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Day
18
Month
July
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
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Whnt has become of the much-raunfid ciril service reform upon which this ndmiaistration went into existence ? Iliiycs, Evarts and Schurz cried themselves ;boarse over a set of rules that weio iniended to prevent office holders frisar participating ia political campnigns, or aontribute under fear of dislissal, to the expense of conducting electicne. Just now the exigency of the Eepublican party in Ohio is in desperate straits for money to secure the eleciion of Foster, and holders of places in depnrtments at "Washington are in proeess of bleeding, John Sherinan hiraself heading the list with $100. In distinct violation of the rule, Sherman goes to Maine toopen the campaign. The rules ure further violated by a oomprehensive gystem of blaekmailing clerks, such as was never known before. If it were proper to characteiize this administration os did Charles Prancis Adams as 11 fraud first triuinphant in American history," wh,at shall be said of it now, after it has trampled under foot the promises with which it began life. If it is not a frand of the first water the worï4e'tter be ex.punged from the language.

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Old News
Michigan Argus