The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-02
"BETRAYING" THE PRESIDENT.
Some Specimens of How Prominent Demo
Gratis Impose on Cleveland.

Some Specimens of How Prominent Demo-
Gratis Impose on Cleveland.
Special to New York SUM-
The number of senators, and representatives,
and governors, and judges, and colonies who
have lent their influence and signatures to aid
unworthy men to get office is almost past belief.
The evil has become very serious one. The
administration has been embarrassed and him
dered at every turn in making changes in Office
by the bad work of those very Democrats who
tration is too slow 1t is the very men of the
Colorado brand who compel it to 60 slow. Were
it to act on the unprincipled recommendations
these men have made to it, without taking time
to investigate, it would become involved in such
scandal that it would be overwhelmed at the fall
elections.
There are many parallels to the receptions
practiced by the Colorado and Kentucky states.
men which have led to the revocations of ap,
pontments in those STATES The shotgun post
master of Copiah county, Mississippi, whose resig.
nation has been called for by Mr.. Villas, was fosted
upon the President by Representative Banks
dale. Attorney general Garland, it is said was
nearly entrapped recently into appointing to
Office man for whose arrest for rsestealing
Mr.. Garland as Governor Of Arkansas, offered
a reward A remarkable exposure of an attempt
to palm off an unfit applicant occurred in Secre-
tary Manning's Office the other day. A United
States senator had in tow man confirmed in
Incorporate habits whom he was pushing for an
internal revenue appointment A gentleman
from the same State who knew the applicant,
went to see the President and laid the facts
before HIM.
II wish you would lay the facts before the
Secretary of the Treasury" said the President.
The gentleman reached the Secretarys Office
to find the senator and his bibulous friend in con.
sultation with Secretary Manning He called the
latter parsonage aside. and said that the caudi-
dote was drunkard.
WELL" said Mr. Manning, ''you say you can
substantate your charges. Suppose you settle
the matter right here and bringing the three
visitors together, he told the gentleman to state
his charges in the presence of the candidate.
charge was true. He withdrew his application,
and retired with his senatorial friend. The lat
ter was not at all abashed by the exposure, and
recommended another man, who proved to be
under Indictment.
In another case, where Treasury appoint
ment was made on the recommendation OF sew
eral congressman, Secretary Manning learned.
after the commission had been mailed, that the
appointee had been indicted for quite serious
offense. A dispatch demanding his resignation
forthwith nipped another scandal in the bud.
An application for an important appointment in
the railway mail service is pending before Post
master general Villas, which bears the names of
| congressman, and Judges and business men of
Ohio. The man they recommend was defaulter,
and the men who recommended him knew it.
There are scores oe such cases in every de-
partment which require the most careful scru-
tiny before appointments can be made. Letters
and petitions have become almost valueess, SO
careless have public men become in lending
their names to everybody who asks for them.
The infirmity of some statesmen in this partcu
lar has become so thoroughly understood that
their names almost create suspicion of the un-
fitness of the applicants for whom they vouch.