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'' -- .Republican,:.Democrat.Peop1 's, partythanor '.N'N'V; F 4 RO"tR EATON, r JsIDE!, T or THE CIVIL SERVICE dealing with them is shown by the languageof NOT EARN THEIR, B. is .'..drunken'fel'low,.; He may know"' .personally> ; that'<' '}fr.'J ''\-.'; .Prohibitionist\ ,. will, read:the.;;speech) r. -,.' ';,v< , Wortlflessf r otherwise : COMMISSION.N : his vetoes and other public utterances: WASHINGTON, November 14. facia butif Mr. A'sphlof. or : Elaine made akAugusta last '.night_ itb oatthanking ,'f- : fails to reportfthe= " wl nr ,. November 1G, 1884. both as mayor and as governor. He invaria- death may he expected to be onbl r { God most ferventjyj: for"ttfeTdep 5. *<1 -. \f facttheignorant; ..I J ,tla aense, ti is of , presume ,'liverance: the people of tie:United States1/ of the , B. Eaton, President bly opposed denounced all mere political honest. It is a time when the trut$.i S4o bespoken - ' Dorian F .to exist, mov.e ana.have his from th Hon ., : being.Au e danger and' ch'sgrace 1' :, asked by aCivil selfish and schemes if w : of'hayingAsuch' l ervSce Commission, was partisan approved in ever. Death-bed confessions have so it is aifhe ; ltati\ the Associated Press tolet the most unhesitating manner,the principlesof before now recorded some of"the most important way tliroaghWhat* is, !{demagogue' :'a )(i-i'cendiarY.! fornheir-' . ripe e I not reported.is not known! and it frequently Prescient. It i is the first instance :"" :':', Cleveland'sDI"'ht m )which . he thought the Pendleton bill, which is the present facts of history. i is the r. ? what case that wlmtjs. ' ; reported s not Presidential ; not i candidate would have on the maintainanceelection civil service law, and vetoed a bill whose Department officials have for the last fortyeight ced C ,, maddened' .by de- greafeniumber: of ,blind personsm'an'bfficial ; feat lci.tri, ,to maculate his ;country with . Service .1.:1He replied aslliis aim he held was to secure places and patronage hours been facingvrfhrSK1? of things nowhere : .- 1 Civil seiiseUs; to 'be found) ; ' oft 1e :sectional pit.'sinos! in '. : is a :very delicate questionfollows I for party advancement. In his states- which in a certain sense is'to themjsentepr\: ' )1 utstls [ focced for one in W' >. : 1 :they tri'Jti3nl' f, ; : of'thorth. . When no pi, J.-whatever! : in the late cam- withstood. threats. prayers and cajolments of he was glad it had come-ir IonlY' the right balances* kept false.accounts-1 -i i. yniiMTnrfcurfca, 'ro'btefrt-Rif '.., ....'.e..;people greetiU witlyfsucbi'scornful ; ;.i Fa'n. I have not the' least right to assume all manipulators: demagogues and communists thing followed, which woul l'$:te the expul- squandered, and though his practices were anger everywherTlast 'f.. .J; ti..'. ,: _ . Cleveland or his of his He made of business sion of a large of the forking . sneak for Governor. party. a man part force known he was never reported and finally instance well 'f r tn as as the first, and no .. Having acted with the RepublicanLtv State Superintendent of Public Instruction including the heads of bureaus ali 1 divi- came to grief through an accident whic'hrE'n4ered future disappointed miscreant will dare defy ; from its origin I can hardly speak instead of a politician against the combined sions generally. The management of the silence and inaction longer impos- the warning. without som" l party bus nevertheless I will pressure of the whole army of partisan job comptroller's office, said he,...',js, inefficient. sible.. Then the fellow was permitted to resign "In the civil war one great crime was attempted - frankly tell/--on) : what I think. We shall bers, but he went far beyond all this: a New and careless, if not corrupt.? Public' business with.honor and a month's extra pay. which honorable belligerents on- :" _ !have an administration absolutely demo York bill very largely in the identical language is never certain of receiving the atten- It never happensif it can be heJpe ,that disagreeable .either side regarded with unanimous horror.: 1 cratic in policy, whether with a member of of the National Civil Service act, but as tion there itshould, and there'is,no certaintythat facts are brought to light. How- : We mean the attempt to inoculate the country - the cabinet representing those without amended is yet more stringent, had his efficient common business\ prinripies or .even gate had for years the benefit this system with yellow fever. But it pales in Democratic party would support and received his sig- medium intelligence would be. applied to all 1 whose votes the prompt keeping things:: lovely on the surface. wickedness beside Blaine's attempt to inoculate - have failed, I will not