The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-03-31

70 dcGln8 secretary or war. The
department has had no important
news from Gen. Otis this week.
but unless the Fllipinos respond
promptly to the proclamation OF
the Philippine G Commission, call
ing upon them to lay down their
arms, there will be important news
from him in few days, as it ie
/ known that he has everything rea..
fdy to make an attack upon the
headquarters Of Aguinaldo.
! Acommittee Of citizens called
on Secretary Long to request that
Admiral Dewey be ordered home
IN time to participate in the big
peace jubilee to be held in w ash
ington tho latter part of May. Sec
Rotary Long told them he would
submit their request to President
Mckinley when he returned to
Washington, but intimated that.
owing to Dewey's being a NOM
Der of the Philippine Commission,
he would be unable to leave his
post in time.
March promises to be the ban
ner month in the amount of Gus
toms duties received under the
| Dingley tariff, present estimates
being: that the receipts will exceed
vi, 10000 for the month. Moth
ing could more certainly indicate
the prosperity of the country, as
the present hi Oh duties make i'm
ported goods Injuries, and only
prosperous people buy luxuri ee.
Chairman Proctor, of the civil
service commission. is doubtless
sorry that he tried to tackle Gen.
Grosvenor in a civil service dis
cussion. He could not have en-
joyed 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 out
side of civil service rules. Gen.
Grosvenor said: ":This is the only
point made in the gcntleman's de-
liverance, and my answer to it is
worry simple; it would suggest it
self to anybody with capacity
enough to stand a non-compcti-
tive examination for the position
OF law clerk in Undergrad.
Here is a system of administration
which went into effect in the bur
eau OF engraving and printing GER
tainly long before the beginning
of this administration-the exact
date l cannot give-and long
enough to have become assimilat9
cd to the provisions of this won
derful system of publication and
merit, and yet at this late date the
chairman of the civil service COM
mission comes before tho public
} and admits the allegations OF
wrong and outrage existing in the
bureau, and admits that he knows
the mon by name, can identify
them absolutely, and connect
them with the Irregularities prov
en 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 commission. Now
J there need be nothing else said.
There is tho very proof of the ut
ter valuelessness of this whole sy-
stem. In order to get rid of these
men there must be a lawsuit begun
and finally tried upon charges pre-
ferred, and a copy to be furnished,
ard ? j':1crc:.2s AT u . <:>::=;4 syAdcl.
ed upd. EulL proof xesolving al
doubts i'll fovor of the accused and
compelling the government to
prove it's charges beyond reason
able doubt. In order to avoid the
lmpossibility of this administra-
ton these men are continued in
Office, and SO it makes no differ
ence to the force of my argument
whore they came from. The crime
is not in their coming; it is in
their staying. The fault of tho or
ganization of the bureau of civil
service was not in it's coming; it .is
in it's stayiug."
1t is the opinion of shrewd poll
tical observers that the correspond
ence between MI. Bryan and Mr..
Belmont, president of Croker's
democratic. club, in which Mr..
Bryan read Mr.. Belmont and all
other democrats who bolted in SO
and have failed to publicly an
nounce since then that they will
support the Chicago platform, if
it be readopted next year, out of
the democratic party, will result
in accentuating the line between
dollar democrats and the ten doll
ar democrats, as the silver and
gold democrats are now called and
in increasing the certainty of re-
publican success. A prominent
! New York democrat said of Mr..
Bryan's letter: 1T il perhaps a
play to the galleries-an old Bry-
an trick--a bid for the continued
support of the South and West by
this act Of voluntary antagonism
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