Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-03-18
wEDNESDAY.....MARCH Is. 1885
Dissatisfaction.

uaton Will not run .Smo0thiy until TN
Democrats shall have become recon
ciled TO the fact that Mr.. CLEvELANI
must appoint men Of his own or hi
Cabinets choice to the highest offices
aud that there are not half as many
cf,oes, counting the clerSships, as
there are applicants for Office. Some
persons must be disappointed--nore
than half of The ofiice-seekers. AS
SHARspEARE says, if two ride a
horse one must needs ride behind" IL
is impossible tina, both can ride before.
And it is also impossible for two appli-
can.s TO fiji the same Office. One must
needs ride behind-that is, take sub
ordinate posilion-or else not ride at
all.
Mr.. CLEVELAND is a man with a
will Of his owa. Immense pressure was
brought TO bear upon him to induce him
to appoint ex. Congressman THOMPSON,
Of Kentucky. Commissioner of Internal
Revenue; but in vain. Either he left
the appointment entirely to Mr.. MAN
MING. the Secretary Of the Treasury,
or else he himself appointed JOSEPH
S. MILLER, of West Virginia. to that
office. II required about as much firm
ness in the one case rs in the other.
BECK, CARLISLE. MORRISON, BLACK
BURN, backed up by two thirds Of the
Democrats in the House Of Representa-
tives, asked for the appointment of
THoMPsON. But Mr.. THOMPSON was
too closely allied with the Whiskey
RiDg-or, at any rate, supposed TO be
and Mr.. CLEVELAND, as President,
or MIR. MANNING. as Secretary of the
Treasury, deemed it unadvisable to give
him an office Of which it was reasonable
at least to fear that the Whiskey Ring
were exceedingly anxious to have con-
troll.
In 1884 Kentucky and Illinois paid
forty-two millions Of dollars of internal
tsxes--nearly all Of it upon whiskey-
more than one third of the amount Of
internal taxes paid by all of the thirty
eight States and all the Territories.
Aud it will be recollected that at the
first session Of the Forty-cighth Con-
gress the Whiskey Ring made a
desperate effort to induce that body to
extend the time for paying the taxes
upon whskey. The effort failed.
Let not the reader suppose that the
whiskey Ring are opposed to the heavy
tax upon whiskey. Not at all. They
are in favor of it. 1t gives them sub
staniial monopoly Of the business Of
manufacturing that article.
II is charged that Mr.. MILLER owes
his Office to Mr.. RANDALL. We can
not imagine why Mr.. RANDALL should
not press the claims of his friends to
Office. lie is one Of the best Of men
and one Of the best Of Democrats. The
troable seems to be fear that he mayr
against Mr.. CARLISLE for Speaker of the
next House Of Representatives. We
hold this fear to be groundless. Even
Mr.. RANDALL was not an ADLER Speak
er than Mr.. CARLISLE, and Mr.. RAN
DALI is an eminently practical man.
The Administration may stand by him
in the matter Of appointments to Office,
but this is no indication that it will
adopt him rs the Administration candi-
date for Speaker. Oh, no. There is
nothing in the Apprehension.
But the most improbable story Of all
was told several days ago by the Wash
ington correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette. He said:
III Mr.. Thompson is appointed it
will be received as direct approval Of
Mr.. Carlisle and his free-tradc theories.
II. on the contrary, Mr.. Miller is APP
pointed il will be taken to mean that
the Administrator endorses Mr.. Ran
dali and bis protection views"
"a noted Democra6c ex-senator said
tonight: Il look upon the decision OF
this matter as perhaps the most impor-
tsnt thing this Administration will have
to deal with, and it will more than any
other thing, to my mind, decide the fate
Of Cleveland. Here the line must be
drawn. Shall the besetting sin Of Ken
lucky be cndorseds Shall the ayowed
friend Of the whiskey Interest be en-
dorsedg Shall Carlisle and free trade
be endorsed, or shall Randall and pro-
tectioa be endorsedg'"
These are mere guesses. There is
nothing in them. Mr.. MANNING
kept standing at the head of the
Heditorial columns Of his paper, the
Albany Argus, during the recent
presidential campaign. the words,
1.-The Tariff is Not an Issue in This
Election" Mr.. CLEVELAND, as Gov
crnor of the State Of New York, was
residing in Albany at the time. We
take il for granted, therefore, that Mr..
CLEVELAND and Mr.. MANNING both
iasend TO stand upon the Chicago plat
form in company with both Mr.. RAN.
DALI and Mr.. CARLISLE.
Nevertheless, much dissatisfaction
viii fesalt from the filling Of the Gov
rrnlneDt Offices by Mr.. CLEVELAND
md his Cabinet. II cannot be avoided. |
lie will not be moved by il. He can
,ot afford to give his attention to such
matters. Let the people stand by him, |