Show o THE ADMINISTRATION I J Many of the Democrats of the country j arebeginning to complain a little on account ac-count of the retention in office of Republicans Repub-licans and far and wide the cry will soon ifb heard fo turn the rascals out It is f tliecry bf rBot1 b nism and is being j raised by those who think that politics are merely a scramble for office and that when office is reached the thing to do is to dividVthe spoils If there are rasca sin s-in office they should certainly be turned out but it does not necessarily follow that cren though a man is a Republican I jhe is a rascal Of course the C1 cloak Df Republicanism covers nothing but true patriots and whether a man who is not a Republican can be a patriot not definitely settled It is generally ad r f knitted that a Democrat who takes all his counsel from Republicans and in every way follows their lead may in the course of time with the aid of evolution become a patriot The best evidence that a Democrat Dem-ocrat can become a genuine true patriot 0 is for a Democratic official to appoint only Republicans to place this evidence is deemed sufficient by ultraRepublicans if there be no deviation But without considering whether anyone any-one who is not a Republican can be worthy in any way is there any justification justifica-tion for turning outof office all who were in when the present Administration came into power There is no disguising the fact that President Cleveland was nominated nomi-nated and elected as a reform man and the most distinctive feature of the reform < r theory is that which relates to tenure of office If the Democratic Convention last year had nominated a man who was a known advocate of the theory of turning the rascals out such a man would not have been elected It was this which gained to the Democratic ranks the Independent Inde-pendent or Mugwump vote and lost to them the Irish vote and it was the Mugwumps who were in the advance t I in > the civil service reform theory AllS < All-S I the peculations and defalcations in office during the past twentyfour years have been the result of the theories of th spoils system and it was this that drove the Republican party from power To charge every subordinate official and clerk in the entire service of the Government Govern-ment with corruption and malfeasance in office because they have been icepuDii cans is absurd That there have been plenty who have robbed and disgraced I the Government no one will deny Them The-m 0 Republican party for many years held their power through making the country believe that the Democrats wermvorse than they and not from any personal worth of their own It was a bug Vbear true but it was successful in accomplishing the object for which itI I was set up But finally the people saw that it was well worth a trial to give the reins of power into Democratic hands firmly convinced that nothing could be worse thai what had been and for this they elected Grover Cleveland knowing his record as Mayor of f Buffalo and Governor Gov-ernor of New York and believing that his record as President would be but a continuation of his past record President Cleveland is the President of a new epoch in American politics the f epoch in which the Government is to be administered for the benefit of the whole people and not merely to give place to officeseekers The issues upon which the political battles of threequarters of a century have been fought are things of the past This was recognized in the very first sentence of the Democratic Platform of 1884 which declares The Democratic party of the Union through its representatives in Na tional Convention assembled recognizes that as the Nation grows older new issues are born of time and progress and old issues perish One of these newborn issues is civil service reform In 1876 when Tilden was the candidate of the party the platform of that year clearly honestly and distinctly declared in favor of civil service reform and enunciated this principle Experience Experi-ence proves that efficient economical conduct of Governmental business is not i possible if the civil service be subject to I change at every election be a prize I fought for at the ballot box be a brief reward re-ward of party zeal instead of posts of honor assigned for proved competency and held for fidelity in the public employ em-ploy that the dispensing of patronage should neither be a tax upon the time of all our public men nor the instrument of their ambition Even in 1872 the party said on the civil service reform question mat uThe civil service or the Government Govern-ment has become a mere instrument instru-ment of partisan tyranny and personal ambition and an object of selfish greed It is a scandal and reproach re-proach upon free institutions and breeds a demoralization dangerous to the perpetuity per-petuity of republican government It is plain then that if the Democratic party is committed to anything it is committed to civil service reform For the Adminis tration to cast aside the declarations of the party and surrender to the cry of turn the rascals out will be for it to inrow asme an integral part of its principles prin-ciples and to also throw away all chances iforVa i continuation of power in 1888 Nothing would so well please the pure patriotsjjf the Republican party as to have the Administration give itself up to task of turning the rascals out and the journals of that party are trying to hound the Bourbon Demociats on in their wild cry for office for if they could succeed what a watchword it would be for their next campaign and how they would shout II I told you so Of course had Mr Blaine been elected things t wouldC have > been different and those officials whom a Democratic Administra r tion will retain would have been turned out to nake way for those ofa higher type of which Mr Blaine is the epitome |