Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1886 — Nasby on Civil-Service Reform. [ARTICLE]

Nasby on Civil-Service Reform.

Ez to the conduck uv the offis, I am runnin it on ihe striktest possible clusnis to the Civil-Servis Reform rools. Our exlent President so directed me, and I am observin his wishes, wich I do with pleasure, ez they Are fully in akkord with my own noshuns. I very mtich desired to retane the old employet s, but I coodent. No man kin be responsible for a public offis onless his subordinits are in akkord with him, and the old ones wuzn’t. Fr’instance, the man wich took the males from the postoffis to the stashen at Seceshnville wuz a wunarmed Fedrel soljer. I askt him to be a delegate to the Dimicratik Congreshnel convention, and pledge bisself to support the nominee, which he refused to do, remarkin in the most brootal manner that he’d see me d d fust, and then he wooden’t. Uv course I coodent stand any sich insubordinashen ez that, and ors went his hed, and I nppinted in his place a Confedrit soljerr wich is in perfeck akkord with me and the administrashen. The former incumbent wuz of no earthly use, to Bascom; he never asked me to take suthin, and wuz payin for a house and lot out uv his salery. In short, he wuz no Dimikrat, and of course he had to go. The noo man appinted is one uv us, and the mule he presented me with, jist afore I appinted him, wich I sold fur SBO, cum in mity handy jist ez the winter wuz comin on and I wanted sum hevy close. I hev a overcoat now fur the fust time in 20 veers. My assistant wuz also a disabled Federal soljer and I didn’t dare to retane him becoz uv the differences in opinyun betwixt us, and also becoz Bascom demnndid his hed, and the puttin uv a brother-in-law uv his in the place, wich I did fur the improvement uv the servis. I wantid intelligence in the posishen. The noo assistant lays on my table all the letters wich he suspexjiv containin money. Ther ain’t nothin like civil-servis reform, and ez it is practised by the present administrasben I don’t see how any Dimicrat kin objeck to it. —Toledo Blade.