Gallipolis Journal

The Cincinnati Gazette, in view of the action of the U. S. Senate in rejecting the Census Supervisors, on the ground that one-half were not Democrats, well remarks: "This sets up the high ideal standard of civil service reform by the party which has never failed since the time of Jackson, in national, State, or municipal politics, to claim the last fragment of spoils falling within its reach." If the case had been reversed, and a Republican Senate had refused to confirm the nominations of a Democratic President, you would have heard a howl of indignation—unconstitutional! unconstitutional!! unconstitutional!!!—that would have suggested the idea of the death knell of liberty. But just now, with the President against them, they can talk gushingly of the beauty of non-partisanship! They only make themselves more contemptible, and further add to their disgraceful record, by doing it.