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Show IN NEW YORK. The Republicans of New York met in convention at Saratoga yesterday, and Senator Miller was elected temporary chairman. In his remarks he had a good deal of praise for his party and a good deal of condemnation for the Democrats, j He said that for the first time in twenty-five twenty-five years the Republican party was confronted con-fronted by the fact that both the State govervment of New York and the General Government were in the hands of the Democrats. The Senator seemed to deplore de-plore such a condition of things, although of itself it is a - matter of congratulation. He did not say what would be the result of such a conjunction of political affairs, but no doubt" he thought it would be direful. He was strongly in favor of protecting American industries and such things. When he said that the civil service which the Republicans Re-publicans turned over to the Democrats was the best in the world, he clearly showed that his standard of what the best civil service in the world is is very low, or else he showed a great lack of knowledge of the facts in the case. . He should have supplemented this assertion with another Baying that the Republicans Repub-licans turned over the .best navy in the world to the Democrats, for the proof is as good in one case as in the other. Among the other truthful and statesmanlike remarks he made was one that throughout the Southern States there was not to be found a single government which held the reins of government by the will of the people. This must be construed to mean that the only people down in the Southern States are the Republicans. But this was no doubt said to give a sem blance of truth to the resolution of the Mississippi Republicans saying it was useless for them to put a State ticket into the field on account of intimidation practiced at the polls. Senator Miller made one very good suggestion, which was to summon the Civil-Service Commissioners Com-missioners together and direct them to add to the rules a clause providing that "all jail-birds and ex-convicts" be forbidden for-bidden to hold office. This should be amended so as to turn out of office all "jail-birds and ex-convicts." The adoption adop-tion of Senator Miller's suggestion together to-gether with this amendment would forever for-ever settle the question of retaining or putting put-ting Republicans in office. Of course many patriots and friends of the "poor negro" would have to go, but they would go for the good of their country. Yes, as the Senator says, this would greatly relieve re-lieve the President of the United States. But what rediculous ; and disgusting stuff it is for a United States Senator to talk in this way. The reference to jail-birds and ex-convicts is not funny, much less commendable. . Because some Republicans Repub-licans have been thieve3 in office it is neither just nor common sense to say that all Republicans are thieves, nor that they endorse thievery ; and so it is with regard to Senator . Miller's remarks about amending the civil-service rules so as to exclude jail-birds and ex-convicts, for in those remarks he would insinuate that such are all Democratic applicants for office. Until politicians and the people peo-ple learn that crimination and re-crimination and charges and counter-charges are not politics proper, the tone of politics and the discussion of public policies and matters will be low and havo a tendency to degrade the people. As politics deal with the highest and most important concerns of man so they themselves should be placed upon the highest level. |