Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1885 — POINTICAL. [ARTICLE]

POINTICAL.

The President has appointed Cofonel James C. Reed to be Postmaster of Corinth, Miss...,. The President has appointed the following Collectors of Customs: John McWilliams, for the District of Providence, R. I.: John S. Hager, for the District of San Francisco, William McKinnie, for the District of Cuyahoga, Ohio; John Flanagan, for the Southern District of Oregon. - :■ : * - r Senator Sabin, of Minnesota, in an interview at Washington, is reported as saying: I believe the President, as 1 have frequently stated publicly, is thoroughly honest, and desires to give the country a good administration, and ought to have a fair and unfettered opportunity to do so. It is conceded that he has the right to appoint his polit cal sympathizers to office, and I will vote to confirm them when they are shown tu be fit for the places to which they are selected—where they are appointed cn fair political grounds, without detriment to the public interests, and without smirching the reputation of the Republican officials who have preceded them. Rut where it is shown that Republicans have been removed to the damage of the public service, and upon false charges which have injured their good name, I shall do my part to secure for them the fullest opportunity for investigation. - The President, says a Washington dispatch, has at last filled the office of postmaster at Augusta, Me., by the appointment of Lemuel B. Fowler. There has been a very active controversy over this office, Colonel Morton, editor of the Democratic paper at Augusta,'paving been a prominent and persistent candidate, backed by the Democratic committee and other prominent leaders of the party in the State. It is understood that Mr. Blaine requested President Cleveland not to appoint Morton, because he was offensive to him.

The President has appointed the following- named Presidential Postmasters: ward H. Thayer, at Clinton, lowa, vice Charles Pell, resigned; Henry Williams, at Frederick, Md., vice Charles W. Miller, resigned; J. Henry Bowers, at Chico, Cal., vice James M. Ormsby, suspended; Russell T. Dobson, at Bowling Green, Ohio, vice John D. Bowler, suspended; James Murray, at Fremont, Neb., vice H. O. Payne, resigned; William H. Evans, at Princeton, vice E. R. Pinney, suspended; John Crull, at Marietta, Pa.,, vice G. H. Etla. suspended. > Gen. Durbin Ward having censured, in apolitical speech at Lebanon, Ohio, the conduct of ex-Marshal Lot Wright at the election in Cincinnati last fall. Wright assaulted the General in a railway-car, hitting him over the eye and drawing- blood. Gen. Ward is over 70 years old, while the ex-Marshal is not more than 50. Representative Warner, having 1 drafted the compromise silver bill that he j intends to present to Congress when it j assembles, is said to be preparing to wage j war against the Civil Service Commission j and effect its reorganization.. ..A member | of the Cabinet is authority for the stite- | ment that the administration will take no

active part in the and Ohio campaigns. ■** , '