Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1887 — Democratic Nepotism. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Nepotism.

In the days of President Grant, when he ventured to appoint two or three of his distant kinsmen to some petty offices, there was a great howl from the Democratic press as to nepotism. There would be an astonishing exhibit if the press would now show the extent to which nepotism is running under Cleveland and all the Democrats in high office. The reform President has appointed several of his own and his wife’s kinsmen to good offices. The Democratic Senators, taking the cue from the' White House, have indulged extravagantly in the same favoritism to their relatives. The appointment of E. L. Pugh, of Alabama; a son. of Senator Pugh, as clerk of the Interstate Railway Commission, is the seventeenth telative of that Democratic leader appointed to lucrative offices under Cleveland. NearTy all of the Democratic Senators have from six to a dozen of their kinsmen in office. Their interpretation of civil-service reform evidently is to get as many of your own kin into place as you can.— Exchange. It is not at all certain that New York will control the next national election. ExGov. Wise, of Virginia, declares that that State, as well as West Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina, can easily be. carried by Republicans, while Indiana is a most hopeful battle-field. The Republicans vrifi not need to carry all their eggs in one basket in 1888 by a good deal. ; ;