Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1879-02-27

We lind the following announce
ments rs an installment of the division
OF the spoils which is said TO be occu
pying the principal part Of the Cover
nors time and thoughts just now:
s. b. Gates. of VIM. to be Warder
OF the State Prison, rice Warren W
Rice.
VIM. Wallace Brown, Of Calais, u
he Agent Of the Passanaqaotidy In
dians, vice W. +. Hobart.
Russell s. Morrison, of Bangor. 1,
be Trustee Of Insane Asylum. r,ce /.
l.. Pattangnil, of Pembroke. removed
DIR. A. 7. Snow. of Winthrop. to b.
Trustee OF Insane Asylum, rice Fred
r.. Richards. of Rockport, removed.
Isaac X. Clark. Of Bangor. to be
Land Agent, rice f.. c. Burleigh re-
moved.
Edgar Whidden, Judge Of the Nun
lcipat Court, Calais. rice Geo. +
Downes.
We find by the Maine Register tha,
;. Il. Gates is the tavern-keeper a,
VIM, but beyond that we are unaware
of his peculiar qualifications for the
management of a most important State
institution requiring experience and
executive ability of high order.
The Reform" that is TO be accom-.
plished in the Land Office by putting
out MIR. Bnfleigh and putting in Mr..
Clark, may be appreciated by the
Democratic Governor, but will not be
so obvious to the Republicans who
have been peltcd so often with Demo
cratic strictares upon Mr.. Clark's for.
mer administration.
Indian Agencies are regarded as
legitimate spoils by the new regime,
and Reformer has now been tucked
into each of them.
The appointment of young Whidden
for Municipal Judge of Calais. is To-
cal matter, but the editing of Green
back-eommunistic organ would hardly
have seemed the highest recommenda-
ton TO a Hard Money" Governor for
appointment TO Judicial office.
But the signltic ant phase of this
business is the evidence that the d.
vision of spoils is to recognize no
consideration OF proprietv, and that
even the Asylum for the Insane is to
be treated a. a partisan conques l.
We think the people of Maine will
note this action of the Governor with
surprise aud considerable indignation.
and if he follows it up as the party
leaders demand, by making COM
pletc partisan revolution in the man
agement Of that essentially non-poli-
teal institution, the pifblic protest
will he emphatlca ly heard. On this
subjec. the Augusta correspondent OF
the Lewiston Journal says:
1t was len for DIR. Garcelon as Gov
ernor of the State, TO remove the
trustees of the Insane Hospital for
politics reasons alone. Never before
in the history of that institution, has
such thing been done, and only once
before has such thing even been
thought of, and that was in the
famous Democratic year of 1886.
Governor Wells was very strongly
inportuned 10 make clean sweep Of
the board of trustees, but declined 10
do il. Two vacancies were filed that
year by Democrats, and although the
Republicans obtained control of the
governme ut the following year, they
were not removed, but served out
their terms, and one of them was
twice reappoiAted by Republican gov
errors. AS the terms of office
Of two Of the Trustees would have
expired this spring, Governor Gar
celon could soon have placed two Of
his politic cal friends upon the board
without resorting TO removals which
] believe TO be bad policy. Should
the Republicans get control of the
State Government next fall, as they
probably will, the present removals
will provoke retaliation, and such fire.
quent changes in the management Of
the hospital must greatly impair its
efficiency. Were Governor Garcelon
mere politician his course in carry
ing the management of the Maine In
sane Hospital into politics, and sub
jecting it TO the varying fortunes of
political parties, would not appear SO
strange, but being distinguished
member of the medical profession and
we'll aware OF the facts l have stated,
his course is strangely inconsistent
and can be accounted for only on the
ground, either that his party zeal has
got the better Of his Judgment, or that
he is compelled "a do it in order TO
quiet the clamorirg Of the hungry
horde Of place seekers, by which be is
continually surrounded.