| Show GETTING DISGUSTED wearing out the office correspondence of the harrison is still beeking ke eking up his policy of wearing out the office seek ers and judging from the way the hotel lobbies are beginning to thin out he is succeeding pretty well with the exception of a batch of postmasters he has made no important appointments this week and the republicans public ans are slowly discovering that it is poor policy to try to drive him into a harry after he has announced his intention of going slow patience office seekers your machine goes slowly but every time it appoints a man it is a republican free from any symptoms of that succeeds a democrat and it is only a question or time when every democrat now in office will be succeeded by a what more can you ask in the meantime if you want to see the republicans appointed and democrats removed with lightning rapidity just drop into first assistant postmaster general clarksons Clark sons office and see him manipulate the fourth class post offices of the country he has reached an average of over fifty a day assistant secretary bussey of the interior department has just reversed a pension decision of general black th atwill affect many other applications the applicant was injured by the fall of a tier of seats at a circus and general black rejects the application for a pension oa the ground that tho injury was not received during the performance of duty this decision has now been reversed and the pension allowed the published disagreement between mr harrison and jar blaine does not exist as far as I 1 can ascertain therefore the rumored retirement of blaine from the cabinet is a little premature doubtless the correspondent who sent the matter off like the most of other people here regards such a state of affairs as almost a certainty at some time in the future and did not think ho was taking any great risk in sending the matter off as having already become a certainty mr harrisons latest rap at the democratic party was to inform a democratic senator who called in behalf of a democrat that wants to be a member of the civil service commission that in appointing those democrats which by law he is compelled to he should only recognize those that are projectionists protectionists this seems to bo an injustice to the great majority of the democratic party solicitor general jenks has been requested by the attorney general to remain in office until the supreme court disposes of the government telephone cases mr jenks has consented although it seriously interferes with arrangements he had previously made in relation to his private business springer said just before leaving for home 1 I feel much better than I 1 have for a long time I 1 ave gained fully ten pounds in weight since the fourth of march due probably to the fact that I 1 have had nothing to do with the great national steeple chase for office my supporters are not entered for that ourt A great many of them were our years ago and then I 1 had a busy ime all day and when night came I 1 do nothing but dream of the thousands of anxious faces that haunt he white house and the departments I 1 am a good deal more of a civil service reformer than I 1 ever supposed I 1 could be of course I 1 understand that when we have a perfect civil service the millennium will not bo far away but I 1 think it better to move in the direction of the millennium than towards pandemonium which is the result of the spoils system there is too much patronage in the hands of the president and the departments and I 1 shall nest winter introduce and advocate a bill to relieve them of much of the pressure I 1 will try to lift the congress mans burden too by working for the election of postmasters by the people that can be done without changing the constitution for the election would be simply a recommendation men dation democrats here are confidently expecting that montana will go democratic thus adding two senators and one representative to the bartys vote in congress the department clerks that were discharged during Clev elands administration are trying to get Harrison to change the rule of civil service which says that no clerk discharged shall be reinstated after the lapse of one year without passing a new examination so as to make it four years harrison has not decided tho matter but it Is not believed that ho will do it washington april |
