Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1889 — A NATIONAL DISHONOR. [ARTICLE]

A NATIONAL DISHONOR.

Indianapolis News, republican: “Importunacy won’t help a man to get office in my administration,” said President Harrison, but, m spite of the warning, no administration has eyer borne and no country ever seen such fierce, fam? ishing, wolfish importuait of office* eeking us we have had in this country since the first of last March, and still have m little - abated audacity ’.nd tenacity. W - refer to it again, after many reprehensive references, because it is possible that importunity of reproach may have > little efteet, in time, in repressing what well deserves the name of “national dishonor,” an “American offense.” What must an intelligent, sensitive Am -riean feel when he reads the recent statemeat of Senator Quay,Jof Pennsylvania, that he is glad the report is abroad of a rupture retween him and the President, as it will largely rid him of the importunity of shameless office beggars. He says he is “constantly surrounded by an army of office seekers,” because of his supposed mflenee as Chairman of the lUpublican.National Committee with the President. He is “constantly in hiding when in Washmgtor,” says his friends, and “when he goes out has to put himself away out of sight m a close c rriage.” He “goes into and out of his lodgings by the back way” io keep clear of these beggars who are as audacious as tramps, and twice as importunate. Yet Air. Quay has no power of appointment, and no legal power of any kind, except as one of seventy or eighty men, who can prevent the President making a very lew appointments by refusing confirmation. Otaer Senators are doubtless persecuted as persistently. There are, probebly, a half million Americans serving the cause of bad manners and bad morals in this army of impudent intruders on the peace and quiet of decent public men, and they shame at least sixty-four mil'ion other /Imericans by the exhibition they make of themselves, and the sample it supplies to scandal of the quality of our people generally.”

. This “half million shameless office r oggars,” “impudent intruders/’ who keep Senator Quay engaged in the play of ‘hide-and-go-seek,” and who obtrude themselves “on the peace and quiet of decent public men,” no doubt all voted for Harrison. They are engaged in the same work that those who have eucceeded in securing plaae had been engaged in. They feel that they should be entitled to equal consideration with the relatives of the president and of his household, and with thp gons of Jingo Blaine, Ulysses S. Grant, and others who are treated as of royal blood.

This “half million shameless offiao beggars and impudent intruders on the peace and quiet, of decent public men” Lke Little Rock Blaine, cowardly Quay, who, “to keep clear of these beggars who are as audacious as tramps, and and twice as importunate, goes into and cut of «his lodgings by*a backway,” and others, were treated by Harrison et al., the News and the republican press, generally, as the sovereigns of the land. At the proper time they can resent, the nepotism of Harrison, and the slurs of the News and its ilk, and will display good sense in doing so. Let Benny feel your power. Let frhpn learn that there is a God in Is r ael. Richard F. Negley, a leading republican of Jfontana, has written a letter to the. president , in wlbch he sa>-s: It was the impertinent intermed-

dling of your son in Montaka politics that assured the democrats control of our constitutional convention. It was his bartering of federal offic.es in Montana, some of them for private gain, and others for private pique, that will permit the democrats to send a member of the house of i epresentatives and two senators to Washington next December. * ♦ * If you had considered the appointment of federal offices in Montana as a grave public trust devolved upon you by the constitution, instead of conferring it upon your son as a private perquisite, to be disposed of as he saw fit, democratic prospects in Montana would not now be so glowing. Pri ice Russell seems to be abmt as h6avy a load for the administration to carry as Dudley himself. His performances as an officebroker have been especially scandalous, but, as the St. Louis Republic well says, “he is merely a a part of the general disregard for the decencies and proprieties which characterizes this administration . ” However, if fie has been in any way instrumental in putting Montana into the democratic ranks we ean afford to view his offen ps charitably. —Indianapolis Sentinel.