The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-07-14
The Baltimore ColleCtOrShip,

81 1uO DdlUluuU10 OO1lGCGUI OIL "
The following from the Philadel-
phsa Times is one of the most fair and
pemted articles we have seen on this
s8ect:
We do not know ofany special OBJ
jektions in Mr.. Thomas, either rela-
ting to his public or private charac-
ter or to his general fitness for the
pace nor are we aware of any spe-
cialpersonal or public reasons why
Mr.. Wilkins should remain in the
collectorship beyond the fact of his
confessed integrity and competency
fof the position; but if Mr.. Fulton's
letter presents the true inwardness
of the revision of the Federal slate
!. e altimore, then the President can
hot too soon nor too thoroughly wash
his hands Of the whole transaction.
Mr.. Fulton's letter is either imper-
tinent to a degree that should exclude
him from the councils of the PrpSi-
dent in making up his list of Balti-
more appointments, or it exposes the
President in the tolerance of low po-
litical jugglery that equals the worst
type of Grantism in dispensing pub
lie patronage. 1t bears on its face
the plain assumption that Mr.. Full
ton is the trusted oracle of Hayes in
Maryland, and that he can propose
any political trade that may crafty
his factious predudices or partisan in
terests, with full confidence that he
will not offend; and he asks for the
prompt appointment of the men rec
commended by "Mr. Thomas and
myself" with this airof master who
can brook no denial. He makes no
complaint against any of the Federal
officials on the ground of infidelity
or inef1iciency in the discharge of
public duties but Collector Wilkins
has offended Mr.. Fulton; he has not
danced when Mr.. Fulton piped he
has even fraterniZed with Mr.. Cre5s-
we'll; he has not obeyed Mr.. Thomas
in walking the party plank, and for
not sheezing when Mr.. Fulton snuff
ed he must be OverthroWn, however
faithful as public servant.
Then Mr.. Fulton is ambitious to
convulse Maryland from centre to
circumference. He would "electrify
the whole State" and how? Not by
filing the Federal offices with men
who will be more acceptable in the
discharge of official duties, but it is
assumed that the whole Republican
population of rural Maryland will
shout hOsannas and rush into invin-
chile columns for the next election,
and that the Plug-Uglies of Balti-
more will hoist the banner of reform
and shout themselves hoarse over it,
''ifthe President will promptly make
the appointments for Maryland that
have been suggested by Mr.. Thomas
and myself"
Mr.. Thomas, it seems, so far over
came his modesty as to recommend
Mr.. Thomas for collector, and Mr..
Fulton joined in the suggestion, not
because Mr.. Thomas is better man
than Mr.. Wilkins, but because it
would "electrify the whole State" to
see a complete assortment of Federal
officials in the Monumental city bear
inn banners with the strange device
81 am Fulton's man." Then comes
the glowing description of the golden
harvest that is to follow the planting
by Hayes and the watering by Full
ton 81 promise him (the President)
to return the election of a Reform
candidate for Mayor next fall" Not
only does Fulton propose to enthuse
the rural districts Of the whole State
as if by the lightning flash, but he
holds in his hands the municipal
crown of his city, and he offers it to
the President sin return for a full
line of offices delivered in Fulton
leading strings.
There is just one way out of this
disgraceful Fulton jugglery for Pres
ident Hayes, and that is to stop
where he is and make up a new list
ofappointmentso of his own composed
of first class citizens who worship
neither Mr.. Fulton nor Mr.. Cress-
well, but who will be faithful officers /;
men who will leave political pyro-
technics and electric revolutions to
the political clowns who proffer COM
monweaIths and cities Gin return"
for the plumber of an administration,
as did one of old whose title was
about equal to the title now protfered
to President Hayes.