St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-26
Why Cleveland Hssitates to Remove the
Present Incumbent of the Public
Printers Office.
Comptroller of the Treasury Decides That
SS4,500 Yearly is Paid With
out Warrant.
Twenty-four Unauthorized Names on
the Roll OF the Court of Ala
bama Claims.
Merchandise to be Carried Under the
Postal Delivery system Soon to
be Launched.
The Public Partnership.


WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-Indiana, al
though big with expectation, has succeeded
To the head of no department that carries
with it a gratifying number of subordinate
places. In the beginning, the Office of
public printer was promised and assured to
that Democracy. but this good fortune re-
suited in multiplying candidates. Hon. J.
B. Stall Of South Bend, being most per-
siStent and having the advantage OF being
on the ground, at last secured the per-
tunctOry support of majority of the Indiana
delegation. There was great mealineSS
in the Endorsement, for the reason that
prominent leaders had lost faith in Mr..
Stalls politics, and personally he seemed
distaSteful TO too many. During the form
alive period or his candidacy, while the
state officers declined to appear in open
hostility, they telegraphed their preference
for Maj. HilligaS. and Mr.. Wadsworth was
urged from every quarter to ask for the
position on the ground that Mr. Stall was
undeServing. March and April fitted away,
and Maj. HilligaS' application had been
withdrawn before Mai. Watson felt at liberty
10 announce with the seal of authority:
The delegation will stand by Stall" 3"
'While Stall personally is not my man, )"
the average Indiana congressman would ex-
plain, the Office is one that that the state
ought TO have-One that would do the party
the GREATEST good, and having gone this far
with him it
WOULD BE SUICIDE
TO offer any other candidate. To withdraw
him would be virtually Withdrawing the
state" Upon the whole. it may be safely
written that no candidate for place within
the gift of President Cleveland has
awakened less personal enthusiasm than
Mr.. Stall. While the Hendricks men We're
not arduOuS, the Mcdonald men were less.
When Mr.. Stall started the South Bend
Times, something over two years ago, it is
alleged that he asked for and received
money from nearly all the leading Demo-
Gratis of the state. Not only Mr.. Me
DOnaldS friends responded To the request
for funds. but Mr.. Mcdonald himself was
liberal contributor. In ungrateful re-
turn for this generosity, whatever influence
MIR. Stall had was exercised against Indi-
ana'S candidate, and he seriously made
show of supporting Holman. but so flinsy
was it that il is said he even lost HOlman'S
esteem. Inidelity to Mr.. Mcdonald, after
having taken the money of Mcdonald and
McDOnald's friends, explains the attitude
of Congressman Cobb, who has said from
the first that Mr.. Stall would not be given
that position. While Senator Voorhees, has
always asked. and ON several occasions ex-
peeted the Office for Indiana, he has never
heSitated TO express poverty of admira-
tion for lndiana's candidate. The fact,
however, that Nh. Stalls enemies in the
early stages of his candidacy were
INIPRUDENTLY VIOLENT
and addicted 10 statements of their
objections has operated in his favor BY Civ
ing his friends occasion 10 demand the ap-
pOintnent rs a vindicatiOn. Indeed, his
greatest strength developed out of the fact
that charges of conduct implying i'm
morality, brought against him by John
FTenZel and jackson Landers, were SIIs-
ceptibie OF explanation that materially
mitigated them. But Mr.. Stalls applica-
tiOn had a weakness concealed at still an
other point His champion was Judge
LOwery, strong personal friend of Mr..
Rounds, and under personal obli-
cations Of a political nature
to that eminent typOgrapher.
For years relations between Mr.. Rounds
and Judge LOwery have been very close,
aud all through the controversy growing
out of asking the place for Mr.. Stall, the
representative of the TT. Wayne congress
SiOnal district has kept a constituent in
the establishment Ion influence" This
being the case, Judge LOwery, while max
ING show of fighting for the removal of
Mr.. Rounds, could not as Tom Benton
said, fight for funeral" Under these
circumstances. it is not strange that Presi-
dent Cleveland. who is dawning upon the
public aS an executive disposed to go slow
in the matter OF removals, has decided to
retain the present incumbent. who. aside
from his politics, is certainly most ac-
ceDfablp officer