Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-13
A GOOD MANY CHANGES EXPECTED.
Diamond Cut 0iamond---Boss Saep-
herd and His Mexican
Silver Mines.
OFFICIAL DoINes At WASHINGTON.
Special 20 tk Rscisfs,

mOre Iapluiy IN INC Iuturc. 1no msCuiuo
is now beginning 10 run more smoothly.
The working sections have been thoroughly
fabricated and the rough points worn Of.
The President and the members Of the eabi.
net are beginning to get familiar with the
duties Of the position, and to zee where the
needed changes may be made Then too
the clsmor for more rapid change ID begin
ming to make itself felt. 1t is good thing
to profess not to yield to popular clamor.
but even the most selfpossessed must be
more or less affected By this sort Of thing.
especially when il comes from prominent
party leaders and continues to come day Of.
ter day without end Another reason
for stating that there are to be
good many changes very soon is
the approach Of the end Of this fiscal year
with the Treasury Department it was quito
important that its most important change
should take place about the close Of the
fiscal year. The Internal Revenue collec-
tors and Collectors Of Customs will be able
to take hold in . much more satisfactory
way il they were appointed within the pres
ent month, with the understanding that they
were to begin their duties with the begin
ming Of the fiscal year. July lst and the
old { ones close up their work in a manner
much more satisfactory all around il per-
mitted to do so at the end Of the year. So
it is pretty safe TO say that the activity in
in the way Of removals and political
changes will be doubled from this time on.
The Postofiice Depart ment is already show
ing renowned signs Of activity, the number
Of changes occurring there now ranging
about hundred day.
Diamond Cut Diamond.
What o queer game is that OF politics.
General Bragg, the veteran fighter, who
would rather fight than eat almost any day,
was sitting in the Ebbia House the other
day. talking about the offices in
his State. What difference
there is in man, he said. Nov, there arc
the two offices ut Milwaukee, Postmaster
and Collector Of Internal Revenue. The
Postmaster is waiting TO be removed. He
made good square fight for the party last
fall, running the campaign for the Republi.
cans and emitting himself TO good deal
more respect than the fellows who did their
political work in an underhAnd way. OF
course be expects TO be removed. don't look
for any thing else. On the other hand tho
Collector Of Internal Revenue, Mr.. Bean.
who did quite as much political work, but
in different way, goes whining around
and gets up petition alleging that he has
been non partisan and eschewed politics,
and trots oil here to Washington with il.
Bean is one of your kid glove. pleasant sort
Of fellows, who does not appear on the sur.
face, but does bis work through some body
else all the time. il is alleged that
The employees Of q manufacturing estab.
lshment in my district, Of which he Is
Presidnee received notice q few days
before the election that If any Of thsn
voted for Cleveland or Bragg they would be
discharged"
"And did they vote as they were drectedr'
"Shh.h. That wont do TO tell. II might
get in trouble yet. But I will tell you how
L was four years ago. The employees ofs
certain large manufacturing establishment
in my district were told the day before the
election that they must not vote for Han.
cock or Bragg, or IL they did they would be
discharged. Well, heard Of il directly
through o friend that ! had in the establish
ment, whom had done some business for
without expecting compensation. ! knew
knew tha, more than half Of the worknen
were my friends and wanted 10 vote for me.
The scheme Of the opposition WAS to muster
the men at noon, give every man his 10.
publican ticket, march them 10 the polls and
vote them like 20 many cattle, and march
them back again Well, they did So Each
man wore little ribbon on bis coat Gar.
field and honest labor or some rot Of thst
IL tr.I AI L.
posted bis vote under the eye OF
an overseer, and il was thought 10 be
ell right But the TACT was that two thirds
Of those men voted for Hancock and Bragg
right under the eyes OF that political over.
seer and be didn't know it. Funny. wasn't
it7 Well there are . good many ways Of
beating these fellows when you have such
men as Mr. Bean 70 deal with. III remem.
Der rightly, and my recollection Of those
things is generally pretty good, Bragg was
elected in both Of those contests"
Boss" shepherd.
"Boss" Shepherd seems 70 be q sure
enough boss nowadays. Mr.. J. n.
Young, his brother-ln-la1, who recently ar.
rived here from Batopilas, Mexico, where
Shepherd is operating. says his working no
less than ten Of the richest silver mines in
Mexico, and has the whole town Of Bstopilas
in his employ The ex Governor ID, accord
ing TO bis account, about the busiest man IN
Mexico. To make the work greater. and
therefore increase the Governors supefin.
tendency, after the ore Is extracted from
the mines it has TO be brought several miles
on mule back to his hsciends where oil the
treating. amalgsmating and making into
bars for shipment is done. While the
Governor has assistants and competent
ones it is necessary, or at least be thinksso.
that bis vigilsnt eye and active presence
should oversee the whole Of the immeuss
business, down TO the smallest details. Five
years ago Governor Shepherd took up this
round Of toll, and day afier day, witbout in
termission in al that time, has carried IL
through without . percep,ibls effect upon
his temper and frame. He employs only
Mexicans. for they are On the spot. and he
hss found them entirely Satisfactory. They
are dociIe, apt, industrious and reliable.
BAtopilas ID located in the Southwestern
corner Of Mexico. The nearest place Of
any con,equence ID Chihsshus, which d 23J
miles distant Il 10 not even near 70 the
residence Of any Of the "noble" o. more cul
tured class of MeIicans, 20 that the Pre-.
nier's family ass thrown on their own ~
sources for society. Their shec;snds' b
simple adobe" or mud hoass one stssy
high. The rooms arc veil furnished, ssd
.be whole is surrounded BY vsn twssty
feet high. But he is pihng sps lsrge fce.
tune, which be expects to s.jey soas ot
these dayI
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