St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-20
WHEEL OF POLITICS.
Uneasy Members of Both Parties Eagerly
Awaiting the Turn During the
Coming Week.
Worthless Ex-Gongressmen Anxious to
Find Soft Snaps Under the Terri
torial Governments.
Home Rule Demanded blythe People of
Those Provinces--Barn Com
mends Cleveland.
Appoiutment Clerk Higgins Listing
Treasury Attaches Who Must Give
Way to Democrats.
Special TO the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, April 19.-The advent Of
the coming week, with its attendant posi-
bilities of removals and appointments to
various offices of high or low degree, is
looked to with great anxiety by the many
postulants awaiting their turn of the wheel
of political fortune. The idea obtains that
the administration has succeeded i'll master
ing the situation and is in prime order TO
apply the guillotine to those Repub-
lican office holders whose decapitation
is only matter of time and there
fore while commencing the shibboleth of
the president to make haste slowly, the eX-
pectants live in the hopes that the pace will
be somewhat accelerated in the near future.
The work of changing the present force of
diplomatic and consular officers has only
just begun, and many removals have been
undoubtedly determined upon, although
perhaps the selection Of
NEW INCUMBENTs
has not progressed TO a like extent, because
of the great pressure brought to bear for
these positions. Secretary Bayard is i'm
pressed with the fact that special qualifca-
tionS have not heretofore figured as import
ant factors in the selection Of incumbents of
diplomatic and consular positions, and
therefore he is disposed to scrutiniZe more
closely i'll this regard than his
predecessors. He takes special pride
in selecting the right men, believing
that the needs Of the service in
various localities should be supplied by
those best equipped for that particular posi-
ton. knowledge of international law,
familiarity with foreign languages and
COMMERCIAL EXPERIENCE
20 a great way with Secretary Bayard. The
number Of applications for positions in the
several territories, especially judicial ones,
is very large, and come from all
sections of the Union. EX-members
and eX-senators who have run their
race at home are very anxious to find official
retreat within the territories where they
may commence life anew and possibly re-
enter the congressional arena should they
live long enough to see the territories adj
mitted into the Union as states. The pres
ident is much annoyed and embarrassed
over this affair since the people of the ter
TitOries are demanding Inauguration of re-
form based upon principles of home rule as
protection against
TIE POLITICAL INVADER.
The struggle for appointments as re-
ceiyers and registers at the various land
Offices is another marked feature of the
situation. The positions are also in siege
by the outsiders. and this fact creates great
measinesS in political home circles in the
states and territories, where the people feel
convinced that this patronage is properly an
appurtenance of the bailiwick, not to be
separated from their Democratic free
hold. 1t is quite likely, however,
that the receivers and registers of
land Offices in the states will be
accorded to Democracy of such locality, but
it will be difficult to apply this rule to terri
tories which are being eagerly sought for
as hayens Of retreat by political refugees.
Rarnurn or the Administration.
Special to the Globe.
WAsHINGToN, April 19.-Chairman
Barnum of the Democratic national COM
mittee, who is in the city, said to-day in
conversation that he had recently travelled
over a great portion of the country and
conyersed with the people of all stages of
opinion, and he could safely say that Presi-
dent Cleveand's administration was
giving universal satisfaction. There
We're some impatient people but
they must consider the difficulties
that confront change of administration.
The legal questions 10 be settled. the man
ner of removals and the many objects to be
met and determined took mach time. 1t
would be just as reasonable TO advocate the
substitution of full force of new empIoyes
on Il railroad at one grand stroke as to con-
tend that there should be a wholesale dis
position of all the federal officers before the
presidents inaugural address has grown
cold