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What Is Civil Service Reform?

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
November
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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The most inconsistent of mankind is the average eastern independent, popularly known as "mugwump." On the main question,- the theory of the correct use of the offices of the United States, - he is unquestionably correct. The old spoils system cannot for a moment be defended. But in some way he has become firinly convinced that President Cleveland is a civil service reformer. How he got the idea, it is impossible to guess, for there isn't a single fact (o support it. He has the idea, however, and no matter what the president may do which apparently violates civil service reform, the "mugwump" continĂșes to "love him for the enemies he has made." Harper's Weekly, for instance. admite that President Cleveland is largely responsible for the disreputable gang of ruffians and repeaters that domĂ­nate Baltimore politics and that so far seem able to carry the state. Read this from that great "journal of civilization" : "If it [the Gorman ring] ehould be beaten, the nature of the contest, the reason of the defeat, and the overthrow of the president' party in one of its strongholds [Baltimore] would be the severest and most significant of rebukes." And yet they believe he is a civil service reformer! In the same article Harper's Weekly declares, without any qualification, that the independents will support Mr. Cleveland next year, and yet admit that he is supporting the toughest set of political advenlurers in the United States.

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Ann Arbor Register