THE DAiLf- EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY; APRIL 8, 18G9. spirit of the press. SDITORIAL OPINIONS OP TUB LBAD1NQ JOOR5AL8 DPOK OURRKBT TOPICS COMPlLKD KVKRT DAT FOK THB EVENING TBLKOKAPU. Rcorg;iini-Jnx tlie Civil Nervier. From the H. Y. Timet. Testimony in favor of a thorough reorgani zation of the Civil SurvlcM rapidlj aocuma Utes. . The brunt of the battle in Congress falls upon Mr. Jeuukj. Outbids, however, he has supporters whose words should long ago have been conclusive. The general ob- Ieot of his labors is concurred in most heartil those who have the best opportunities for Judging of the neoenshy of ruform. The abstraot ideal has become a practical deside ratum. The heads of the departments con fess, in general terms, the embarrassment and injur to pnblio interests resulting from indifference to the standard of fitness in the appointment ot subordinates. Mr. Wells has declared that nntil the Gov ernment disoaids partisanship in the ohoioe of its servants, and makes charaoter aud capacity conditions essential to the acquisition of the smallest office, it will be idle to hope for material improvement in the revenue ser vice. Mr. Rollins, the late Commissioner of Internal Revenue, confessed the same need in his field of duty. The whole revenue servioe Buffers from the same class of influences, the rootfcf whloh is found in the subjeotion of offloes and olerioal positions, high and low, to politioal and personal considerations, instead of the exaction of qualifications that would insure effloienoy and fidelity in the various bra iohes of labor. The latest contribution to the volume of evidence upon the subject is the report of the Joint committee respecting Treasury manage ment in the matter of bonds and currenoy. Amidst the doubts suggested by "discrepan cies," and the caution whioh prompts an eqnivooal handling of frauds, the committee found one resting-gronnd, clear and strong. They oondemn, without hesitancy or reserve, the manner in whioh the subordinates, with whose work they oome in oontaot, are ap pointed. They declare that satisfaotory re sults oannot be looked for "so long as per sons are employed there npon the recom mendation of Senators, members of Congress, and other persons having politioal inflaenoe wUhout very striot regard to the qualities essential to faithfulness and aoouraoy." They urge reform at this point as indispensable, if the reoords and transactions of the depart ment are to be freed from the blunders, the "innooent mistakes," and less innooent "dis crepancies," which hare for years soandalizsd its management. ' Is it probable that the improvement whioh the entire civil servioe greatly needs will be effeoted save under compulsion? We apprehend that any change must be partial and incomplete whioh laoks the binding force of law. The higher grade of offioers seleoted by the present administration may be a guarantee of some reform; but in the natuie of things it must be imperfeot. The Influences whioh have heretofore corrupted the departments, and notably the Treasury, are still at work. Senators and Representatives still have retain ers, or the friencs cf retainers, for whom pro vision must be had in the clerkships and minor offloes. And as, under any government, the heads and their deputies are in a large de gree dependent upon their subordinates, the evils will probably continue. Modified they may be by more intelligent direotlon and more thoiough supervision, but with greater or less foroe they will oontinue in operation. Adequate amendment will oome only when the eervioe shall be reorganized on a basis - from whioh personal and partisan considera tions are exoluded. Ability and charaoter must take the place of the present recom mendations; faithfalness and discipline must : have their rewards in permanenoe and pro motion; These are ends aimed at by Mr. Jenckes' bill. It is less perfect, theoretically, than the measure originally introduced by that gentleman. He has been obliged to acknowledge the impossibility of carrying the comprehensive plan by whioh the entire civil servioe would be lifted out of the slough of partisanship; and he oontents himself now with a compromise whioh should have the support of every head of a department or a bureau, and every Senator and member who - would put an end to shameful mis management. With the maohlnery of a new department he proposes to dispense; the higher or politioal offices he leaves un touched. What he proposes la a Board of Examiners, by whom all applicants for subor dinate positions shall be tested, and whose ' .certificate shall be a condition preoedent of every appointment. The prinoiple of selection will be available then as now, but the selec tion will be restricted to a class any one of whom will be fitted by habits and acquire ments for