The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-06
MINOR MATTERS.

Eb Eenderson's Persistence I'm Hunting, an
Ofice-A Problem Calling far Analysis.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Dec. amy man possessed
with but ordinary persistency would long ago
have given up the race Eb HENDERSON has been
making for a year for federal Office. It is a
Iamentable fact, for Eb that he has utterly
failed to elicit the least enthusiasm at any time
in his efforts for favor, and the wonder is, even
among those who are his friends, that he has not
thrown up his hands in disgust and bid the ad-
minis.raton TO go hence For some reason
which has never been explained he has not stood
well here With his party. 1t has been sug-
eested by Repnblca from the State that his
Democratic indorsers do not regard him as hav
ing welded any force for success in the cam
paigns which he has led; but that was unkind.
If he was not fit for the place he occupies he
should not have been given it. If he has filed
it well he deserved recognition at the hands of
the administration, and deserved it long ago
One or Eds friends observed the other night,
In a moment OF extreme disgust. that if Ed was
given place now'it would be unappreciated by
him, as he had more than earned it in working
for it in Washington; that if the time and
money expended in seeking it were computed
they would amount to much more than the
profit, should he get beyond his fondest eKpeeta-
lions.
Whatever may fall in the lap of Eb, one thing
may be counted on, sure: neither he nor those of
his friends who have remained true to him will
soon forget his Treatment. 1t has dsmonsi ,ated
quite clearly the ingratitude OF the admin sstra-
ton aud ths leaders of the party in the State.
One of two propositions is true Either Eb Hen
derson is regarded by the leaders of the Demo
c:aric party from the State as not worthy of a
place under the government or his friends have
not the influence or interest to get him some
thing EbS friaOda at hnrna w0uld do wall Tn
aiAlyze this problem.
How Commissioners Black Makes a Record.
Special to the Indianapolis journal
WASHINGTON, Dec 5-For unauthorized
demagogy and pure asininity the Commits
sioner Of Pensions seems to sweep the platter.
While the Democratic hand book was being COM
piled in the recent campaign, General Black
took the trouble to contribute a diatribe upon
his predecessor, Colonel Dudley, charging him
with classifying dates in tive issuance of certain
doeumeRts-a charge unimportant il proven
trne. But Black out-Herods Herod in the same
direction and accompanies it with pusiilanmity.
A day or two before the end Of the last month
the Commissioner directed the chiefs of divis-
IONS special examiners. clerks and other en-
ployes in the Office to clear their desks of all
work before the 1st instant, if they had to
work all night to do it, Some of them got their
desks clear by working right through lunch and
dinner hours. by 10 or IL o'clock on the night of
the Both. Others, and some of them ladies, did
not get through till or o'clock on the morning
of Dec. l.
On the morning of the 1st. one Of the men
who was detained till very late hour in the
office clearing mis- desk did not reach his room
till four minutes after g. and the Waterman In
formed him that he would have TO go to the
Commissioner and render his excuse for being
four minutes late, after working about eighteen
continuous hours extra.
But on top of this tyrannical action the Com
missioner directed that the work done at the
late hours of the night of the Both and the early
hours Of the lst be dated Nov. 80, so that he
could show Congress what record he had made