Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-06-04
The Murkpille Guqairer.
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THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 4, 1885.
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The Washington correspondent of the
New York Times writes as follows:
Some of. the uneasy and unreasonable
Democrats who have visited the capital to
inform themselves about the purposes OF
the administration have succeeded in get
ting the impression, which they have ca
gerly communicated to others, that "clean
sweep" of Republican office-hOlders was
imminent, and that preparations for such
a change were being made in all the de-
partments. Exactly how this sort of infor-
nation is obtained it is impossible to
discover. 1t would be useless to endeavor
to find, for the information is not true.
There has been no purpose on the part OF
any of the heads of departments to make a
'clean Sweep like that intimated in fugi-
tive paragraphs.
The Secretary of State will make changes
in the consular service as fast as it appears
to be necessary and wise to displace Re-
publicans by men who represent the new
administration. There will be no ''clean
sweep" such as cyclone would make in
passing over garden.
Attorney General Garland says that a
sweeping out of all the judicial officers at
once, and without regard to the, proper
completion of business in hand, which re-
quires the experince and knowledge OF
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as it is unnecessary.
Secretary Lamar will make changes in
the Interior Department as rapidly as they
can he made without interrupting the reg
ular course of business in the department..
Postmaster General Villas is making as
nearly "clean sweep" as possible in Vir-
ginia, in which State he is wedding out
Mahone's Postmasters and putting in Demo-
Gratis at a rapid rate. But he cannot, even
if he would, turn out all the offensive par
tisans in day. While his letter to Con-
gressmen has provoked ridicule that was
not agreeable to him, he does not appear
to have been so badly "rattled" by it as ne
would have been if he were less in earnest
or less desirous of getting good men. Some
of his Democratic friends regret that he
found it necessary to make G. Il. Meade
Postmaster at Hazelhurst, Miss. Meade,
it may be remembered, was the Chairman
of the Democratic Club in Copiah county
that ordered Pruit Mathews to leave Hazel
hurst on pain of death if he should remain,
and, after being shot, and the club passed
resolutions approving of the killing, Mr.
Meade was the presiding officer of the
meeting. On these facts being made known
to the Department, Meade was promptly
removed.
Secretary Manning laughs at the sugges-
tion that clean sweep should begin To-Day
tomorrow, or next Saturday in his depart
ment TO men who make such suggestions
the idea that the Treasury is place of bus
iness cannot occur for an instant. Mr.. Man
ming knows that he cannot replace all the
old heads in the department with one stroke
of his pen without stopping business opera
tions. He has no intention of making such
an experiment.
The Navy Department and the War De-
partment cannot be swept clean in day
for the reason that the lumber in those de-
partments is of sort that is not easily re-
movable. The work of reform in both de-
partments will be good deal the result of
study, both of men and the books. To
reach that result time must be allowed.
There will be changes, and they will occur
fast enough to satisfy the office holders now
of wedding out may give to the oftice-seek-