guess, but the Civil nature. The rapidly growing reform sentiment importent matters. There are, he continued, Barker, whose exposure has so singularly the country with sectional passions Service act will not,bo repealed whether at of the country has been demandingmore in that office as faithful and competent. men passed into oblivion ,because, was mainly to tear.open the healed wounds of the 'rebellion . I during this generation honesty and administrative as are to be found anywhere,ttnd there are true and the coming session or courage more was to come, has received no ; to permeate the North with a sense Governor Cleveland and the statesmen capacity, with less politics in the executive others who could nowhere lse get what attention since Gresham went and he went humiliation from the election of Governor of his {party would oppose any attemptto places. Governor Cleveland has the distinc- would support them) in the 'Immblest way that the exposure should receive no atten- Cleveland to the Presidency ; to infect. repeal it. The Republicans as a body tion of being the first man since Washington for the work they did. They' are lazy, inefficient tion. Barker has in his possession the freedom, with a fear of re-enslavement ; to would resist and the Senate would defeat who has been elected President becausehe and concerned principally... about. diary! kept by an official for a long time inspire white workmen with the dread of such attempt. The rules will not be abolished possessed these qualities in a preeminent killing! time and drawing their': ':pay. The wherein are recorded the loose and ques- the freedmen's competition in their fields of ; they will be enforced under the new degree. They have advanced him more head slouch v.scattering, wi".Sdy and much tional acts of another official of high rank labor, and to impeach the sincerityl! of the { President, but .not; I fear, with such enlarging rapidly to the head of the nation than military inclined to sham, and devoted--chiefly to so- and well known to the public, as they occurred allegiance! of'all'Southern white men. No " breadth of ;.application and such moral glory ever ,did for anyone: of their called reports and opinions, whi h'."" cost the from day to day. It is a very1 red-: rebuke is too severe for this villainous- support fro'I the party in power as would favorites. To believe that such a man with government tens of thousands dollars. an- letter book and would be awful disclosures, speech, and the; tone of it is aggravated by have beenjthe: case, certainly had President such a history will come to the National nually and are valueless as,-an authority. indeed. That Barker stole the diary does the fact that it was as- deliberate as it is. Arthur been re-elected, and probably capital to repudiate pledges and all that is "What are yon reading from?" inquired a not cast a shade on the ''record therein dastardly. Blaine's words are not the un- had)!Bhiine succeeded. The disinterestedness best of his official life, to betray those who justice of the Supreme Court. made, if they some time see the light,. .premeditated harangue of hot temper. Theyare ' :i- and patriotism of the country is not have most trusted him to make hostile all NOT AN AUTHORITY. whether the Secretary or the President' the studied utterance of cold-blooded ' very unequ'ajly, divided between the great Republican journals which now support "From third Lawrence," was the reply. wants itor not. If they did want it one or malignity. Since he cannot rule he would parties, but.ijn: my opinion my party has a him, to ruin the prospects of his party and "That is not an authority and"' its introduction both of them would call for it. ruin-he would curse his country with jealousy - much larger part of: intelligent conviction disgrace himself and his country by overturning \ here is an impertinence,'' said the 'jus A NEST OF DEAD-HEADS. and "discord and misery, because he which has the s far supported the Civil Service the work of reform kindred to that tice. For weeks and weeks'Lawrence. has I Another confession : "In the Agricultural himself is jealous, disco-dant and miser ble. . Reform. Jlreat-numbers; of persons in upon which his own distinction rests, onlyto taken one, two and three clerks,. from their ; Department the civil service law is systematically But we believe that there is small danger of the Democra"tii; ranks are so prejudiced and secure a free field for patronage monger- proper duties to the neglect{of vital public set aside and with the knowl- harm from such words as his at this day.. uninformed tu| the 'subject that they will : ing and spoils, system of debauchery. That duties to work on his worthless reports. edge not only of the President, but the We have