Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 1, 1876, Page 1

VOLUME XXXI . GENTSY EURNISHING G00DS: POLITICAL' » WILSON BROS | Have 1n stock, of thoir own manufacturo, SHIRTS lin, ot 81.35, ] e o oy BLab, .05, and 2.0 | It Is Addressed Partieu- th Shirts, without bofin, Diton-olod or lauhariod, 500 0no Imly to the Inde- . Thi 0ods have muo LA B 108, nong, and muoch bottor work. pendent Voters. manship then Eastern-mado Shirts, @67 snd 69 Washington.st., Chicago ; 408 North Fourth.st,, 8t. Lowiss - | The True Interests of the Pike's Opera Houss, Fourth.at., Cincinnati, $ikn's Opora Hotlde, Fonrih:ak, Oinclnuath THE CIIOAGO TIILBUNE. mand the Election CAMPAIGN TERMS. ¥rom now mntil the 1t of December, three weeks after the Presidential election, o e sent st tho following exceedingly Tow ratea: Weekly Campaign Trlbmne—single copy youe s, 2 en Co Es THl-W eekly Tribane---singis copy. Three Copinn.....c.o cvvvienee Back numbers of the Campalgn Edition cannot ba eent. The sooner penumpordar Trg CAXPAIGN mauxe. the preater humber of tssues they wil | Speech of Newton Booth, at get for tholr money, Address ; Terre Haute, on the TOE "'“'Bmgflfgfgflfift, OQurrency Question. - JEWELILY, WATOXIES, &c. WATCHES, FINE COLD JEWELRY, " | Posttive Annonncement that Sey- SILVER AND SILVER-PLATED WARE, mour Will Refuse the Now AT ABOUT HALF THE REGULAR PRICES York Nomination. Now beling closed out at the . £ BANKRUPT SALE, 8 e Cor. of Lake and Clark-sta. The Congressional Convention in Leeryarisls Wornnto the Third District to Be FANANCIAL. Sept. 28, i A e e D B sk | 7 PER GENT, The Greenbackers Report ot Wortasge aul ollatera lonca st SEVEX per Their Strength in 'SCUDDRIL & MABON, 107:103 Dearborn-st. HONEY AT LOW RATES Tolon on Warehiouse Recetpty for, Gratn sad Provie, Notes from Headquarters- o e ANV SIL vk AR oot ‘paring to Greot Carl Jouk an Gy, AZAR) oriRiEes: Hank (hamber of Commaree. TO RENT. Frruow-Cirizes upon honest prinei; statesnanship, cerns, But chango, leadin confiicts, but t| OCEAN STEAMSKIP c count! th “The Gy thel eal ¢ wi peahe g “tnml;filnlnllnnllnt;flny:m‘l Mail Steamers | thelr politlcal course New York and Hla (G, 1) for the landing of pass Veisrla on this favorlie roul Trovided wi ¥ oot of Darruw atreet, N, nge srill sall from pler No. Haue, Toutals, SALURIY, Bent, S at 4 p. m <51, Laurcit, Lachesnes, Bacdrdsy, Eopt. b, O Yrance, Trudetie, Baturiay, ept, 16, ¢ p. in. aisge o gold (ncludtng wine) Fifas cavin, with superior accommodation, fncluding | them. wine, bedding avd utensila, “without oxtrs charge. | In my opinfon, it would have been n fortunate Bieaciecs iar s arry ecrage paa: | thing {;)’r n[&- Tepnblic conld the refurmatory spirit Lol A . now alive ave Or W, ¥ WIITE, 67 Clark-at., Agent for Chicago. Ciléago. gentzation sicletly deroted ta lts purparce, Why this appeared Impossible, I will not now consnine North German Lloyd, |ziTew i et two old pariles, anil that cholce we ars competled to make, We find aurselves confronted with a con- Bhiithemoren- | fasion of issues, but it turns ont that two problems LA m':.l;r';'.?.'é" usu; accoud .fi nppen‘ngfll in l{zf mmd(: %nr;a:t‘hn‘filumnt o paisago'spply to o OELRICIE S GO | fot e onor and (Mo, curroncy prantom ie - nlhulr&‘ Y‘fu could h:mllxl-q.ren l.x:;m A 31 waul and you ou not to repress them on Great Wostern Stoamship Line, | ¥l o lgrrnu, 5m lad that wo lavy at 0 polnt when Tiving questlons clafni an Thurdsy, fet.y? | malutain thelr Just right to Wblioutteation. With - 50 | rogard tothe auccessful solution of loth thosa rate optnton that the true 18 DR BERIAN, The steamers of this Company will m| 4y (rom Trcnien Pler, oot oF Thirdet jlotagar: w Rates of Jamsge_trom N ndog, Havre, and Hrcme cabin, £60, ROl 2Dowling Green, New York. From New York to DBristol (Eugland) direcs. BOMERSKT, Weaten. reached ti ARRAGON,’ Bymons Aaturday, Se Calin pasage, 5 Excurston Hokel i, "ADDIY fo WAL ¥, WIH|FEy 67 ClaTk-at-y ST ¥ WIiTY, {WBLS | 3, u\AND THE BLEOTION OF RUTHEIFORD®H. “to the President clusion 1 Corner Clark and Randolph- ———— many as an Doalor in Arkansas Lands-and So: sene m.,.‘.ml baf : curitigs, Correspondonce solicitod | ofize ftas 8 necewsity, Extremo i i still attempt to bellitly the {1 from partios dosiring to mako in- | fallen us ond o whitowash T phn vostmont, tlon of things. nta stand the truth, and 1t b well (hat then can thoy act wisel MMOTEL. potitical wachinery, KTOWR Vet e large tnatde rooms re A R T Iazomparauie, " U TALVIN HULHEGT, P ey Feducion trom the above rates (o Excursion ———— | | B — OIL TANKS, n or Iaiudminitration. § has. B e atert [ s, when tho anp SHIPPING CANS, 47 & 40 Weat Lake Btsoet. OIXONGO. 2 @ sunp son caTaioevs, wurld, S . Teuiber ‘or eimber o BIATS, detand 3 HATS,-2VWe have recelved large | s of Meltnfie g {nvolces of Mew's and Boys’ Fall ;w.urfflmnmmunw 8tyle Huts, Eali(ox the two kreut cas Wi , and are selling at low og the LW grest Xt brices, J, S, BARNES & COs, S Bl s three Comalitees of 4o Liare, LLab eYEEY o 70 Madisonest. ;| ool s ) . CHICAGO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER ¢ Chicago Daily TEibww — 1, 1876. tarnrise had been takea In fraud. ligneat piaces the alismeleas docirine avowed by men ubilc nilca, that tie tr ul 1 havo heard tn | rimply to be acconnted forss one of the natnral conarquences of ottr great clvl] war. fhe War, with jta confusion and affered 1o the tognes 8 rf der, and thos stimulated all the thie there was in the conntr It an to the civil rervice, the Waronly vo strong fmpnlee to the viefous tendencles ex- Tind not the spoila system already de- rervice, the War would have devel- to extraordina: ® | Great Speech of Carl Schurz at Ojncinnati Last Evening, * ! he Sismondl, or tha 0 writes tie annals of our (ime wiil record i nexorable pen. THHE MAN WIIO SPORE TS (Mr. Gearge I, Loar, of Massacliuscita) was niot & pulitical opponent of thase in ot gInmbler and faultdnder, veotllating tlelaa man who would hava been alwayn ready and glmd to ropeal an; #lon npon the Government of hin npoke as he did apeak 1mpeiled b 10 speak the trutn, m of the Tacitus, or TR the oped far less corruption. Morcaver, there was plenty of corruption before onr civll conflict, and neither parly was exempt from It, Jeast of all that (o which tho apolls eys- tem owed {18 origin snd development, vary much to hurt the feelings of our Democratic sinca they treal me with auch distin- onslderation, but my respect for hiatori- h compels me tosay that it wasa Demo- tic Jresldent who. for the ability, hioneaty, and fidelity shor clalve ‘qualifications for pblic employment, first anbstitated the whimn of arbiteary favoritiam; first places of trust and redponsibitity as & means of partiean reward, and th moval as & weapon of punlalimen| clvil nervice & partisan engine, nn 1y nnjust asper. country; but ha hiaarnno of dut And he might have said mitch tle might have pointed tothe Ponitentiaries inhablted by revenue oficers, rohhed the Government and butsiness men whom they ruined, by te avarice, or eomctimes even forcing franduient practices; have mentloned tha host of defanitors and embezslers, not only.oflicers of the National Government, but in_ al positions, and af hoth political P 2! why elabarato thie pictnrer’ It woal cuit to tell yon more Lhan yon already know, themeelves who sttempt by telling you lesa, nsoless and unwire to mince matters, Thefactual condltion af things i8 w0 bad