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Show George William Cu riles Atlvi-Iuk Atlvi-Iuk HajeH. New York, 14. Curtis, in Harper's Harp-er's Weekly, thus warns the administration admin-istration against temporizing upon practical civil service reform issues: It 16 for the administration to take care that the expectations of its friends shall be fulfilled. Tbe sincerity sin-cerity of its support comes from confidence con-fidence that it means what it say a, and that it has courage ot its own opinions. If its friends have Beemed to lack enthusiasm it is because it has itself seemed to be hesitating and reluctant, re-luctant, hoping to be friendly all around. That is a fatal delusion. Indefinitencss and timidity will repel Mends, but they cannot win foes. The administration in some ways at 5 tempted the same kind of negotiation 1 in Pennsylvania, and the state is lost j by a heavy democratio majority. In Massachusetts the republicans heart- ily sustained the bravest acts of the a administration, and hold the state 'j more strongly than ever. |