Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1886 — A TIMELY HINT. [ARTICLE]

A TIMELY HINT.

A Warning from President Cleveland to Federal Office-Holders. — They Must Respect Oivil Service, and Not Be Too Active m Politics. The following executive order from the President is sufficiently explicit to explain itself: » Executive Mansion, 1 Washington, I>. G., July I*. 1886. f To the Heads of Departments ih the Service of the General Government: I deem this a proper time to especially warn all subordinates in the several departments and all officeholders under the General Govern- ! meat against the use of their official positions in attempts to control political movements in their localities. Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor ‘ due to the Government, but they should scrupulously avoid, in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials. They should also constantly remember ihat their party friends, from whom they have receive 1 preferment, have not invested them with the power of arbitrarily managing political affairs; They have no right as officeholders to dictate the political action oft their party associates, or to throttle freedom of action within party lines by methods and practices which prevent every useful and justifiable purpose of patty organization. The influence of Federal offices should not be felt in the ma- I ’ nipulations of political primary meetings and 1 nominating conventions. The use by these j officials of their positions to com- | pass their selection as delegates to polit- | ical conventions is indecent and unfair, and proper regard for the proprieties and requirements of official place will also prevent their assuming the active conduct of political campaigns. Individual interest and activity in political affairs are by no means condemned. Officeholders ore neither disfranchised nor forbidden the exercise of political privileges, but , their privileges are not enlarged nor is their dutyto party increased to pernicious activity by . officeholding. A'just discrimination in this regard between i the things a citizen may properly do and the j purposes for which a public office should not be ; used is easy in the light of a correct apprecia- I tion of the "relation between the people and those intrusted with official place and a con- ! sideration of the necessity under our form of government of political action tree from official | coercion. You are requested to communicate the substance of these views to those for whose guidance they are intended.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

The output of the oil wells in Southern California this year will reach 160,000 barrels. None of the wells are of any great depth and none are heavy yielders. Most of them require to be pumped. At Puenta, Los Angeles County, the other day, a genuine “gusher” was struck at a depth of about 500 feet. The workingmen of New York are discussing the advisability of taking a hand in polities as an organization, and propose to run lleiuy George for Mayor. A newspaper at Pekin, .China, was started in the year 911. Ben: Peyley Poore is writing some personal reminiscences of US first editor. Cardinal Gibbons is summering in the Dees- Park cottage recently occupied by the' President and Mrs. Cleveland. The death is announced at Wiesbaden of the widow of the great composer, Giacomo Meyerbeer, aged 82 years. *-• ; ! ' - A yocno poet out West, in describing heaven, says: “It is a world of bliss fenced i& with girls.*