Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-05-09
MN. ION LETTER.
From tar Regular Correspondent
wAsHlNeroN, D. c., May sth.

TO enter the Presidential campaign
as the nominee Of the Republicans,
makes the politicians shake in their
shoes. Whether you know il or not,
can say 10 you that he is the last man
in the party that the of6ce-holders
want to see IN the White House. Mr.
Edmunds is man who, if he knows all
the tricks in trade Of politicians, will
not adapt himself to them, and will not
be counted in as a participant in any
of the WAYS that are dark, which are to
be expected of the average politician.
But like Blaine and Lincoln and Til
den and the rest of them, Edmunds is
not candidate ! OF course not,
Blaine is not candidate. but he has
magnetism, and magnetism is run
ming his campaign on its own hook.
Lincoln is not a candidate, but the
very children are crying for him be-
cause his name is Lincoln, and there.
fore he unconsiously falls into ,the
hands of his frineds Logan is not a
candidate in the ordinary acceptation
of the word, but somebody has been
mighty lively of late in working up a
regular compound, double, back action
stub and twist boom, with Fitz John
Porter at one end, and the g. A. R.,
at the other. Nor is Mr.. Tllden can
didate he we're, you would not hear
ofthese politicians visiting Gramercy
Park in squads. companies and battal-
lions. And what in the world would
Mr.. Randall and Mr.. Hendricks and
Mr.. Morrison and Mr.. Cox and the
other prominent shepherds in the
Democratic fold be calling upon the
Sage for if it were not TO pet his disin-
terested advice and receive his Demo-
cratic benedictions The only thing
absolutely positive about Mr.. Edmund's
candidacy is his own declaration one
day that he was not a candidate, and
the next going upon still-hunt for
nomination, Such Is politics!
And what power there is behind a
politician after he gets up among the
high muck mucks OF the party; Here
is Sabin, of Minnesota, who was meyer
heard of until last fall. furnishing to
the country a successor to Knox
Comptroller of the Currency, in the
person of another man who was never
heard OF or heard from, although his
name is Cannon. The responsibility
that attaches to this Office of Comp
troller is simply immeasurable, and the
men are few who possess the requisite
capacity for discharge of the vastly
important trusts involved in 1t. MIR.
Cannonmay be amost excellentman for
the position, but the business men of
the country, National banks, would
much prefer to know something OF the
man who is to boss the finances OF tits
great Nation.
1t must be that Julius Cesar Bur-
rows, of Michigan, has got a sure thing
for the next Congress, or he never
could have refused the SolicltorshiD of
the Treasury, which the President has
been urging upon him. The Office has
been vacant since the death of Mr..
Raynor, and, strange to say, the coun-
try had really forgotten that there was
such an Office. Now the Solicitor OF
the Treasury is nothing more nor noth-
ing less than the legal adviser of the
officials in the Treasury Department,
at the head of which Is the ex-Chief
Justice Of the highest judicial tribunal
in the State Of New York, who would
hardly think of asking advice of a
third rate lawyer as to his duties. and
ifhe did, would never act upon it.
There are law officials connected with
each of the departments. and who are
called Assistant Attorneys General,
who are selected for these places
seemingly because they will not fit in
anywhere else. They are as incapable
of solving problem involving legal
principle, as the man who drives theil
carriage at Government expense. And
more than that, their decisions upon
questions involving construction o.
law, such as are always arising in the
Pension Bureau, and the Land office
a.e as rule too farcical for any use
1t would be money in the pocket Of
the Government to pay these fellows
their salary, and let them. distribute
ancient seeds from the Agricultural
Department.
To him who is too lazy TO work, toe
proud to beg and too cowardly to stea
after dark, we can safely commend q
new industry, or rather an old industry
newly resumed in Washington. One
branch of the pursuit requires capita
enough to deposit with credulou.
and conhding banker from whom 3
note or due bill is received, covering
a the amount deposited, against which
= checks may be drawn until it is exhaust
cd, after which there is nothing in thu
way ofuansferrlng the bankers pape
and realizing from come other credu
lous and confdlng friend the full fac'
thereof. Well followed this branch o
business is extremely profitable, Blu