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Show : ' SOUND DOCTRINE. ( The Chicago Herald, of November j 28th, has this very sensible article on the course of Governor Hill in giving a place to Sterling after he was refnoved from his position by the Fresident, and had failed to get a place under the rules of the Civil Service Commission : Governor Hill, of New York, is in danger of overdoing bis performance in the character charac-ter of the incorrigible spoilsman. The peo- Ele were evidently in a mood to bear with im to a moderate degree, but they will fail to Bee the humor in his recent attempt to make capital with the spoilsmen by appointing appoint-ing to a prominent state office a man who had been rejected by the Civil Service Commissioners Com-missioners as a candidate for a Federal position. When the Collector for the Port of New I York appointed Alderman Sterling a weigher in the Custom House it was pointed out that the selection had been made in defiance of the civil service law, and on the order of Mr. Cleveland the appointment was revoked. Sterling then submitted to an examination, but, not standing as high as a Union soldier, the latter was appointed. The Governor thereupon named Sterling for Port Warden, at a salary of $5,000 per annum, presumably presum-ably for the purpose of showing his contempt con-tempt for the civil sarvice reform theory, and to convince the spoilsmen that if the President was not their friend they could find one in him. Ontside of the moral effect of the Governor Gov-ernor s action no particular objection can be urged to his selection of Sterling, who is said to be competent, a. Democrat and a man of good character, but the motive of his appointment ap-pointment was vicious, and it -will be so regarded. re-garded. If Mr. Hill expectB to be President of the United States he will find such eccentricities eccen-tricities as this very embarrassing in the f u ture. |