The new North-west., 1885-06-05
THE OLD THING.
nANYBoDYWILLs LsIGNAPETITIoN THAT
DOESN'T COST ANYTHING"
The Administration Has Enough OF 1t.


NEW YORK, March 3O.-The Sun has the
following remarkable Washington special
The Colorado delegation, which skunk away
from the White House Wednesday, after
sharp lecture from Cleveland, is only ole of
several delegations Of Democrats that have
MEANLY swINDLEp THE PRESIDENT
and members of his Cabinet by recommend
ing men unfit for Office. The number of
Senators and Represe natives and Governors
and Judges and Colonels who have lent
their influence and signatures TO unworthy
mon To get oface Is almost past belief. The
evil Is becoming . very serious one. The
administration has been embarrassed and
hindered at every turn In making changes In
Office by the bad work of these very Demo
Gratis who are the loudest In complaining
that the administration is too slew. II Is
the very men Of the Colorado brand who
compel 1t to 60 slow. Were 1t to act on the
unprincipled recommendations these men
made to It, without taking time to investi-
gate, 1t would become involved in such
scandal that 1t would be overwhelmed In the
fall elections. There are many parallels to
the deception by Colorado and Kentucky
statesmen, which have led to the revocations
of appointments In those States.
THE SHOTGUN PosThAsTEn
Of Copiah county, Mississippi, whose resig-
nation has been called for by Villas, was
foisted upon the President by Representative
Barksdale. Attorney General Garland, 1t is
said, was nearly entrapped into appointing
to Office . man for whose arrest for horse
stealing Garland, as Governor Of Arkansas,
offered areward. A remarkable exposure Of
an attempt to palm off an unfit applicant &C.
CURED In Manning's Office the other day. A
U. S. Senator had in tow Q man Of
CONFIRMED INTEMPERATE HABITS,
whom he was pushi pg for an internal reve-
nue. appointment. A gentleman from the
same State, who knew the applicant, went to
see the President and laid the facts before
him. 6" wish you would lay the facts be-
fore the Secretary of the Treasury" said the
President The gentlemen reached the Sec
retsrys Office to find the Senator and his
bibulous friend In conversation with Man
ming. He called the latter parsonage out
and told him that the candidate was .
drunkard. SWELL" said Manning, "you say
you can substantiate your charges. Suppose
We settle the matter right here" and bring
Inn ha mis- ha hA
gentlemen to state his charges In the pres
ence of the candidate.
THE CANDIDATE wILTED,
and confessed that the charge was true. He
withdrew his application and retired with
his Senatorial friend. The latter was not at
all abashed by the exposure, and recon-
mended another man, who proved to be uns
der Indictment. In another case, where .
Treasury appointment was made on the rec
ommendstion of several Congressmen, Man.
ming learned, after the commission had been
mailed, that the appointee had been indicted
for quite serious ofIense. A dispatch de-
mandiDg his resignation forthwith nipped
another scandal in the bud. An applica-
tion for an important appointment in the
railway mail service is pending before Villas,
which bears the names Of Congrsssmen, and
Judges, and business men Of Ohio, and the
man they recommend
WAS 4 pETAULTER, AND THE MEN WHO
RECOMMENDED HIM KNEW 1T,
auG there are scores of such cases in every
department which require the most careful
scrutiny before appointments cam be made.
Letters and petitions become almost value
less, so careless have public men become in
lending their names to everybody who asked
for them. The infirmity of some statesmen
in this particular has become so thoroughly
understood that their names almost create
suspicion Of the unitness Of the applicant
for whom they vouch.