People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — Always a Humbug. [ARTICLE]

Always a Humbug.

New York Advertiser: A Democratic newspaper calls attention to the fact that the order promulgated by the Administration directing postmasters throughout the United States to use their official positions as a means of distributing Secretary Carlisle’s financial addresses, is clearly in violation of civil service regulations. This will not surprise anybody. Mr. Cleveland’s proclamation, warning Federal office holders that they must not express opinions at variance with the position of the Administration on public questions was not intended to deter these functionaries from exerting themselves in the dissemination of opinions which had received the stamp of the PresD dent’s august approval. In the estimation of the present occupant of the White House activity in preaching politics on the part of office holders becomes pernicious only when it lacks the Executive sanction. When that sanction has been given it becomes not merely commendable, but an imperative duty. What a tremendous humbug the Cleveland Administration is, anyhow! The Republican and Democratic gubernatorial candidates in Kentucky will go through the motions of a discussion. That If all they will do—there is nothing between them.