Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-09
dent a few days ago says that Mr.. Cleveland

dent a,few days ago says that Mr.. Cleveland
has become so skillful in discovering the
character and qualifications of men through
their papers that he has come to rely good
deal upon them as a guide. He does not
like greasy, disorderly papers that look as
if they had been passed about in sloppy
places, filed up with lead pencil signatures,
and then rolled up in wad. A stuffed
batch of signatures does not deceive him.
Having gone over lot of papers he sorts
out those in which the applications are
made without sniveIng, in straightfor-
ward and business-like manner, always dis
carding the sort that begin: 81 base my ap-
plicatiOn for this office on my services rem
dered in the last campaign" From among
the applicants whose papers arrest attention
because their writers possess ability and in
telligence, the President again selects
number to whom he manages to convey
the intimation that it would be gratifying
to him to meet them in person. When the
applicants present themselves they must
pass another test, for they are encouraged
to talk freely and so furnish the President,
who is good judge of men, with an idea
of their knowledge, discretion and business
ability. The President is easy and infor-
NAL, and soon leads his visitors to talk in
an unrestrained fashion. Sometimes it is
good for them and more frequently it is
always good for the President Washing
tom Correspondent N Y: Times.
LETTER PosTAGE.-The new system of
postage, by which an ounce instead of a half
ounce is made the standard weight for let
ters, is one of the results of policy which
has many advocates and nearly as many
opponents among persons familiar with the
postal service. When the receipts of the
Post Office Department began to approach in
amount the expenses efthe service, the ques-
tion arose whether the receipts should be
diminished by lowering the postal rates, or
the expenses increased by providing great
er facilities for the quick transportation and
convenient delivery of mail matter. Post
master Pearson and many other experienced
postal officers are known to feel that the
facilities granted to the public in this coun-
advocates of the system of better service say
that the rates Of postage have not been exor-
bitant, that most of the letter writing is
done by persons who do not feel greatly
slight difference in rates, and that the real
need of those who contribute most to the
postal revenues is certainty that their
letters will be delivered quickly and safely.
They believe that the house to house deliv-
cry should be extended to all large towns,
though it may not for generations become
universal, as in England. More frequent
deliveries and collections of letters in large
cities, the transportation of mails to places
Of any Importance by the quickest route,
even if the more expensive one, and other
plans for bringing the receipt of postal
message as near as possible in point of time
to its deposit in the mail, find advocates
among the officials in the service.
The system, however, which of recent
years has been almost uniformly successful
in gaining the approval oflegislators is that
looking toward the reduction of the rates of
postage. The great reduction from three
cents to two cents as single rate for letters
has been followed by reductions in the cost
of sending periodicals not dispatched from
publication offices and other changes, end
ing in the present increase in the allowed
weight Of single-rate letters. It is an open
question whether the system of reduction is
the better one or has been adopted only
because it is on the surface the one most
likely to increase the popularity of the leg
islators.-Ne,o York Times.
RESIGNATION OF Mr.. HAY.-Malcolm
Hay, has resigned as First Assistant Post
master General, his resignation taking ef-
feet on Monday last. Ex-Congressman
Stevenson, of Illinois, has been appointed
Hay to leave Washington in few days
for Colorado or Wyoming. Hay refused to
receive any compensation for the time he
was absent in Florida, and turned over the
vouchers which he. received for his salary
for that time to the Treasury Department.
1t is said that Mr.. Hays resignation was
prompted simply on account Of bad health,
and on referring to the matter last Friday,
the Postmaster General said: From the
purest of motives Hay had striven to con-
tinue the performance of his arduous and
exhaustive task, but his physical strength
was not equal to the strain. Of Mr.. Stew
enson, who had been selected to succeed
Mr.. Hay, the Postmaster General said that
he was thoroughly in accord with the poll
cy of the Administration, and would carry
out the wishes of the President in the mat
ter of appointments. Stevenson was born
in Kentucky in 1885, and removed to Bloom
ington, Illinois, when 16 years of age, where
he studied law. He held various State ju-
dcal offices, and was candidate for Presi-
Dental Elector on the Mcclellan ticket in
1864. In 1874 he was elected to the United
States House of Representatives AS dele
gate to the last Democratic National Con-
Vention he voted on every ballot for j. b.
Mcdonald and was a member of the COM
mittee appointed to notify the nominees of
their selection. He has been warm friend
of Postmaster General Villas for many years.
Stevenson is a man of powerful physique
and is said to be we'll equipped for the dis
charge of his new duties.
THE WAR ON PoLYGAMY.-AS Salt Lake
dispatch says: Among the latest arrests for
polygamy are John Nicholson, editor of the
Deseret Neavs, the Mormon Church organ,
and George Romney, wealthy and prom
inent citizen. Each had two wives. Nj
cholson was arrested several months ago,
but having spirited his wives and children
away, the grand jury could obtain no testi-
mony and had to ignore the charge. Since
that time the paper has been more abusive
than ever of Federal officials. The other
day brother of his polygamous wife was
found by a deputy, with enough testi-
mony to indict. Romney's polygamy is
twenty-five years old.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the de-
csion of Chief Justice Zane in the cases of
Elders Canon and MusSer. Hereafter it
will be an easy matter to convict polygan-
lists, the Judges saying that proof of cohab-
itation is unnecessary, 1t being sufhclent
to convict man if he lives under the same
roof with two or more women, or II he holds
out as wives two or more whether or not ne
lives with either. The Supreme Courts
opinion has destroyed the last hope of the
pOlygamists, who realize now that they
must flee from the country, abandon their
surplus wives or 60 to the penitentiary.
THE SOUTu Carolina COLLEGE CUES