Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1889 — Death Rebukes the Spoilsmen. [ARTICLE]

Death Rebukes the Spoilsmen.

The politicians of New York and tVasliington who are responsible for the removal from office oLPostmaster Pearsou of the former city probably are abashed by the sudden ending of the honorable man’s life whose last days they have embittered by an unjust act. Mr. Pearson had worked unceasingly, for years to make his offioe what it was—a model establishment for the carrying on of public business. It is believed that his life was shortened by the heavy cares of the position which he held. He was the uncompromiskig foe of the spoils system. The great postoffice was run on business principles and the head of it would listen to no dictation from politicians. Throughout tie Cleveland administration this worthy Bepublican remained in his place, notwithstanding the great efforts made by the Democrats to secure his removal. On President Harrison’s accession to power Mr. Pearson was promptly sacrificed in order that the New York postoffice might become what it was not before, an adjunct of the Bepublican party. The worthy public servant who had won his way to the top by many years of faithful posi office work* was turned out to make room for a politician with no knowledge of the business or special fitness for it. The assefflTbttds made, and apparently with reason, that this shameful return for the conscientious labor of half a lifetime greatly hasteued the course of the disease which caused the death of Mr. Pearson. The man whose caieer displayed the rare advantages to be gained by divorcing politics from the public offices lived only long enough to experience the unscrupulous methods of men in his own party. If his death was not hastened by this act, at least the two form a singular coincidence. President Harrison may well regret the leadiness with which he listened to the appe Is of the New York place-hunters. It would be difficult to conceive of any. thing moro likely to inspire in the minds of right-thinking people a hatred for the infamous spoils system than the treatment which has been accorded Mr. Pearson and its sad sequel. —Chicago News.