the servioe, instead of a class com- ' posed of the nominees of politicians and their supporters, without training or capacity. With duties thus defined, the examining -hoard will be a valuable auxiliary of the de partments, a bulwark against the invasion of email office-seekers, whloh is one of the plagues ei the oapital, and an assnranoe of effloienoy which every honest ohief will readily i appreciate. Of 'course, even this modified measure will o over to the next session, and will go inde- nitelv. unless publio opinion shames Sena- ' tors and Representatives into a surrender of the unworthy privilege to whloh they cling so tenaciously. No measure more directly concerns the ' publio welfare, none is more nreentlv required to complete the purifica tion of the Government and inspire oonfidenoe in the integrity and soundness of its opera tions. How long will legislators reoonclle to their consciences opposition to a change whloh is justified by vulgar considerations of ' 'economy as much as by a regard for the repu tation of the Government and the comfort and usefulness of its members r Will iiirnnl'K Alminitrulloii lm it Ku'''m or u l'liiliireV From the S. Y. Herald. Everything in the maohinery of the new ' administration seems to be running smoothly .. The soillotine. at the rate of about one hun dred ner dav. is taking off the heads of the Johnson office-holders, and the active Repub ' ltoan politicians are cocaine in for a fair share .' of the spoils. General Grant has shown his dfSDObition in many things to cultivate har mony with the Senate, and especially in his approval of the equivocal modification between the two nouses 01 iue xeuurtf-ui-ouiue law. In his inaucural aud In his appointments, in eluding soldiers and civilians, patriotto female Union spies in the war, repentant Rebels, and in.nB of African descent, vulgarly oalled Y,iDcrrn. he has done something in behalf of all the cliques and faotions of the dominant and has nartloularly tickled the fanoy f wndU Phillies on his latest ultimatum Mi,annalrichta of the blaok man touoh Inir the offices. In a corresponding degree the rank and file, red hot ana Hike ' warm, have become disgusted with thedolDgs that General Grant now marks the dividing lines between the two parties even more distinctly than he did as the Republican candidate on the Chicago plat form. From the results of the reoent Conneutlont I election it would likewise appear that in advo- I eating the proponed fifteenth amendment to the Constitution giving equal suffrage to male citizens throughout the United States of all races and oolors white, yellow, red, and black General Grant has given a new popu lar Impulse to this movement; for heretofore in Connecticut the Kepabliuan party, when ever it has distinctly broached the question of negro suffrage, has benn signally defeated. We might, then, plausibly conclude from all these facte;" and from the general demoralize tion of the forlorn Dnmooraoy, that the pros pect for General Grant's administration is all that could be desired, aud that, aftyr dip tu sing his rewards to the faithful till the olllces are all filled, be has only to sit down and smoke the pipe of peace with Vice-President Colfax as President of the Eenate, in order to settle the question of the succession. Hut all such estimates as these are shallow and fallacious. Every one of our Presidents so far who has had nothing better upon whioh to build than the spoils has been a fall are. Tyler, Fillmore, and Andy Johnson are the most notable examples. Poor Pierce and Buchanan failedthe one beoause he laid vio lent hands upon those great compromise mea sures on slavery whloh had given peaoe to the country, and the other because he lacked the moral courage to grapple with seoession after the manner of Jackson. Since the time of Monroe we have had but two Presidents eleoted for a second term Jackson and Lin coln. The recleotion of Jackson resulted from his war against the old United States Bank as a finanoial monster and monopoly, absorbing the liberties of the people. The reeleotion of Linooln resulted from his war with a great rebellion. The States and people adhering to the Union cause were satisfied with his efforts during his first four years in the prosecution of this war, and so they reelected him as the surest and shortest way to finish it. With these two exceptions we have not had for forty-five years a President who has raised an issue sufficient to supplant his rivals and to give him a second term, and to all of them, after John Qulncy Adams, the spoils have been a stumbling-block, a delusion, and a snare. It is evident, then, that we can form no judgment of the issue of General Grant's ad ministration from present appearances. All the advantages of the situation are his; but there are dangers ahead of fearful