Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1885 — No Wonder They Are Kicking. [ARTICLE]

No Wonder They Are Kicking.

Ont of seventy-four first-class appointments made by the President the North has tirirty-nine and the So ath thirty-five. Of the Northe n appointments New York takes nine. Illinois and Pennsylvania five ’each, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, and Connecticut three each, New Jersey two, Massachusetts, Michigan, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Nevada one each. Of the Southern appointments Georgia has four, Mississippi, Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia, Missouri, Texas, and Louisiana three each, .Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Cardiina two each, and Delaware. West Virginia, South Carolina, and F orida one each. The noticeable feature of these appointments is that while every Southern l-tate except Alabama has been recognized, the Democrats of nine Northern States —California, Colorado, lowa, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and Oregon—have not yet had a bite of anything fit to eat No wonder that they are kicking. r Secretary or State Bayard is accused of be ng the most out-and-out candidate for the Presidential nomination in 1888, and is accused also of making the gravest mii-takea of any, if his object is to please the Democratic politicians. None of his appointments have been satisfactory to the wire-pullers, and even thus early in the day they accuse him of clubbing his boom. Perhaps, though, this is Bayard's “little game. He may be trying to outdo tbe President _____ r .