Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-12-03
rnE PATRoxAcE OF TuE GOVERN.
MEST.

ana small III th0 &flt VI tAc Auu1fu1o-
tration. Over 1000 OF them are post
Offices, mostly below the grade Of Pres
idential appointments. which range from
$1,000 salary upward. The immediate
patronage Of the President, compared
with that usually controlled by the
Cabinet, 10 small, unless be lays a strenR
hand on il and announces his intention
70 run the whole machine personally.
In such o case no self-respecting man
would stay Ia the Cabinet 70 be q mere
registering clerk of the Executive will.
Adopting the common usage, the Cabi-
net will dispose Of the bulk of the oiaices.
or course, same general policy in this
respect will be marked out from the
beginning, bat il is absurd to suppose
that the civil service act, or sham, will
serve as q protection TO the present in
cumbents. There are many deserving.
tried aud faithful servants among them
who ought not TO be disturbed. and
who are perfectly safe from the danger
Of removal.
Bot the number is small compared
With the army Of pronounced partisans
who have utilized their places for poiit-
ical purposes. Many of the offices have
besn little better than recruiting agen-
cies, which are daily filled with white
and black politicians, to tho neglect Of
the public business.
The views Of Cleveland on this subject
were expressed at Bridgeport at the close
Of the canvass:
/" The question to be determined is
whether tne people may change their
public servants, or whether, while they
fondiy hope they have representative
government, they are bound and held
captive by those who make politics an
occupation, and hold public place as a
profitable business"
The Democrats rely on this declara-
ton TO justify their demands fer the
hesbpots. The Blue Book ID just now
in great demand among parrots who
are anxious to serve the country for the
beat pay. They know what good things
the most favored cAn get, and they
point t. the long rolls Of high dis
tinctions with sorr0winl regret that
they are only TO be reached by possible
vacancies through death or resigna-
ton.
For example, there are nine Judges OF
the Supreme Court of the United States,
one OF whom only IL q Democrat. JUS
tice Bradley is the oHly one now eligible
for retirement with full pension, and
President Arthur will probably fill his
coming vacancy. Chief Justice Waite
and Justices Field aud Miller can retire
voluntarily in 1856, but Miller only is
inclined TO that course. Waite will hold
on 10 the last profitable hour. and Field
has regulated his life by judicial ten
nre. These three justices were born in
1916.
There are nine Circuit Judges of the
United States, all of whom ace kspubli.
cans, and some of them are very pro.
nounced politicians. With the exception
of Judge Bond, they are mostly recent
appointments. comparatively.
there are IS United STATES District
Judges, who. with two or three exces-
tions, are Repablicahs.
There are i've Judges In the Court of
Claims, all Of whom are Republicans.
There ara six Judges on the bench of
the Supreme Court Of the District of
Columbia, who, with q single exception,
are Republicans.
The clerks Of oil these courts are ap-
pointed by the Judges, and they are
uniformly Republicans. So, too, Of the
Commissioners. whs are appointed by
the Circuit Judges.
The Marshals and their drputies have
always been violent partisans, but they
are under the Executive.
There are forty Ministers representing
the United States in foreign countries,
all of whom are Republicans.
There are 2iS Consuis and many dep
uty Consuls abroad, who. with rare ex
cepti0ns. are Republicans.
Every bureau IN all ihe public depart
ments is headed by Republican, chosen
for politics.
he Internal Revenue musters an ar
my Of partisans more than four thousand
strong All shs Collectors, Surveyors,
Naval Ulcers and their suhordinates are
Republicans. and 50 are the Postmasters,
With here and there an unavoidable sx-
eeptaon.
All the land Offices are occupied by
loyal Republicans, some Of whom have
surveyed the road 10 wealth With offisial
Heal.
All the divisions OF the Treasury, OF
.ne rossemce; OF we Interior, OF the
the jud,ciarv Drpertmsn,s a. nv - ,h ~
hands Of Republicans.