National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-22
ANOTHER MEETING
To Pick 0ut Officials for Some OF the
Western Cities.

At an adjourned meeting of prominent
paying citizens of the District held at the par
lors Of Wizards Hotel last evening at eight
o'clock, the committee OF five appointed at the
meeting last Wednesday evening to select from
among the citizens Of the District suitable person
for the position of United States marshal or dis
trict attorney at Chicago Detroit, Cincinnati, and
other cities, submitted their report as follows:
Your committee have the honor to respectfully
report that Ill the discharge of their duties they
met with unexpected and grave difficulties which
renders Il impossible for them to present the
Columbia for the position Of United Slater marshal
or district attorney at Chicago, Detroit Cincinnati,
and other cities.
Your committee regret to state that not one
among the many gentlemen upon whom they
waited could be convinced that it was either deli
cate or proper that the citizens of this District
dent of the United States in making local appoint
mentS anywhere except within the District of
Columbia. Your committee called attention to
the fact that from time immemorial it has been
the custom Of Weli-meaning, intelligent, infiuen-
tial and patriotic citizens of the States to advise
with the President relative to the distribution of
the local patronage of this District, and in many
cases nObly sacrificed themselves upon the altar
Of our necessities by accepting various local posi-
tons OF ROor trust and profit, thus eVincing true
nobility OF soul and love of country, without re-
gard to section, which, in this era of good feel
ing should be reCiprocated by us if it took every
citizen IN the District TO restore the balance of
that, While they recognized the force of our rep
resentation Of facts and were anxious to repay the
Districts debt Of gratitude they still inclined to
the opinion that the citizens of this District had
better restrain their impotence until the citizens
OF Chicago, Detroit, or Cincinnati called upon
them for said advice, as any other course
might ne considered an impertnence. This
seemed 10 your committee to be an unanswerable
argument and they retired to an adjacent hosterie
lot consultation, and after an exhaustive discus
sion OF the subject III all its bearings, unanimously
agreed TO present with their report the following
preamhe and resolution, and request its adoption:
where's majority of the citizens of the Dis
tflct OF Columbia do not seem to sympathize with
the object OF this meeting and are inclined to the
opinion that We arc entirely too previous There
fore:
BE Il rtso!rsd That the committee of five ap-
pointed st our last meeting be and they hereby are
authorized TO visit the cities of Chicago Detroit
and Cincinnati for the purpose of con-
ferring with the prominent citizens of
our sister cities relative to the dis
tribution OF their local patronage, and to assure
them OF our sympathy and desire to aid them in
securing able representative men to fill each and
every office, and the committee is instructed to
carefully prepare list ofthe citizens ofths District
without regard TO politics, race, color or previous
condition, from which the citizens of our sister
cities may make selection, and if after such selec-
ton, there should be any names remaining, the
committee shall visit other cities of the Union I'M
til the list shall be exhausted when they shall re-
port to this meeting"
The report and accompanying resolution was
unanimously adopted, snd the meeting adjourned.