The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-07
INDIANA IMPUDENCE.
The Bourbons Should BE Content with the
Offices They Have Received.

The Bourbons Should BE Content with the
Offices They Have Received.
Chicago Tribune.
1t is stated on good authority from Washing
ton that delegation of Indiana Democrats,
jealous of the number of appointments which
have been given to Illinois, will call upon the
President to day to protest against the injustice
with which Indiana has been treated. Ii such
delegation should call for such purpose it would
be commendable thing for the President to do
to promptly rebuke their impertnence and bad
manners by showing them the door at once. or
by instructing his private secretary not to admit
them.
What has Illinois bad that these professional
Indiana spoilsmen should besiege the White
House with their clamor and importunity2 She
has been awarded one foreign mission, one of
the last on the list. fourth rate place in rank,
though one OF the pleasantest little countries in
Europe Belgium ranks not only below England,
France, Russia, Germany and Austria, but
below Italy, Turkey, Spain, China, Japan and
Mexico. The post is one of comparative unim-
portance, with little work and less pay. If the
President sent Judge Tree in place of an Indiana
man to Brussels it was because diplomatic po-
Stion in q European court, however humble re-
quires not alonea man of brains, but a gentleman
of manners To find such person among the
Indiana Democrats would occupy the time of the
PRESIDENT during the remainder OF his term.
Illinois has the first assistant postmaster gener-
Rlship. which has been given to n cross grained
partisan, whose duties will be similar to those of
Higgins in the Treasury Department He will
be the postal headsman commissioned to kick as
large hole as possible through the civilservice
system. and to fill up the department with Dem
ocratic bummers. She has the Commissioner of
Pensions, whose duty it will be to kick out tho
old soldiers in the Pension Department, and de-
wise ways and means to revenge him
self upon the refractory Miss Sweet.
She has the Commissioner of the Land
Department, and this last item fills the list
of her Offices Two or three bureau appoint
10 and h4
Offices which have been awarded to the great
State of Illinois, the fourth in population and
the second in consequence among the States of
the Union. Her most prominent and most rep
resentative Democrat-Bishop Oberly-has been
assigned to the position of medicine man among
the Indians, with power to look after handful
of little Indian boys, trying to pick up an educa-
ton in the Indian schools That is the way Hi
nois has been treatedf
Indiana, on the other hand, has the Vice Pres
ident-the second Office in the gift of the people
and, by calculation of ordinary average
chances, she may yet have the President
With this share she should have been
content But she also has Bayless w
Hanna as minister to the Argentine Republic,
sent there by President Cleveland notwth-
standing his ofensiveness as Office beggar
and the trouble he gave the whole administra-
ton with his mendicant importantly. She has
Rufus Magee, minister to Sweden and Norway,
and Charles DENLY minister to China, and both
these positions rank above that at Belgium,
which was given to Judge Tree. She has three
ministers to one from Illinois. OF what is she
complaningl Ii any State is warranted in
making complaint it is Illinois Ohio Re
publican State, has been given two first class
diplomatic positions. Wisconsin, q Republican
State, was given Cabinet position; likewise
Massachusetts. another Republican State. New
York, also Republican State, has the Presi-
dent two Cabinet positions and everything else
that she wanted. Vermont, ono of the banner
Republican States, was given the first position
on the diplomatic list; and yet Illinois. which
produced Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lin
coin Ulysses S. Grant and John A. Logan, is
put off with two or three insignificant bureau
appointments and one fourth-rate mission. If
appointments are to be given out geographically,
and not upon the ground of intelligence, even
then Illinois, by virtue of her position and her
consequence as the second State i'll the Union,
should have had an important Cabinet position.
0he VIII never have her dues until she is award
ed first class place. The clamor of Indiana is
simply preposterous and indecent, and it should
DO promptly rebuked by the President.