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PERRY, OKLAHOMA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY, 19, 1895.
CIVIL SERVICE,
A Vigorous and Eloquent Ple lor
Better Political Method*.
CRITICAL ANI) ELOQUENT
Are HU Words uu tlila MMUr-OtuMIr
I'outlucuU on iliv fcvlU to iiootl
UovcruwMt by the Appllm-
llou of ft Bu|Ui • >•!«m
of "Kelorat"
Methods.
lielow U found the address of Editor
T. J. Heosley, of the K1 Keuo Demo-
crat, and president elect fur the emu*
log year, at the meeting of the press
awjciatlou at Ferry Wednesday
••PARTY PATRON AO fc."
ftdltor llfu ley. of Kl Kaiio. Ilitutllr* the
Above Humect Very Ably.
Reverting to the aubject unsigned to
me by the committee. I apprehend
that they intended for me to lallt upon
the aubject of party patronage, ami
not so comprehensive and measureless
a subject as is suggested by the term
"public patronage."
No living humuu being could intro-
duce, properly, much less exhaust,
such u theme in the brief space of
time which is allotted the purticipuuts
in the program of today's entertain
inent.
The committee had as well ask me
to attempt to compress the globe into
an ultimate atom, to ensphere the sun
in a dewdrop, or tind for the most an-
eient ocean a home withiu the com-
pass of an oyster sheli, as to attempt
to cover a subject of such vast ampli-
cations iu so short u time.
1 therefore must conclude that they
intended that 1 should regale you
upon the subject of party patronage,
and not public patronage.
For six thousand years the doctrine
has been promulgated by the majority
of mankind that the trophies of love
war and politics belong to the victors.
But as to whether this doctrine is
right or wrong I shall not at this time
atop to discuss; suffice it to sav that
the ancients understood its stimulat-
ing effect upon the masse*, and as wo
shde down the gamut of time through
the succeeding ages, we find among
ever}* people and in every age that
party patrouage, or political prefer-
ment, whichever you may please to
cull it, has been the motive power, the
mainspring, as it were, to human ac-
tion iu almost every department of
life, religion not excepted, until we
reach that age in which such latter
dsy saints as George William Curtis.
Carl Schurz. Lyman J. Latuv, Teddie
ttosuvelt and lirover "Cleveland Civil
aerviced themselves into office, their
party out of existence, and started the
clock of precedent running in an op-
posite direction and now feign sur-
prise that it will not keep itself wound
by ita own momentum
Do not understand that we favor a
return to the spoils system as it was
practiced for a brief period before the
war by the democratic party, and
aince the war by the republican party,
any more than the supercilious rant-
in gs of such civil service crank* as
Kosevelt, Carl Schurz aud Lyman J.
Katou, whose sense of consistency,
If they ever had any. has been so
blinded by the civil service craze as to
permit them to heartily endorse an ad-
ministrative policy that is willing to
stand upon a home rule platform,
feigning civil service reform, while it
deals trumps of small denominations
from the bottom of the deck to every
territory in the union.
We believe in a clvil[«service that
selecta honest and competent men and
women to fill public places of trust
and honor for a term of years, not
more than four, giving a preference to
those whose past political views and
actions would indicate that tuey are
in harmony with the party in power at
the time such appointment is made,
and one that will not disturb them,
nor inake them afraid for political
reasons, during their term of office.
I have no sympathy with a civil ser-
vice the tendency of which is to make
liar9, turncoats or political eunuchs of
the men it places in office.
Such a system debauches our citizen-
ship, destroys party fealty, chills our
patriotism and will, in time, destroy
that respect and veneration which the
citizen should maintain for his country
and her institutions
There never has been a time since
the morning stars tirst sang together
in which a necessity did not exist for
the organization of men for the accom-
plishment of some common purpose.
Every undertaking, whether secular,
political or religious, depends for its
aucceaa upon the co-operation of the
people.
Wherever we turn we meet with as-
aociations; there is nothing alone iu
the universe; there is not a star that is
not one of a group; nor a comet that is
not one of a brotherhood; nor a sun
that la not part of a galaxy.
Atom is bound to atom; gas com-
mingles with gas; dewdrop clusters
with dewdrop; mountain leaus on
mountain; ant works with ant, and
grasshopper marches over valley and
plain, one of a myriad host of destroy-
ers.
The world we live in owes not a lit-
tle of its greatness and its glory to the
sovereignity of this principal.
All liberty is the fruit of this same
.great force; one man chases a thous-
and "but such is the might of union
that two" shall put to flight ten
thousand.
) Association i* a confluence of tnuuy
'streams; it is a gathering of many
forces; it is a combination of many
talents; and the concentration of di-
versified experiences.