faith that the evil he would wreak clamor for rn'jovals:for the sake of patronage. I such an assumption should be made by any Papers are handled or neglected accordingto Civil Service board. Persons are put on the upon his country will be visited on his own, They ro riot comprehend that party sensible, well-informed man is to me simply the convenience of incompetent, lazy or pay-roll there not only in defiance of the head. If the Republican party does not which could elect itS, candidate only by the impossible. If I am mistaken in this viewI worthless clerks. Important, papers relating Civil Service law,but without any service unload itself of Blaine after this speech it aid of Repub55fin; friends of reform has no hope the rules will be utterly overthrown to money or concerns which jR .cald receive being performed. It is a nest of dead-heads. will add damnation to defeat." chauce if it! fli'nates those friends in the. before the March winds are over. 'If Demo- .critical examination 'are e }J'd gad set go- Money is squandered, right and left. Commissioner The ,World, under the caption "Yal .. futurevluiitbey are sure to be far: more crats enforce the spoils 'system policy they ing without proper scrutiny. "Wliy do you Lorlng has not been in Washing' !"$lrine":writes. follows.;. ;*". 5", ::v\: /p , << "' ' - numerous adpowe-Jul) than now. They must take the consequences. No true friendof sign so many papers without knowing their ton for months, and a messenger has to be .Blaine organized a serenade for himself --' still believe fhj old prescriptive spoils system reform would have any part in perfunc- contents?" was asked of an official. "Be kept running to hunt him up for his official Augusta last night, and in response to the not conipjeheniing that it is doomed have been signature." music of the band delivered ; tory and deceptive enforcement of rules cause they signed by some one a carefully pre- and caring noe, as jlo many Republicansalso mutilated in essential parts. He would before me and they come in regular routine." Another still : "In an important bureauof pared speech, which may be regarded as his for a fur< years saturnalia of spoils rather await their certain resurrection four "Does the next man sign because you have the government there is the case of a female solemn valedictory. It was a speech full of than for all the futu'e' beyond that. A great years hence, over graves of their enemies." signed?" "Yes, I suppose so. He don't know who has not pretended to do a day's cunning malignancy,and it was the doctrineof struggle over the: reform issue in the Demo- about them any more than I do" was the work for nearly ayear,although she regularly hate intensified as preached by Elaine before - cratic ranks i ij therefore certain. The states- ORIGIN OF PAINTING THE TOWN frank answer. And so, the paper once draws her pay. The chief of the division in the idea occurred to him that he might. men of the p'.my, Senators' Bayard, Pendleton RED S started, that may have thousands in it, or which she is presumed to be employed has as candidate for President, obtain a few votes Lamar; Garland, Carlisle, Randall, How is politics in Harrisburg?" asked may initiate a matter that will cost the never reported her. It would cost him his in the Southern States. In this hour of defeat - CoxMorrUo.iTuckL'r.: Hewitt, Willis and Billy Welsh, the minstrel manager, of a treasury a vast sum, or may set a precedent head if he did, as many another would lose and humiliation, Blaine resumes his others, each*)whom has already spokenand Telegraph reporter. equally dangerous and important, or may his were he to interfere with the private arrangement warfare upon the people of the section despised - voted far the {civil Service act, will "Red hot," answered the repOlter; "both be mischievous in many ways, once set go- of his superior by noticing by the helots of the Republicanparty. t stand by tha new President in its support. parties have painted the town red." ing for ever so questionable motives, keeps similar scandalous proceedings." There is little that is new in his But many i nth) I if mocrats, and all demagogues :Mr. Welsh remarked: That's an odd ex- going till it reaches the head, when it receives A high official say : "The time seems to voice from the valley of humiliation. The spdUmen .nd rabble of the party pression-painting the town red-do you the signatures which, of all others, it be nearing when the truth will come out American people have heard recently about will be against i it. j'lhe Republicans will know where it originated? Well, I'll tell ought not to receive." Such is the confes- and the wrong righted, not alone in the all that he has to say of the danger of admitting . stand togefljer for