REPUBLICAN RECORD. FOR PARTISAN SERVICES HARP.ISON SHIELDED CRIMINALS, TT Baltimore Civil Ventre Law Vlo. laton The Prtaldcnt and Wanamaker Both Dlrt arded the Commit. InD'a f Reommriitlatlnii for Removal. Nothing could more accurately show the attitude of the administration to ward morality in the public irrice than the simple torjr of the Baltimore inci dent to be here related. It rereals, first, the administration's complete contempt for the civil service law and its refusal to enforce the stat utes ajainst "administration workers" eren in a case where those statutes had been criminally violated by acts punish able by a fine of $3,000 "and by three fears' imprisonment. It reveals, second, an absolute disre gard of ordinary standards of morality on the part of the administration in the election and retention of men as public servants an entire wilhngnes to re tain In the service And to protect by tv ary shifty device men who had not only committed crimes denounced by the dvil service law, but who had testified falsely and were self accused of cheat ing in elections, ba'.lot box staSng, the destruction of ballot boxes, false count ing and other offenses possible only to men too destitute cf moral sense to be safely trusted in any position of respon sibility. It reveals, third, the methods by which the admiuistration has molded the civil service into a compact cohort of workers for the renomication and re Jectiun of President Ilarrisoa. The story does not rest upon the te mony of any one hostile to the adminis tration or to the Republican pary. I: is told by Theodore Koosevl:, a PJepuV fccan civil korico coiuin issuer, s;m. the testimony cf his cv. n observation in part an i ;u other part u;o:i ikat vt Xhr men implicated in the rascalities. It is indorst i by the entire civil service cotr. misijii as aa official report to the presi dent Tho Republican party in EV.;:iA,crc L, divided into two factions. Vi.n cf :a.-sr is .called the Johns. ..n-Airey fiicti.in. after the posttan?ttr, Jol.nscn, an 1 the United States marshal. Airt", who !." its orgunizi-rs iwd leader.-. I: it-pre-tfcnu the federal ofiiee holdcis in Lulti xaore. The other is tailed the Ui-udtr-Bon or the Henderson-Stone faction, after its leaders, who are dU-.ppo:nt'. .1 applicants for the offices of postmaster and marshal. In the spring of litl a Republican primary election was held which in volved the question of dominance be tween the two factions. The contest was one of great bitterness, and was it tended by extraordinary rascalities and some violence. The employees of the government, particularly those ia the postoffice, were the most active partici pants in it, the authors of the violence and the instigators and perpetuators of the frauds. Complaint was made to the civil serv ice coinmLsion that the law was being violated; that assessments were levied and collected for a political purposa among government employees, by gov ernment officers and in government buildings, offenses specifically forbidden by the law under heavy penalties of fine and imprisonment. Commissioner Roosevelt was sent to Baltimore to investigate. He witnessed the election and afterward diligently questioned the men who had been guilty ot the transgressions of the law. He found, by the men's own confes sions, that money in considerable sums had been raised for factional purposes in the government buildings by assessments upon government employees; that gov ernment olScers had exacted these con tributions and had received the mcnev in short, that the law on this' subject bad been flagrantly violated in every possible way and the service debauched in an extraordinary degree. He found that the men who had criminally levied and the men who had criminally paid the assessments, instead of attending to their duties on March 20, devoted them selves to the work of carrying the pri maries for their faction chiefs, though this is specifically forbidden by the postal regulations. Incidentally he discovered the im moral methods they employed in doing this, and he tells of these things in hi report. He tells us that there was cheat ing of every kind; that "pudding" bal lots x or seven ballots folded together and cast as one wero freely used; that ballot boxes were broken ojn; that the judges of election themselves perpetrated the boldest frauds with brutal openness; that it was perfectly understood that whichever side happened to have two of the three judges at any voting precinct was certain to win there. He tells us that where cheating failed violence and brawls were resorted to; that Marshal Airey himself tried to control result by dragging a judge from the window; that at another precinct a custom house em ployee pulled down the window at which the votes were received and tried to stop the election; that the faction fighters "stood in" with the police to avoid ar rest themselves and to secure the arrest of their opponents; that bribery, repeat ing aud illegal voting were everywhere employed. All this was freely confessed to Mr. Eoosevelt upon the witness stand by tho government employees concerned. With ome of them it was the practice in giving testimony for each to accuse the other side of these offenses, and the com missioner remarks: "1 am inclined to believe that in this respect