• But in order to secure this continui-
ty of purpose, men must be organized,
trained and disciplined for the work,
hence the necessity arises for armies,
for pioneers, for crusaders, for schools,
He IB J.
for churches and for political parties.
Felitical parties can no more exist
without public patrouage and without
party preferment than armies can ex-
ist without a commissary department;
churches without a contribution box,
or a man from (ieorgia without sn
office,
< neof the twelve diciples, Luke, 1
believe it was, hauds down to us the
doctrine that "the laborer is worthy of
his hire," aud this is just as true today
ia every department of human endear
or as it was eighteen hundred years
ago.
It applies with equal force to the
laborers iu every part of the great
vineyard, whether he is pruning the
vines, uprooting the tares, feeding the
heep or directing the ship of state
hrough the shoals and breakers of
time.
But it is claimed that the spoils of
office uot only corrupt politics but ex-
ert a corrupting influence upon our
civilization; that politics has degener-
ated into a scramble for pelf because
of a system of party patronage which,
by the way, has existed in some form
or another for nearly six thousand
years, but this is not the case.
It is true that practical polities has
degenerated uutil the term has be-
come not only a by-word amoug uien,
but a synonym for corruption iu the
land.
But this condition is not due to
legitimate party patronage; because
as a rule the men u ho betray a public
trust are not attached to politics by
the salary of office.
They are venal and corrupt at heart,
and simply choose politics as a field of
operation because of the enlarged op-
portunities it affords.
The unhallowed lust for gold engen-
dered largely by conditions growing
out of the late civil war, conditions
whereby millionaires have sprung up
in this country as thick as autumnal
leaves in Valambrosia; whereby vast
fortunes in almost every community
have been won in such a way as to de-
bauch the public conscienue aud to till
the land with adventurers seeking
some royal road that leads to wealth.
Almost every man you meet is afflict-
ed with an "itching palm,' and swift
money getting has become the ruling
passion of the age.
It is this monainauia which is raging
in this country today that lias filled
the once honored profession of politics
full of adventurers and thieves, and
not the salary of office, or the spoils of
office, as our civil service friends are in
the habit of charging.
Did you ever stop to think that all
thieves are not politicians? But on the
contrary, no profession, calling or bus-
iness known among men is or can be
exempt from them.
Till the crack of doom there will be
found politicians bane enough to be-
tray their constituents; lawyers who
will take fees on both sides; physicians
wha will kill for a consideration; uier
chants who will vend shoddy clothing;
grocers who will give short weights;
aud farmers who will sell damaged
products; but the aggregate humanity
is honest, noble and patriotic.
Except in Oklahoma, politicians are
only an infinitesimal portion of the
great surging, pulsing race of Adam.
Public servants are absolutely neces-
sary for tin; transaction ot county,
state, and national business, and pub
lie station should be desireable to all
ompetent men. but we deem the man
a foil, aud he will In time become a
slave, who sits dowu and inaUe? him-
self a professional politician and de-
pends upon that and that only, for a
livelihood.
Such a man will at last be forced to
"Bend the subtle hinges of the knee
that thrift may follow fawning
But to a man who has natural ability,
a proper education, and a vocation by
which to live independent of office,
nothing can be more tempting,nothing
more honorable, than to till public po-
sitions of trust and profit.
Every american citizen should be a
politician; not a cringing, time serving
politician, but a man versed in the
science of government and the art of
governing, in short a statesman.
There In a difference between the
politician aud the statesman. The
politician is full of temporary expedi-
ents, the statesman of eternal princi-
ples.
The politician deems himself the
center of the system of government,
the statesman regards himself as but
one of the small lights revolving round
the governmental center.
The politician thinks of himself: the
statesman of his country.
The politician feeds upon his coun-
try; the statesman dies for it.
The politician honors the govern-
ment by serving it; the statesman is
honored by being permitted to serve it.
The politician acts for the present;
the stutesinan labors for the future.
The politician travels in an ever
narrowing orbit; the statesman moves
with majesty of step around a path-
way ever am ply Hug.
The politician surveys the state from
the benches and through the fumes of
the grog shop; the statesman climbs
the watch tower of serene truth loving,
philosophic contemplation, whence he
can look both before and after, learn-
ing from the past how best to steer
the ship of state througe the uuexplor-
ed ocean of the far reaching future.
Upstart inilllonsires and soul'ess
corporations purchase legislatures as
shamelessly as they would sheep in
the open market, and with "con-
sciences of India rubber and cheeks
like Hindoo gods walk into the seuate
chamber of the United States and de-
file the seats once hallowed by Web-
ster, Clay and Calhound!"
This crime against our republican
institutions must, in the languuge of
our populistie friends, be chiefly laid
at the door of corporations, which
they define as artificial persons with-
out souls to damn, conscience to rbuke
or substances to kick.
