Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1889 — VERY HUNGRY INDEED. [ARTICLE]

VERY HUNGRY INDEED.

GREEDY REPUBLICANS CLAMORING FOR SPOILS. Dissatisfied witli President Harrison Because the Faithful Are Not Doing Provided For. More Promptly—Sympathy for Dudley. [Washington telegram.] The Republicans have been wont to make a jest of the Democratic appetite for office, but the fact that the widespread and fast growing dissatisfaction in the Republican party with President Harrison is partly due to his apparent slowness in dividing up the spoils shows that the Republicans are really much greedier for spoils than the Democrats were, for, slow as the President may seem to his voracious followers, it is a fact that he is making appointments more rapidly than President Cleveland did. While the special session of the Senate lasted the Republican heelers and strikers bitterjy denounced Harrison’s tardiness, and yet at the close of the medal session an actual count showed that ne had made more than twice as many appointments as President Cleveland did in the same time. A great deal was said about the rapidity with which Mr. Stevenson turned out Republican fourth-class postmasters, but Mr. Clarkson is turning out the Democratic postmusteis a great deal faster. In their haste to make appointmonts the Republican officials do not even stop to look at the papers on file. Superintendent Bell has just written to the Superintendent of Mails in Baltimore that liis resignation was accepted when he never had resigned. Of course it makes uo practical difference whether the man resigns or not, but this instance shows that the haste in making appointments is too great to allow an inspection of the pnpers to see whether a resignation ha* been offered.

And every day brings forward new evidence of the coldness of the Republican party to the President. Of course, the men in politic* who have yet much to get from the President are not talking openly nbout him. but in their private conversation thev show no affection for Harrison, and complain both of appointments not made and appointments made without consulting party leaders. Gen. Harrison has never been deemed greater than his party, but there is a growing impression that he so considers himself. Among Republican politicians there is much sympathy for Col. Dudley. The statement that he has done mor6 in the past twenty years for Gen. Harrison than any one else is believed to be partly true. Gen. Harrison was no political campaigner; he never had the art of getting the good-will of the common people, and he has been dependent on men like Dudley and Porter and New. He has given New the most profitable of all the foreign appointments, Porter one of the most agreeable of the foreign appointments, and Dudley the cold shoulder, because Dudley’s blocks-of-five letter got into print. Whatever Dudley’s political methods may have been, the Indiana Republicans laugh at the idea that the President was not fully informod of every step he took.

Although a good deal is said now, more especially in the Postoffice Department, about the preference for experienced men, it is only experienced Republicans that are wanted. Democrats who have been in the railway mail service for four years are being displaced to make room lor Republicans, many of whom were removed for the good of the service, on the ground that the latter are experienced. Postmaster General Vilas was obliged to dismiss several hundred railway mail clerks in a bunch because they had organized a secret society pledged to strike—that is to violate their oaths of office and prostrate the United States postal service if any of them were dismissed. These men who banded together to violate the law and dictate to the Postmaster General whom he should employ are among the railway clerks who are getling back into the service on the ground that they are experienced, and faithful Democratic clerks are being removed to make room for them. The gentleman who has just been appointed Chief Clerk of the Patent Office because he was experienced was removed from that office by Secretary Lemar because he had habitually certified to the correctness of the accounts of the disburing clerk when in fact the disbursing elerk was a defaulter for SII,OOO for a number of years, probably as the result of the assessment levied by Mr. Hubbell’s Committee on Clerks of the Interior Department al the time when Candidate Garfield wrote to “My Dear Hubbell and asked “how the departments were doing. ” It is said of a District Attorney out West, by a rival politician, that the only thing he ever succeeded in hanging w.is his shingle