thj act and rules, and you. On my last tour through the country sion of one official facing death. body of the service but in the higher places, the South to full participation in are anxiously waiting for the Democrats to with Callender's minstrels-a year ago or QUEEN OF THE TREASURY. where large things are done and the treasuryis the affairs of the government, and about all ruin them,e..ves by their abrogation. The more-I had as advance agent a man named Another said: "Oneof the most important systematically depleted. What means are that he is able to say on the subject of protecting ' President U lead reform element of Campbell.. Campbell was a genius at ad- personages in certain respects is a woman employed to have claims allowed that never our industries. The verdict pronounced . his party and his high sense of duty, his vertising and never permitted a rival to get generally called the 'Queen of the Treas- should be may never be known, but the against him has been emphatic.He . courage, hid Ktrcngtl) of character will se ahead of him. One day in Buffalo I said: ury.' How she manages to dominate so amounts in this way abstracted may be. It has been told that he is not wanted. He cure victory.Then; is no public man in Campbell, I hear that Barlow and Wilsonare many officials no one seems able to say, but will be a sight to view the vouchers. It is has been told that his stories about Southern . this country who jias a higher sense of covering my bills with their paper; I she does it high and low. She goes and those papers that will tell the tale. Theyare people are slanders, and if he had more moral obligations or official life, or who is want that stopped.' I told him that he would comes at will, and as a matter of fact does the dry bones that tell of the deeds sensibility and a just shade of personal more certain: to withstand mere partisanand strike them at Adrian, Michigan, and when not earn the money which is paid to her. committed but kept away from the public. pride he would have quickly subsided when selfish appeals than Governor Cleve- next I saw him he had huge bundles of bills There is a mystery about the seat of the influence Yes, when the vouchers are reached the the fiat was pronounced against him. land. This*;is a great clement of power and ready for shipment to Adrian. All were she wields. She is the confident of seals will be broken and the truth come Blaine seems determined, however, to leave of popularity too, asj'people now feel, and printed in bright red. What are you goingto important personages and frequently if she out." nothing undone to prove that he is entitledto lest my motives' be misunderstood let me do?' I asked. I am going up to Adrianto were the secretary himself she would hardly There appears to be a general wish to con- the contempt of all true friends of the add that he lias ne\'ct} done me favor, and paste these bills over Barlow and Wil be more important. People appear to be fess, in the hppl, it may be, that some good republic. His implacable speech may disturb that I could either| usk nor accept one.at son's and on every dead wall in that place.I afraid of her, for she makes them stand may come to those who do.i it. The election and disquiet the poor negroes of the- Ms hands. Many ofli ers outside the rules, am going to paint the town red,' and he around and grant her almost any favor. Her has destroyed the round-robin which has so South, but the country will see in it...onhr.. and some vuthin, Afill doubtless be removed left. When we got to Adrian it looked as,if importance to the public business is wholly long held plunderers together. The unde- cowardly rancor of a defeated candidate am1- for no, very goon reason. But so far it was on fire, so thoroughly had Campbelldone imaginary, and yet the President himself serving will make the civil service their relegate it to the limbo of tin helmets.. as possible Governor I Cleveland. will prevent his work. That expression, paintingthe would find' it difficult to turn her out. It is' place of refuge. It will be the duty of Re- shriveled plumes and other discarded cam. mere political proscri ton. He cannot attend town red,' was so comic that the colored not certain that she would not be able to formers to take from them that refuge. A paign properties. " the to evefj; 1 liin g. \Iuch will depend on minstrel caught on to it, and whenever make it hot for him in the White House if civil service law, aimed to accomplish what The Times says : )Ir. Blaine took the occasion -. members r his Cabinet, and especially there was any excitement or anybody got she understood it. Useless? Why, bless was intended by the framers of this, is of a serenade at Augusta last even- it on.the Postruaster-Ge,era1. If they are, as