Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1889 — Harrison and His Relatives. [ARTICLE]

Harrison and His Relatives.

The scandalous perversion of the civil service of America to the basest needs of partisanship is not the most odious spectacle which the new administration has offered. It is true that no other de-

partment mogul has ever beheaded ofncehoiders with the fury of Clarkson, and it is true that within three months of the inauguration of a Republican President every hold-over, be he Democrat or Republican, has been either discharged or marked for dismissal. The scandals of Grant's time have been outdone, and yet there remains a chapter which is unexpected and disagreeable even to the keen vision of impartial criticism. The President has used his great office to set his relatives a-fattenmg at the publio crib. The charge of nepotism, so well sustained aeainst Grant, the unstatesmanlike soldier, is still better supported when brought against Harrison, who did not take Lee. If it be noted that Frank McKee is appointed Deputy Collector of Customs in Washington Territory because he is a brother of the husband of the President's daughter; that Alvin Saunders has $5,000 a year in Utah because he is father-in-law of the President’s son; that the Rev. Scott has a place in Washington Territory because he is father-in-law of the President himself; and that Carter B. Harrison is United States Marshal of Tennessee because he is brother to the President—we shall touoh upon the subject of nepotism sufficiently to show that the grandson of his grandfather, who appointed the sons of their fathers to go to London and Vienna, has an overweening faith in blood and a serious contempt of demooracy. Wanamaker, who never was elected to the honors of constable, sits in a high office because he raised the money for Dudley. Editor New, Editor Roberts, Editor Reid, and Editor Hicks, all swung their censers before the grandson and the sons of fathers. Porter and Jarrett tabulated the figures which quieted the Presidential conscience when it put on record the imputation that the foreigner pays tax. A glance at the blue book will show that to puff the President or to be his brother-in-law, or daughter-in-law’s father, is of greater profit than are gray hairs in the service of the United States. The statesmen who have been shelved to make room for the obscure company of adulators now in public station will bear witness to these remarks, even though no open confession shall be made. —Chicago Herald.