thera is much reason to regard the testimony of each side as correct in its outline of the conduct of the other." But not all of these men had moral aenso enough to look with disfavor upon cheating even upon the other side. One ostom bouse clerk named Horner testi fied on this point: "I would hava dona the same thing myself. I believe in doing anything to win." Another, named Kced, gave testimony without a Mush as follows: I don't Mf I wouldn't rbrat In the prtmartea. Wboerer grVt two JudiW win. (J. Kach n.Je cLra: . much J It c0 A. rtin!r: that's tte war. 1 do It Jast the tarr.e a tber do. Ttry tad two juil. Q. How do oa do roor rheatlog? A. Well. ( do our cht!r.e honorablr. If they catrh ui at It. It's :i rfebt: It's fair. I even carried tbe box home wiili me on ooe oc casion. I hare brvkea up more tL.n one elec tion. All this was formally reported to the president and to the department chiefs of the men concerned, and yet neither of these precious scoundrels has ever been removed or asked to resiim from the public service! How lonz would any business man keep in his employ men whose moral sense made discrim inations between "honorable" cheating and the other kind? The nrn nro. who also "honnrahlv" tnVoa Vi riW I in nis aepreaanons cave never bad it in any way suggested to them that their moral conceptions are below the stand ard which the government is entitled to exact of its employees in positions of financial responsibility. In hi official report Mr. Roosevelt says that Charles H. Ray, one of the custom house witnesses, "was caught ia the most flagrant falsehood." and adds: I recommend that his dismiwal r aked for on the ground that he has been guilty of flagrant mendacity with intent 10 impeae an ctnciai investigation." ine civil service commissioner of ficially indorsed that recommendation, but neither the president nor anv of hiis subordinates has pver t.iVpn nr s.tn toward the man's dismissal. Again Mr. Roosevelt reported, and the cemmis-ion indorsed Lis world, that "the evidence seems to rrrfwt!v Iput that both of these offices ithe nrAtcffln and the marshal's office) were usel with the purpose of interfering with or con trolling the result of the primary elec tion, and that there was a systetnnt'e. thonh sompvrr.es iud'rect, effort m."d? to nsss the government en.rdi-r. s -.i bith fvr ) i.t.ial purrees," This was in direct violation both of depirtiEerit regulations and of the crimi nal law, yet Johnson is still postmaster, and Airey, who. Mr. R "furnished the brains" for all tv?.- rr.- ' cec-diry. is grill marshal, and th- i: v- ' erampit employees they cortrol by v:r- ' tue of their ctScial positions are still closely hp.v led together f .r facti. nil work, and :.re known indiiTt.rer.tly at the Johnson-Ai:.-y faction cr tht altais-istrrtinfr.cti-n! : Mr. R'xsevelt's chief cvaee-ra. hew ever, was not with the general moral . condition of the government cSictrs ' and clerks at Baltimore, V-.t with speciiic violations of the civil service law acts for which the statute pre scribes the removal and th criminal prosecution of the offenders. ' He drew Lis information txclusivelv from the culprits themselves. He fore bore to make adverse recommendations ' in any case which was open to the least doubt He gave heed to every possibly mitigating circumstance. let he was constrained to recommend , the dismissal of two men from the mar- ; ehal's ofiee, two from the custom bouse ; and twenty -one from the postofEce all ! for flagrant and admitted transgressions i of the law, for which they were liable not only to dismissal, but to criminal prosecution as well. He mentioned ; others by name, inviting their superiors . to inquire whether they were fit persons ; to be retained in tbe public service. In urging the dismissals Mr. Roosevelt , gave it as his conviction that "the time ' has come to show by an example which ; everybody must understand, that pun- ' ishment wiU follow proven guilt." j But punishment did not follow "jroven ' guilt." The example set taught quite a j different lesson. It eave noti. p tn all ; concerned that under the present ad ministration the prohibtions of the civil service law are dead letters: that th administration, in epite of its promises ana pledges, scorns the spirit cf the statute and is ready to evade its letter for the sake of shielding "croven m-lr" on the part of those whose offenses are onset Dy partisan real for the adminis tration. 2sot one of these men. hizh or low. ! has been removed or even subjected to censure. Those of them who are in the ! Tvtl .ri w ,1a 1 thepostmarTenral'himlseirwhoin that behalf has resorted to nnihhlp. ! which it were cross flatterv to ca! : merely unbecoming. ' At the timo r,f too ,.ipon a,. I iti.r,;;, " i of h fW vr,TZ Z , l a teVan,'1 pT, EE, ll'l ' the state, rose in revolt against the Johnsou-Airey crowd with their organ ized force of government employees, and defeated them to completely as to leave them but four delegates in all. But notwithstanding this popular rebuke to their misdeeds these men still enjoy the countenance of Mr. Harrison nrJl bis cabinet, who thus, in e.fect, license crime and aid in settins the laws at naught. These men are still in r,fii" in spite of the earnest protests of the thren civil service commissioners two