Show SYNDICATE BARGAINS Upon resident president McKinley alone rests the blame for the disgraceful act of his administration in appoint- appoint ir g to the important post of Naval Officer of the Customs at New Orleans Orleans' Henr Henry Demas Demas' a disreputable disreputable disreputable table negro politician In a case of this sort the President cannot shift the responsibility to the shoulders of too pliant subordinates subordinates nates nates- nor can he hp offer as excuse for the blunder pers personal nal of the unfitness of the appointee The Jest best citizens of Louisiana irrespective of politics j joined ined in to a t tt t c y fh iJ protest against Demas They sent delegations to the President arwe armed t fully with the private and o official record of the man He made the appointment with a full lull V knowledge J of Dem Denies Demas character Proofs of f the facts were laid before Major McKinley and a are e now in itt his his' J 1 possession and he e has admitted r that he has has' rea read them and was 0 wt neu Dy oy them 1 With all al tilde these facts b before fore him n i ivill it t will vill naturally i rally be be a asked ked why th the President of t they the United States should a raised d to official official dignity a man whose those mode mod of life is a constant constant constant con con- stant off offense nse to decent pe people pt l 1 The he e answer is not far ar to seek seek he President made the appointment to fulfill a bargin made between Demas on one hand and William McKinley cy Osborne and nd Mark Hanna on on theother the other Demas and several and several sever of ot h his pals were ere pledged and and- eve even V s sworn rn to support Reed i in the St. St.- t Louis Convention and and Osborne bought Demas with cash b by Hanna and a d promise of this office President McKinley has no 1 made himself and active p partner i id this bargain in this t b bargain shock shocking k king ing in view of the man with with- whom whom the President of the Un United ile S States Sates ates' ates locked locked arms The rhe appointment is so insulting to to tocOI cOI common decency decenty that all elements pf Louisiana citizens are preparing to fight confirmation in the Senate enate From reports of the widespread pread in indignation which has a aroused i in Louisiana it is evident that the act has not in it even the poor merit oi iii i good politics While the affair is lamentable an and its us wickede ness amounts amounts- to- to lp ji disgraces disgrace p a i there are in it the thc possibilities of good to the countr country It is oher exemplification of the dangers angers of syndicate politics especially V when controlled by a man like H Hanna n 7 It will also in wo working king out di d disastrous dis- dis b results to McKinley and nd his s the lne minds o of 01 all an politicians ns the truth of the old L Latin tin p proverb verb Nothing is i is II table which is not honest Republic Re Re- Re- Re public |