that the people have becowne juatly alarmed, and the cry has rlacn that t Yes, L want a changze, you wania chamge, as evary honest inan in the conniry wants it, cet and patriotic an in the country ought atao to insiet upon and be carefnl to bring about, is a change (hat will be an improvement, & real reform, &4 thorough, and geuuine, and luating ed possible. WIAT WE STAND IX NERD OF; In the ficat ptace we want to get rid of the cor- Thpt men and the Incapables who still Infest the Hvery oficer who liasdune dia. oneet things muat “ba held 10 a strict acconnt. Hvery officer who hias abased hin powers or been 1axin the performance of hls dntles, or hins per- mitted his snburdinates to be so, murt be removed. Kvery corrupt ring ‘tnust be broken up, and its members proscented and punfshed without merey. **Let no gullty man escano™ isa good word of command, and it muet be carried out. * 1t inticates ain thet only those wha in high place rstand their ‘respousl reciato and fulgil it il 1s nndoubted). nlden rafe that 4 e the only de- with the other the t; Arat made the d thim left 1o us xof avll from woich so much demoralization, dlesster, and disgrace has Bt | come upon ue. IT WAB A DEMOCRATIC BADY, THAT HFOILS SYSTLM, and it mnst he ndmitted that the Democeatic party has very fafthfully nureed ft, materna) care with all {te peeuliar virtues, until (he lart Democratic Administration just before the Civil War become more arbitrary and deapotle In the use of appointments and removala, na o means of parilean reward and pariehment, and also more corrunt thon any that had preceded 18, ct for histoncal tratt compel aluo to nay, that the terrible Jegacy which in such a development of the apolle syatem the lust Domo- cratic Admintetration left bahind it, has, under Republican rule, borne abundant fruft. decined |t my daty, on every prope: #l0 epnringly to dénotince the abusce which have and spread nnder the I uty remiains the same, on this subject I have nothing to relract. Those abuees huve Injured the country In the opinion of n ths ‘American people, Nelther can those who were gulily of corrupt actices o those who, In high places, permitted w up, be excuscd as‘ the mere victims 1f the plea of temptation ya " held valld as a justification of would soon be scarcely atemplation dctim, and such victims would have pleasant tizo of It. I BELIEVE IN PERSONAL RESCONSIBILITY. Thnve to admit that at no period In our histosy the conduct of some of-thosc highest in d 8 more demomlizing an: n;lnungs upon all the spheres of 08 h last few years, I doubt wh of the power of \appaintment and removal ns a incana of favoritiam, and reward and punishment, has aver been carried 10 & more alamin esrs a5o, and when I repent h the assnranco that a farge majarity of the Republican party bave in the meantime come to the conclusion that I was nght, saying that the resolutlon In Jicon platform expressing indlscri of Qen. Graut's adminieiration was & wes! ceeaion to the catablishied party ussge of courtesy at {lie expenne of truth, and wmisrepresentation of ubilc sentiment, felt to be such by lflrfiu major y of .those who nesented to ft. Whil Grant's grent acrvicea iu the Civil ratef(ut] remembranes (o which tho %1 can toll my Republican friends u wearcely afford o eqnivocate about euch things In_the pending campalgn. m ll’:'e the ‘manhood " to say what thoy ' thiuk: let American People De- and those decelve of Hayes. TTR V117 e Ounly Be Secured in This Way. It gréw under that DBut what every hon- Tuz TnstsEwill | Ng Improvement to Be Ex- e pected from the Suc- cess of Tilden, twn Administrations, Of what [ have said kind and slarmed bility wil f{‘ll to ons task, tho fmpor- undorestimated. “But Ttls that by an thore is one more Important atill. organization of the Civil Service upon honest and rational principles, mot ouly {hc pun corrupt men be aecired, by be Infused into our public concerns, amd thas cor- taption be prevented, ae well as the candldates of eac! The Inflation Fallacy Exp()sed ina 3% & ut a‘higlter mbrs A5 ELEGANT ARRORTMENT OF COlear and Convinoing and thne cors r!ravenflun is worth ten pounds of AN EVER-PIOWING FOUNTAIN OF CONBUPTION In our public life, and, If we are to have » change {hat means Iasling reform, that fountain muay We are frequently told that no] Govern- ment haa cver bean entirely pure In all the detalls t {s undouhtedly trno. There have Leen some dishionest meu in public employ and senie aishonost Deat Governmenta, in all counsries and at all timos. y be unnvolduble, ruption develops itsclf doring a long period of time and on an extenaive scale, we that it must ba the fault of 1l LT M1 THIL YOU AR ANECDOTH. One day Abrabam Lincoln, while oyerwhelmed with flie cares which the rising tide of the Rebetlion wan loading upon him, poluted outton fricnd the of office-neekern and of Congressten ng them {n his ante-room, ami upoke ** Do you obserye thls? The Rebel- lion is hard enough (o overcom something which, {n the course o 3 3 ter danger Lo this Repullle’ thun the Rebellion itaclf,” “Abraham Lincoln was not_only axood, but also a wine man, and with the instinct- ive antleipotion of geniua lie forceaw that the poi- #on of demoralization workin; civil-service aystem would at us perll Lo the Republlc than all the then threatening the Natlonal Ca of administrntion, the National Repub- ractices nnder the Bab where core e den. may be 3 o e ey b t War will always CALL TIINGS BY TIHEIR RIOHT NAMES, and tiey will not only retieve thelr own snnls, bat stand in a betier attitude beforo this generation as ite of all the unfortunate peenline. Gen, Grant's character, which fitted bim ¥o little for the complex dutica and responnibilities of elvll government, cven noder hie Administra- lf of the mischief would have ocenrred which now stands recorded hnd not tha viclous tra- ditlons af the spolls-system furnished the means d out the opportnnitics. came Into power, nothing had been kno gard ta the conduct of the clyil-service than the rinciples and praciice of the ear) ons, cven hls arbitrary impulses might have a ed themaelves 1o th straints of established usage. ut there you ace This City. through & vicionn ht of It what Hrd Ill‘ ll:‘lnws of the . ad fi not gradia wa up awong us, Hitle by little, in Hchunne 1{!‘;’-” become accustomed o THE UNIQUR 8I'ECTACLE, we shon)d scarcely be capable of believing In the posaibility of {ta exintence among people endowed with ordinary common sense, early dayn of this ltepublto, & public man had pro- posed to introduce it #s & system, justns we now witness jt, there would have been a universal cry to shut him up in a mod-house for the rest of his e, B Imagine, in this year of (he great Centennial an- niversary, soma of the wise fathers of this Repub- Adams, Jeflerson, Iamilton— Ir graves in orderto sscertain by a tour of inspoction whot has become of thele work fn {heso hupdred years, would have to show them our Civil-Service—and would it not make them atare? We wonld have to explain to them bow, nowadaye, things ars man- aged; how, on the accesslon of & new Presldent, the whole machinery of our Government is once, 1o be rebullt agaln out of green material in » hurry; bow sixty, or seventy, or eighty thousand officers are dismissed, withou the least regard to thelr official merits or nseful- nees, simply becanse they do not bel party, to make room fora ** new deal" how sev- cral hundred thousani hungry patriots make a des- perate rush for pablic place, to pet thelr reward for service; how the now President and the new “abinet Minla}srs, stiil unused totheir complicated ¢ time and composars to study t off their feet by the wondera of the wartad, SCHURZ. 