magnitude. For example, during his present term he must check the swelling tide of politioal corruptions and demoralizations resulting from the moral pestilence of the war, and we must have a finanoial system established from whloh the people shall experience a great relief from their present burdens of taxation, and foresee the removal, too, within the present genera tion of the incubus of the national debt, or the national election of 1 872 may give us a touch of the deoisive financial settlements of the great French Revolution. It is folly to shut our eyes to the drift of pnblio sentiment on this question. The masses of the people, looking at our present finanoial system of debt, taxes, national banks, and bondholders, feel only the pressure of a finanoial oligarchy, "making the rich richer and the poor poorer," compared with which the old United States Bank was a farce, a humbug, and a baga telle. But can we hope for the removal of these mountains of debt and taxation and spolia tions and corruption's nndur General Grant within the four years to 1872 f No. He may out them down to a great extent; but if he oannot utterly remove them, he must do something else for a popular diversion in his favor, litre are Cuba, bt. Domingo, Mexico, and the Central American States down to Darien. They are the looks and keys of the Gulf and of the American Isthmus passages from ooean to ooean. A deoisive American polioy on the part of General Grant will absorb all these outlying islands and States. and add so largely to our material revenues as to reduce the national debt to a mere trifle. Then there are the Alabama olaims, a proper basis upon whioh to negotiate the cession to the United States of her Britannio Majesty's JNortn. American provinces of the .New Domi nion, from Halifax to Vancouver's Island; for this thing, too, is in the order of "manifest destiny." Here we have soope and verge enough for the most brilliant, imposing, and powerful ad ministrations in Amerioan history. Cuba at this moment presents a golden opportunity for a coup d'tiat that will eleotrify the country and open the way ror tne wnoie programme sug gested. It is morally oertain. too. that unless tne puono mma snail be diverted to these ex ternal attractions, it will reooil on our inter nal burdens of taxes and debt and culminate in a politioal revolution more astounding to the world at large than this last upheaval result ing in tbe abolition of slavery, negro suffrage, and equal civil and politioal rights. Territo rial expansion, then, means the suooess, and what is oalled masterly inactivity means the failure of Grant's administration. President .runt untl ilic Iteinl iit-uia l-uriy. JYom the X. Y. World. The approval of (he new Tenure-of-Ofllie bill closes and rounds off the brief and troubled cycle of General Grant's first month in the Presidency, rso other question threatening to embroil him with his party is likely to come up before adjournment, which takes place at the end of this week. We are therefore in possession of all the materials we are likely to have in some time for estimating the rela tions of the new President to the political party that elected him. In ordiurry circumstances, a question of this kind could not arise. A new President has oommonly a politioal record which clodely identnes him with his party, lie has gene rally done battle for its leading measures, and is so bound up with tbe party by his antece dents and known sympathies, as to pre clude all doubt or inquiry as to whether he will be found in harmony wiih its lead ing representatives. But General Grant was never a Republioan uutil he supposed'hls chances good for getting the Re publican nomination for the Presidency. He owed his nomination not at all to his politics, but solely to his military prestige, whioh was supposed sufficient to turn the 6oale between the two politioal parties. The Republicans took him for fear that the lJiiinoorata would otherwise nominate and elect him. Being thus forced upon the Republican party by his independent popular Strength and his pre sumed hold on the soldiers' vote, it was thought by many, and evidently expeoted by himself, that he would possess more freedom and be able to aot with more independence than an ordinary party President. Had his tact and capaoity been equal to his opportu nities, this mght not have been altogether a vain hope. This rematkable reserve which he practised previous to his inauguration, and his selection of a Cabinet without any con sultation with party leaders, bad an appear ance of self-reliant vigor, as if he felt strong enough to be the independent Chief Magistrate of the whole people, and not the mere instru ment or ally of a political party. The World, as its readers well know, did not share this delusion; but the fact that General