Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The President has appointed William Hyde Postmaster at St. Louis. This appointment terminates one of the bitterest fights that have occurred since the present administration came in. Mr. Hyde has been opposed on the ground that he was not personally a suitable person Tor so important an office, and he has had the Missouri .Republican, of which be was until a few months ago the managing editor, dead against him*' It is also understood .that the Postmaster General was Wtoh more favorable to Mr. Pijest, but jlr. by all except Glover,

and he was strongly indorsed by St. Louis people, and it is said that the President regarded his indorsements as so mtich more numerous and weighty than those bt any other candidate that fronj,lhe first he had not been able to see how lie could appoint any one else, though he has delayed action out of deference to the wishes of the antiHyde men Samuel J. TiMen’. Jr., has been appointed Internal Revenue Collector for the Fifteenth District of New York, vice James S. Smart, resigned.

I The appointed Dr. John G. Lee, of Philadelphia, Secretary of Le-, gation at Constantinople. Dr. Lee is a friend of Minister Cox. apd is understood to have been appointed, on, his personal solicitation. He is familial- with the modern languages, and is said to peculiarly fitted for the place.... Major Bartlett, who 'lately resigned the office of Second Deputy Commissioner of Pensions because of his in-, ability to attend to the duties, is a brother of the Rev. William Alvin Bartlett, formerly of Plymouth Congregational Church, Chicago, and now of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington. Last week the President appointed as Maj. Bartlett’s successor Gen. Joseph R. Bartlett, of Birmingham, N. Y., .who is 'said to be another brother. .. .The President"appointed William H. Morgan, of Nashville, Tenn., member of the board of Indian commissioners, in place of Orange Judd, resigned. The President has made the following appointments: George W. Glick, Pension Agent at Toneka, Kan.; Erasmus Redmhn, Collector of Customs for the district of Frenchman Bay, Me.; Frederick F. Mans- ' field, of Texas, to be Secretary of Legation at Japan; James Burnes to be Surveyor of Customs for the port of Kansas City; Oscar Vale ton to be Assistant Appraiser of Merchandise in the district of New Orleans. The President has also made the folio-wing appointments in the navy: John J. Hunker, Lieutenant Commander; Milton K. Schwenk, Lieutenant; William H. Schuetz, Lieutenant; Waldemar D. Rose, Lieutenant junior class. It appears that Charier Foster, of Indianapolis, who has gone to Germany to be Consul at Eberfelt, was not a citizen of the "United States- when he took the oath of office. He will be recalled.