1118 BPEECIH IN CINCINNATI LAST TVENING, A3 2 Speclal Ditpatch to The Tribune, CrxennvaTy Ang. 31.—Although there was raln early In the evening, and the weather was tQ‘mlb enlng after that, Itobinson's Opera-Touso® was denscly crowded to-night on the occasion of tha THan, Carl Schurz's apecch in Eoglish, ence was far sbove the averago of nuditors of po- To RENT litical speeches, and Included many ladles, Stanloy Matthews, Republican nomines for Con- . gress In the Sccond District, this city, was the " Prealdent of the meeting. e made a short, grace- IIN TEIB fulspcects, Ir. Schurz spoke a8 follow: e whclesoms re- His Adintntatration might, indeod, not bave been as pure noras wiss 88 those of Washington, Adams, or Jeferson, but bow much misfortune wonll hava been averted, and what crop of acondal remained unso: One great merlt Qen. Grant's Adml 1% hen demopatrated TOR VICIOUS TENDENCIRS OF GUR PRESENT CIVIL-AERVICE nostrangly that e oo aure if, [o the ven the dnllc4 mind mnss per-- Wa liave clearly e Low that system will_endunger th and stimuiate bad men only 1o become We have been forcibly made aware of (he nccesalty not only of a change, bt of a thorotgh and losting chsnge, and change cannot Lo put off much longer without dan~ have been in the habit of apeaking with pride and exultation of the vitality and recuperative _powe of the Araerican people; and Justiy so, fora peaple who can endure sucl 88 we havoe had for the Inat forty ye: ter rain, moral and national, must, indeed, have a wonderfully tangh constitutlon of amazing zood Jnck, Asa young people, and under extraop riiy favored circumstances, we have endured it vo Bat 1t will scarcely do ta test the robustness, ople, too severely, ns milat at last alok under conatant debauch. There will be one of twothings: orm. | either tharough reformation ot {nevitable sad pox- 0w onr Congress- [ hups rapld docay. WIIAT, THEN, 18 TO B DONE] If 1t 1s true, and I am profoundly convinced of that tbat under the spoila syatem 1t is simply im- le fo keep up & reasonably eficicn: L clvil service, and w the more corry) e exists, then nol bave & change whi tharough reform, lie—Wanhingtan, could rlse from Of conree, wo sich a thorough : We may congratulite the cople’ upon the ateady growth of & m ent which demands the correctlon of 1es and enlightened metlods of t sentiment has become n:n:(l enough to fi‘:‘tlrd““?u ‘ml‘:‘ hdm.h pn‘ll Il‘t;a\ + | partics, nad on sldea hava its demanda bo- INQUIRE O Eoma miors or s tho ‘This ta in ftscll a s of the contest, Wllc opinion b T ) public opinion and wlscly dircc *'ihe America a8 the propelling forco in our politics, It may ac- - R Al i W ILLI_A_M C. DO W o« | compUBh & astig rofatmation of our q Tost vigoruus conutitnl just such a situation. while full of . promise, o sito full of deccption ‘We are natar, ally eoger to achievo the des(red resull; bt In thai Room 8 TRIBUNE BUTLDING | cagornces e, may bo. in dangor 1o sacridce.seat and lasting reform to mere apparent or temporary only to arcpetition of the same n under the disadvantage of dis appointed zeal sad an exhausted ular movement. _ Under 1a, - Uerefore, ONLY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE, | s o cicew, ‘We are natar- P men, (he national Jegislators, . AIRE TRANBPORMED INTO OPPICE-FEDDLERS, and forget overything elae In thelr frantle run from department to department, to sce_thelr local anp- orters aud tools provided with oficial bread and utter, thua paying off their political debis at the e haw hundreds snd thousands of cient inquiry into their morald [} fulrly thrustinto places of responsibllity in a mad ‘hurry, merely becanse they ha purty. or only on a Congreasmen, as adrolt packers of caucuses or manipulators of vote when the Administration is galng 8 werltorious chigracter and conduct are srbitrarily removod becauee. thay do not_ belong to the dom- inant faction of tha party, or do not enodgh to the whistle of aome powerfal favorlte; how ottiers, notoriously nafi, or sven cor; protected Inthelr places by thelr ** friend n wer, becaura thoy are useful political tools; how us the civil scrvice i transformed into & vast party machiuery, a standin, ceoaties, pold outof the low offlcens, by the insccurity of thelr tenure, an arty tases levied open them, ure tempted to 0 bay while the wun shines, In whatever way 1 pructices of the mont alarm- om anxlously coverr: mon appointed aa thy ghar- terest nnd virtue, energy of pap- clreiimstances eapeclally necessary who have tho welfare of , shonld determine Ith more than ordinary FPlymouth | calmness acd judgmont and clreumapectlon. o bassans cqu"r"!;':‘il Lfillll:ll;t: defd. llda “fi l’hllllflmlml o Ih;ulletl'ren dential l:l;n- 2 lgn in which so many patriotic men seem in- B acirlc noil) E115od 0 take. aldes only afior the maturest roleg: tion, and to despise the ordinary cant of party. 7o that class, in othier words, to r‘cfla;{ Latil) pact D, NDBIEHDENT vOTERS, Srdtn o shall particularly address my remarke, and T can ol Sedin mooaion. Becand, 874 | 4o ao with all the moro proprlety, as Iua ono of that the service will r_the apoils sys- 2 the abolition of Ivil g Iy Let me tell you first what civil service re- It doca not conaist In tho ‘tclaima™ on the form doca nof conalat In: removal of all the ofiicars belonging to one party, and the filling of the oftices with niembers of the g to the old mcthods of a ‘icloan aweep " and & ** new deal, " For Instance, almost from time Inunemoria chants have complained of ba Custom-Houra of that city—a few years ago more The domund for a change was always *Po what cause wern those bad practicrs sanigned? That the Custons-Youse la *‘run ' pan political machinos und that s great many of thy laces are iled by low political Jincks, “who are epl there, ot Lo secure sa duties, bul 10 serve o there for that purpose New York mer practices in the cen embodicd in a new part army of political mer- overnment Treanury; ousel -collectlon of ty tools, snd were put be {nilncnce o Now Jet me tellthe mercluiauta of Now Cork that they may Indeed gel rid of thosd fdenti- litical backs now o office b and a ** new deals™ Unt thel th t rid of the bad pructices they compl: new deal the same Custom-Tiouse ofiices oro 1 PANTY RACKR OF TIIE DEMOCRATIO PERSUABION litical machine under the § Kclly or the lion, Johu Mor. e, Lutit would :m}‘ Tha fact Is, we havo no 3 ed " b{ dians of the pablic In poeure injuro the party and disturb TILE EF¥ICIENCY OF THR * MACTINE," liow thus, now ond then, corraption fs placed un- der tho protection of purly splrit and iniinence; how, fually, tho clvil nervice & a party uzency la, an Adminlsiration, con- reorgauized, modeled and | reney, wo have at last cven during the term o| tinnally organlzed and remoduled, at th request of Cong 0, cording to the changing political exigencies'of the times, "to_ control conventlons, politica, fe elect this wan, or to_defeat that wan, and haw in all this an Lonest and efcient transac tlon of tho public business fa breated av & toa consldaration, if of any con- {a wo would have to_show the 'That wonld be the frying-pau into the dre. f only to the Cuntom-House of New Yor! whole clyil wervico throuphout the conntry. What, then, j# necenaary? Let your cotmon- When s meérchaul wauls a hook. : nte 431 Bleoraso. 