Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-10
"SPOILS" AND ELOQUENCE
BY sAYOYARD.

The civilization of Rome might have survived fl the Pretorian hands had not deElorallzed the empire by their demands upon the authorities who basely surrendered to their ex- scisons- And Pretorianism is mot Set dead what a siokening story is that of France. the fairest land be- heath tho sun. and the brayest na- ton of a handred wars, under the Nalois. under the Bourbon, and un- der Napoleon the Little Read St simon. or any one of a dozen other historians of the country of Du Guesciin. of Dunois, and Of Bayard. and you will see how the govern ment was Irostituted and the reo- ple crushed by the horde of worth less scamps billeted on the public lurse. and the swarms of even more vile deminepS. wantOn with the lust Ot pleasure and brazeu with the lust ot gain. who poisoned with the;T se auctions ana tainted with their con quests.
 Well. Ne have the thing in mod flied form iu this country, and it is expressed in exuitation, ITO the vic tor belongs the spoils." It succeed cd in the time Of Jackson because there were pretty nearly enough of ficeS to go round: but while the place., have increased by mathemati- cal urcyression. the place seekers have augmented by seOinetrical progression. lt is the bane Of our system. for it is sUperiatively Amer ican to be a public fuuCtionary. By March {. 1913. the republicans will have had the presidency sixteen scars tf the democrats shall then come in. the man they put in the white house can get anything he wishes out Of congress if he shall call an extra session and refuse to distribute the pie until he receives what he demands in way Ci legisla- ton What a pity it is that we do not elect the president for life and then take from him every thread of IDli1cal power he has except to choose the nunkeys and the meniais at the executive mansion. That would emancipats congress and reu der it's members Independent Of the president
 ] fell into the foregoing reflections uuou reading in the newspapers that James B Court had been retained as clerk Of the house committee or appropriations. GreaE was the sur prise thereat. though it was not on ly the natural thine 10 Gc. but the inevitable thing to do. And pity it is that the rule does not maintain throughout the appointiye civil ser vice that does not require the 70 n fN mako q change. Official patronage is a burden and not stafL liabll- ity, and not an asset, to the party in power and to the politician not in office. The committee of approprla- tions of the house of reresentat'N"s was carved out of the committee oo ways and means in 1865 in compli- Inent to old Thad Stevens, who was it's first chairman He appointed man of his own name. but not Of kin. Robert J. Stevens of California, clerk, who held the position until 1883, though there were three dem. ocratic Congresses-the torts-fOurtn, forty-fifth and forty-siNth- between 1865 and 1883. But in 1877. Ar. At Nins, a Tennessee democrat was chairman of inc committee. and he appointed MT. Courts as assistant clerk. In 1882 he became clerk. a DO sition he has held ever since. He was appointed as a demOcrat. and every chairman sgnce-andall, HoI. man gnd. Savers. dC-rocraLs. and Cannon, Ienlenway and T5wncy, re- lsublicans-hRs retained him. bc- cause of his accomplish ents and bis experience. ] would like rc gro