particularly loud, they always said some- you, there are scores of others who would needed. The experience of this year has ing, intended as a personal compliment by is charge, ,. slime, officers; who have used body was painting the town red. Of courseit never be missed. There is not in the land a thrown all the light needed on how to his townsmen to deliver the most bitter and ' their influence; to enforce t assessments and spread and is now in use by everybody." private establishment conducted on business frame it. The country expects administrative mischievous speech that has been heard in neglected their a. duties, and violated proprieties that would retain even a quarter of the reform. It is reasonable that there the North for many day. An honest defeat of thrft stations, to engage in party Eating small pieces of soap at stated working force of the treasury, saying noth- should be anxieties whether or not it is to seems to have extinguished all the gentlemanly i'' Carfare theft' they have challenged may intervals is recommended by a Berlin ing of the figure-heads with high salaries. be disappointed. sentiment which he professed to have b fer\* Selected Iikelyatvat I persons are to physician sour stomach as a better than remedy soda, for magnesia dyspepsiaand or This was the substance of confession of an- Cabinet making is the employment of when he penned his letter of acceptance, or : irrespective of lime water. other. thousands. Ex-Speaker Randall, by almost rather it shows that the letter was, paraded !' \ Politics, they:htd bet f er attend to that work WORTHLESS CLERKS. common consent, is to be one of the new in the hope of winning the Southern votes, t and not meddle with flections. List of Letters Another: "There are in the Treasury! a President's advisers. It is a hopeful sign. and having failed in that, he shows his real What has; Go.'crllOr Cleveland done in Remaining in the Post-Office at Fernan- class clerks who are much of the time absent Were.the others to be like him there wouldbe temper. He belies the Northern influencethat X W York dina, Nassau county, Florida, Nov. 22,1884. !, ,, to vvrra t1this estimate of him? Persons calling for these letters must say from their posts and who when theyare little left to desire.BLALN'E'S contributed to his defeat, and treats the uffalo '}.38 ji' city almost as advertised : there are of very little' account. The result as a transfer of the control of the partisan, wlesS and ally' governed as Cincinnati. Andrews, Peter Jadson, Anna sick leave is the favorite dodge. A doctor's I I SITTER SPEECH.THE government to the South, which he professes - I. Vl-oi! ; beg made sheriff )fr. Bulner, John Joiner, James A certificate serves the purpose. It would be COUNTRY CONGRATULATED ON HAVING : to believe is fraught with misfortuneto of Cleveland Braswell A J Jones Thomas the country. He shows no conception , , eihil'-ited are : hose qualities which Bulter, Littice Small Alfred interesting frequently to know who the ESCAPED FROM SUCH A MAN. the principle that the government belongsto being ruoieand f Uore needed and ap- Butler, Limas Tings,Lusiz doctor is and what are his relations to his WASHINGTON, November, 19.-All the New the people of the whole country and no J>rw>5itn.i t. A I .1 "i" Oie people.' They comprehended Cummings Isaac Talor, Eler favored patient. Herein consists a 'mon- York newspapers this morning publishedMr. partv or section, and endeavors to revive and ,a 4l prov J his spirit. He was Dennis, D G *.. Talor, Millalain strous evil. ,The head of the Treasury can- Blaine's speech at Augusta last night. old fl'arso antagonisms Southern and hatreds negroes.and A to more inflamethe un- Ford cted C F Thayer, L M the mayor lly votes from both parties in Howard, Elias Watson, not be held responsible as things go, but he The tribune and Sun make no .mention,of patriotic, mischievous and bitterly sectionaland tIes. *qmUi4aij; eit J','/entering 0 upon his duJaimayil882. Hearis, Joe Walker, Miss Grabe should not be permitted to. plead perfect ig it in their editorial columns. The'same is a narrow,spirit than Elaine exhibits in a 1I1 ( .| His life as mayor wasapjnit Hopkins, Gilbert Walker, R M norance. What others so well knowhe fact with regard to the National Republicanof defeat man'causes is inconceivable nor congratulation and adds another that the to- t\.I continuousist.ugglc In office fr honesty and fideli- Harries. Emma Watson, Wabier H D Jane. should have some idea:of., The head ofa Washington. The New York Herald country has been saved from an administration . :: f;. jobbers t ,. spoilsmen and S. T. RIDDELL, P. M., department is presumed to know nothing says : dom mated by such a spirit. ' , * , .' I ;" !! '! i Ii I I i . t, L .