Show A SMALL REWARD j TheNew York Sun is in quite a rage because of some reasons which the Boston i Bos-ton Advertiser prints and given by some cabinet officers why Mr Pearson was reappointed re-appointed postmaster of New York City and the Sun does not approve of them It was thought that the Sun was coming around and accepting the result of last years election with good grace but it is otherwise apparently Throughout the campaign there was no paper more hostile to Cleveland than the Sun and since his inauguration it has been watching patiently to find something of which it might complain and sms to have found it in the retention reten-tion of Mr Pearson While the President may not owe anything specially to such men as Gsorge William Curtis Carl Schurz T G Bennett and others yet in as much as they were very instrumental in electing President Cleveland the country owes them gratitude at least Surely it showed a determination to adhere firmly to his civil service declarations declara-tions when Cleveland said that he would gladly have tendered Mr Curtis an important foreign appointment appoint-ment but he was compelled to withhold the tender on account of the firm but courteous determination of Mr Curtis to adhere to his own views This reason seems of the very essence of civil service reform whose foundation is fitness fit-ness for the office and because the views ofthe President and Mr Curtis as to the requirements of the office to which appointment ap-pointment was to be made differed much the President did not see fit to ask him to accept it although he may have owed Mr Curtis much he recognized that he owed the country more It was a recognition recog-nition of the great doctrine that the party is a means while the good of the whole country is the end to be sought It was no more it was no less |