Grant was forced upon the Republican party, and that be stood s conspicuously aloof from its leaders after his election, caused even some Democrats to entertain expwo'atlon which have been speedily falsified by the event. It has now become too evident that General Giant, instead of being more independent of par'y influences than his predecessors, I to be more helplessly their puppet aud their slave. His whole course of proceeding, thus far, has been founded on a mistaken naluula tiou. He did not mean to be a party President, and consequently adopted nine of tbe means for exerting the legitimate Inllnenoe of a ptrly chief. A party chief spares no dlll- -Lee In oourling aud cultivating the leadiug wen of his party, with a view to gain such au UKceidanoy that he may use the in as the in struments of hie will. A party chief carefully avoids trying to carry any measure iu which he is not pretty oertain to succeed, knowing that to be publicly pitted against his party and vanquished lowers htm in popular esti mation. A resident who means to be a party chief seleots well-known party men for his Cabinet. Their Inflaenoe strengthens his administration in the opinion of the party; and when, as must sometimes happen, his publio duty renders it neoessary for him to go counter to party prejudices, the sano tion of co many eminent men who enjoy the full con fidence of the party shelters him against mis apprehension and distrust. General Grant has disregarded every one of these ordinary rales. He has neither cultivated party leaders, nor avoided damaging collisions with Congress, nor composed his Cabinet of strong party men who would serve as a breakwater against distrust on those oooasions when it may be necessary for him to deviate from the general sense 01 the party and eituoate it to better views. He has tried a vain experiment of independence; and having been tolled and humiliated, he is reduced to the de grading position of a party President stripped of au the usual means of exerting party influence. A president who controls his party, and rules by means of it, always makes a respeotable figure. Jefferson and Jackson, our two strongest Presidents, were vigorous party chiefs. But a President who, instead of being the chief of his party, is its tool, cannot have the publio respsot; and this is the part destined to be played by General Grant. If he had had the sagaoity and self- knowledge to foresee that he would have to be a party President, his whole course from the time of his election forward would have been different. As he has actually managed, he forfeited the advantages both of the posi tion which he eonght and of the position whioh he was not strong enough to shun. He has neither the strength of a party President nor of an independent President. The neoessity which constrained him to accept his defeat and sign the new Tenure-of-Office act, will domineer over him throughout his term. At the outset he had the Home on his side, but not the Senate; at last both were against him. it is quite impossible that he should recover the lost ground, and he will never again think of asserting his independ ence, lie will not despair no President so early in his term ever did despair of a re election; but he will make an entire change of tactics for securing another nomination. What he cannot hope to accomplish by a free use of the Federal patronage he will attempt by the more servile method of obsequious compliance with party prejudices. No other resource is now left him. The influence of his military prestige was spent in his first eh c tion; politioal talents he has none; his Cabinet is composed of men who cannot help him; and he can make no removal from office without the consent ot the Senate. It would have been sheer folly for him to have vetoed the new Tenure-of- Offioe aot, as a veto would have kept the old Tenure-of-Offloe act in foroe, and have placed him in a position of open antagonism with the Republican party. With his objects in view, he could not afford a position of de olared antagonism, even if he could thereby have seoured the repeal of all restrictive. laws. For it is oertain that if he is renomi nated. it must be by the Republican Con vention, and the patronage would be of no avail for packing it after an open breach between him and the party. His original plan was to keep on terms wita the Kepublioan organization, ana use tne patron age sb a maKe-weight against iiepuoucan rivals. This expeoted mate-weight being lost, he has nothing to rely on but his favor and popularity with a party whioh he cannot mould, and must therefore be moulded by, as clay is by the potter. His only obanoe of another nomination lies in unresisting sub' servlency to the humors, whims, and preju dices of a politioal party with which he has never sympathized. He will be more