They have fastened themselves up-
on the body politic like vampires aud
their huge draconic wings stretching
in every direction mantle the country
as in a pall'
They buy up legislatures, courts,
Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report
Baking
Powder
absolutely pure
governors and newspapers, ride loftf i
shod over the dearest rights of iue
people and finally set themselves upas
the shoddy imitators of the aristocracy
of Europeau countries.
In a number of states the railroads
and other gigantic corporations have
takeu almost absolute possession of all
the machinery of government, execu-
tive. legislative and judicial.
A few years ago a wag introduced
in the legislature of New Jersey a bill
changing the name of the state to
that of I ainden <Sl Auiboy, because it
was so completely controlled by that
railroad; aud it has even been sug-
gested by men too sage to be waggish
that the people of this youi gcommon-
wealth may witness "The 1 aid of the
Fair God" "put up at pullic auction
by the pratoriau guards of her great
railroads as was the Roman empire
upon the banks of the Yellow Tiber."
All that is necessary to complete ex-
tinguishment of all there is in liberty
but the name, is for the people t) per-
mit the organization of a tiiune mo-
nopoly controlling the land, the circu-
lating medium, and the transportation
and commerce of a country.
This will completely subjugate any
people however free and independent
they may be.
It is also a noticeable fact that as
wealth has crept iu aud taken posses-
sion and control of the politics of this
country, that patriotism, honesty aud
intelligence has retired iu disgust to
the shades of private life.
It is not only a noticeable but a
Imm utable fact, that in many locali-
ties, and especially in the west, and
this territory is no exception to the
general rule, that "culture is a re-
proach, education a bar sinister," and
getility an insurmountable obstacle to
political preferment.
It takes cheek, medrlocrlty, a drove
of mules, a herd of cattle, or a man
with a character as pliable as India
rubber to every touch of corporate
power and greeJ, to enable him in
politics to "get there Eli."
A few years ago Richard U. Dana, u
distinguished scholar, statesman, law-
yer, author, orator and newspaper
man was nominated by the president
as an ambassador to the court of St.
James, but he was rejected by the
United States senate because, iu the
energetic language of Simou Cam-
eron, "He was one of them damned
literary fellows."
No doubt Mr. Dana came to the con-
clusion that erudition, genius, elo-
quence and Integrity are of little
avail when weighed iu the balance
with practical politics.
"Justice may sleep and never dies;
and even the most secret sins of poli-
ticians are certain to tind them out."
"An avenging Nemesis may dally
with public sinners but sooner or later
they are called to judgment,"' as many
in this territory can today bear me wit-
ness.
"Brilliant and corrupt demagogues
may rise to dazzling prominence, strut
their evil day upon the public stage,"
flaunt their sins of omission as well as
well as commission, iu the face of a
long suffering public, but "in the end
they fall like Lucifer, never to hope
again."
It is a condition and uot a theory
that confronts us.
A condition that is too deep seated
to be reached by the superficial appli-
cation of an occasional civil service re-
form poultice.
The body politic is diseased to the
very core, and it will require constitu-
tional treatment in alopathic doses to
effect a cure.
There is but one source for us to
look for salvation and thut lies iu an
appeal through th^ public press of the
country to the common people whose
honest suffrage is yet above price:
"whose consciences are still void of of-
fense," who know the right and are as
ready to tight taday for principal as
were the heroes of the revolution.
All that is wanting is for the smoul-
dering embers of public sentiment to
be fanned into a blaze, by an appeal to
the patriotism of the people; by teach-
ing them the efllcacy of the ballot aud
by rescuing it from the low estate into
which a multiplicity of corrupting in-
fluences have past it.
It will require the "patriotism of a
Washington, the courage of a Jackson,
and the integrity of a Lincoln to ac-
complis this work," but it must be ac-
complished, and the people look to the
press of the country for a Moses.
Ye editors are the conscience keepers
of the republic.
Yoivhave the ears of the people,
•'you are their mentors in political
ethics," and it is your duty, and it
should be your pleasure to not ouly
sound the tocsin «f alarm but to make
it ring like a fire bell at midnight un-
til you "rouse the public conscience
from its fatal lethargy," and cause that
slumbering Sampson,the common peo-
ple,to arise in unconquerable might aud
scourge from the temple of liberty all
corrupting influences even as Christ
drove out the theives and money
changers from the templeof the living
GodJ
The illiterate and the unworthy
may belittle the power of the press,
but the fact remains the same that In
its awful majesty the power of the
press is superhuman.
It works reforms akin to miracles.
It breaks the fetters of bondsmen
and humbles the haughty.
