Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1885 — Keeping His Pledges. [ARTICLE]

Keeping His Pledges.

The New York Tribune now howls over the removal of Pinchbeck and the other Republican officials at New Orleans, alleging that the removals were “in defiance of the President's civilservice reform pledges.” The trouble with the Tribune is that it does not know what civil-service reform is. It imagines that it is a device to keep men in office, be they good, bad, or indifferent. Since the close of the war the Federal offices at New York have been in the hands of Republican officials, and the defalcations foot up over $2,<j00,000. Since President Cleveland has been at the head of affairs a new theft of $25,000 in the sub-treasury has just been discovered, and it would seem that the interests of reform in the civil service demanded a change in the manner of conducting the Federal business at that point. The speediest and safest way to accomplish the desired end was by a change of officials, and the President went about it unhesitatingly. The way to encompass civil-service reform is to sweep dishonest officials out of office. An honest journal would find no fault at the President’s course under existing circumstances. Instead of acting “in defiance of his civil-service reform pledges” he is living up to the letter of them. —Oviaha Herald.