Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-16
AFTER THE BIG OFFICES.
REPUBLICANS SEEKING FED
FRAL APPOINTMENTS,

A Vigorous But Uncertain Contest Tor
the .JudeeshIp-COl. Wade's Chances
for the MarshaIship TO Succeed Col
Loeke-The Postmastership Not Likely
to be Filled Until the Postmaster
Generals Return to Washington
Republican seekers after Federal on1ces
in Georgia are on the ragged edge. Iney
are numerous, and, as is usual in contests
nj this kind. ali are hopeful. They have
great expectations Of the outcome OF THIS
week In regard 10 Presidential appoint
ments. They think that President Arthur
will not wait till after the holidays. Re-
r,orts from various sources indicate that
there is some ground for such a suppose
ton. Ii is stated that Mr.. Arthur is IN
willing 10 defer sending in the names OF
his people until the Senate gets together
again after the first Of the year, for fear
that there may then be some delay in con-
formations. So that during the next lew
days it is thought that large number OF
appointments will be made, and II is
probable that Georgia will come In for
her share The quota for Savannah and
the Southern Judicial district IS
rather large. considering that Repub-
lfcau President is about 10 90 out OF ONCE
and a Democratic President about to
come in. There are four good paying
offices R1TnEE VACANT nDh VI dbOAN ~ DE-
come vacant. The vacancy caused by the
resiguation Of Hon. John Erskine as
United states Judge for this district has
NOT vet been filed. Marshal K. ID. Locke
has resigned. and his resignation IS still
in the hands OF the department at Wash
ingtOn. The POstmasteTship becomes va
cant on Friday, Dec. %, and the Collec-
tOrship one week later.
The most important position is the
l.. L.a haa
time. and has attracted more attention
than any other. AS il is considered
life appointment, has a good salary at
tached. and is a position Of much honor
and dignity. il is not to be wondered at
| that il is much sought after. The appl-
cants are numerous. Those who have
| been mentioned prominently are Hon.
| Henry p. FarrOw and Col. Z. 2. Goodyear,
| Of Brunswick: Judge II. ID. ID. Twiggs. of
/ Augusta; ex-Judge J. ;. Hook, OF Au-
gusta: John ID. Cunningham and Emory
| Sheer. Of Atlanta. and Walter Evans, Of
/ the Internal Revenue Office at Washing
/ ton. All the applicants are men Of promi-
| nence and several of them have strong
/ Endorsements, All profess to be almost
| certain OF success, and some OF them
| regard their appointment as fOregone
| conclusion. About the only fOregOne
| conclusion that can be reached In con-
/ nectiOn with the matter Is that some OF
/ them will be very sadly disappointed.
/ The fight has been regarded as between
| Messrs. FarrOw, Goodyear and Cunning
! ham. The former has the Endorsement
/ Of the Republican machine in Georgia;
Col. Goodyear has some strong RepuOll-
| can Endorsements and some Of the men,
| beTs of the bar of the district; Mr.. Gun
/ ningham has the backing Of a number Of
! strong men in Georgia and also in Ala
/ bama, where Re was on the bench years
/ ago.
some Republicans think Mr.. Evans
| chances are good, but DO not assign rea-
/ son other than that he IS close TO the
/ President. and has been such good stall
/ wart and such a warm administration
man. that Mr.. Arthur would like to do
/ something more for him than he has been
I able 10 do. That Mr.. Speer has any ex-
| tensiVe support is not known. His posi-
/ ton of District Attorney does not expire
until 1887. but he would like the position
| if he could get it. One Republican, speak
/ ing Of the mention Of Speer's name, says
/ he is trusting to get the place through
complication in the scramble, and, ''as
| usual, wants the earth" Col. Goodyear
was in Savannah a few days ago, and said
| that he was confident he would be sue
| cessful.
AS to the Marsbalship. it seems proba-
| bic that Col. +. e. Wade, at present
Chief Deputy Marshal Will be appointed
! Some three weeks ago Marshal Locke sent
his resignation to W. II. Johnson, Col
lect0r OF Internal Revenue for the State.
Accompanying it was Col. Wade's APP
nlIcatiOn tor the place together with his
| Endorsement. These went TO Washington
and are on file there. and report, en-
| cnuraging to Col. Wade, was returned.
Whether be will have any opposition is
not definitely known. Mr.. b. W. Brim-
berry, of Randolph county, had intended
being an applicant if Blaine had been
elected. and whether he is still in the
field Col. Wade's friends have not been
informed. Marshal Locke, when relieved,
will. il is understood. be made Marine
Clerk in the custom house, as the sue
cessOr of the late James Cox.
No new developments have transpired
in the matter of the positions Of POstmas-
ter and Collector. Gen. McLaWs has been
in Washington, and his friends are conf
dent, but the machine Republicans say
that Col. A. y. Wilson will be appointed.
This appointment, if made, will of course
be purely political. Col Wilson said
Yesterday that he did not think the ap-
pOintment Of Postmaster would be made
until the Postmaster General returns to
Washington. HattOn viii not be IN
Washington until next week.
Collector johnson will have no OppOsi-
ton for Collector until after President
Cleveland takes his seat. His applica-
ton has been on file in Washington for
nearly a month. The COllectOrship does
not paw as much as it formerly did. In
| 1888 it paid 81, 259, and in 1884 $4,243. 1t
mas not varied much during late years,
/ except one year. when there were extern
siFe shipments of steel rails to this port.
then it considerably exceeded the above
figures. The Collectors books show that
during this fiscal year. beginning july l,
up to date. the fees have amounted to
SLIP. Under the Morrison bill about
5000 will be taken off, so that the Office
will be worth about $4,000.
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