The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 9, 1889, Page 8

SERES ESRBREGES EECEE wl ZESSEREERF elo Mia momeoz aS PRarasb emt et ee oe Wt ee: tet 28 tO INTHE CIVIL SERVICE. ANNUAL MEETING OF Tiik CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE. An Address by George William Curtis | | Exposing the False Pretenses ot the Present Administration in Filling the Offices at Its Disposai - Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 1.—The annual meeting of the National Civ- il Service Reform League of which Geo. William Curtis is president, began here this afternoon. To-day’s meeting was only a preliminary to the general business meeting which takes place to-morrow morning. The general committee and executive committee in joint session selected @ committee to draw up resolutions to be presented at the meeting to- morrow, and also elected an execu- tive board for the ensuing year. This evening President Curtis de- livered his annual address at Asso- ciation Hall. There was a large au- dience, many of whom were ladies. ME. CURTIS’ ADDRESS. Four years ago in speaking of President Cleveland, then recently elected and inaugurated, I said that he “was not committed to the per- secution of reform as the candidate of a party which seriously desired .it or promised it.” Certainly I can- not say this of President Harrison. President Harrison entered upon his admininistration as the choice of aparty which expressly claims the honor of beginning reform in the civil service, and has vehemently promised to completa it. Not con- tent with requiring that the exist- ing law should be extended to ali grades of the service to which it is applicable, the party went entirely beyond these grades and affirmed that “the spirit and purpose of the reform should be observed in all ex- ecutive appointments.” It is the duty of ev d uot to remove honest public servants whose duties are in no sense political, but which remain the same whatever public policy the | country may have approved at the election. Tho Assistant Postmaster General is reported to have stated that about 15,000 fourth-elass post- masters, more than one-quarter of | the whole number of such officers, were displaced during the first five months of the administration. But the change in the every instance when not due to death or adminise tration, or to some reason connect- ed with the service, is tutional act. How then, have the pledges of the successful party and candidate been fulfilled? Have fidelity and efficiency proved to be the sure ten- an unconsti- tion in obedience to such principales | | Come while the ball is rolling and efficient | SALE | ‘make room for Holiday goods, T) ‘will for the | =: NEXT-:-THIRTY-:-DAYS :-. Sell goods in my line so low that it will make your head swim. This the first reduction sale ever offered | by me, and is no catch, but I mean | ‘business, and the goods must go, | REGARDLESS OF PROFIT, ‘Or cost. To cash customers I of- i fer the following pricesin a few. |linds of our goods. Everything | | else in proportion. | In order to reduce my stockand | | i | | | WALL PAPER. BABY CARRIAGES. Former price 25c now 15c\Former price, 220 now $14 | “ “ 22¢ “ “ 33c | 45¢ H 35e “« $30 “ $17 50c ‘ $25 “ $16 | | Ce Some of these last years | ORGANS. panane HAMLIN & MASON’S | “ “ SEWING MACHINES. | Former price $135 now $100 Former price, $65 now $47 | Z “ “ “ $42 | OTHER ORGANS. “ ‘ « $97 dol | Former price $100 now $32 “ “$90 $30 These are prices for Cash | bouy ‘:t direct from the house. FINE VIOLINS Second han $25 to $40 SHEET MUSIC. J | 1 Orgons from 5 to 15 cents per copy: Former price $25 now $16 worth from 10¢ to $1,25- y io s S15 9 Novels, paper covers, to S7 clean up—3 for 25c S5 An endless variety of goods to numerous to mention. We must clean up, ‘es todo it. and have made pri ‘GEO. W. WEAVER. The general political proscription; | genus f Shakesper which the policy When a senator and bold, if brutal ing men and wou tex political opinion;” the clean sweep | cusing her of which is proezeding in the postof- | virtue hpy fice; the alarm which prevades every branch of service: the open, flagrant contempt for public opinion, for pri- for the t was shown em es US | | which President Harrison } braces lefinedas ‘the frank [ WO method of turns, pes an out simply for and his m ac: | 2 “calls | her vows | “as false as dicer’s oaths.” A GOOD COMMISSION: The President h mirable Civil + Every membe: live in the nee | cability of r and as selected an ad-} Service is a sincere vate information and Commissi promise, appointment of the late Comm er of pensions; the executive refusal to include the rules and the which ioh- ,and its vigilance re the best earnest He has al- vigor vice iu the ablie of- sus $ eeaae oe of its effective service. jsas City, Kan., year-old daughter sity and the practi- |S ficers so conspicuously titted by ure of office? Has fitness and not party service been the essential test in determining appointments? Has the interest of the public service dictated removals from office? Has the great pledge of the platform that the spirit and purpose of reform been observed in all exective ap- pointments been honorably fullfilled? Or have such appointments gener- ally been made precisely as they would have been made had there been no platform promises, no pledges of the candidate, and no public interest in civil-service re- form? It is not an answer to these ques- tions. It is only an evasion of them to say that reform is not favored by a majority of the people. The only way in which the views of a majori- ty of the people can be known is by the result of an election. If the elec- tion of last year shewed that the country was in favor of protection, it by precisely the same demonstartion that it is in favor of civil service reform. If there bs any relation between party plat- forms and the pledges of candidates and the results of an election, the country in electing Mr. Harrison de- clared for civil service reform. Nor is it any answer to the question to say that President cannot outrun public opinion nor proceed faster than his party will permit. WHAT, THEN, IS8 THE ANSWER? What is the spirit of the party and the conduct of the exective? The answer of course involves great de-| tail and can be only generally ie cated. The daily record of the news| Paper for seven months answers. | character, ability and experience, who have absolutely and confessed- so refused to extend the time ap- , pointed for including the railway ficial patronage may be wisely ana | leffectually avoided.” It is not the | power of patron bute | mane, patriotic purpose that ithe party which made the declara- Ition. Did the complete control of the patronage of a government for a | quarter of century, a patronage in- 'creased and extended and wholy be- | stowed upon partisans, strengthen ithe party in publie confidence, or elevate its leadership to secure its ascendency? Is it not true that with the great increase of patronage, po- litical corruption has greatly and consequently increased within the party and throughout the country? | Is it less true that the determination jno longer to treat the vast sums paid in public business salaries as a fund to reward partisan services, would be the first serious check fo the corruption which now threatens |our political life? Thirteen years ago one of the most eminent of re- | publican leaders said in the senate— and if it was then true then is it less true now?