Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1885 — WHY DEMOCRATS GROWL. [ARTICLE]

WHY DEMOCRATS GROWL.

"Bwped by and Representatives oRHHp Own Party. ’ [Washington special.] i There is a very angry crowd among the ’applicants for appointment to the diplomatic, and consular service, and especially from those hailing, .from .Southern Stamps. These anxious and ambitions gentlemen have been here for several weeks at large expense,' and, so far a&jj&v can ascertain, are as far from tlie goal of thfeir ambiuon’ak upon the first day of their arrival in Washington. The hesitation and procrastination of Mr. Bayard have received the daily objurgat : ons of these impatient gentleman, who naturally attribute their failure to receive appointments to the head of the State Department. Indeed, the responsibility for delay has been charged to the Secretary by the “Senators and Representatives who have been professedly pushing the claims of their respective constituents. It would seem, however, that in very many cases the Secretary of State is not the real offender, but that the applicants are being trifled with by Senators and members. Instead of urging the appointment of the gentlemen alluded to, Senators and Representatives are daily importuning the Secretary of State and the President to appoint their own relatives to good places in the foreign service, and in several instances they are known to have been successful. Thus Senator Vest managed to have his son sent to Europe, Senator Cockrell has had his brother-in-law, E. R. Ewing, made Consul General to the City of Mexico. Senator Butler, of F South Mjtelina, has a son in the consular sM|Be, appointed by President whq he is striving to have promoted. His brother-in-law has been appointed Charge d’Affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay. The same Senator has just had his law partner, Mr. Youmans, made United States Attorney for South Carolina. Senator Blackburn succeeded in having his brother apof Internal Revenue, for his brother, his a®ointm§ta was subsequently candled. o®er Senators and Represent-' anves nojKere are pushing the cjadKs for appointment to the neglectoffiiose constituents who are relying upon their intervention for executive recognition. Of course, the wants and desires'of the constituents are made subordinate to those of the family relation, and the revelation of this fact is causing howls of indignation and eliciting vows of vengeance from those who feel that they are being duped to further the preferment of the relatives of Congressmmen-or those of their wives, who have few qualifications and no claims for the places for which they have been appointed or are b** ig urged.