830, | nroblome, it Is my dellbol 1207 Vre| \ld.:‘“ezrlll“ cartifcales, rnll‘mlu of lhsA{nlrlPAfl people to govern Bfate nAYES cy of the Unlted States. That con- formed, afler carefnl conslderution of all the circumstances surrounding us, Hrely indopendent man, who s nelthor pov by party discipline, nor blared by party prejudice. Teusons for it L ahall addreas my- st possible Ianguuge, not Lo your ar_redentments, but lo ter of only accondal alderation at all, fathers of the Republic, could the 4 it th Y nat staud falrly aglaet ut the etrous abortion, " y be Wil select & man whom he has ascer- e {0 bo honeel, and to_understand bookkeep- ingt he will not tnke ane qg the gronud thut he cun iy thie flute, or that he 188 good hund st poler. you want & goud Custom-Ilouse ofiicer, or Post- master, or ltevenne Collectar, yon mus man of whom you have ascertalued that he fs hon- eat and poascarcs that ca) hinbits which will enable of Cuntom-{fouse ufticer. or Postninster, or Tinve. nuo Caltector satlafactarily ;3but you must not pre- fer 8 mun irreepcctive of hie churacter and busiue d that ho bas *‘claina servico rendered, or asa good political W10 ENOWS JIOW TO PACK PRIMARIES. Becondly, {f you want your Postmasier, or Cns- or Revenna Collector {o remaln his whole duty, yon must make him understand that the performance of hin offciat dutlealo the only thingbeis paid for; thathels nn‘ :f"‘"‘ ni; tller uwu?monll And| ;In 0] not the agent of & pulitical par ifred 10 stick to hia oficlal busincss, and whll bo llable to removal If he uses his ofilcial powor or purposos; that s long 24 he pecforms hilu oticial dnties huneatly aud efciently e will stoy In bls place, mud no longer; that tinned good ¢ervice or extraordinary eficlency will entitte him 1o hromotion n dlshonicwt practices he count, urnd that no conslderation of ‘party service dered, or bo be rendered, and no party influence This {s the wuy to ke men in oflice ect of the mon- with scarnfal disgust: have made of the falr fabric of tiov- ernment which we formed and transmitted $0 your bunds to bo the embodiment of trus liberty, wis- nd juatice, —1s it’ th! Gl Aud well might they way eo, tor never wox there elvil-service system Invented so d and harbarous “in eonce; ruinuiis in operation, and so untversally Izing In effect, 1u thiers a zensible man who belleves that the core rupting influience of snch u systom can bo remedied out one wet of oflicers and puil- 1 the samo way? Every haneat en cordially applands and honors the efforta wmiude by lrave nien of elther party o TO EXPOSE CORRUIT OFPICIALS and to brlog them to justice. aurselves. As lung as tho sinell of u attached to public oilice, an lon, vice remalus a8 partisan a; Bolders understand that { servicen already rendered or il il not on acconnt of thelr Atneas fur Tong ae they hnve rearon to hetleve arty enutles them to party the (luvernment, just so ong will they be under the strongest temptatl ' milk the cow ™ In giving you o A T mples TR s, OF prediien oAy $50 S0 rhen g cun gt the st | Yo ok i 1 ol e ot The fneat and racat fashionable resort in fh city, | EAOUEH 1o Urng auy sncot o iferontway of think- dona by any attifice of orato; e cal WEAN ESTATE, &c. '\"Tc;'cfl‘;:"”‘ < 11 R B. GRESS, [+ and those Lisiners perform the datics “This s u thno for g and very plalu specch, ‘That plain Eive yon, no mutter whom It uuy ight will be devoled exclllll’xe ualidcations, on the 3 et of sdinlulstrtiye roform, Snancla) quuvtion, aa it sppears In thiv canvars, T : iutend to diacuss cet! Littlo Roclk, Arlansas, | Noithg sse civihorier \pecch at oncarly duy, o fancy nf theoriste; teiotic mian in thy cons \ercly mweenn, toui-llouse ofticer, in snother et honest #nd to do Hut do not decelva the prescat condl- an long as oftice. - vy rocolye thelr rrespective of party, las atiched by the eminent mewmber of thy openlng the coso foi “-‘“SIIERM’:K J HbUgE 3o Ehr Dotitieal Hifo ne rematned. N s ;l‘ln 'n'il' mml-':ln to ml.\nl' cun pal : CEICAGO. Tha Hoea of Irepresentativactn the ced to 83.0) per dayt 150 | IMPEACUMENT OF A MEMBEN OF THE I'RESI- L4, $3.50 pe DENT'S OAUINETS ublle lfe Liag heen o very briof e B e Al i, Gy out s dnr ibglolerin of beaator bot that f ha indulg 1) bo severely held to 1 that usefuluess to the protection na ofticers of a3 they aro in t! ecome Of ine -antmal, b1 send one act of thiae.s syatem will Inevilably railse up Now, do not understand me as meaning thas there are not many houest wea left {n our civil eervice, ank heaven, there aro very many, and f 3 kept thelr integrity iniact we 0 a0 O for, conaldering how well the spoils systen fe cal- culated to deaden officlal conacience, which uhonld surprise us most in onr c 1v not thatamony ita ofcera it should have deyel- opcd 8o many rascals, bul that it should lave lelt 0 many lonest mou, stance fa over su honorablo tp thoso t oot forget thatalnce the day low sre you_to fneure the election of fit for oBico? Lot mo_toll you Grst how you insure the aelection of At men. ot do It by tarniug outal cers, £ood sa well e bad, Adwiuistration, IN THE WAT OF A ronderlig necesear: appolntments in a the incoming of a now $ NRW DEAL, some 40,000 or 7 urly-barly, whon ti d heady of depurtmenta have Tuto their place N & EVENDEN, | prosenicdlcnel in i but o Hzed world fu generous ol IL TANKS ' |&ain Pased atl ot beyond have u 10 the State 1 the Unl ond wealth four .lu-lkl". t Ler tit{un n the arts of life, tuttous T whict aho sor- liration was iy oremout In pawor ta Tupepeied for ord throughout (he licatlon of new dutles sud overwhelming them; it s sbnply impossible to tee the necessury care undar wuch circumatances, You will not insure the sclection of Bt wmen If the ap- pointinents are governed by the recommendation or dictation of party joaders, and particolarly of Congressmen, Who, in nsny, {f not in wost, cises care less for the Interesia of the scryice than for Cue bullding up of their own howe infinence or par- to keep themeelves In place, tie Loy, ‘nuw s distiugula coucernod, we lnust when the principle %70 TUR VICTOR BELOXG was proclainied, the number of vice as woll aa the cxtont of their rascalitics have grown cunstantly and fn most promising progres- ki ?I‘l;fcn are poople whko cansol wigity o+, | (bo ldea thatihe corruption we Row -doplore ts ether (he Continent aud cals In the ser- chi wash our stioyes, i ty machiue, by which ta that end, use the of tlca] sgents sud tools with Goverwwent Troagury, oF 40 secury themselves with uneafnl political workers for the fnture, thus tarn. ing the oftices into means af bribery. In that way yoa will not only fali to insnre the aclection of hon. ret and eflicient men for ofico, hut yon witl keep in the balla of Congrean {tself a classof men who have nelther auperior character nor ability to com. mend them, relying only upon a shrewd manage- ment of the patronage to carry their nominations and elections. That, then, In THE WAY HOW NOT TO DO IT. Tut yon can ineure the sclection of ot persons for ofiice If, 1n tho first place, the rale ls entab- lirhed that oficers shall not be Jable to remorval for varty reasons, bnt nnlrv nupon pronnds connected withi the dinchargs of their ofiicial duties, as It wan under the early Adminiatrations, This will prevent the occurrence .of a