of whom are Republicans and in spite of a ecorchintr renort on the subiect frr.m a select committee of congress, whose proceedings and rejort will furnish the basis for another letter in this series. So much for Mr. Harrison's solemn promise for the "faithful and vigilant" j wo,m 1 rviC9 la! i enrorcemen New York World Waatlnff Breath and Monej. The nresident of tha I'nitp,! Qtoto. t,. , .. ; , , . naa been verv cnevonslT imnruxl nnr.n i He has been led to believe theVtorieV i the Republican organs concerning tbe Alabama election, and has hearkened to the voice of the time server, the nlaca seeker and the sorehead. Clearly he believes that bis chances for winning the electoral rote of this state art ex cellent Mr. Harrison it wasting bis breath, and that money machine of his in New York ia wasting cash by be Itowinff any sort of attention nnon Aln bama. Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald. I D. 1J. HILL HAS SPOKEN HIS SIMPLE O! "I AM ILL." A 0EM- :rat si fnlTenallr Complimentary Allnatone to lilt ItrooMyn peech. Which It De clared to lie the Crealet He IIa Eer Made No "Sulking In III Teut." Senator Hill suiuuo:m evprv Dpnin. crat to rally to the support of Cleveland and Stevenson. The reasons he gives for their election and for the ajw-pndiinrT of Democratic principles are conclusive ana omaing. ana ir there be any man calling himself a Democrat and a friecd , of Xew York's senator who now falters in obedience to that summons let him strip Lis distiise an 1 renounce fer.lt- to the partv and the man at the smme time. The Democracy . f New York st.ite are united for Cleveland and Stevenson. , Albany Argus. HILL'S ;ost MaSTET.LV trFi I This lat-.t ;icli ftrihrj us as the most ma.'trrlv ot.e ever delivered bv Senator Hill. It is a f-r-.-ilde onslaught on trot. ctton. wvll (..-.lor.:.-..-.; ?o siv as much anxiety to thy Roublic:.ns i mut c-ncourajTPtnet t to the Dem x rats. -Vtw lora litii'd. kkcko:;ed i;:iolt i;;;:i,: Ijt. The lipublicaus have dejf.-idtd u;n Demotrutic treachery in New York for Harrison's success, bat they Lave reckoned without their hot. They will find to tluir sorrow tiiLat where the vic torious Democracy, r-prts-titod by loader- like Hill, Murphy, SheA-ir.. i.'rfk-r and McLaughlin, is the strcurt Cleve land's majorities will Ije relatively the largest. Troy rrcs.s. A GRIEVOUS KKIl.iR. The ser.ator's appearance thus early in the f ght will be very disairreeable to our Republican brethren. They try to console themselves by predicting that it will be his last appearance. But in this, as in many other matters relating to the Democratic carr.pairn, the.-e partisan prophets will find themselves deep in error. Euffalo Courier. hill's position clearly defined. Senator Hill has defined his position. He has come out flat footed in behalf of the Democratic ticket. Ho declares that it should receive the support of every Democrat. Boston Herald. wholesale and commendable advice. In his speech at the Democratic rati fication meeting in Brooklyn Senator Hill planted himself firmly upon the platform of the Chicago convention and declared his purpose to support its nom inee. "I am a Democrat," said the sen ator in his well known speech in Brook lyn in l:w5. He now amends that say irg by adding, "And I am a Democrat still." Now that the national convention of the Democracy has spoken, it is the duty of every Democrat, the senator hold3, to "accept its decision with loyal acquiescence." This is wholesome ad vice and is to be commended. Balti more Sun. TEE WAV TO VICTORY MADE PLAIN. If the measured and weighty utter ance of Senator Hill are to be accepted as true indications of the spirit animat ing the New York Democracy the friends of Mr. Harrison in that state have a task before them compared with which the struggle of ltes was mere child's rlav. Burvin'r all respntmet , , resom. -v 6nfH? 6lf manifestations ZfSZ' ElU to. the. occasion and sets an example of and resolutely stifling all manifestations STJlSwS .??"". a,O0Jats and '"wers t. mocral LU1' " 6im C ? c c US wmcn mere can ? -ther confasion nor error. With tne rsew iorlt Democracy united and M3 shoulder to shoulder for Oeve. nd, defeat in the election would see. seem Senator Hill'a inanlv deliverance has made the wavof vitnrv I plain. Philadelphia Record. j NO SULKING IS HIS TENT. j Those who have expected or hoped that Senator Hill would sulk in his tent , nnd give the Democratic ticket a merely I irfunctory support will bo disappoiat i ed upon reading the speech he made at I Brooklyn. While Mr. Hill doubtless was 6ore!y disappointed at the action of j the Chicago convention, every line af J his speech breathes devotion to the priu ciples and candidates of the party, and j as a whole it is an earnest appeal to ( Democrats of every shade of opinion to ; present a solid front to their political op : ponents, sinking all personal preferences j and factional prejudices. Philadelphia a kotewoiitht Campaign contribution, Publi0 by the limes. senator from New York will tua with more interest than this Brooklyn speech, made by a Democrat to a stanch- ly Democratic audience. It ia w truth . ..... " ly Democratic audience. It is in truth n? contribution i to the -oratory of this campaism. 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