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More About Appointments What
Offensive Partnership Means
How TO turn the Rascals out.

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Offensive Partisanshlp" Means
How to turn the Rascals out
The matter Of appointments under
the new Administration, is receiving
so large a share of attention that
We would be remiss, as a faith
full chr1nicler, if we failed to note
what is announced by authority TO be
its intention. The extracts which we
have copied below must be accepted as
coming from the most reliable sources.
First. offensive partisanship" must be
clearly proved against an incumbent to
secure.his dismissal. Says the Washing
ton Post (Dem.) Of the 10th.
In speaking of the appointments of
Presidential pOstmasters made yesterday,
Postmaster General.Eilas said that. in aG-
dition to the removals made for offensive
partnership there were as many more
cases in which. after consideration, it
/ had been decided not to remove the post
masters. In those eases, although
evidence Of offensive partisanship had
/ been presented, it was regarded as
/ insufficient, the President not being
| disposed to seize the opportunity for
removal, but to require the existence of
/ partisanship to be shown as an undeniable
I fact As showing the spirit Of fairness
and delicacy that had animated the
/ President in dealing with the Presiden-
/ tial postmasters, the POstmaster-Genera
/ said that there were eighteen such Presi-
Dental appointments made by President
| Arthur in the last days of his term in
cases where vacancies had occurred and
which had not been confirmed by the
! Senate, but no commissions had issued
/ In all of these cases As a matter of legal
right President Cleveveland could have
made appointments, because the act of
appointment had not been completed by
/ the issuance of commissions. But he
thought it only considerate and fair that
he should give the. commissions in com
pletion Of the act of appointment, and
it had been done in all rases but one,
and in that case there had been a resig-
nation by the appointee before the com
mission issued.
1t will be conceded that this act of
the President was the very quintescence
of magnanimity. He confirmed and
ratified eighteen Republican appoint
ments that were proposed, but not fully
completed during the term of his sue
cessor.
Again, as illustrative Of Mr. CLEvE-
Lands liberality, mention is made of
his retention of the Malone Postmas-
tiers at Petersburg and Woodstock, Viz
ginia.
It is known that Mr. MALCoM HAY,
First Assistant Postmaster General, deals
with Postmasters of the fourth class
= Mr.. SrEALY, the obseryant Washington
| correspondent of the CowjeJ-J Journal
makes this mention of the progress he i.
making in turning good men in:
Things are moving little slowly here
now, and there is no mistake about it
First Assistant Postmaster General Hav i.
disappointing Democrats, and it looks like
he was going to give us all a heap Of
trouble if he is not checked in some Of hi.
ideas. Several Democratic Congressmer
told your correspondent to-day that they
could get no satisfaction whatever out o.
Mr.. Hay, and felt as though he had snub-
bed them. One remarked that he eoulc
take his district and do as he blankeC
pleased with the offices Another said i
re could not take his word about the in
competency or the offensive partnership o.
a postmaster, he could go to sheol In
= deed, the opinion is steadily growing here
that Mr.. Hay is not much of a Democrat
and that he does not propose TO hurt him
self much in getting Democrats in office
Before he took charge OF his office a Re
publican First Assistant was appointing
from fifty TO seventy-hve fourth-class post
masters daily. Mr.. Hay is appointing
about twenty. At this rate it will take
him about nine years to get through; BY
that time half the applicants will have
died with the Hay fever.
How to get the claims of ofice-seekers
before the Washington authorities, is a
serious question with many of them.
Here is some valuable information from
the Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald, which, next to the
Washington Post, bears the relation of
"organ" to the Administration
1t is, perhaps, useful for seekers after
|
the urgency of Congressional or other sup
p0rters here, does more harm than good
A competent man Is more apt to get a place
by sending ON his application and his
references, and leaving these TO be con-
sidered, than by coming here to appeal in
person. In fact the dirty little office seek
ing brigade" as the Herald called it the
other day, might as well go home and stay
there. The administration is at work and
wants time to do its work 1t does not
consider the dispensation Of places the first
of It's duties and, while it makes good
many removals, many of those are of men
| who are not needed to do the work. and the
rest are put out because they are inefficient
or unfaitLful and the President rigidly
| requires that the men put in their places
| shall be actually capable and faithful men.
To find such is not easy. When found they
are called to fiji vacancies but men are
not given office merely to crafty influential
| persons, Congressman or others.
If this is not sufficient to remove the
scales from the eyes of those who have
thought that Senators and Representa-
tives hold the open sesame to the inner
temples where official blessings are dis
pensed, the following from the same cor
respondent will answer:
When the President wants the advice of
a Senator or Representative in these mat
tiers he is very free TO ask it; but he is not
| fond of having such advice thrust upon
him, and persons who are boring their Con-
gressmen to come here and get them place
ought to know this and to remember that
it is more apt to injure than to help their
chances to insist that a Congressman shall
be too urgent in their behalf at the White
House or in the departments.
A. & N. College.
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