How Cleveland Got It

In 1882 you were candiilate for Goverïoi- of tlie great State of New ïork. You were nomfuated as a reform candilate; your fiïends took special palns to impiess upon iiulepondents and reformeis that, if elected, practcal politics and nacliine methods would ünd no place In your administration. In your letter of acceptance you ndorse wlmt had been said in this respect la your behalf and over your own signnture save this guarantee as to whai niight be expeoted of 'ou as governor. Public oflicers are the servants and agents of t"lie people, and tbeir duty is to execute the laws which the people have liado, and whieh within the limits of the constitution they have established, henee, the interference of officials, f anydegree vhether state or federal, for the purpose of controlling, or thwarting, the popular vish, should not be toleruated. This was a popular sentiment, and won you many votes. llave you kept your pledges? Have you kept faith with those who supported you because of the excelent precepts you laid down ? You are novv a candidato for President of the ¦ jnitcd States. In order to forward your cause you have used. or allowed to be used In your personal interest, the entire civil service of the State, greatly to the letrinieut of the public service; wherever an official wa3 found that had any influence in his district, he was set at work to elect Cleveland delegates to Saratoga. This prostitution of the public service was carried on openly, and to an extent scarcely ever known before in this State. Your canal officials neglected thcir duty ti work up caucuses and to manipúlate conventions. For evidence of such negect it s only necessary to point to the three disastrous canal breaks that have ccurredj this season. Your insurance officials, bank officials- in short, the whole machinery of the State Government -have been employed in your political and personal service for weeks. Through this agrncy a moro compact machine has been constructed iu your interest than this very moment this Cleveland polilicul machine is at Chicago 'booming" your canvass. A casual observer might suppose from the number of New York officials in that city that the headquarters of the State Government had been transferred to the foot of Lake Michigan. Controller Chapiu is there; AttorneyGeneral O'Brien is there; State Treasurer Maxwell and his deputy Eddie Apgar are there. So is John A. McCall, Insurance Superintendent, James Shanahan, Superintendent of Public Works, C. D. Peck. Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, and his Deputy Iloolcy, V. M. Thayer, Piison-Lnbor Commissioner. W. C. Hndson, clerk of Itiilroad Commissioners, together with an almost innumerable corps of minor officials, all there shouting for you as the "people's choice." As for the canals, we doubt if a superintendent assistant-superintendent, or section superintendent can be found in this State to-day. Hubert O. Thompson, the disgraced commissioner of Public íVorks for New York City, to save whose official liead you vetoed, on purely technical grounds, one of the best reform measures presented to the last Legislature, is there iu your service. Iu 1883 the Legislature, passed a bilí dcsigned to take the civil service of the State out of the lield of politics and to elévate its standard. You appointed a commission under that law to carry out its provisions. Augustus Schoonmaker, of that commission, is in attendauce on the Chicago Couvention, striving to Inlluence the delegates in your behalf. Now, Mr. Cleveland, the public of this State wonld like to know how you harmonize your very excellent pre-election reform precepts with your post-election