The Van Buren press., 1875-03-30
Grants New Appointments Distastefal.


/ The recent changes in Federal offices,
more especially in the lower part of the
State, very dstastcfu to the true Repub-
,icaus OF Arkansas The following from
the Pine Bluff Rspp5icaa, the leading
paper Of the Republican party of the
State, speaks in plain terms its con
demnation Of the changes:
The federal administration guillotine
! has been erected, and the dreaded eXccu-
/ TONERS have begun their work Good
| and faithful men, who have worked and
toiei in the traces of the republican par
/ ty, have been beheadcd, 10 make room
I for grasping, unpopular and vicious pol
iticjans We had hoped that the lessons
taught by the past would have warned
the SO called leaders Of our party in this
state, to have paused in their onward and
maddcning course Of destruction; to have
healed and ccmenteI, rather than to dis
courage and destroy. The recent federal
appointments are unanimously dls2p-
proved by the republicans ofthi5 county
They were made without the knowledge
or consent, we believe, of 4 single Nom.
Der Of that party, without regard % their
desires, their feelings, or their wishes be
ing consulted. The Rubicon has been
crossed and the insulting gauntlet that
has been thrown at US, we pick up, with
the assurance that at the next election,
jefferson county, and its southeastern
y,g.t 4,,v w ..t.l 10
seen, but felt, and whether for veal or
for, We shall at least assert our iudepCnl.
ence and our power. We do not com
plain at the appointment Of Mr. Brooks
as postmaster, for we have been sincere
and earnest sympathizcr over that gen
tlcmaa's msiortuncs. We rel jpjce that
he has been rewarded for his services as
a leader in the republican party We had
hoped, however, that he would receive a
more prominent position Mr. Pollock,
the gentleman whom hc succeeds, we are
informed, gave universal satisfaction rs
post master Of Little Rock He was Of
acknowledged competency, and an honor
therefore, TO the party We regret that
he was removed, while at the same time
u
do all in his power TO conduct the Office
for the accommodation Of the public.
The appointment Of James Torrans,
to the position Of United States marshal
for the eastern district Of Arkansas, is
the most outrageous cIrontery ever per
petratcd upon party. Wholly untitled,
extremely unpopular, the picture of an
English cockney, very ordinary ability,
without influence, no standing in the par
ty, claiming residence in Lafayette coun
ty and living at the capital sucking the
tit Of public pap since bis advent in the
state, without redceming quality except
rs iayoYte Of one Of the United States
Senator's; and for that reason, justice,
tealty to party, ability, competency and
popularity, must be oyerrilcn. and the
gcntcmanly incumbent, Mr. Mills, be re
moved to give way to James Torraus,
who will only bring in disrcpute the par
ty to which we SO arlently cling as the
only party to which we look forward to
a continued peace and prosperity in our
good land.
In our own city, these very assumed
leaders had the audacty to remove Alex
7. Seymour, our worthy post master, to
make room for eX Congressman Snyder,
in the face Of his reappointment and
confirmation not over four weeks since.
Mr.. Seymour is universal fayoritc in
our city 10y all classes; a competent and
careful post master, who has conducted
the Office with great satisfaction to the
pubic; but he must also be sacrificed, so
let it be- The time is not far distant
when the people of the south eastern dis
trct Of Arkansas will awake from their
lelhargy and blindness, and the ballot.
box the great American guillotine, will
render such verdict that will drive
them across the " Stygjan stream from
whence no one ever re- crosses, and where
their names and their deeds will be ob
liberated from the book of time, never to
be recorded again.