St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-04
NEW DEMANDED
The Democrats of Dakota Want Some Re-
publican Chiefs Of Division in the
Postal Department Retired
30 That the Crippled Mail Service in the
Territory May Receive Proper
Attention.
Marshal Maratta Wants His Friends
to Cease Mentioning Him for Con-
greSsional HOnorS.
Feeling in Southern Dakota Favor
able to the Nomination of Camp
bell for Delegate.
Postal Facilities wanted.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 3.-The complaints
which Dakotians make concerning their
limited and dilatOry postal facilities are on
he increase Norfolk is a young town in
Sully county, and the Spy is creditable
title paper, published there. In Forest
City and one of towns in Potter county, i'm
nediately north, and not more than forty
miles distant, is a paper called the Press
The editors of these papers complain that
their exchanges do not reach them within
two weeks Of date Of publication. That is
pretty state of affairs. How long would
such a condition of affairs be permitted to
exist in any of the states? Yet, the citi-
liens of Dakota have been raised
and educated in the states, and
are as intelligent and as fully entitled
to proper mail facilities as are the inhabit-
ants of any part of the country. The
trouble is that there is a penny-wise and
pound-foOliSh policy prevailing which robs
Peter (Dakota) to pay Paul (the rest of the
country. The clerical force in the post
Office department is as efficient as can be
found in any part of the civil service.
TIE NEED OF THAT DEPARTMENT
is for Mr.. Villas to appoint a few Demo-
harmony with him and his administration.
He needs a new chief OF appointment di-
vision. new chief of dozen divisions,
instead of the Republicans who cling to
those offices; and whose whole lives
have been spent in deafening and
Obstructlng the Democratic party.
Mr.. Villas is a sincere and consistent civil
service reformer. and is just to his Subor-
dnates; but he carries the joke too far for
the good of his own administration. The
retention OF Republican chiefs in the in
terror department is the real cause of the
troubles from whichpeople Of theWeSt have
been suffering. Sparks does not do it all
In like manner it would be wrong to blame
the second assistant postmaster general for
the sluggsrd mail facilities of which DakO-
tians complain. There is no real reason
why the delays complained of should be
continued. All that is needed is a new
deal. All other things being equal, few
Democratic chiefs OF divisions would be
able to work as efficiently as the Republi-
can incumbentS, and they would certainly
be in harmony with the administration.
All last year the people of the territory
were
CLAMORING FOR NEW POSTOFFICEs
and for increased mail service. The appH
cations for new offices were pigeOn-holed
by certain chief. There were over two
hundred new communities in Dakota which
needed and asked for new poStOfficeS.
Their applications did not reach the ap-
pointing power until winter came on, and
the applications were then considered too
ancient to act upon. All that time the
same communities We're star routes. That
official replied to them, LAS soon as your
be considered" But the other party did
not establish the. offices. Why? No
one yet has officially asked that ques-
ton. VIII it ever be asked? If the people
of Dakota are not better treated in these
matters in the future, the question Will
have to be asked, and answered. Those
who know the inside working OF the de-
partment are of the opinion that the former
administration controls certain divisions; as
much as though there had never been any
Democratic administration elected and in
Quoted into Office. Certain it is that but
little is done for the territory. In fact,
nothing has been done for Dakota except
What Hon. NJ. H. Day has come here and
demanded for the people. There has been
NO VOLUNTARY ACTION
npon any matters. But, whenever that
gentleman is here. and receives petitions
from the people, he takes them
10 the department and sees that
she documents are not entOmbed
In official pigeon holes, but that they
receive attention and action. There is no
question as to the integrity of Mr.. Villas,
Mr.. Stevenson, Mr.. Knott or Mr.. Haynie.
They are Democrats. and are in accord with
tie administration. But they do not run
The department and it will be impossible for
them to run the department until some
changes shall be effected in the division
shlefships. 1t is useless to cry, ITO the
Victors belong the spoils." That is not the
question. Is the administration Demo
cratic? If it is, it should be administered
by Democrats. The clerks in the civil SER
vice are honest and industrious. They
serve faithfully. The fault is with the
chiefs.