re
publican ct i'd genus omni with its ma
terial Of detraction. It's all right about |
Long, therefore. He must be better than
his associates, according TO the Repub-
lcan. Par mobile fratrumi
But the country will smile at the effort
on the part of our more or less esteemed
Massachusetts contemporary to prove
that the Presidents civil service order
was forced by the clamor of Cabinet
spoilsmen, with Long and one other as
the brilliant and honorable exceptions.
The fact is, as has already been shown
In these columns. that the order is far
more In the line Of genuine civil service
reform than the various and stealthv
abuses OF the idea which that order WAS
INTENDED TO antagonize. Mr. Mckinley
mas simply contracted the authority of
the commission so that il runs between
lines OF common sense. We have not the
slightest doubt that both Secretaries
Hay and LonG-approved the Presidents
act. The circumstance-if there be sucb
a clrcumstance-that the new order does
not affect the State or the Navy Depart
ments proves simply that those depart
menis had already protected themselves
against the operation OF NugWunp nom
sense