Show THE PROPER outcome of the relations rela-tions concerning the devious ways by which General Hazen worked up recommendations of his management man-agement of the signal service would be dismissal of that officer He ought never to have been appointed in the first place and the appointment appoint-ment was due almost entirely to the fact that he is the soninlaw of McLeanof the Cincinnati Enquirer a socalled democratic paper of Cincinnati Cin-cinnati which has always maintained main-tained questionable relations with the leading republican politieiansof Ohio There can be no good reason for expecting straightforward and faithful action as the result of an appointment to office made in this fashion There are numerous able and scientific army officers from amongst whom a capable chief of the signal service could be selected if considerations of fitness were permitted to determine the appointment appoint-ment |