St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-17
Offensive Postmasters in the Northwest
Must Turn Their Offices Over
to Democrats.
Logan Gommends the President, But He
Still Feels Unhappy Over the
Late Campaign.
Cleveland to Summer and Fish in th'
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CivA Ser
vice Nonsense.
The Ohio Combination Booming Sher-
man for President Strong ohe
--Capital Gossip.
Northwesterr, Postoffices.

WASHINGTON. June 16.-At last the
great Northwest is receiving some attention
from the administration. Postmaster Cen
eral Villas adjusted his eyeglasses to-day
and looked over the recommendations OF
several candidates for postotflces IN Minnie
sofa. Iowa and Montana. His inveStiga-
ton did not result in as many appointments
as might be desired, but they indicate his
desire to make changes in that section of
country as well as elsewhere. A friend OF
the administration hailing from Iowa said
to the GLOBE correspondent that the
removals made to-day was beginning OF
the vigorous policy Gen. Villas would soon
adopt in cleaning out the offices generally
through the Northwestern states. a large
number of appointments were made to-day,
among which were the following postmast-
ers: ". J. Whipple at WinOna, MIMI,
vice Daniel Sinclair, suspended; Robert T.
Menefee at Bozeman, Mont. vice E. c..
Anderson, suspended; Buren S. Wasson at
Laporte, Ia, vice J. r. Stebbins, suspended;
John L. Etzel at Clear Lake, Ia; Alfred t..
Tinsley at Sibley, Ia; Albert l.. Donnard
at MarengO, la.
The postmaster at Bozeman was sus-
pended upon the report OF the Inspector,
showing gross carelesSness in the manage
ment of his office, failure to collect and ac-
count for box rents, and especially failure
to make reports, deposits and quarterly ac-
count as required by the third assistant
postmaster general and sixth auditor, after
notice. The department desires the an
nouncement to come to the knowledge OF
ALL PoSTMASTERS
in the service that their failure to make re-
ports. deposits or accounts after notice
will be ground for removal with
out further inquiry. The postmaster
at Winona, Mimi: Osceola, Ia, and La
Porte, City, Ia; North Manchester. Ind;
Cambridge, O.; Augusta, Ga, and Ball
ston, n. Y, were suspended upon PROOF Oh
acts of partisanshlp while in office. Ihese
acts were of various kinds, some were edl-
tors as well as pOstmasters, and their news
papers, in some cases, since as well as De
fore the election, had contained ScurrllouS
and indecent attacks upon officers OF the
government as well as malignancy OF pollt-
icaI feeling toward their adversarles gener-
ally. In some cases it has also been estaD-
lished that the postmasterS kept hanging In
the pOStOffice
THE POLITICAL PLACARDS
of one party and refused to permit those OF
the other party to be there displayed, these
unfit for the eyes of respectable
persons. In other cases the postmasterS
were shown to have been efficient political
agents of their party, members of its work
ing committee in its organization, well
known in it as such and taking particular
part in the conduct Of election business,
often to the impairment of their perform
ance of the duties of the office. In several
of the cases, political notices, circulars and
newspapers of the opposite political party
were known to have been detained in the
postoffice.
NEW WINONA POSTMASTER.
WNoNA, June 16.-William j. Whipple,
the newly-appointed postmaster of this city,
Is SO years of age, and came to Winona about
sixteen years ago from Wisconsin, where he
had been engaged in active law practice.
He established the Winona Herald, which
has ever since been one of the leading Dem
ocratic papers of the state. About year
ago he retired from the active editorial con-
troll of the paper and travelled abroad for his
health, passing last winter in California.
For several years he has been chairman OF
the Democratic county committee, and at
every campaign he has been an active
worker. He is held in high esteem by peo-
pie Of all parties, and when the petition was
in circulation for the postOffice appointment
many of the Republicans placed their names
to the paper. He holds low tariff princi-
pies. He succeeds Daniel Sinclair, who has
hold tho ofTica for ahOJ1t SiYtaen wears