Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-04
FROM WARRINGTON.
,specis! ndence OF tho Alexandria Gasett.

Especial Correspondence OF tho Alexandria Gaseto.l
" asHINGvoN. D. g.. August 4, 1885.
Among the 4'h class postmasters removed
yesterday were about seventy 10 New \ ork
There were no charges against them, the
fact that they were republicans being suf6-
cient to induce Assistant Postmaster Gener.
al Stevenson 10 issue the order for their re-
noval. II is said that Mr.. Stevenson, by
taking matters in his own hand, and remov-
ing pos masters for no other reason than the
fact That lhey are republicans is very salts.
factory 10 the administration, iuasmuch as
its policy with regard to removals has
thereby been changed, as it should have
been, without its own order or even intima-
ton.
Col Sims, the delegate to Gen. Mahone's
convention upon whom the colored delegate
4 w. Harris heaped such abuse, after being
dropped from he rolls of Senate employees
last win. er was reinstatcd, but only tempo
rarily, as republican Senators protested
against his reappointment, and so he was
permanently removed after one months
more service.
1t is un,irrs! God today that the President
has not time to listen to the arguments OF
the cattle men for an extension of the time
allowed them to remove their cattle from
ihc ludian country, but has turned that mat
ter over u General Sheridan aud Secretary
Lamar, md the impression is that if the
cutllemen show an intention Of complying
with the order they will not be hurried be-
You'd their capacity to do SO.
A we'll known democratic politician from
Indiana, in the city TO- day, says that before
he went away from here, month ago, be
supposed from what he had heard from his
Slate that the dissatisfaction was as great
there as it was here about that time, but
that he found himself mistaken, and that,
outside of few disappointed Office seekers
and some politicians, he believes the people
of that State are so we'll satisfied with the
Presidents good intentions and determine
ton to do what he thinks is right, that if the
next Presidential election were to take
place to morrow he would not only get,
with few exceptions, the whole democratic,
but an immense republican vote-in fact
the vote Of all the people of the State whose
object is good government and not the pos.
session of office.
Some of the recent Presidential postofice
appointments show plainly enoug b that the
official term has nothing to do with
the removal of a postmaster if the admins
tration is of the opinion that a good demo-
crat can be found to take his place. for
some of the removed postmasters have been
excellent officers and had been appointed
only few months before the new admins.
tration came into Office.
republican politician from North Caro-
lima, here to day, in talking about the pro-
bable result of next falls election in
Virginia, said he supposed General Lee
would be elected, and that the democrats
would always be successful in every South.
ern State as long as the negro vote in those
States remained, as it il, solidly repub-
!ican. He had, he said, seen this for
years, and in his own State, and in
his own canvasses, had, as the best means
to secure his own success, advised the me-
groes TO divide their vote like the white
people; for, said he, just as long as the negro
vote is solid, the white vote will be so too,
and not unnaturally for blood is thicker
than water. Continuing, he said, if it were
not Tor the fact Of negro supremacy, he be-
lieved half the States of the South would be
republican.
The President recently told a prominent
democratic Senator that in promoting the
welfare of his country he would necessarily
promote that of his party, and that because
he was President was no reason WHY he
should not look after his party, and in look
ing after that it was his object to please the
party g leaders "but," said he, .'you have
80 many it Is impossible for
me- to give them all Offices. Now, suppose
you select from all you have recommended
\ few really good men. whose appointment
would be agreeable 10 you and to the party, !
md I'll see that they have places" This
pointer" which will be ayaied of by those