| Show A Marked Difference The Republicans manifest much pleasure plea-sure at the dissatisfaction which some Democrats have shown in consequence of the Presidents apparent intention to hasten has-ten slowly in the matter of removals from office They naturally like to see their opponents in distress and they also like to keep their own people in office as long as possible The most stringent sort of civil service reform is delightful to the Republicans when they see it practically applied by a Democratic administration We venture to predict however that if they should be restored to power four years hence the Democrats in office will not be allowed more than time to pack their gripsacks before they will have to get out Civil servicereform has arisen to its I full strength just in season to give security secu-rity to a horde of Republican officeholders office-holders whom the President and his advisers ad-visers would doubtless like to remove for the public good Perhaps however the administration wiil have wisdom enough to use the reform re-form principles for an armor but not allow al-low itself to be shackled by them I We shall seeNew York Sun |