very '“F number of vacauclea nt the name time, snd enable the Egeca- tive Department n filling those vacancica to pro- czed with care and deliberate clrcamspection. Sr:ondl{. the Execnilye Department, which s reaponsible for the administration of public bual. nesa, murt, in making agpointments or nomina. tions to the Fenate, remain independent of the dietation of Congressmen, many If not moat of whom want {o use the ofiicer for the promotlon of thieir own political ends. Thirdly, the qnalifica- tions of candidutea for office must, whenever pos. aible, be necertained according to well rcfiuhkd publlc methods, either by officers of the depart- menta themaelves, or throvgh competent men 8pe pointed for that purpose, The eetablishment of. anch principles and the regulation and perpetuation of the correaponding ructltc- wharever possible, by iegal enactment, hat s thio’ Civil Borvice Refarm, which wiil not anly TURGE YTIR SERVICR of corrupt and Incompatant oflicials, but which will take from it ita partisan character, rrmove from the ofiices of trust and responaibility the odioan atteibute of spolls, stop the most prolific sonree of corruption and demoralization in_our political rystem, take away from the public officer the most angerona temptations now sarrounding him, and Inepire him with an honorable ambition; relieve our political Ilfe of the regular army of pald party mercenaries, which threatens to luh,‘ngulellllhv movementa of public opinion, and eliminate also thiat numerous class of pational legislators who rely for thelr election and nfigence merely on a shrewd manipulation of the public plunder. That, tlen, in genulne Civil Bervice reform. 7 Whi lzumollc mon fa there who witl not recoz- nive that the ovils from which the body politic saf- fers abeolutely require s0 thorough measure of changoy and who will not esgerly embrace every opportinity to necnre itt Now. let uy ses whit prospects the Lwo partien which ask for onr votes ?..e:. to us with regard to this most important sub- e TIE PLATFORMS, , promise what théy call *'reform.” I will canfess at once that 1 have loat my faith in the professions and promises made in party piatforms, y at last be- come, on eithor ride, onc of the’ cheapeat articlen of manafacture in this country, and that indnatey coutinues Lo flonrish even without & protective tar- i and in epite of the peneral depression of busi- nees, Dut civil-service reform is not produced in that \'Hg. 1If we denlre to ascertaln Ly tho success of which party that reform {s most Jikely to be e pro- moted, we mist look te the character and prinel- plcs of the candidates ns woll as to the component elementa and gencral tendencies of the partles be- bind them, 1am nml( convinced that one part of thenocesvary change, {le driving from the public eervice of the corrupt oflicials who now pollate it, will be lmpl‘V secared by the election of either of the two candidates for the Preasldency. Gov. Til- den has won his reputation as & reformer matnly by the prosecution of THE CANAL RING IN TIE STATE OF NEW YORK. T will not follow others in questioning Lis mo- tives, but readily admit that prosecution tohave been an enterprisc requiring considerable courage, drflnmtfl:flwfl. ana perseverance, for which by shonld have foll credit. Bhonld hu be elec! Presldent, he will andoubtedly ciect from thewr places, and, If possible, otherwise puniah, all the dishonest oflicers now in the service; making s *iclean sweep, " he will eject them. together with the good ones. ot have waany resson to oxpect, withl regard 10 the cleaning process, less from Gov. Tiayer, should hie bo elected to the Presldency. It in well knowa tiat Gov, Hnyes wasnot my {avorite candidate for the Presidential nomlnation, and T am ot in the lesat inclined 1o extol him with ex- travagant pralse. What 1 shall say of him will be alinple juntice to hle chatacter and record. Yo, citizens of Ohlo, have had the bost opportunity to fortn your judgment of him, from & ncar observa- tion of hisoflicial and private conduct, snd as far a¢1 know, that jndgment, whether oxpressed by triend ot foe, £ 1B ABSOLUTELY UNANIMOUS. ‘Three times he has been elected Governor of your State, against the strongest candidates of the op- positfon, True, he Las had no occasion to break up canal ringe, or other extonsive and powerful corrupt combinations, for the simple resnon that in Ohio thoy/ did not exist. But It Ia universally recognized ot only that Gor. Hayes .in a man wh ersousi Integrity stands above.thezesch of clon, & mau of & high senee of honor, but {hal hin ndministrationa were alngulatly pure, Irre- ronchable, and efiiclent in svery respeet, If he End no existing corruptlon to fight, he certainly did 07 to grow up, Nobady suspects him pable of tolersting & thlef within the roach of his power, much less to protect ono by favor or cven h( negilgence. It s slve well known that, while a porty man, he alwoys surrounded himaclf with the best and most high-toned elements of the organization, and kept donbtful characters at a distauce, Ile {8 es- teemed as & man of a very strong and high senre of duty and that quiet enerzy whicli doea not rest uptil the whole duty s faithinlly performed, The endeavor to purify the Government and to keep it pure will, therefore, with himi not be £ malter af artificia] policy, but of inatinctive dealrs, one of the nacossities of his mature. He in honest and eaforces honsty around Lim plm{fly because he cunnot be agd do otherwise. Inaaying this I have auly glven the verdict of his oppo-ents, and when here and there the aseertion §s_put .orth that Gov, Hayes' administration of the Natlonal Government would ouly be 8 continuance of the present way of dolng thiugs, it is one of those EMPTT AND CONTEMPTIHLE PANTISAN FLINGS whlch prove only to what ridiculoua extremitics (hose are reduced who are bent upon fnventing pome chiarge aguinat & man of unblemished char- acter and & most honorable aud pure record of pub- lig rervice, The firat clenniug-out process, then, seems weil enough sasarcd L any event. Dot the moro lm- portant qriestion occurs, In what mauner that cleauing-unt process 18 o be accomplished, and what iu to follow, Whers have we to look for that oater and Iasting reform which ia to inenre an floneat and emcteit poblle service and a higher moral tous in our politiest life for the fatute? "On thiv point both candidates have apoken in their let- ters of acceptance, and their niterances sre enti- titled to far grester considerntion than the party iattorma. Lmok &4 the jeter of Qov. Hnyes Bt t is expliclt, and remarkable for tha clearness and atraighlforwariness of iis cxpresaionn, HERS ARE HIn WORD! fore than forty yearsagoa system Of makiog sp: Qo‘lnmlcnumq o2 Erew up, tared ypon the miesim “10 tho viewors belong the spolis.” Theold rule, the truc Tule, tiot boneaty, capacity, and Odelity consti- tuta the only real_qualifcalions for ofiee, fnd shat fhicre 14 o ouher claim, gave place 4o o {dea that pariyscrvices wers to bo cichy consideaed, | All par: 4 {n practico have adope: o, cxcentiuiy Ihodlod siack ite Arat [atrodnction. Ji FE3! ade all the wppafatments, but kradually (e appofnt {ng power, In many cases, paswed into nicmbers of Cangress, The ofticea {n tliose” casea Liav be. 0L mercly thie ruwanls for party services, hut rewards for servlces 1o party leadors, "Il eyatem deatrozs the Indebrudene of Ue ep of the Governitent 1t tends direcily to extrav- agasen and oficlal {pcapme T 1 tempta jon 1o dishoneaty: 11 hinders and bt coretul supervizion and - strict untability by which o _falthful and edifcient pab- n baseeureds It obetrucia the prompt re- Fe puglibment of the uuwortly ta erery way 1t degrades the civi] servico and the charsoter of the Goverument. - 1t U felt, am conddent, by 3 1rge inajority of the fember of Congreas, to boan Intolcra blo burden and un ucWarrsniubie hindrauce to the shelr legitlinate dutles, It cught shuuld be ch, 1 srale doparibioois al, and voinplete: . We abould return (0 the. BiscIplcs ln:! practices of the foanden of tho GoYerument—sup- b1yl by logisiation, wheu Deeded, thial which was fohineely sha ctabllshed curiom. 