, 1879-06-15
"OUR EAGLE. -

4 General Torment Over tho Appoint.
ments.
Mayor Harrison is the victim Of his own folly,
and those who were blessing him few weeks
ago are now loudest in their curses. Yesterday
he had around him the usual mob Of place.
hunters, and the appointed, as well as the e1-
pectants, were in the worst possible humor.
The fact is, he is making bis office playhouse,
and the time he should give to- public bust,
ness is being given to making speeches
to delegations Of Aldermen and their
friends, in which he argues the
fitness and unftness OF this aud that candidate
for some pretty place. The consequence is
everybody is disgustcd, for 1t transpires that he
has been prolific in his promises, and time has
proven him as wanting IN nerve, or something
else, to keep the most OF them. He will
promise to-day, and, after hearing the other
side, back out tomorrow, report goes, and this
has been going on until ali classes are
weary with standing around. and until
his warmest friends are conceding the
mistake they made in electing him. He
has no power to make any appointments OUT
side Of the heads Of departments, ret for weeks
he has entertained applicants and their friends,
aud the result Of it all is q few OF the many
have been selected, none OF whom, however,
have gone to work. The appointecs named sew
erai days ago we're around looking Tor their
jobs, but without success, and those named in
had no better luck. The facts appear to
be, and this explains it all, that he
has selected the names he has without refer
ence to the existence Of any one beside himself,
or the fact that the ordiuances require the heads
OF departments to name their appointees and
submit them for his approval. The names he
has selected, however, have been sent to the seV
cral departments, but they have not been acted
upon, and since he has presumed to override
the heads entirely, and assume authqri-
ty which does r.. not belong to his
office, they are in no hurry about 1t. Ali Of this
has tended to create dissatisfaction, enough OF
which existed before, and the situation, summed
no, is ANYTHING else than encouraging, either to
the place-hunter, the heads OF Departments, or
those who have been boasting that MIR. Har~
rison's election mcaut q succession OF Dem
ocratic victories 1t is rather early to criticlse
what be has done, or tried to do, but those 1ho
claim to have elected him do not think SO.
They write him down failure already, and
talk Of indignation meetings Is heard around the
streets. They say many bad things Of the ap-
0ointees, for which considerable allowance must
be made, but they are loudest in saying that he
has failed to keep bis promises. md been gen
orally vacillatlng. To illustrate, they say that
ho asked Col. Baldwin to bring him adew in
dorsemeuts and the position OF City Sealer was
bis, but when he came around with his recon-
meudations, he WAS told that some one else had
the place. An applicant for an engineers place
met the same fate, aud thus it is, it is claimed,
that he has tritied with. everybody, and kept
hundreds standing around and hoping day after
dny, when be had made up his mimi IN advance
that he had nothing for them. 4 reporter, Of
course, cannot know how true all these stories
are, but, being around With the pace.hunsers,
has opportunity 9 ,19 to S form dga q h o.
ing made toward crystallizing the party,
aud would be blind il he did not recognize