The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-06-02

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The country has enjoyed the luxury o.
really having president for about two
weeks. This Ia q much rarer luxury thar
most people will at frat admit, but II Is d
| fact that ever since the fata! day on which
| Lincoln died we have had no one who hal
been truly and In every respect the presi
dent. Every one of our chief magistrates
has been in some respects but president in
name. Overshadowing him aud domineer-
ing him hss been some outside and extra
constitutional power. The civil service oil
the country has been only nominally in con-
troll OF the president. Ia point OF fact, some.
thing beside the president, something grea 81
than he, something nore poten. than he has
dictated the appointments. Sometimes thla
power has been the demands of party disci-
pline; sometimes it has been the whim OF
party leaders; sometimes it has been the
cause of faction. Always these motives
have been incarnated in certain party lead
ers-generally in certain individual senators.
| For tho first time in all these weary years
| We have now president who proposes TO
| appoint men to Office because he wants them
appointed spd who has the power to do as
he desires. The highest ideal has not been
attained, but it is II great gain to have u
president who proposes not to submit 10
dictation at the hands of political bosses.
Andrew johnson, Of course, mad
no control whatever OF the civil
service. The republican senator's SIM
ply refused to permit him TO exer-
else his constitutional rights. They said to
him 10 body wha. mir. Conkling has bsen
trying to say as an individual: You shall
appoint only such men as are satisfactory to
u.s." Against this usurpation johnson pro-
tested with great obstinacy; but he could do
nothing, because he did not belong 10 the
majority party, and therefore the senators
did not fear the vengeance OF disappointed
office-seekers, kept out OF place by their
representatives who had foolishly fought the
president. When Grant came ia he made
little show of attempting to be president,
but he soon yielded and became the creature
of ring of senators who we're known as the
senatorial cabal" Conklipg, Morton,
Logan and the other members of this clique
usurped all the power of appointment. The
offices of the country were treated as spoils
to be distributed among the camp followers
of the republican party. Each senator was
the leader of his own gang and decided what
camp followers we've the most Meritorious,
to whom should 60 the plumber of the
campaign. Grant voluntarily submitted to
what the senate imposed upon Johnson.
The taste of power which had been snatched
from Johnson was go sweet and pleasant that
the senators browbeat Grant until i was
again given them. Thus the custom Was
established out Of which grew senatorial
courtesy" which means that each robber
shall take that part of The loot which comes
from his own state; for, after all, the power
of a senator to name the federal officers of
his own state is an usurped and stolen
power.
The New York Herald, foregoing for the
nonce politics and the Conkling- Garfield
emeute, sails into tobacco chewers and gives
them turning over. 1t is all in vain, how
ever, for men will continue to chew despite
the Heralds phillipics to the contrary:
Of variety of disgustingness there is moth
ing 80 productive as the habit OF tobacco
chewing. Hardly week passes without in
dignant complaints reaching the Herald of
unexpected brown showers along the lines of
the elevated roads, or of clothing soiled,
nobody knows where; of floors of ferry cab
ins and railway cars made unendurably vile;
of carpets s)yly., but irrademably stained,
and even of churches being defled by the
losthsome juice. This week reader of the
Herali complains that his hat, which he
placed under his seat ct theatre, was re-
duced to worse than nothingness by tobsc-
co eater who sat behind him. 1t would
puzzle human ingenuity to device another
habit 60 annoying and disgusting to every
one who does not practice 1t, and yet chew
ing is still diversion among thousands OF
men who wear good clothing and in other
- tah mo
chew tobacco only for the purpose of OBJ.
tanning the juice to kill vermin with. Here;
If the nuisance continues, the public will
some day think that the chewers themselves
are more deserving of determination than
any other vermin.
The New Orleans Picayune shoots out o
left handed feeler that takes New York
selashness right square in the proboscis:
The south and west may reasonably be
supposed to have some rights which eastern
.foik should respect, even though the Misiss-
sippiIbe tremendous freight-leak southwark.
1t msy also be supposed that providence, In
furnishing US with this vast aud tlreess car
rier, did not contemplate that the selfsh-een-
venience of eastern usurers should DO an alb
solute necessity to national progress. The
commercial future of the west and its outlet
here seriously disquet some people at New
York, which city has too long made legisla-
lion bend 10 its authority,'as customs gate,
has by rail tapped the Mississippi of a great
volume of trade that would naturally flow
down stream. The Nautical Gazette of that
city gives candid expression to this unfriend-
liness, and seems to be positively unhappy
because our steamboats, are not blowing up
daily and damaging freight which the New
York Central, Erie, or other eastward rails
cannot command.
The New York Evening Express wants the
senatorial question 10 New York relegsied to
TIE people. II wants the people TO elect a
new legislature SO that this MISTER may be en-
issue 10 the campsigo, so that the people
msy have an opportunity of expressing their
will. 1t says:
lis o signifcsnlfsGt thst Conkliug and
Plat decided 10 push their claim for re-
election 20 ibe senate, yesterday, after con-
ference with eel Of politicians. The people
sre entirely ignored. The men who make
New York vhst Il IL, who control the fnan-
css. the busines, The commerce, the fgricul-
tuie Of ths first state In the union, arc left
outside the door, their wishes uhheeded, Their
opinsors not even asked for. IL IL sssunsd