'They nelther az- picled nor desired froin the public officeraany purilsan dervice: ‘Thoy jesnt fhat public ofiicers sbould give their wholeservice Lo the doverniuent gad tu the peos te, ¥r.ny mennt that ¢ ould e secare o 3 teuruun iony sehfs araished, w 'lll“e‘hfl’l- 11 elected, | shali conduct the adinl of e Govemminnt bpan thean princlples. sod all con: Atitutionsl powers vesied {n the Kzecutiva will ha - Pluyed 10 catavitan this ratorau. Then he pledges Limacltto the v epeedy, thor. ough, and tuspsring prosacution and punfshment of 'all public oficers wiio betray ofllclal truats, ' And finslly, ** bolfeving that thy restoration of the Clvl) Bervite to the system eatublished by Wash- Iugton”and followed by ko, early Presidants, can b hest uecompliened by an Execuiivo who s updor no temptation 0 uso tie patronaga of Liv ofice to itomote hls own re-clection. ™ he ** performa what B Fegards an & duty In stating his tnfexibe purs pone, Il elected, not'to be a candidale for elecilon 1oa revond toni “T'his 1o the clearest und completest El’olmmmn of Clvll Service Refora ever pul forth by a public masn in this Republlc. Not & single esdential point {a forgotton, —and what ls more, there Is in it NO VAGUENESS OR BQUIVOCATION OF HTATE- MEAT ar promise. No back door 18 Teft for escape. Kach ot 1s dletinct, preclue, speciic, and Uiimstaka= le, 13 covers tha whole ground with wel)-defiued ropositions. If this programme s carried out, he reform of the Ciil Bervice will be thorough and genulno; and if the reform s permanenily es- tabilahed, the malu sourco of the corruption snd domoraliZation of our political concorna, the spoils- ayetem, wilt ba eflcctually stopped. 1t witl be the organtzation of the wervice ou buninoss principlos. 13 the opponenty of Gov. Hayes “will bo compelled tu admit this, Sowe of them have Indevd sltempled (o fnd fault with - une or the other of his pn:r al- tions, but thelr objections aro um{ diaposed of. A few Democratic pupers argue tual if oflcors ara kept in their pluces, as long as thelr personal character remslne nutarnlshed sud tbe ¥erlnvu!~ ance of their dutles satiefactory, the reault wlll be ‘‘a permanent llhl‘&n" of ofiice-Lolders.” s this s0? Look back into the history of the liopab- ud you will Sud thet under the'early Adiminle- tratlons down to Johu Qulucy Adaws, public ofii- cers were kopt bu placo s 100g as thelr character PRICE FIVE CENTS, remalned nniaeniahed and the performanee o 3, 3 that thers Ato man: \vhgre. wn‘lhll; "'rr;vxulng . that period ie of = R the Government were lhenpn netof qutety teions, modeest, and unobtrusive to control party politics an/ sen genernl rnle, atuditm.. t attention to thelr nfiicial to winthe approval of the Government whieh em« ployed them, and an honorable name for theme Bnt'no soonier was the good old custom planted by the system which ‘transformed the ‘en of the Government into the spoils of party warfare, and made appointments and ‘removalsde- pend not upon the question of intearity and come petence, but upon party rervice and clalms to parly rd, than & remarkable change occurred in the chiaracter as well g3 the pretonslons of the ofiice- No lonzer did they remain tho nfet, anobtrunive and datifal pnblic servants they ad been before, but they gradually attempled fo polltice fnthe different Ntates, and hemuelves into a regularly ORGANIZED FORCE OF POLITICAL, PRATORIANS employed by ambitions leaders to override the public opinion af the coantry. anything that might be called an office-holding ar- Istocracy fn the woret 0, honest. patriotic, end In the Democratla arganization and nmong It lenders, 1 count among them not & few valnedand trasted personal frienda, Hut where neo the advocates of genuine civil-acrvion reform amongthem? Asfaras duty satisfacto ofice-holders® know, e have heard' ry ¥oiceof Sanator Gordon, wha snle mitied In the laxt kession of Con, able proposttinn for the reform of the revenne se vire; hut the commendatlon it received in the or- antal publle optnlon came almost cxclusivaly rorn the Repnblican or Inde) 'ilden, if electe hln‘ own l party, at the rlak of o ap_against the farlous onset of hangry and eay: **The interests of the asrvice, the caces of reform, demond that the offic ment be no longer Inoked u ‘exA &'cominends ndent side. And now withont support (o holding elass. aithfal and eficient ' officers, 7o matlor whothiof they are Iiepublicans, aod turn out 8nly the un- 3 Go home, my Democratic friends, rllncrlmlnlnlnrnt Telsure emocratic Congreasmens “'The principles on which the CIvil Sertioe 1n 16 emand that 1 should not permit any Cangressional {nterference with the responsibilities therefore put yone rec. nds In yan pockets ance let me alone, my good fellow-Democrsta?™ \What mau_ In Lls five sentes expects Gov, Tilden toda this? lan he ever promise: Certalniy he has not, Af thers crer waa f the term, it did nat ly adininistrations wlien goo 1(d title to con. place, but it was created by the spoila atem which atripped the officer of his simple sracter of & servant of the Government, made him apsrty-agent. or in eats of those of d arty eatrap, obsequious to those eolent to the people, over whom they thenceforth conridered thomselves appointed to exercise power and (nflaence, vice reform proposcy to thelr proper again, it will nof struction of that odious aort of an office-holding ar- Beaides, the idea that a Ictter- or a Custom-Houee oflicer, ora revenue agent, or a department clerk, will becoms the member of an relatacracy, if left in office as lon, himeeif well,-Lias somatbing so Intensely that it necd scarcely be well apeak of an aristocracy of ralirosd conductors or hotel waltera, AKOTRER VERY CURIOUS ONJECTION 10 Gov, Hayes' reform plau i1 put forth by my e teemed friend Mr. G linhed letter In favor of Gov. Tilden, which servedly attracted much atteation, 1f officers ata to be secure in thele tenure na long sa their character remains untarnished and the pel formance of thelr duties ratis! ] **give all the present Incs tennre, perpetuate thelr hold have 8o mapy of thein abuted,” and be ractical operation an act of Indemnity for & ca who now infest snd pollute the ‘The critlca of Gov. layen' Jetter of acceplance seem_indecd to be in terrible atress tinciple is laid down all be rectire aa long snything of the kind? Is be not too Invoterate & Democrat and too closely wedded to Lhe traditions of liir party to think of 1t WHAT SORT OF REPONM WILL TB BROUGHT AUOUT BY A DEMOCRATIC VIOTORT! Tassume even that Gov. Tildon and the men ho may pat Into his Cabinet will sincorely desire to put only Lhe hest avatlable Democrats inta oftico, and will employ every honest effort to that end. But what wlil be the rernls? The accearion of th Democrata to pawar wiil be sign farious msh for ofice ever witneased in the Listory of thia Repablic. of thousands have becn lyin: 1f the Civil-Ker- Gov, Tiayes reduces them as he behaves years hundreds . in wait, engeriys | on ind ihem not- only in the Narth, Kast, aud Weat, but still more in the Ronth. The Sonthern peoplo have many good ualities, but 1t 1s a notarfous foct that among them the namber of men thinking themeelves pe- culiarly entitled to public place hus alivays been conspicuously numeron ahor! llr'l‘!