The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-03-24
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He Reviews the Field and Is Better
Satisfied With the President
CoSFEDERII Y Roads,
(Wich is 10 the State nv Kentucky


February 10, 1886.
amt shoor that In aboosin th'
President haven't bin too fast aitel
all. Men don't siiuz chow the
hands at the beginnin Nv the game
and ii is Just barely possible that II
findin fault with His Eggslency ful
withhol6in nay cSmmishun l be'
bin in error. IF he demonstrates tS
me that If is so / will fergive him
on receet of my appointment
Ny change Of hart is the result Nv
a clost skannin OF the appointnence
that hev bin made so far. This
hev done, and | find sufiishni recon
for a moderit sized change OF bart.
| hey diskiyered that changes II
the smaller postofiices are bein made
with commendable rapidity. The
gilloteen could be worked with more
speed, but then We must forgive ths
department for two reasons:O
Ist-They are new at the biznii
Nv maxim appintnlence-
2d-inezmuch ez every Dimekrat.
ic voter in the Yooniteo States, with
out regard TO color or previous COLI
dition of impecooniosity (or busted
ness, expected q place, it is RELY
difficult for the beds Nv departmints
to act without splitiin the party into
fragmence. / kin approximate theiI
eondishn and the embarrassment
they are in
For instance, at the Corners there
Is eggsackly 236 Dimekrstic voters
and every one Nv EN-, except Bas-
com. demands offs. Bascom don
demand a offs, for he Is q pariicklel
man which don't care for empty
honors. Inezmuch ez he will git the
entire salaries OF the appointees, nc
matter who they may De, he don
keer about the worry Nv holdin the
places
Now, ther are 236 applicants fol
places and only three places to give
EN-. There are, fur instance, oyel
100 applicants fur the postofiis, Nv
yich ther Is but one. How is the
President to decide wien shel hev 1t
to the bitter disappointment Nv the
remaining ninety-nine? Troo, We
intended to satisfy part Nv EN- by
maxim ez many deppities ez possible
but ther cood'nt be enuff fixed thIs
way to go round.
The administration labers under
;he disadvantage Nv yoonanimus
witness Nv the Democracy TO hold
offs. In this perticler they is more
voOnanimuser than any party wlch
hez ever vet been iDventld, and |
don't wonder at the slownis with
rich things is goin.
| find likewise that ez far ez the
Presidents appointments hey gone,
We rock-ribbed Dimokrats hev no
coz TO conplane. | don't remember
Nv his heyin appinted but one Re
publican. Peerson, Nv Moo York,
and he Good be fergivin fur that
considerin the fact that he wuz there
under the immelit eve Nv George
Nilyum Curtis. wich he'd TO hev
suthin to pint TO. ez justlfyin MS
Dustin NV Blaine. Ii wood hev bin
crooel to the MugwImps not 10 hey
given them suthin to stand onto.
But notis with great satisfack.
shen that in the interest Nv civil
servis reform and Dustin masheen
politIx. that them fellows which
noorayed the loudest for Cleveland
at Chicago, hev dropped into the
faitest places, and likewise when il
becum necessary to hist postnast.
er for bein offensive parsan, the
hardest work Dimokrat in the local.
ity hez alluz bin bis successor |,
hez bin the rool that when Republl-
can Smith wuz histid as a offensive
partisan oecoz he wuZ cheerman Nv
the Republican Sentral Committy
last fall, that Dimocrat Thompson
wich wuz and is cheermen Nv the
Dimekratic Sentral Committy wuz
immejitly put in his place.
Likewise | hev observed that If
wnzn't at all agin Dimokrat that be
he'd served into the Confederit army,
and | notis that librel sprinklin Nv
such are luxoofiatin ez Consuls and
so on in the efiste mOnerkys Nv
Yoorup.
In fact, the more obnoxyus the
Confederit the more shoor he is Nv
gittin place.
From these fax, wich are fax
hev renood my confidence in the
soundnis Nv the Presidents Dimoc-
risy, and MS intenshun to do wat is
rite by the party.
1t is troo that he is movin slow.
His head is sot in the rite direck-
shun, only, he don't move fast enuff
He shood be prodden from behind
with the pin Nv necessity. Ell he IS
goin to appoint Us he shood make
haste to do it, Every dollar that
Lubbock, the Niger postmaster
draws ez salary, is that much robbed
from me. He shood remember that
time is wingin us away to our eter-
nal home, and that even a picked
Dimokrat is not immortal. | am
willin not to embarrass him, but
eleven months is long time for a
hungry man. Its the two minnit:
and half that 700 waite after the
regler brekfust hour that is distress.
in.
But | shall now rest content, fol
while, at least. / hev reezonec
with Bascon, showing him the found
ashen / hev for the faith that is IL
me,and he hez agreed to give me ar
extenshun on wat | owed him, ano
credit fur few weeks longer.
don't care so much .ur the exten.
shun, but the credit for the futur i:
important by motto in regard te
nv debts fur what ! hev he'd, is
Let the dead bury the dead" The
past is nothing-the present and fu.
cher is all important. The likker
hev consoomed | hev hed-thal
wich is to come is all that interests
me.
hey faith in His Eggslency
Grover Cleveland. Wunst Dino
krat, allGz Dimokfat, He will noi
90 back onto US.
PETROLEUM Y. Massey,
Hopefully
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