The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-10-19
COL ONEL MARTIN
ON ROOSEVELT
Sergeant at Arms Of the
National Committee Gives
Some Facts and Fig
ures.
FAKE CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
,scandalous Postal Fraud Hid
den by the Administration
Irregular Appoint
ments.
FAKE CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
ments.

NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 1904--Joh J.
State Assembly, who is now sergeant-at-
arms Of the National Democratic Com
mittee, is another instance of the old war
horses of the. party who have become SO
enthused with the prospects of Demo-
cratic victory this year that they want to
get out on the firing line. Col. Martin,
who is an eloquent speaker, from now un-
til the close Of the campaign will speak
almost every evening somewhere in New
York or New Jersey. His initial address
in Rutherford, n J., this week was of
the Burke Cochran style, and is consid-
cred an able campaign document Among
other things he said: President Roose-
welt believes that the best use to make of
the vast revenues paid by the tell Of the
people is to invest them as the German
emperor invests the revenues of his coun-
life for individuals and for nations. He
told the New York State Assembly of
mothers: The boy who will not fight is
not worth his salt He will be of no use
in life and will be coward To the
West Point cadets he said that the good
soldier should not only be willing but
anxious to fight. That he intends to car
ry out his warlike convictions is clearly
shown by the expenditures he has made
in that direction during his administra-
ton of the government. p
'.The expenditures during the last year
of the Mckinley administration exceeded
those of the first by SIS, 1892, ,052 81, the
Spanish war intervening, while those of
the last year of Rooseyelt's administra-
tion will exceed those Of his first, no, war
intervening, by $134, ,423, ,3O1 SO; for the
four years of Roosevelt over the last four
years of Cleyeland's the notable increase
is, exclusive of the Postal Service, in
round numbers $160O00, 10000 in the
civil establishment, 1921 900, 10000 in
| the naval establishment, 1884, ,000 10000
in the military establishment The total
cost of the military establishment, ex-
elusive of pensions, during the admins
/
tration of Roosevelt exceeds that of Mr..
Cleveland by $515, 900, ,00O.00 The total
war budget of Great Britain in 1908, ex-
cluding the expenses of the military
l1771, $500. The war budget of the Uni
/ ted States for 1908 exceeded that of
Great Britain by $32, ,OOO,0o0.oO. 1t ex-
ceeded that of Germany by $121, ,000,-
| 10000; it. exceeded that of France by
| $129,Oo0O00.O0 Under President Roose-
velt's administration the surplus in the
| National Treasury, which had grown to
/ such proportions, under President Me-
| AAtlACJ l0iuiHiotiatiOu lAab- luS SOfClu-
ment, in order to increase the volume of
circulation, made deposits with National
banks, exceeding 5000, ,O00.o00.o0, has
disappeared as if BY magic, and today
there is a deficit that is rapidly assum-
ing alarming proportions.
1--WE denounce the Republican party
for its continuous and sinister encroach-
ment upon the spirit and operation Of
civil service rules, whereby it has arbit-
rarily dispensed with examination for
Office in the interest of its fayorites, and
employed all manner of devices to over
reach and set aside the principle upon
which the civil service was founded.
Notwithstanding President Roose-
velt's professions Of having championed
the cause of civil service reform, his
strong language concerningtthe requisite
qualifcation~for public Office and the duty
of appointing officers to disregard consid-
erations other than those of fitness and
capacity, no President since the Civil
War has fallen in practice 50 far in these
respects below the standard asserted by
himself
.yrhe records of the administration. at
Washington show that during President
u.
Roosevelt's incumbency larger number
of Irregular appointments to the elassi-
fed service were made than during the
A Guaranteed Cure For piles.