Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — Still Glorying' in Their Shame. [ARTICLE]

Still Glorying' in Their Shame.

It was the increase in the Southern vote by enfranchising the negro which elected Cleveland President of the United States. The measures which the Democrats denounced give to the South thirty additional Representatives in Congress and the same increased nnmber in the Electoral College. Strike that number of votes from tin* Electoral College in the. Southern States, and it will be seen that Blaine and Logan would have been elected in November last, instead of Cleveland and Hendricks, —Memphis Appeal.

Secretary Manning’s attention has been called by a prominent civil-service reformer to two of the bureaus in the Treasury Department which afford an excellent opportunity for a study of the comparative effects upon the public service of the spoils system and reform methods. These bureaus are the offices of the Treasurer and the Third Auditor. The Treasurer, looking merely to the interest of the Government, has secured the capable administration of his department by retaining the experi-. enced officials who have done good service under a Republican regime.* The Third Auditor, on the other hand, has - discharged so many of his best men to make room tot Democrats that his office is actually crippled. —Chicago Tribune. ’ . i ' "