—“I have heard the taunt from the friendliest lips, that when {the United States presented herself in the East to take part with the civilized world in a generous compe- tition in the arts of life, the only product of her institutions in which | she surpasses all others beyond ques- {tion was her corruption.” When, three years hence, we welcome that |world upon our shores to another | competition of proficiency in those ‘arts, shall we be content with indus- | trial superiority and material splen- idor? While our inventive genizs, | our daring enterprise, our swift eiv- jilization of 2 continest, may stir the | wonder of the world, shall not be that as the ma- ele has been wreught un- | Our proudest boast lur government, our great- ment is the moral miracle , of the aut purification of that {government by the virtue and in- | telligence of the people? | PISTOL AND MARRIAGE LICENSE Harper Grafton asa Lothario Has an Exciting End. Harper Grafton, the young Kan- | railway agent on the : road, who was arrest- s City, Kan., Sunday} night on the charge of seducing a young lady in Hays City, Kan., had a narrow escape from assassination Union Py yesterday. The young lady in the Cass, the 19- of Postmaster Cass, and deputy under him. When Sheriff McClain Ellis! ounty arrived with his prisoner, he case was Miss Carrie or vy standing on the depot platform, the young lady, her father anda number of their friends, all armed with pistols and shotguns. They were clamoring for the blocd’of the prisoner and how to save him was a Watches, Clocks, Solid Silver and Plated Ware, &c. | mail service within the rules, and he | knotty question for the sheriff. He ly disregarded politics in their de-| has authorized the publication of votion to official duty and the pub- | the eligible list. Besides these few lie service, all these facts. and such ; executive acts, the significance of as these, answer tne question, how | which is destroyed by the general has the executive action conformed | executive course, there is little that to the party promise and the Presi- | Shows any effective party regard for dent’s pledge? j the resounding promises of the plat- There is no pretence thatthe pub- | form. The few administration sen- lic interest, or the principles of re- | ators and representatives who have form, or the professions of the par- | professed to favor reform and who ty, or the pledges of the President, lashed with stinging rhetoric the requiring their dissmissal. The four | failures and inconsistencies of the pledges which I have mentioned, | late administration, now when their every one of them was violated by | conviction and courage find a fitting these dismissals. It is not pretend- ed that there was any reason for the executive action except the desire to reward party service which ‘whether asound reason or not, the Presi- dent has publicly disclaimed asa Proper motive for appointment or cause for removal. The dismissal in the case of the naval officer was de- layed only until the factions of the party, which had proclaimed that the public service should not be made party plunder, could agree up- on a satisfactory distribution of the spoils. The result is that the two public offices, one of them by far the largest and most important of its kind in the country, which were in themselves conclusive illustrations of the practical values of reform to the public welfare, have been de- graded again into prizes of partisan activity by the administration of a party which solicited support upon the plea that reform of the civil ser- | vice auspiciously began under its guidance, should be further extend- ae wherever it was applicable. The opportunity, are passave and silent. ; They see the general violation of had but a few moments to decide, and hastily taking his prisoner to the rear of the train they jumped off and started to run to the jail. Miss Cass with cocked revolver in hand, led the crowd of avengers, and dur- ing theexciting chase through the streets tried several times to shoot her betrayer, but did not have a fair opportunity for doing so. Grafton was thoroughly frightened and be- fore he reached the jail proved him- self a good sprinter. With the sher- iff they reached the outer gate of the jail unscathed, but before the gate could be opened his pursuers ithe pledges by which the party|were upon him. The entreaties of | pledged them. They see the princi- | sheriff availed nothing with the mob ples which they declare ought to | and the father fof the young lady control the power of appointment | opencd fire. and removal Openly disregarded. Two shots followed in quick suo- They see the abuses running riot, | cession and the last one took effeet i and apparently with their connivance | in the body of the defenseless pris- which they have themselves denounc-| oner, inflicting a slight injury. By ed. Yet instead of frankly refusing | this time the gate was opened and to do what they joined in declaring | the sheriff pulled Grafton inside the should not be done, instead of indig-| walls. The wound proved to be on- nant protest in the name of their|ly a slight one in the flesh. It took party and of honest politics which | some time anda good deal of time should alarm those who make mere|to quiet the mob. Then the young chandise of the party faith and of|lady seemed to repent of her rash the party service, they wail feebly|act and demanded to see Grafton. that itis doubtful if the country | She and her father were admitted to really wants reform, that the pres-| the jail and in a short time all was sure of trading politicians is very| happy and serene. Grafton consent- strong, and that there are many oth-| ed to marry her, marriage license | | er important questions. was speedily procured, the ceremony | The successful party in the elec- performed, and the man who was) tion of last year pledged itself to| chased to the jail by a girl in arms; | promote civil service reform, “to the | left it with her as wife in arms. The deep-water convention has ef-' For Sale by R. R. 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