The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-03
POSTMASTER Parsons APPOINT
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There is general feeling of satisfaction
exoiesssd by the New York papers over the
reappointment of Postmaster Pearson. The
Tribune says: 1T satisfies the public be-
cause it is good thing in itself. .
The President is well aware that the Repub.
licans will not find fault If he recognizes the
eminent fitness or worth OF one or a great
many Of the capable men who now make the
public service efficient and faithful. .
at present this Is to be said in his favor,
that he has resppointed one out OF the many
Republican officials whose unquestioned and
superior fitness renders their retention in
Office the clear duty OF a President who means
20 improve and not degrade the public
service. For so much, thanks The
Times, which, with the Evening Post, had
for ten days previously been keeping up a
sharp fire upon the President lest he "were
about to prove recreant to all his past
record and public professions" thus COM
ments: "The reappointment Of Mr.. Pear
son to be Postmaster OF New York is good
act done in the best possible manner. 1t
fixes the tone and declares the standard of
President Cleveland's administration in a
way and to degree that no other act has
done and hardly any other could do. It has
been done deliberately and leaves no doubt
of the firmness of the principles by which
the President was guided, and II is Of ma
ture to give an unmistaksble impression of
what those principles are"
The Herald Gays the President calmly
did his duty. That duty was, before decid-
ing to reappoint Mr.. Pearson or to name his
successor, to ascertain how the postoffice had
been managed. Those who cried out for Mr..
Pearsons reappointment did so on the
ground that he had been conspicuously
faithful TO the civil service reform law. But
it was plainly the duty OF the President and
the Postmaster General to ascertain also that
economically and honestly. If it had been
proved that he had not done this, his deyo.
ton to the civil service law could not and
ought not to have secured his resppoint-
ment. We congratulate Mr.. Pear
son not only on his reappointment but
much more on the manner of it. .
The President and Postmaster General have,
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management. concluded that they are ready
to trust Mr.. Pearson in this very important
place; that they find he has done well and is
do Dg well-so well that having regard TO
the efficiency OF the public service and the
large and varied interests involved and also
to their own responsibility to the public for
those interests, they do not think change
H l.. = 1t
Pearson may be justly proud.
1--WE congratulate, also, the President on
this act, which will show the country that
neither the clamors of hungry politicians nor
the outcries and buster of some narrow
minded friends Of civil service reform can
move him from his plain duty to the coun.
try"
Such reflections of the press of the me-
tropolis show the full drift OF public opin-
ion at his own home of the resppointment
of Mr. Pearson as Postmaster. Tbs country
a large, except few disappoin ed office-
seekers co daily indorse this appointment
81 d VI lite with the herald in congratulating
Mr.. cleveland upon the wisdom and justice of
this step. The conservative Republicans of
New York and Brooklyn were an immense
factor in the election of Mr.. Clevelans.
Without them New York State would have
been Overwhelmingly Republican. That the
"mugRumps" saved this Nation from four
years siege of Blaine administration is a fact
that should not be lost sighto and that this
new wing of the Democratic party are en-
titled to recognition by the administration
in the selecting of officers for public places is
equally evident
In no place could such recognition be
shewn so justly as in those cities where the
mugwump element was most numerous, aud
in no person more fittingly than the appoint
ment of Mr.. Pesrson-s conservative Rspub-
lican, an efficient and faithful officer, an ac-
ceptable man to the business men and .citi-
zens ger orally of New York.