| Show THE bervice hER VICI QUES X the president with lis his cabinet time this week vero e ro told will some fait taka hold ito id of tho the civil service question with a view to adopt mica lor for thir fit lure government from the intimations that mat reach all us lt it seems that senators and representatives sito ta to bo be leas potential in ia controlling op sad ad that the qualifications for or celiaa will consist not lot so knob 0 I 1 party fealty ond and faithful w work 1 I alco 00 lloja as 9 good moral character proper educational attainments and ami odel ily to tho publio good more than to the ilia wants 0 of patty pally A it rigid abher oooo oco ta these theeb very admirable reform italese will bo be apt to bring the aimin into colli collision coalition tion with certain old political leaders isadora who have become wedged to colier methods and who sincerely believe that tb the 0 salvation ot of tho the party parly and through it of 0 tho ilia country depends upon strict to 10 10 the lo spoils system the ides idea of 0 thess pent lemin is ia that in ia order to main maid uia tain a vigorous aad eloice dil party at t is n absolutely necessary that tha lh distribution of patronage patron aeo and the shaping ot of measures moa shall have refer GOOD to 10 thit that eod ead that hit machine politico pol ilici in tact fact must ever bo be our alle of 0 bip they have bare no faith in ia popular dovo tiou to oil creeds they that unless party is ij fed liberally with patronage it will latigu languish isif and die whilo while the other tot eat tho civil be ro believe that t tho he service shoals bo be cond noted on oa strictly lnor cess cass principles toil and that the ratty should depend for support upon the iho of its abil alo 1 antico astico of its messu rear these conflicting ilic ting theories are row cow to bi tested wo we are to find cod out ont by cal experiment peri ment whether a party parly can lo bo kept aliva ond and in healthy activity the popular in good measures solely or whether it it ii to organize anil and a sort ol of Pr elorian guard ot of officio holders to 0 o leep alo yank mik and file up ta their work hitherto it lias boa been loael cimpoesi his ble to abo qulion for or the iho reason that members of 0 the iho two houses housea of 0 congress bouhl not cot lo be to relinquish their power poirer over patronage they love toted apparently if rol lot avowedly upon ilia iho the that not only was it essential for tho kric of the party that offices should bo be distributed to active bartic mos alone but that their heir own ova continuance in 10 baco p aco depended upon the iha control ol of a band or of devoted followers so that while ahe party was the object of solicitude there was really a interest in ia the matter which too loo often overstepped over stepped the real inter cot eat of party parly now we think it demonstrable that hit this ibis patronage patrO patr Dago theory as we have bavo stated idled it il is unsound and adl that let good mariy men nill bo be surp surprised nt at its iia seak nefie if lie iha theory as proposed by cit hosea is il brought fairly ioto operation thare are ra over four million loan vote cottra rat in the co conalty nuLty bat only a email fremion rao ion of these are office holders or amoe per laps fifty have places bibich they care to hold bod and not got more than a quarter of a million can an bo be said aid to be even eil in bolding tho ol of the Reub republican lican is mado made up of ct men liea who adsero to tho the party parly from principle they belche its principles lud policy test beet caca to promote the iho true interests cl cf the country and the moat hobt causal ob that emong mete the he molt active cerl icly tho the most workers are to bo be found it is riot cot merely a mistake it is a libel ipen hUMO LIly to assume ue that party parly and roli political aro are only to lo 10 by emidid cook laera CODE lf if euch etro ito tact fact ot ilber twity could dainto giai ninn n an organize lion even with the iho in 10 force there is cot enough of it to reach and elir the ibe mass of the pool pobile Is and there aro are facts acla we could point to which prove me ibo contrary in ID tho the orly early days of iho republic before it was understood that a chance of administration involved a aioo ol of all the 1111 cei under gavelin MOO there was no lack of party parly spirit or political activity indeed parl isaa zal never dever ran laher than in ia the days day ol of adams and aud and so in ia other countries where pat pal dot into the struggle et in groat erstad Eri taD the tha spoils does not obtain indeed mr blun delli a prominent member of parliament and a wealthy manufacturer declared whon when in new tork that be could not control tho the appoint ment of a tide waiter political icil esl or are active ani and well disciplined cip lined gild and there hero is no DO lack of car in the straggles aggles for scy cy and even under the iha least liberal eral governments Kovero moots where privilege rago and prerogative pertain wholly to the crown parties aro maintained and ire are oi active and militant as the most C partisan could desire IMi president dOnt hayes oin can carty out his hi pro reforms and huro w will it be no danger of ruin comici a naion a the republican party boci uee it is LO longer patronage its adherents will bo be as active and do ter mined notwithstanding they have bavo a knowledge that preferment does doci not wait upon tho who most moat zeal 2021 at the polls poll it way maj ho be that somo gentlemen in ia Con congress greas will drop out oat for lack of the ilia support rt which their share of the be spoils his bas hitherto Lit herto brought them but the oona try will ill not suffer in con eDoo th to rc stiver his bis been sad and there never will bo be toy any difficulty ja ia p goud men mea to talo service la in Con congecsi gaces indeed lodeen it is just possible that lat the party left to itself would select a more and creditable tot lot of there certainly vituld be ba lets less room for small traders sail and trick tricksters listers and ad a more earnest debiro for the boat boa I 1 bral brains obtainable at any rate the experiment I 1 is is woth aring if only to tast aci t the ques kioa whether a lic aliby y arly cao can b d without the stu or if public pap |
