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Show Civil-Seevice reform is a good thing i and should be extended far beyond the limits of the present law. But civil-service reform was never in such good hands as at present, let people say what they choose about the Administration. The ardor of the Republican party and press for the success of civil-service reform is a little too keen to be all genuine, especially as they are the outs now. Their ardor recalls the saying: "When the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be ; but when the devil was well, devil a saint was he." |