‘lor manY ¥ win, In his regent) e thinks that Now thiey have been on and long walting b e 13 & that Democratic succcss ory, this princi enis an fadesit by a united: could be brought abont eni Southern vote, th Confederate friends bave won renown by manya ! e during the War, but all their war- I be lefl in the shade by the tremen- . dous momentwin of the charge thoy will executs ! tipon the offices of the Government. rush of auch esgerners, turbulence, and coufusion | that men of this generation will In valn seck And now amidst all thie, urged on universal cry of lmpatlence from all sections of tho | Democratic party TUAT RVERY DADICAL MUBT U8 DRIVEN PROM. C public ofticen.™ for an objection, that the tenure of an oflicer &! *tas hie charncter remsins untarnisked and the rformance of his iluties satisfactory “'—can that joterpreted a8 meaning that the tennre of an officer xtinll also be eecure, when hie hae becomea bad fellow, so that his character s tarniehed and the performance of his datics unsatisfactory? When Gov. Hayes pledges himself to a **s ough, aud unsparing prosccution of and punishment of all public oficers who betray pablic truats, " does that mean that those who hace betrayed oficial truats shall go nnprosecuted and nnponished? In that an act of indemnity to all felons and ro; who_now infest and TLACE once, do_yon think it for a moment pnub—' that the President and the members of the Cab- inet will breast that storm and eit down with cood beration, to gather evidence about the charac- | ter and qualifications of avery a noventy or elghty “housund placea 28 10 Keep yuproper men ovt of oftice? In it' not tn that the offices will be fllled Lel- and that of the ap- o the most auccesa. plicant for the 3 ollute the public service? life-Tong friendship for Gov. Tilden may carry even s man of abilily and great atiainments beyond the point of safet: ing his opponents. absolntely éertal ter-akelter, as 80 aften before, licants those, as a rule, will | whoare the most Intrusive and elbowing thelr way to the frunt? Can it'in the na- ture of things be otherwise! And what will be- come of the cause of reform? We have had 2 speciinen of that on & smali ecale when the Democratio party took posseasion of the House of Nepresontatives, aud had to disnose of & number of more or ey happened? A scors of tion; a ‘‘clean mveep honesty, nor indispensal ‘The most charital cctlon s, perhnps, that he Ietter of acceptance. even after his criticiam, read it with tudy on true Civil-Borvice reform. put forth by Gov. Hayces la nothing more, and nothing lcss, than the rovival of the ractice which prevailed nnder the s, whose ‘clevated tone and de of American bistory; the ractice of the men whose wisdom ave exalted in the Centennial year with glowing culogies; the mea wha, could th among us, wonla I0nOr Onr namcee, virtues, and & liftle mare by following Now, let us see what promlse of Clvll-Bervice reform the Democratic candidate, Gov, Til order Yo be perfectly fair to im I will quote the whole text of thut part of his letter which refers to that aubject: CIVIL-RENUYICK REPOTN. ‘The Convention justly afirms Liiat Faform s necosdary Ia thecivl service. nocemary sary o ita economy snd eficlency, nocessary In urdizery employment o prise fonght for e y 38al, [uatea: slgned for praven com| the public employ. never read Gov. Hayes principle and early Administrations ity are stil] the pri principies and And virtnes we desirable places. pplicants for every posi- ble experlence, nor uré- falnens, norchiaracter was spared: the officca for the Democratsl And what Democrats! Do you TUB PITZUUGNS AND HAMBLEDONS. aud the generul ridicale and indignation that fol- lowed thelr prompt exposure? Do’ you remember the hasty endeavurs on the nitaries 1o make ont of their onportunitien what could be made? Da you remeinber the expressinns of alarm and dlsgust coming even from the hetter clara of Democrats? Do you remember the haste with which some of the newly.n) had to be dismiseed again, that ! not become too grest and damaging? And such d in view of the com- - ntial elecifon, the Democratic pare Its " good s part of mome new dig- holds out toue. pointed ofMcers ’ ta its purfncation, necen- & scandal might rdel tue public business lot-box, every rearon favorable Impression -on the country. would happen it it shonld mucceed In g ower and then act withont aned What a zlorlaua time 1t will be for tha Fitzhinghs and Hambledona when open to thom by the tens of ¢ wonders of reform they wonld accomplish] Tene, together with the good officers notw in the serrice, . the rogues polluting it will be driven out. Butmay the Lord protect ua against those which the gea- eral rush far the spolls will bring in. Bat it is not anly tn obedicnce 1o the universal clamor of the pariy,—there iaatlll another rensun why under Democratic rale the apoila system, with allits characterixtic fentures, will b’ That party Is serlousiy divided Initsclf with regard to sume of The most vital and the day; fac inetance, THF FINANCIAL QUESTION, . THden, by the datk and equivockl ntterances in his letter of acceptance, h pew enconfagenient (o the soft- wing of (he party, and thue canscd & fresh orons effort and ‘advance wlon, Why, cven Tom & and Old BN Allen ave found in Tilden the Aoses effort 1o make @ even more tn the b nators, Jieprenentat( Do {5 Bevhority puiceaare not s they are 4 pubilc laces are thrown. eral Government: Oue iv the prevalent and demorsliz- iag notlon that the public aervice exista not for the beainexs and benefit of the whiole people, but for the tn- tereal of thie officeholde: Fervacis of the people, nfest the official who are (o truth nder the tnfucoce af ¢ ublic employments ave been mul- ed; the numbers of thow gathered Infe tho ranks nulzation of the nnl:h”l clom Into a bod _prcnlnz Ripliswa et oTg! of political mercensries, governiog the catcused wod diciatlag 1he nominations of theirown party; and at- the electicos of the peaple by nndue d by jmmense corruption-funde myste- matleally collected fruin the salarics or fees of ogive- T licial clasa fn other countries, some- bi and somietimies e Io pule the unorganized tinies by its ows wel $ho arniy, haw leen cven uudor uptversal sndrage. iu_his belligerence, amile, beliering to to lead them out of the wildorness, ‘Thix you ohserve all over the West and South, Dy nll surts of deceits the managers succeed fn balding the purty together, in spite of this division of sentlucat, for the pending campal In order to render success possible. that snceens achleved, the war of contlicting ten- dencles will break out Inside of the organization Then, the party, once in pos- aerslon of the Government, will naturally strive to fortify Jtaef in that posscanlon so s to remain in And whut means will ba thore to hold to- gether the warrlng elemeuta? Then oracular