Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Congressman Lawler has written a letter to the President, recommending that the remaining unfilled Federal appointments in Chicago be tendered to representatives of the German, Irish, Scandinavian, Bohemian, Polish, and French voters. •« President Cleveland has appointed' John B. Stallo, of Ohio, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Italy; Bayless W. Hanna, of Indiana, to be Minister Resident and Consul General to the Argentine Republic; Charles A. Dougherty, of Pennsylvania, to be Secretary of Legation at Rome; William L. Alden, of New York, to be Consul General at Rome; and Pierce. M. B. Young, of Georgia, to be Consul General at St. Petersburg. The President has also appointed the following Consuls: George W. Savage, of New Jersev, at Belfast; Edward Champhauseh. of Pennsylvania, at Naples; Fruncis B. Galley, of-New York, at Kingston, Jamaica; John M. Birch, of West Virginia, at Nagasaki; Oscar Bisohoff, of Kansas, at Sonneberg; R. H. Stoddard, of New York, at Athens; Theodore W. Downs, of Connecticut, tit Quebec; M. J. Newmark, of California, at Lyons; William H. Moffett, of New Jersey, at Beirut; J. C. Monoghan. of Rhode Island, at Mannheim, and Wallace Johns, of Florida, at Messina. Benjamin H. Lamberton was appointed to be Commander in the navy, William W. Reisinger to be Lieutenant Commander, Albert Koutz to be Captain, John F. Bransford to be Lieutenant and Surgeon. 1 *

The President has appointed William L. Bancroft to be Collector of Customs for the district of Port Huron, Mich.; Israel Lawton to be Superintendent of the Mint of the T'nited States at San Francisco, Cal.; A. L. King, of Arkansas, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Harrison, Ark.; William F. Howland to be Collector of Customs for {he district of Beaufort, N. C. and John A. Richardson for the district of Pamlico, N. C. The following postmasters Intve been appointed by the President; ' J. S. Burns, at Dayton. Wash. T.; Henry Hollberg, at Jacks-on, Ohio; J. G. Johnson, at Peabody, Kan : John Hartley, at Henry. Ill.; John W. Duncan, at Bonham, Tex.: Samuel W. Shields, at Morristown, Tenn.: Mrs. Julia Goer, at New Castle, lnd.: Nathan Wait, at Kingman, .Kan.; J. P. Cook, at Kenton. Ohio; W. E. Lawrence, at Sing Sin?, N. Y.: William H. Swan, at Mount Morris, N. Y.; Henry Eldredge, at Union Spring l , N. Y.; Effingham T. Brown, at Aurora, N. Y.; W. H. H. Mcllyar, at Cambridge, Ohio, vice D. D. Taylor, suspended; Wm. J. Whipple, at Winona, Minn , vice Daniel Sinclair, suspended; J. W. Sherman, at Osceola, lowa, vice W. J. Agnew, suspended: Charles O. McCreedy, at Ballston, N. Y.. vice E. F. Grose, suspended; D. ntel W. Krisher. at North Manchester, Ind., vice Shelby Sexton, suspended:’ Ker Boyce, at Augusta, Ga.. vice W. F. Holden, suspended r Robert P. Menefee. at Bozeman, Montana, vice E. C. Anderson, suspended; Buren S. Wasson, at Laporte, lowa, vice J. B.Stebbins, suspended. I Concerning the causes of the suspensions, the Associated Press furnishes the following;] The Postmaster at Bozeman was suspended upon the report of the Inspector showing gross carelessness in the management of the office. The Postmasters at Winona. Minn.; Osceola, Iowa; and Laporte City, lowarNorih Manchester, Ind.; Cambridge, O.; Augusta, Ga.; and Ballston, N. Y.,were suspended upon proofs of acts of partisanship wtiile in office. These acts wete of various kinds. Some were editors as Well as Postmasters, and their newspapers in some cases since as well as before the election have contained scurrilous and indecent attacks upon officers of the Government, as well as malignancy of political feeling toward their adversaries in general. In some cases it "has also been established that the Postmasters kept hanging in the postoffioe the political placards of one party and ref mud to permit those of the other party to be there displayed, these

placards being sometimes Indecent pictures or cartoons unlit tor the eyes of respectable persons. In other eases the Postmasters weye shown to have been efficient political agents of their party; members of its working committoel ,n A 8 organization; well known In it as such, and taking a particular part In -the conduct of election business, often to the Impairment of their performance of the duties of the office In several of the cases political notices, circulars, and newspapers of the opposite political party were shown to have been detained In the postoffice.