Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1887 — General Black’s Appointees. [ARTICLE]

General Black’s Appointees.

The political statistician of the New York Tribune has been analyzing General Black’s distribution of patronage, and he finds that the General is t&kiug good care of his Congressional district primarily, and of the State of Illinois secondarily. In less than two years he has made forty appointments and fourteen promotions of Illinois people in his bureau. Ho lives in the Fifteenth Congressional District, which is represented by a Republican. That district has received eleven of the forty appointments and two of the fourteen promotions. and Is represented in the salary list by the pretty sum of $22,430, as compared with $55,900 for the remaining nineteen Congressional districts. The ten Democratic districts have received twenty-three appointments and promotions, with salaries amounting to $30,400, about one-third going to the two districts represented by Springer and Townshend, who are stanch friends of Black, and only ouo appointment at $1,500 a year to Col. Morrison's district. Col. Morrison evidently is not a Black man. The nine Republican districts aside from the Fifteenth, in which Black lives, have received eighteen appointments and promotions with salaries amounting to $21,400 per year. Out of one hundred men appointed by him as special examiners, fifteen, or more than one-seventh, are from Illinois, while the remainder are distributed among the other thirty-seven States, and of the fifteen Illinois appointments five are credited to the district in which Commissioner Black lives. Bot—“ Mister, do you wanter hire a boy?” Young doctor (dubiously“ What can you do? Read, write, cipher? Have you a recofhmendation from your last employer?” “No, sir; but I’m a dreadful liar, and I know every bill-collector in the city.” “Come around to-morrow morning at nine.” A man by the name of Doodle, from Conneotiout, got full of fighting whisky over in a Canadian village, and the whole town was up in arms about it. \ aukee Doodle always did wake up the Britishers.