It is the palladium of virtue, the
moulder of opinion and the hope of re-
form, and upon the exercise of its
power depends the future of the re-
public.
QUARANTINED.
J. V. N. OMOONY, Prtm. p. W. PARRAR, Oaahler.
V. 0 TALHRT, AM'L «Mh.
BANK of PERRY
CAPITAL, - 650,000
In the language of Browulng, it ie
the
of thw mighty UK-mi* on * blob iu*
arm ol progrr-m leaus.
Man's uolilrsi mission to advance, bl« woes as-
Muaift* bl weal enhance
til* i igbtk enforce, bis wrouys redrrsa uilgbk
lect ut tbe mighty 1« the
Republican Editor*
A meeting of the republican editors
of Oklahoma is hereby called to meet
at the legislative building in Guthrie
on Tuesday. Feb. 19, 1895, at i o'clock
p. in., to discuss mutual Interests and
organize for the promotion of effectve
work amoug the republican papers of
the territory. This organization is
not to interfere iu any way with the
objects and workings of the Oklaho-
ma Press association.
E. E. Brown. Times-Journal.
John P. liinklc, Perkins Journal.
T. E. Beck, Pond Creek News.
C. E. Hunter, Enid Eagle.
Jos. H. Hale, Pawnee Republican.
T. J. Palmer, Medford Patriot.
J. U. Quicn, Edmond Republican.
H. B. (filstrap, Chandler News.
A. C. Harding, Newkirk Ouide.
F. T. Cooke, Herald-Sentinel.
J W. Lawton, Arapahoe, Bee.
F. H. Greer, State Capital.
F. T. Berkey, Blackwell Times-Rec-
ord.
ACQUITTED.
Col. A. J. Blackwell not Guilty of High
Treason
Gl'tiirik, Okla Feb. 19.—[Special.]
Tbtf irrepressible and enthusiastic
Colonel Blackwell Is In the city again
after having faced death in the shape
of a trial for "high treason," before the
Cherokee courts. His trial began one
week ago today and lasted until
Thursday and resulted In an acquittal
of the eharge of treason, but the court
"*nd red a verdict of guilty to the
charge of a misdemeanor. The Colo-
nel promptly put up a money bond of
8300 and goes to the Cherokee supreme
court with this case, aud expresses the
utmost indifference as to the outcome
as he savs he is bound to win regard-
less of the decision of the court.
DIRECTORS.
J. V. a. IIMOKT, r. W. fARRAB. ▼. 0. TALIMT,
OBO. B. HARTLEY. 1. T. LAVFI&TY
This Bank hat the latest improved tale with automatic bolt
work. Also a fire proof vault.
T. M. RICHARDSON, D. C. RICHARDSON, T. M. RICHARDSON,
President. Vice-President. CashierJ
First State Bank.
Perry, Okla.
capital $50,000
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Double time lock safe and fire proof vault.
General - Banking - Business.
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royal palace.
W ines, Liquors and Cigars of the best Imported and Domestic
Brands will be Found at this
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The best eijulpped In Oklahom --over the liar or for Family Use, In Paokaeea
of Any Size. The Liquors sold at
t— royal palace
For Purity and Age are not Excelled, If Equalled in the Country.
Convenient Side Booms and Courteous ( Sixth Street East
Attendance. f j slde aquareJ
Tlte Uoreriior of (.'olurado 1'rutiUlmi
A^iiiuit Oklxlioiua Sheep.
The governor of Colorado has reason
to believe, from the report of the
state veterinary sanitary board that a
malignant disease called "scab" and
other contagious diseases exist among
the little lambs that skip so gleefully
over the sun-kissed prairies of the
"Land of the Fair (i«d," also Texas,
Wyoming aud New Mexico and pro-
claims as follows:
"Now, THERKrottK, I, Albert \V. Mc-
Intire, governor of the state of Colora-
do, in obedience to the duty imposed
upon me by said statutes and the terms
thereof, do hereby schedule the locali*
ties hereinbefore named, and I do
hereby forbid the importation into the
state of Colorado of any sheep what-
soever which have been* brought from
any portion of said states of Texas aud
Wyoming and territoaies of New
Mexico and Oklahoma.except upon the
certificate of said board, or its duly
authorized deputies, that such sheep
have been inspected, and have found
to be free from "scab" or any infec*
tions or contagious disease, or except
upon a special permit issued by said
board for sheep intended for feeding
on enclosed piopertv.
Vickers, of Wood, held down the
chair with his usual ability.
II. 11. No. 7 i was lirst taken up for
consideration. This is an act relating
o railroads building through counties
n the territory and running within
ten miles or government towns to
build to said towns.
The committee arose and reported
progress as above.
The debate on this bill for a short
time was furious.
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