ug- terancen and equivocal promisea ns we find {n Gov, ‘Tliden's letter of acceptance, nflerin thinge to all men, will 1o longer as; measires of upification, a tangible hesfon, will be re: they Be? Gov, T1 an| spirations of a saund padlir opinton, and of rew o Chang of MdmmIRmIAIoD: Jati intolerabic and public the pitch of & civic revolution, {3 the elevation of the standi irit hos been stung 1o Tie frat atep in reform D) te omefal trust. ndelity in the excreise of nt gud dinpiace wutrust: ihie subordinates, The public mterest I oraiance of ofclal trust must weufruct of Wye Incumbesta, fier these fmmediate meps, whicl will fneare bition of beter examples, we may wisel abolition of unneceaary oflices, a careful organizal e (esta wherevey practicable, of with new virulence. t wionl, under Troved compotency and Bdeliy. on have read this somewhat elaborate mdered over it n while, you atill X yourselvent a he mean'to go and where docs he meun to stoy well-expressed criticlsm; but what fs the apecific thing he meaus todo? Tho difference be- iween Whese utlemuces and those contained In Gov. Huyus' lester ia atriking and uired, And what will, what cun. den is now exhibited’ to us fn the character of & reformer, and I bave already salil that | shull not deny to kim In that respect Botit mnst not be fors otton thut Gov, Tilden, Jong bafore he dlaclosed maclf a3 a reformer, bad become, {n the not slto~ gether virtuous school of Demucratle New Yook ATIE ADROITEST MANAGER, | tlcal inachind-master o} d I think I do not st 10 this accomplishment e Presdoncy fa targel igolficunt. There are precine, cloan-cut, sharplydeinad Tiayes, indlcating lemoraiizing infu- leated and what 1 to be pus In {ta place. When wo try to avolve from TH1S MOUNTALS OF WORDS % which Gov, Tilden in the uppotat- o an ‘‘elevated what credit he deaerves, Pproporitious put now the wpofls ences is to be el the most sccompll tha practical thi our days, lle s do, we find that menk of new nen, a standard, * whatever (! aficers to sccount for thelr” dolngs, of course, Ailed with new men super- isely ** Lo be cut off, and finule 1y the ** patlent snd careful organization of A bet- ter (lvil-Bervice aystem la to be der the irata, whenever pract d gdelity." 1t seems theu, dovni—and 1 think | am doing angusge Do violence in sayin to be diled with guoi **clean awoep ™ an his nomination for | pore him President, and conflicting fuctions In hix own party, threatening to disrupt the orgunization and en- the continned possession of power 4o Jong worked and hioped for, ~will not. necesarfy, thearts of the mausgor, the pariy machiniet, 40 well uuderatood, snd o Jong snd succesafuily ructiond, be oguln resorted to, in ordertoavert o disaster of & ruplure? Lat meeay 10 yon that, in my whole political exporience, known & man who wa: tricka of machine, strong through' under him the When the offices are fluous oflicen are ** proceeded with un. cable, of proved we bail It all Gov, 'rl)n:‘nn'l 1 Deniocrata in the way of 8 **uew deal of the spolls, * and that nfterwarda it shall be ** patiently and carefully* considerrd how proven competency and 1dggity ™ can be eatablished, 1o a8 to Ml the offices But, fimt of all thiugs, offices for the Demacruts, the candld "man pretend that it mosns aoyihing cise? Gov. Tilden is & profuse writer, having ¥n infinlte pssortmont of word: 31 he meant anything alse, B not huve been abile Lo sxy #u in & prec exprension? Por tho short al systewatlc reform, to be pmlc)}wd. hh even mors » o owy than the many purugraphe ’\vll-h the Vllflzlllfllwll ‘:I whiel ave in the course of time becumne so Justly dis- slble man in the land, cven Tilden's Indopeadent fricnds, who ex- pects anything elue than BIMPLY A NEW DISTRISUTION OF TAR 8Po1La1 Jet hiin read let Wm look roand among Jeaders as well 1l nd 6l will svon become docs not know that tl the Demacratic pi e civll sorvice wan B emplnymu;m, that was tself to the man at the head of tho machine in snch care! One bt oo well in accordance wits instincts aud constant practice of pariy—*‘the cohenlve #k yourselves whether that Is it not Inevitaule the I@¥nocratlc I nol bs necessnrily so. that o partyso tori by Infurnul dissensions will domand thst colieslve paste 30 as not to fall 18, loces? WIil not the menorles of the Douglas and ite disastrous connequences, « sture the managers In tho face ns s Wirning ex- 0t cerlaln ghat the tse tho menns alrcudy at hund? This ofice will De used to sitenca the oppposition of this man, Wat* rchase the anpport of another, and liiston 10 subsequent ** patient! uchanan fend, with sted. Or is there any b y i tona by (iiny. thelr 1outh. *An tho WaF boe ‘Tammuny and antl-Tammany, BOSS KELLY AND JOAN MONRINSEY, {n New York, will be_ pucided by giviug herents of one the Costom-llouse 1o relorm and sarnult the adherenta af the others to infase virlio, nto the Post.Oflice or the revenue service, muoel 10 the rellef aud delight of the business come mttulty, Wik nat i the: aame way by & vkttt dis. * tibutian. of 'the Goverament plunder tie Hofte Money and the lard:Money Democris Hast and Weat o madte 1o tndomiad that. they balone t0s Eether, and that the talie will bo apread for them five fogether like Food To e of il the: plovs odepundents who mistako. 4Ta (be vic- was st inaugurated by that the spojls systew of voloped by thal purly ju all characterlatic fuatures; that fuf the last forty truditional wnd constant pol- d at this Dioment thelr strug; t inesare inspired by unlty Lo precipltate themaelves Ia Gay, Tilden the mau, his_ clection, to conititute himsolf & breakwater agalust the unlversal tendency, the unanlmous, tpatlent will of bix T aak you cundidly, and es my Independout fricuds, who, sl o d (ko Wl:bfl now entertained Democratic leaders and some follow them, *¢the cohesive power of public pb der' will rule the hour; thie spolle syatem, that most dapyernus forutain of demorallzation and tion, will flow mure richly that ever,—and rewell. & long faruwel), 10 the great fefor ublic service once | Ts_ that what you, my In. dependent fricnds, desire und strive to accompl! Nay, washallbe in a 1nore deplorable conc for the suolls systew uaturally grows wors in fts efects tho longer It (o pore mitted Lo oxtel. Thot will be {ho fuovitable con. sequence of Democratic success as | foreses 1L es; but 8 change making the uecesaity of & wider chanke more prevsing than ever, ST 38 HETVIN TO THA OTURR 81V No sensible man Wil deny thut the reform which the exigencies of qur condltioy demand can be complisued only H Sthe programuwe be carcied out which wo find fa Gov. Huyes' letter of acceptance, the man to put throu Lio posscss coursge and perstite cucy enougl to withatandand overcows (e sdvesss peclally those of hough animated with the desire of kenuine reform, arg inclined to ald the Democrats, 16 there in the Dethocratic arty any indusutlal elemrnl that would nrge s Dewocrutic Presldont to advance \horough meas- ures of civil-service reform In & nun-partisan sense, Id_esrnestly support biw if he didy 1 such an luflucniial element, where s thst la to mako saud more houcst and pure, y tho **swallow-tafls " or the the old Htate-Righl 1 Oramoug the Confederates in tho Bouth? Or among tho Iriah population or TUE LOMAN CATUOLIC DEMOCHATS GBNEBAL- LY. in any section of the Democratio party uine reforw of thaciyll scrvice, ud for 3 new desl of Lho spolle, hal) cozialaly by the laat wan to