Staunton Spectator

The Boston Herald says: "A large number of persons are destined to learn that civil service reform does not consist in keeping in office everybody appointed through favoritism or for partisan service." That means, of course, that civil service reform should be inaugurated by putting men in office who have never violated the law, and who will be expected to respect its provisions during their official career. It could scarcely be expected that the officials who, for the last four-and-twenty years have been educated under a wholly different system, could adapt themselves to the new order of things. The reform must be commenced by putting in reformers, otherwise, it will be a dismal failure.