servile than ordinary party Presidents, beoause he starts without any oapital, and has his whole character for party staunchness and fidelity vet to establish. On publio grounds, the weakness which General Grant has disolosed is very much to be regretted. A strong Kepublioan President, exerting a commanding inflaenoe over his party, would have aided in restoring to the Executive branch of the Government its just authority, whioh has been so greatly our tailed and retrenched by Congress. A vigor ous and sagaoious party chief in General Grant's place would probably have made no immediate attempt to secure the repeal of the Tenure-of-Office law. preferring to establish his personal ascendancy as a fulcrum for future operations. He would have had no difficulty in getting all his party nominations confirmed, and his suspensions during the recess would doubtless have been sanc tioned without any striot scrutiny into his reasons. A'ter the lapse of a year or two, under a strong and popular President, the Ttnure-of-Office aot would have dwindled into inbignificance in the estimation of the Republi can party, and when it had fallen into praotioal desuetude it might have been quietly repealed without exciting auy debate ormuch attention. General Grant foolishly insisted on its repeal at a time when the impeachment of President Johnson was fresh in the minds of the Senators, arid a repeal had to encounter tbe strong tide of party passions aroused by that most exciting affair. With the moral support of the House ef Representatives, voluntarily offered, he would have been strong enough for immediate purposes, and the Senate would have more easily yielded after having regu larly sanctioned all the President's suspen sions during the first year of his administra tion. By General Grant's unbkilful and short sighted management, the affair has been got into such a shape that a repeal is impossible until after a general revolution In the politics of tbe country. His authority as President, instead of being strengthened, has been weak ened and prostrated by a premature contro versy in whioh he has been completely worsted. 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A largely increased Biipply of Diamonds, Fine Watches, Jewelry, AND ARTISTIC SILVER WARE. Also, a very full line of (JOIUIAM MANF'Q COMPANY'S FINE ELECTRO-rLATED WARES. PMCKS MODERATK. f4 5lm E M O V A L. vV. TJ. WV RDEN, mrOKTEK OF Watches, Diamonds, and Jewelry, Has Removed from the 8. K. corner of Fifth ami Chesnut Streets to No. 1029 CHESNUT Street, PHILADELPHIA. N. B. W ATI I IKS REPAIRED IN THK BEST MANNER. Sllthstul LEWIS LADOKIUS & CO., JEWELLERS, NO. 802 CHESNUT STREET, Would Invite especial attention to their large stock of Ladies' and Gents' Watches, AMERICAN AND IMPORTED, Of the most celebrated makers. PINE VEST CHAINS AND LEONTINES, in 14 and 18 karat. DIAMOND WORK of the latest designs. Sold Silver-Ware for Bridal Presents, Table Cut lery, Plated Ware, etc. 3 2'il n fir a PTOTTTfrrcrftT n. MANVKACTURER3 OF 'ATCII CAHES, AND DEALERS IN AMERICAN AND FOREIGN Io. 13 ftoutli SIXTH Street, MANUFACTORY, No. 22 S. FIFTH Street. ESTABLISHED 1&28. WATCHES, JEWELRY, . CLOCKS, SILVERWARE, and FANCY GOODS. Gr. TV. RUSSELL, m NO. 8 N. SIXTn STREET, PHILADELPHIA. WILLIAM B. WARNE & CO., Wholesale Dealers in WATI'lHM AMI) JCWlfinT S. K corner SEVENTH and CHESNUT' Streets, o IVJ nctuuu jiuur, unu Ol Ao. BO . 'I'lUKD tSl. ENGAGEMENT AND WEDDING RINGS. A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF COIN AND H KARAT ALWAYS ON HAND. LEWIS LADOMUS A CO., JEWELLERS, rp No. 802 CHESNUT STHKKT. DRUGS, PAINTS, ETC. ROBERT SHOEMAKER. & CO., N. E. Corner FOURTH and RACE Sts., PHILADELPHIA. WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, Importers and Manufacturers of White Lead and Colored Paints, Putty, Varnishes, Etc AGENTS l-Ott THE CEI.EIJKATKI) FRENCH ZINO PAINTS. Dealers and consumers supplied at lowest price for cash. 1-2 45 GROCERIES. ETC p I U E GROCERIES. The Largreht stock and (freatest variety of Choice Family Groceries For table use iu this clt.v is to be found In our ema bll.iliment. No expense or trouble is upared to meet the wants of our riiMtoinei. Everything In Hold at the I nvu.st cash price. Orders promptly altetid"il to, and goods packed securely for an.v part of tlu- country, and delivered free of charge to any depot or waiii boaU SIMON CGLTON & CLAUSE. 8. W. Corner BROAD and WALNI'T Streets, tilths PHILADELPHIA. c It N E X CHAN O K BAG MANll K A ( T ) K V. HIN I'. HAII.KV, N. E. comer of AlAliKKT ami WATER Street, T'h i lni I'ljiind , DEALERS IN UACH AND HAGtUNcJ . Of every dewriptum, for Gruin, Huur, bait, hu per 1'lmHphuie of Lime, B)ii3. Dust, Hto. Liugo aad UUUtX Ol'NNV itAt.S constantly ua hand AUu, WOOL SACKS. V
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